Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-08
NUMBER 5.
MULTUM In PARyO.

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THE cattle disease yields to cowrect
| treatment
Milk is selling at Idaho City at one
dollar per gallon.
| DoN PEDRO, of Brazil who is coming
| to visit us, owns the finest diamonds in the,
world. spe@
| INDIANS are no respecters of color; they
had just as soon take blond scalp as a
brunette. ss
MOTHER NATURE has spread the bed of
| the ocean with sheets of water. Damp
sheets, Ell?
WHEN a man winds up his clock he ex-
poets it to so, but it is different with bust
ness affairs.
SHE strained at a gnat and swallowed
a calomel, was little Johnny's version of,
a recent text.
FAST friends are good to have about
when friends are needed, but they should
not be too fast.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is q moose
paper which almost every man subscribes
for, sooner or later.
No MORE ten-cent scrip. Secretary
Bristow is sending out silver ten-cent
pieces in their place.
Indian ICdl-eSldtC ulObIOs Ii any VIII
missioner attempts to beat down the price
shoot him on the spot"
THE fast time made by the new postal
trains is accounted for by the fact that the
wheels of the cars are not tired.
THE philosopher of the Lowell Journal
says potatoes are so cheap this year it
makes one feel mean to be caught eating
one.
WHEN man listens to you very atten-
lively, either you are telling him some
thing he knows or something he does not
believe.
THE time is slowly, but surely, coming
when the woman without will look with
bitter envy upon the woman within seal
skin cloak.
A YANKis going to lay cartracks in st.
Petersburg. That's blessed despotism,
and therell be no crowding cars there,
you may be certain.
THE prisoners in the Nebraska State
Penitentiary publish newspaper. The
round of the local reporter is said to be
somewhat contracted.
THE good do not die always early.
There is Mrs Finch, of Rutland, VT,
who has had but one bonnet in twenty
years, and never complained.
PRESIDENT GARRETT, of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, says when the winter
comes the fast mail-trains will come to
grief on cracked rails. Letter rip.
IT seems that undertakers are all in IA
vor of cremation. Probably because they
will urn so much more than by the pres
ent method of disposing Of the dead.
A CHURCH at Colchester, Conn, now
hon 70 yIofo ha tirna nf
the singing, and the man who used to
play the bass-viol looks ON the innovation
as base violation of precedent.
THE Fairplay (Col.) Sentinel says that
peaches are worth $147 per bushel in that
market, and that when a man decides to
indulge in a grape he just cuts coupon
off one of his $1,000 bonds.
How MANY accidents might be averted
did people generally understand that the
Englishman was right when he said that
the man who makes newspapers is an
:" he'd hitter" $685.
MANY woman who is too feeble to
peel dozen potatoes for dinner will walk
four miles past rivals house to display
new dress, and prance back home like a
two-year-old FLY.
THERE is poor encouragement for
man to " die rich" while we hear so many
instances of the relatives of dead rich
men scrambling like hungry pigs over a
division of the property.
A SLAB of quartz-rock was recently
shipped from the Greene mine New, con-
tanning more than two square feet through
which there was a streak about four inch
es wide that was nearly or quite one-half
gold The piece was estimated to be
worth at least 81, 800.
WHEN one makes a narrow escape it is
usual to say that he saved himself "by
the skin of his teeth" In the most splen-
did of all compositions (see Book of Job,
chapter xix, verse 20), it is written; My
bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
and am escaped so5M tue skin Of may
teeth."
AN old man named William Yately has
just died at the alms-house in Trenton,
N. j., who had not tasted any kind of
food for twenty-seven days before his
death During that time he subsisted en-
tirely on small doses of whisky, given to
him periodically. He had been an in
mate of the institution for two years.
| THE last words of a young Philadel-
phian, whose full soul loathed the obitu-
airy column, ere he went to meet his
grandfather were:
When 'lictions sore bear no more
And doctors do despair,
Don't let G.. w. write me up
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