Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-02-26
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CUkRENI lIEuSs
Mosr people are like eggs-too full of
themselves to hold anything else.
THERE are sixty-three widows in Yer
sailles, KY, and the stranger who passes
through the town is told to run for his
life. .liSs wai
I A TEXAS female compositor can set two
columns of bourgeois per day and have
plenty of time lett to break wild horses
to saddle. .a 8sia
ONCE when bad man died savage
wit, being apprised of the event, observed
that the average value of mankind was
sensiblyl raised. s4all .Isa asal 81
NEBRASKA has chosen April IA as the
day to be observed as Arbor day." and
the people have petitioned the Leglsla-
ture to make it legal holiday.
A WASHINGTON man who was treated
to ,"twenty five-centerp slipped back
to the cigar store the other day and eco
nomically exchanged II for three for a
quarter" 38B nib asxa6,9
A VERMONT lumberman recently had
the misfortune to have log roll upon
him and break one of his legs; yet he
loaded his wood and drove home. 1t
was a wooden leg,
! MONTANA hasn't been able to show
over forty degrees below zero this
winter, and her leading citizens are quite
doYn-hearted. They thought they had
some winter out there. 81
A BEAUTIFUL answer was given by a
little. Scotch girl. When her class at
school was examined she replied to the
question, What is patience ?M"' Wait
wee, and dinna weary" 3si'.'3 @2n#
A WORTHY old farmer, who was being
worried in his cross examination by a
LAWYER, in Portland, Me-, exclaimed
"Look here, Squire, don't you ask a
good many foolish questions? 81" s.
A MAN who won't complain when his
wife craws out about midnight and
takes the heaviest comforter off the bed
to wrap around her plants is lacking in
all the noble qualities of afree agent. !.
THERE is said to have been discovered
in North Carolina a breathing cave,
| the suction of which is so great that 1t
! draws in living animals. 1t seems to
have sucked in a newspaper man--Bos-
i ton, Globe. 5e.lasui 5aa 9az
| Mr.. ALEXANDER ,.XERMUs, of Dunn's
| Lake, Fla, has found skeletons of by
gone race in the mounds on his planta-
| tion nine feet long, and, what is of more
| Importance to Mr.. Xermus, traces OF gold
| also
WHEN an express company is robbed
! Of $40 900 the first thing to be done is tc
/ lie the sum down to six shillings, under
the idea that the country will revolution
! ize if the truth comes out Detroit IRE
| Press. 54< ~ sag3 IS aat.a.9Ia
| A TENNEssEEAN sent ten dollars tc
New YORK to be turned into "a golc
watch worth $780," and "them ten
dollars" was never seen no more. Any
carpenters apprentice would have known
more than that. oi.t. .--
THE San Francisco Chinese don't seem
| to be troubled much by the death of the
Emperor Only few of them appear
to understand the position of an
Emperor, and they say No care
noder man all the same good" y
SAYS the Rochester Chronicle: I" In
Colorado the other day strong vino
| blew over train of cars three times
Didn't it also blow under them? The
wind may blow over house and not
| blow the house cYer-he? RI
THE following story is published by q
Connecticut paper: "There lived in New
Haven County, "a few years ago, man
whose wife Tabathy was widely known
for her strictness in observing the Chris
tian Sabbath, as he was for his remarka
BILE patience in bearing with some OF hel
| unpleasant ways. One Sabbath morning
barrel of flour stood in the front hall
which had been left there late Saturday
evening, and to the good man seemed tt
| he in the way. He thought it would no
be very wrong to put it in its proper
place before going to church. SO, after
breakfast was over, he proceeded quietly
to roll the barrel to its place, which wa,
up one flight of stairs. No sooner hae
he reached the stairs and commenced tt
j ascend than his wife came out and for
bade him going any further, declaring
if he did that God would withdraw Hi
blessing from them, and the whole blam'
would rest upon his conscience, Aftc
pausing moment to think. he resolved
| to proceed, and let the consequences b.
what they would. Having succeeded il
getting it half way up the stairs Taba
thy, determined to have it her way, a.
usual, reached up and took hold of hi
feet pulling them from under him, whei
he and his barrel of -four came tumblin,
to the bottom, causing the head OF th
barrel to come out, covering him witt
the contents AS soon as the poor 1nal
could remove the -four from his heat
sufficiently to speak he looked up at hi
wife meekly and penitently, and SAID
4 Tabathy, 1etsus pray" 4 8Ht