Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-27
CURRENT ITEMS.

A MILWAUKEE horse has died of a
broken heart.
The Patti is the name of one of the
new bonnets.
THE crack of base ball clubs will soon
be heard in the land
MOMENTS of triumph are not always
moments of happiness.
"THE Order of Enoch" is new society
established by Brigham Young.
BosToN's new Postoffice is called a
magnificent heap of ugliness."
MEMORY is the only paradise from
which nothing can ever drive u.s.
A MARYLAND miller has owned and
tended one mill for forty eight years.
No Northern man who goes to Florida
can rest until he has shot an alligator.
AN old sinner grumbles at the gout as
a precious leg -acy"-only it isn't aisy.
THE Siamese twins, it appears, are not
to be allowed to rest either in peace or in
pieces.
1T is very ruinous to move, but
especially expensive to move in the best
circles.
CALIFORNIA still sneers at greenbacks,
and if a man hasn't gold and silver he is
rated "B g."
The first and only Grange in Arizona
was few days ago organized at Phe nix
in the Salt River Valley.
A NEW YORK Shaker shook $4,000 out
of the colony the other day and then
shook himself far, far away.
A MAN has discovered how to live well
on twenty cents per day, but this won't
help the fifteen cent people.
GLASS will sustain 1900 pounds to the
square inch, it is said. Just threw two
pound stone at a plate glass window and
see.
JONES says that the difference between
his wife and the Pope is that she possesses
temper-all-power and His Eminence
doesn't
A COMPANY has been formed on Bear
River, CAL, for the purpose of manu-
featuring butter from the fat of the seal
and sea lion.
A WEDDING took place at Cairo few
days ago in which the ceremony was per-
formed by telegraph, the clergyman being
in Memphis.
A NEW HAVEN paper has finally admit
ted that there may possibly be one we'll
learned man and one well-bred lady out
side Of New Haven.
FOURTEEN fathers in Quincy, ILL.,, have
signed a pledge not to allow their daugh-
tiers to take music lessons until they know
how to make good bread.
MORE than hundred people are drink
ing warm blood at the Brighton (Mass.)
abattoir, for various diseases, and there is
talk of building hotel to accommodate
the patients
A CLERGYMAN writes to the Baltimore
american that its attempts at criticising
Mrs. Van Cott are as ridiculous as the ef-
forts of mouse to nibble off the wings of
an archangel.
THE Palatka (Fla.) Herald says that
Florida has been talked of South more
romantically, and examined less accu-
rately, than any other section of country
on the continent.
A MONTREAL paper, speaking Of re-
cent dualin explosion, says, in a most pa
thetic style, that the bodies of the victims
were spread over many rods, here a piece
and there piece"
"MUNICIPAL INSANITY" is what they
call it in Chicago. In New York and
Brooklyn it is called municipal rascal
ity" To doctors of law it is known as a
complication of "ring-round."
OvERsKIRTs are made very long and
come from the waist to the edge of the
skirt in front and pufed into the side
seams so as to be looped very high on the
hips. This is the latest style.
A MAN named Gail petitioned the Mis-
sissippi Legislature for leave to hang
himself, but they refused to report favor
ably on the document and he still lives,
desiring, he says, to abide by the laws of
his country.
THE Maine Solons have curious notions
about the care of the poor. The Legisla-
ture is seriously considering bill to
make railroads support persons whom
they have brought to towns, if they be-
come paupers.
THE Terry Island Second Adventists
stick to it that the end Ss coming pretty
soon, in spite of the recent miscalcula-
ton, and Rev. G. G. Barker devotes four
columns of the Watclamaa,a's Org to an
argument on the point.
In reference to distinguished surgeons
opinion that Chang and Eng might have
been safely separated in life, the New
Y York Commercial AdgertSser thinks that
Of all sad words to Siamese twin
The saddest are these: Itmight have been.
A CAT in the Louisville Cou'aer-Jo Jouqnal
Office lived in drawer for nine days
without food, light or drink, and In three
minutes after being let out she was play
ing base ball with paste cup. This, it
must be remembered, was Kentucky
cat
A YOUNG lady graduate of the medical
department of Iowa University has won
the first prize for the best performed dis
section in surgical anatomy, from class
consisting of twenty-four young men and
one other young woman.
A CONFIDENCE woman of rare beauty
and adroitness has swindled almost every
merchant in Virginia City, and gone off
with $4,000 of net result. The victims,
however, admire her cleverness SO much
that they refuse to attempt her capture
and punishment.
THE flial tenderness of Mary Kane, of
New Haven, is truly touching. She de-
sired to elope with party already orna-
mented with wife, but would not bulge
until she had seen her old and feeble
mother provided for. And so she had
her placed in the alms-house.
VARNIsH FOR CRATES one pound
common asphaltum, fused in an iron pot,
add half pint hot boiled linseed oil;
mix well, and boil an hour. When par
TALLY cooled add one quart oil of turpen-
tine. IF too thick, add more turpentine.
Apply with an ordinary paint brush.
TExARcANA, Tex, a town built in dense
forest, is located nineteen miles from
Fulton, Ark, and is less than ninety days
old. It now numbers over 1900 bona tide
citizens, and there are 200 buildings going
up. There is a general ticket office, two
railroads, two express companies, two tel
egraph lines and forty saloons.