Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31
CURRENT ITEMS.

ALTHOUGH WOHdn aSO 10 unuOHia
bly her own, she does not always own 1T.
A WESTERN exchange complains of
two-legged hyenas in the village grave
yard.
A RICHMOND negro killed himself by
partaking of pounded glass and jelly
cake.
EUROPE consumes about two-thirds of
the petroleum produced in the United
States.
A PREcocIoUs Ohio boy tried to kill
cat and shot his grandfather with ten
penny nail.
A LOUISVILLE lady has recovered
$4,000 for being dragged and Injured by
street car.
NOT so many people are abroad this
year as last, and Europe complains OF
hard times.
THE candid are saddened by unde-
served censure and Inundated by unde-
served praise.
Two CoLoRED men in Georgia had
little theological difficulty, and settled 1T
with bird-shot
CALIFORNIA is largely cultivating, be-
sides the grape, oranges, lines, cltrons,
figs and walnuts.
A SALEM (Mass) woman ate rose and
died. 1t is supposed the leaves covered
poisonous insect.
CREMATION is prospecting in Germany
There are now eighty-two cities with
cremation societies.
NATURALIsTs claim for the crow that it
is one of the bravest of birds, because 1t
never shows the white feather.
Mrs. MARY STRAIN, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
has married three brothers in succession.
She believes in brotherly love.
BURLINGTON is now the largest city in
Iowa, having, according to the new di-
rectory, over $4,000 population
THE young lady who mistook bottle
of mucilage for hair-oil has been too
"stuck up" to go to parties since.
MUSCLE gs. Brains. Thirty-two candi-
dates passed their intellectual examina-
ton at West Point, and ninetytive the
physical test
GIRLS are scarce and proportionately
precious in Lac qui Parle, Mimi, there
being only one girl to eight boys in that
unfortunate town.
GOLD may be hammered into sheets so
thin that 282,0 900 of them placed one
above the other will only occupy the
height of one inch.
A PIQUA (Ohio) girl who had quarrel
with a lover remarked to friend that
she wasn't on squeezing terms with
that fraud any more"
A CONNECTICUT editor announces that
he has bought $500 dog, and can now
meet the most iraSCible caller with a
smile of calm content.
AN unsophistocated person once de-
clined a plate of macaroni soup, with
any billed pipe-stems on him"
A MAINE book-agent has been disabled
by the kick OF "a horse, and the PROPOSE
tion to give the horse public testimo-
NAL creates no little enthusiasm.
IT has been calculated that if Chicago
and St. Louis keep up their competition
in directories at the present rate each
will have population of ten~nillions by
the year 1884.
A SCIENTIFIC friend who had been
reading, with great patience, an exhaust
i've treatise on the "velOcity of light"
says that he now knows how it is that
his gas bill runs up so rapidly.
A TROUT weighing fourteen and three
fOurths pounds was hooked in Lake
George the other day by a Mr., Buel, but
it was found necessary to shoot him in
the head before he could be landed.
THE fashion of wearing the wedding
ring on the finger next to the little finger
originated in an ancient superstition that
there was a mysterious connection be-
tween that finger and the human heart
A STORY is told of remarkable sympa-
thy existing between little boy in
Northern New York and his severed arm,
so that when the latter was roughly
handled the child would scream with
pain.
A LONDON correspondent writes: "By
the way, it is rather odd-but | have not
seen in any English paper word of COM
ment on the marriage of Mr.. Sartoris with
daughter of the President of the United
States"
A LITTLE son of Thomas r. Sheldon,
cashier of the First National Bank at
Athens, Ohio, recently sat down in
bucket of boiling water, producing in
iuries which resulted in death the day
following.
A sNoB in Saratoga complains of some
cheeky members of the crews" in can
vas shoes and blue uniforms intruding
themselves in the parlors and bathrooms
among ladies and gentlemen who are in
evening dress.
BY THE falling in of part of the roof
of q coal mine at Newcastle, near Hang
ing Rock Ohio, the other day, Francis
King, a miner, was terribly crushed, SO
that his recovery is very doubtful No
one else was injured.
"WHAT do you know of the character
of this MANI" was asked of witness at
police court the other day. "What do
/ know of his character? | know it to
be unbleachable, your Honor" replied
he with much emphasis.
CHARLEY, what makes your cheeks
so red?" asked his sisters admirer of
little five-year-old. "Cause I put some
of sisters paint on. She puts it on every
day" 1t was painful disclosure for
everybody-at least Charley thought so
after the visitor had gone.
Two recipes are given in the Scientific
american for removing tallow and white
lead which have been applied to pol
ished parts of machinery to prevent rust:
1. Use turpentine, and rub it in we'll. 2.
Try concentrated solution of caustic
potash scrubbing with an old scrubbing
brush.
SAN FRANCISCO is going to try little
fair of her own, representing the indus
trial development of the Pacific coast
and also of China, Japan and Australia.
San Francisco is unusually happy in the
promise that her Pacific telegraph cable
will bring a greatly increased trade from
the East
A YOUNG fellow in Western town was
fined so for kissing girl against her
will, and the following day the damsel
sent him the amount of the fine, with a