Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-06
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tist disease.
A NEWBORN babe of the "Prodistan
sex" was registered recently by an Ulste
County On. " physician.
New YORK is trying hard to rival Lon
don in the matter of impenetrable fogs
and is succeeding beautifully.
THE newest name for a hog is root
grubber, corn-sheller, apple grinder, gate
litter, double-action back spring-sot
pillow.
WHILE carrying fence-post, Center
vile (Wis9 farmer stumbled and fell, an(
the post fractured his skull, causing
DEATH .~
A CHICAGO paper says that it is wonder
full how quick the blind beggars of tina
city can tell the difference between ter
cents and a quarter.
WHAT is the difference between farm
er and a bottle of whisky? The farme
husbands the corn and the bottle of whis
ky corns the husband.
APRONS of light-colored silk are worr
indoors by the young la lies, with dark
dresses. The aprons are cut round an(
trimmed with small ruffies and lace.
A YOUNG man in New Haven has sub
sisted for two years on three quarts o.
milk daily, and quantity of lemon drops
diet made necessary by a chronic dis
ease.
1T is fashionable nowadays to have
your initials embroidered in the center OF
fine handkerchiefs instead of the left OF
right hand corner, as heretofore the
style.
THE reason boy gave for being late
at school was, that the boy in the next
house was going to have a dressing down
with a bed cord, and he wanted to hear
him howl.
"WHAT is a more exhilarating sight"
asks Vermont paper, ethan to see eight
cen handsome girls sliding down hill on
an OK sled?" Nineteen" says the expe-
rienced editor of the Boston Post.
THE Normandie cap, which used to be
worn by babies and little children, has
been modified and worked over into a
dainty bit of head gear for newly married
ladies. 1t resembles an injured kite.
ANOTHER horse suicide. He was sold
on execution and felt the disgrace so
much that he laid himself down in the
water and died. The sensitive equine's
late residence was in Wareham, Mass.
''PRETrY bad under foot" said one cit
izen to another, as they met in the street.
Yes; but it's fine over head" responded
the other. "True enough" said the first;
"but then very few are going that way"
AN Atchison (Kan.) paper says th.tt
while soldiers were digging up graves at
Fort Kearney, not long ago, they found
coffin filled with snakes. 1t would not be
difficult to guess what that fellow died of.
In his will, the editor of the London
Hour, who died recently, provided that
that paper should always be held by his
kin, should never change its name, and
that the price should always remain the
same.
FASHIONABLE ladies in New York are
just now taking milk baths to improve
their compilations. The cost is SO per
4 bath. 1t has not TRANSFERRED what is done
with the milk when it has served their
purpose.
PAT NAUGHTON, fireman on a loco
motive, was convicted in the Cincinnati
Police Court recently of throwing live
dog into q locomotive furnace, and burn
ing it to death. He was fined $500 and
sent to the workhouse for six months.
THE pet failing nowadays, fornewspa.
per writer's, is "Plan for improving the
currency. The Detroit Free Press re-
ceived in one week 337 articles bearing
that caption. Why this hesitation, this
holding back, this lack of suggestionsg
THE Washington Capital, over whose
destinies Dom Piatt presides, disguised
at its lack of paying "ads," says that the
leading merchants of that town do as
much in the way of advertising as re
spectacle peanut stand in Northern vii
lage.
% THEEE is no animal worse treated than
the rat, and no animal oftener has his lit
tie revenges. For instance, a rodent
gnawed recently hole in a Dubuque ele
yator, and before the mischief was dicov.
cred 600 bushels of wheat streamed into
the dock.
A DOCTOR at Preble, CORTLAND County
N. Y, according to the Hamilton Repub
Isca7a, has mania for pulling sound teeth
and number of instances are giver
where he has robbed children of theil
pretty teeth during the absence of theil
.mammas.
Ar recent golden wedding in Manga
tuck, Conn, the old compile showed tn,
young folks how "courtin' was done
fiftv years ago, and those of the young
folks who know how it is done at the
present day couldn't see that the method
had changed much.
THE other day, in Ohio, young lad.
died of what thick headed old docto
said was "heart klot, or embyolism OF thu
main t1ue of the heart" She revived in al
hour. however, and it was found she haC
been temporarily choked by piece o
gum she had been chewing.
SMALL Pox is rapidly spreading through
out San Francisco in the most 'aglous
forms. The Health Officer has been
authorized to post printed placards in the
streets of the city warning citizens OF the
threatening epidemic, and to have printed
five thousand circulars conveying similar
information to the Chinese, and urging
them to report each case to the Health
Officer.
THE meanest thing lately reported was
perpetrated by New Haven manufacture
er, who, on the last day of 1878, told his
bookkeeper that his salary of 81, 200 must
be reduced $500 per annum, and dated
back one year, thus bringing him in debt
to the company 5000, and that if he
worked for the company another year he
must work for $500.
A PHYSICIAN runs many perils that art
not suspected by those who may envy
him his practice. At Rochester, n. Y.
the other day, doctor attended snak'
charmer who had bad cough. Thu
medicine man examined his chest care
fully, put his ears to his lungs, ETC., ant
Just as he was ending his examination
discovered pet rattlesnake curled ava,
in the fellows bosom. The examination
closed.
THE Worcester, Mass, Courts were en-
livened recently by a $4,000 breach @