Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-17
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ment in the Athens (Ohio) insane asy-
lum.
Nor more than two of the nine fur
naces in Sharpsville, Pa, are now in OPP
Grafton.
THE expenses of the Holly water
works, Titusville, Pa, are but $10,S00
per year.
Sixty THOUSAND quarts of strawber-
ries were shipped from Milford, Pa, In
single day recently.
AN inventive genius in Ohio proposes
to furnish horses with false teeth SO as
to conceal their age.
SEVERAL residents along the Mohawk
Flats, Pa, have engaged in the cultlva-
tion of sweet potatoes.
FIVE times John Happy, of Vermont,
has been engaged to one girl, and he has
not made her Happy yet.
THIRTY FIVE citizens of Center Town
ship, Boone County, Ind, have reached
the age of seventy years.
A BILL that everybody is anxious
should not be brought before the house
this summer-the mosquitoes.
A MERCHANT who has suffered from the
moiety system styles the Government OF
ficials Internal revenoodles."
A PERFORMER at the coming circus is
be hoped he will not prove boa.
A LEAvENwoRTH paper notes the death
of a man of Z" thirty-ive years standing"
| Chairs must be scarce out there
FRANCE, notwithstanding her disturbed
| political condition, produced more books
| last year than any other country.
"THTs engine won't work." said fire.
man to the chief of fire department
| Il 1,o = Hn fn
play"
THE Spragues are under a cloud yet,
and it isn't necessary to have pass from
one of them in order to travel across
Rhode Island.
| THE wind-mills introduced in the
CRANKY Nev) mines to pump out water
| have proved failure, and the idea has
| been abandoned.
| JOHN GRoGGIN, of Maine, has just got
mad about the Modoc war, and is com
| ing West with fire in his eye and u shot
gun on his shoulder.
A DETROIT boy propounds the awful
query: (Which had you rather do, be
eaten up by tiger, or have all the ma
| pie sugar you can swaller?"
| COME now, let's say no more about
Laura Fair. When one remembers that
it was a lawyer she shot, the crime is
robbed of its rough edge.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT admits that
he isn't much on photography but Blink
ers asks: "What in thunder does a man
worth $87, ,000,0 600 care about spelling?"
DUBUQUE has just plated new ceme-
terry with a race track around it, and now
| if they would give a chrome to every pur-
chaser of lot the thing could be made
| to pay.
W h. ,.rrI,x
| in Missouri with two bullet-holes in his
head, the verdict Of the Coroner's jury is
'' that it looks like shooting, but may have
| been suicide"
| GEORGE H. AVERY, of Boston, who re-
Gently walked 100 miles in twenty-one
hours and forty minutes is going to start
| from Boston for Montreal, AGO miles,
Sept. /, intending to walk the distance in
eight days.
PROF. HITCHCoCK, of Dartmouth Col
| lege, will shortly receive from New Zeal
| and two skeletons of the extinct bird, the
dinoris, or dodo, the first ever brought to
| this country.
| THE San Francisco trotting horse Sam
Purdy was sold by auction on the gath
ult., for $21 500 Messrs McCord and
Frank Malone, of San Francisco, were
| the buyers.
A GRAPEsHoT, probably fired during the
| Revolution was found the other day In
the heart of tree twenty inches in diam
| eter near the spot at Center Rutland, VT,
where the old fort stood.
A MAN who had spent over two years
and 81 900 in lead mining atJoplin, Mo,
has lust made a strike which will likely
repay him for his time and outlay. Re-
Gently he took out 10000 pounds.
THE Joplin (Mo.) Bulletin wants rail
road from that place to Kansas City 1t
| claims for the town population of 5000,
together with 130 business houses and
| twenty five furnaces, which run day and
night.
THE son of an Emir had red hair, of
which he was ashamed, and wished to
| dive it. But his father said: "Nay, my
son, rather behave in such manner
that all fathers should wish their sons
had red hair"
A CORRESPONDENT informs us that In
Germany, when the vote OF the jury
stands six against six, the verdict is left
to the decision of the Judge. A majority
of votes either acquits or convicts the
prisoner.
A PATERSON On. j. man who had
placed several lightningrods on his
house was delighted during recent
storm at seeing it struck in two places,
while the house of his neighbor, who was
too mean to pay for lightningrod, was
not struck at all.
A New ORLEANS young woman who
writes pieces for the papers says that
occasionally woman meets man to
whom she says: Con the barren shores
of Time, @ my souls kinsman, | have
found in thee my pearl of great price,
and there is nothing more precious out
of heavenm This young man does not
grow in the North
THE other day a young lady in Phlia-
delphia became so much embarrassed Dy
a proposaI from her lover that In her
agitation. she swallowed needle
Young men cannot be too cautious about
such things They should never make
such propositions to girls until they have
thoroughly examined their mouths to see
whether they have any needles in them or
not.
PROF. ADLER, Of the Cornell University,
cannot see what the name of the shad
derived from, unless from the German
word schade, signifying something Ike
our English word I" scathe"-to in]ure or
infiict loss. The shad has been described
contemptuously as the poor mans fish,
and from this association of it with pow
ertv the Professor thinks that its name
may have come.
NATURAIIsTs bewail the apparent fact
that the elephant, like the whale, is be-
ing driven into extinction by the persecu-