Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-21
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AGUE without fever is no great shakes
THE cheapest motive power is polite
| ness.
MoTTo FOR THE ARABs-Up and Be
douin.
STRAWBERRY short cake, this year, will
be berry short.
DoN'T talk about this worlds bright
ness and sunshine to man with tight
| boots. tM
THE man who, with his sweetheart
eats strawberries and cream at this sea
son has the dear things all together.
If you are between two evils, don't be
so foolish as to choose the least, but stay
just where you are until one of them de.
| parts.
WHEN a market-man offers you two.
| pound hen and calls it a spring chicken
| fold your tent and steal silently away
Free Press. ft
THE Pope talks of canonizing Chris
| topher Columbus, and now it will be in
order for Mrs. Partington to ask what's
the use of cannonading that great dis
coverer?
| By a recent statute in Tennessee the
| losing party in a lawsuit has to pay the
| jurymen's fees, and now the juries in
variably render the verdicts against the
richest litigants.
WHEN are stockings like dead meni
| When they are men-ded; when their
soles are departed; when they are in
| holes; when they are past healing; when
they are no longer on their last legs.
IT is statistically computed that 100,.
| 600, 900 nuts of various kinds are annual.
| ly eaten In this country. Which fact
| the New Orleans Pscaya,ae thinks may
account for the prodigious number OF
colonels.
FRANK MASON and Miss Candies Cliff.
ford, of Owen, KY, eloped on horseback
| Their steeds dropped dead with fatigue
before they could reach the parsons
house and they finished their flight on
| foot. But they succeeded.
Now THE future looks brighter. The
Treasury Department acquiesces in the
| judicial decision that German sausages
are exempt from duty under the special
provision for Bolc gna sausages, and,
therefore, no appeal will be taken to the
| Supreme Court.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN said " 1t is hard
! fer an empty bag to stand upright
| This great truth is robbed OF it's sadness
when we know that there is no necessity
for bag or anything else to stand up
when it would look better lying down.
N. 0. Republican.
AT Cincinnati they have inaugurated
rival movement to the spelling
matches "a pronouncing-match. The
words are written on blackboard, and
the competitors are required to pro
nounce them. Both these movements
will do much to help the people to write
and pronounce their own language cor
rectly.
CENTREvILLE, Nd, contains prodigy
in tie way of a citizen aged eighty-one
years, who never attended school twelve
months in his life, but whose natural
talent for mathematics is so great that
he has yet to find problem which he
cannot solve. His rules are entirely of
his own devising, and many of them are
said to be curiosities of their kind.
THE fight over the will of Capt. E. B.
| Ward, of Detroit, wakes strong in the
court. His elder children now claim
| that the Captain never signed the will
and codicils, and that the old gentleman
was crazy. Here is comfort for the
|
| he may make when alive will be scat
tered in the courts when he is dead
| Moral-When you die will your property
directly to the lawyers.
THE most important use ribbon is now
put to is in trimming skirts. In some
cases the bulgare plait is almost wholly
covered with cascades of loops placed
one above the other; in others the mid
die of the plait is ornamented with a
shell-shaped trimming. Sometimes The
apron Is cut square each side and
trimmed with shell-shaped trimming;
it is then joined at the back OF the skirt,
thus forming cocks tuft.
A HoUsE-owNER took policy in the
Agricultural Insurance Company, Of
Watertown, N. Y, stating to the agent
that the size of his house was unknown,
and not sure about this the agent verbal
ly promised that he should not be held
| strictly to the statement. The policy,
however, stipulated that all statements
were warranties, and, the house being In
| fact 24x29, when it was burned down the
company refused TO pay, and the Supreme
Court held them not bound
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE asks: "Is po.
| lite society polite?" Miss Louisa M. AL
colt thinks that, judging from the way
in which the ladies were snubbed by
| those who made the arrangements for
the Concord-Lexingto centennial exer-
cises, the conundrum must be answered
in the negative. No provision whatever
was made for the dear women on that
occasion, and they were literally cleft
out in the cold" This looks bad fol
Massachusetts gallantry.
AT a spelling match in Pulaski, Tenn.
| the word "sachel" was given out
It was spelled by the ex-rebel Gen
Taliaferro without "t," as Webster
favors Whereupon, according to the
/ Pulaski Citizen, "the audience laid down
and rolled over and laughed and bleated
and roared and squealed and Uttered and
| hunched each other, and at last subsided
so that the pedagogue could be heard
He blandly Informed the audience thai
Mr.. Taliaferro had spelled the word cor
reetly. Then they commenced to look
blank at each other, and look green and
foolish, and had the dry grin, and you
could have heard pin drop"