Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-06-04
MULTUM In PARYO.

CHEAP DRAPERY-The curtains of the
| night.
WHAT is the only pain we make light
of? A window pane.
A DEPRAvED punster says he shall
| smoke if he chews too.
"GENIUs," says Clara Louise Kellogg,
"is well enough, but perseverance wins
No MAN can become thoroughly &C
auainted with his family history without
running for Office.
LADIES wells, they say, are now made
| with little pocket for the nose. Some
require big pocket.
THE sale of Connecticut paper is
| chronicled as the transfer of pair OF
scissors and some bad will.
| A BUSINESS firm failed recently be-
cause they were only able TO spell dollar
thus: Fifty CENTS" - i
THE Kansas City Journal Of Commerce
styles Black Hills emigrants " candidates
| for the position of millionaire"
A MAN recently went West to Nevada
| to grow up with the country, taking
with him his wife and eighteen children.
The grasshopper which feeds upon
| the land is said to have an enemy in the
form of minute parasite that feeds
| upon him.
SOME of the leading business men of
| Hartford, Conn, are attempting to start
a temperance reform by agreeing not to
employ anybody who uses liquor to ex-
cess.
THE muskets furnished to the Indians
in trade by the Hudson Bay Company
are Of the old fiint-lock pattern, the bar
rels being so thin that owners are often
seen Strengthening them across their
knees.
WHEN woman is care-laden and
heavy hearted, nothing shakes the me-
grims out of her quicker than for acouple
of ladies to stop in front of the house
long enough for her to examine the
trimmings on their -Br00klya
argus.
IT is an interesting fact that those bed
bugs which have been grated flourish
best. Graft 'em on bed-post, says the
almanac, at the beginning of winter, and
they will come out of their own accord
fresher and stronger and better than ever
in the spring.
HARRY BELDING of Oppenheim, N. Y :,
has for several years been convinced
that gold or some other precious metal
exists in the rocks of his vicinity. He
has made an excavation of 100 feet into
the rock at great expense, but has as yet
found no gold.
CINCINNATI claims to have the oldest
woman in America whose age can be
positively authenticated. Her name is
| Podesta, and she was born In Italy. The
| officially -attested b2ptismal register
states shat she "baptizata est die XII.
| Januari, 1769" This makes her over 106
years Of age. The recent revival of the
| question, Are there centenarians? has
| brought out great many probable cases
of people 100 years old and upward, and
some in which the evidence is most con-
| vincing
DURING the Atlanta campaign Col
Tom Reynolds, now of Madison, Wis,
was shot through the leg, which valuable
member he saved by his wit. Gen. Sher-
man tells us, in his Memoirs, that, when
the surgeons were debating the propri
ETY. of amputating the leg in the ColonePs
hearing, he (the Colonel begged them to
spare it, as it was very valuable, being
an "imported leg" He was of Irish
birth, and this well-timed piece of wit
saved his leg, for the surgeons thought
if he could perpetrate joke at such a
time they would trust in his vitality to
save his limb.
| A TRAVELLER writes of San Francisco
"The first thing the stranger is Informed
of on his arrival here is that this is the
worlds CENTER Here every thing begins
and ends. No other city can compare
with it even in one respect. l have been
shown around by "a 49-er,' who first
took me to the top of Telegraph Hill
and showed me the finest harbor in the
world Then down to the wharf, and
pointing to the City of Peking, informed
me that it was the largest vessel in the
world Then up to the Palace Hotel
and with much pride gave me to under
stand that it was the largest hotel in tn
world And on Montgomery street he
showed me the largest safe in the
world"
SLEEP protracted beyond the need OF
repair, and encroaching habitually upon
the hours Of waking action. impairs
more or less the functions of the brain,
and with them all the vital powers. This
observation is as old as the days of Hip
pocrates and Aret@us, who severally and
strongly comment upon it. The sleep OF
infancy, however, and that OF the ole
age do not come under this category OF
excess. These are natural conditions
appertaining to the respective periods Of
life, and to be dealt with as such. Ir
illness, moreover, all ordinary rule and
measure of sleep must be put aside. Dis
tinguishing it from coma there are very
few cases in which it is not an unequivo
cal good; and even in the comatose state
the brain, we believe, gains more from
repose than from any artificial attempts
to rouse it into action.-Eds7aburgh Re
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