Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-04-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

| NEW YORK is seriously talking about a
scheme for importing domestic servants
from India
AN indignant Jerseyman is going to
move to South Abingdon, Mass, where
the town cannot have centennial until
1875.
THE block of Switzerland granite
which is to serve for monument over
| the grave of Agassiz has arrived at Cam
bridge, and is now receiving the inscrip-
ton.
IT is said that nothing will cure a
poets affection for his idol sooner than
| to catch her at the dinner-table excavat-
ing the kernel of a hickory nut with a
hair-pin.
| SOMEBODY in Baltimore claims to have
| seen phantom dog one night recently.
This is encouraging to those who have
long wished to see phantom dogs super
sede all others.
! A YOUNG lady while out walking heard
| for the first time of her mothers inten.
ton to marry again, and she was obliged
to sit right down and cry about it. She
could not go step farther.
TEXAS talks of dividing herself into
two States. The worst thing about Texas
is that there is too much of her. You
could put four or five Illinoises into her
geographical area and have big mar
| gin to spare.-
| IT Is asserted that the proportion of
the married among the insane is smaller
than that of the single; but this may be
because an insane married person doesn't
show anything abnormal in his misera-
BILE melancholy.
A GOLD knee-buckle of good workman
ship was recently found by citizen liv-
ing in the vicinity of Braddock's Field,
1 in the western part of Pennsylvania. 1t
is thought to have belonged to one of the
unfortunate victims of Braddock's de-
| feat.
THE Berlin correspondent Of Land and
Water says that if a field infested by
thistles be planted with rape seed the
latter will thoroughly starve, suffocate
and chill the weed out of existence. The
experiments tried with different varieties
of rape seed have been completely sue
cessful.
A BRIDGEPORT (Conn) company have
just finished a refrigerator to be used
in bringing strawberries from the South,
and the Standard says: "This is tie first
refrigerator-ca of this kind ever built,
but will probably be soon followed by
| thirty more to be used on the different
roads about the country"
A sEvENTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy in Paris
recently induced. a companion of eleven
years of age to steal 900 francs in gold
and then stranged him, threw him into
the Seine and walked off with the money.
He was sentenced to twenty years in the
galleys, "having escaped the death pen
atty" we are told, ION account of his
youth"
ADULTERATIoN of food is made apenal
offense in England, and the laws are exc
cuted with great IigOr. In this manner
purchasers are protected from sharpers
| and given good articles instead of spuri-
Gus ones. In this country like reform
is necessary, for here, as in England,
adulteration of articles of food is carried
on to large extent
APPLAUSE: 1t spoils the child, it ruins
the youth and makes strong man weak.
Given too oft, it heats away the judg-
ment, unbalances the will and wrecks the
greatest minds: 1t fosters pride, cradles
selfshness and turns to curd the sweet
milk of the heart. 1t tears down what
adversely has builded up, and numbers
it's victims most among tae gifted.
INAsMUCH as paper has been made
available for the manufacture of almost
every variety of furniture and articles
of dress, it is passing strange that paper
coffins should have keen left till this late
day unthought of. The undertaken is
certainly not an enterprising party.
Trunk makers have long been credited
with using all the unstable printed
books; but at the present rate of produc-
ton, were every traveller supplied with a
| van load of these troublesome S21DeC1i.
menta to travelling, such stock would
remain that all the bookshelves in the
world would not contain tithe of them.
To further reduce the stock manufac-
turer out West proposes to supply every
iourneyer to that bourne whence no
traveller returns with last trunk made
of papier mache, waterproofed with
asphaltum. Scientific Annericae.