Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-28
MULTUM In PARVO.

Music BY HANDEL-A street organ.
The aspirations of those French bal
loonistS were too high.
MELODY is the Inheritance of the poor
A rich man rarely sings.
JOHN BRoUGHAM reads it: "Come,
gentle spring, diphtherial mildness,
come"
The saying Excuse haste and a bad
pens has been attributed to a pig who
ran away from home.
THEY are now laying the discovery of
gas on the back of Volta, in 1776. An
other brilliant centennial.
POLICEMEN are forever being abused,
but now, putting all prejudices aside,
did you ever know one that was not a
man of a-billet-eh?
A LITTLE boy returning from the Sun
day-school said to his mother: Ma,
amt there a kitty-chism for little boys?
This catechism is too hard for me-"
A MAN is said to be absent-minded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
home and takes it out of his pocket to
see if he has time to return home and
get it.
THE buffalo o-gnat in the South is larger
and stronger than the New Jersey mos
quito. The latter only flies away with
ducks and chickens, but the former car
| ries off whole droves of oxen, mules and
| horses.
| THE Chinese tailors of San Francisco
have struck, and have posted bills
| throughout the Chinese quarters offering
a reward of $400 for the killing of any
| boss tailor who won't pay the wages de-
manded, and an additional reward of
$500 for the killing of any tailor who con-
sents to work for less money.
AN Oregon paper says: "When a
| young lady living on the line of the Cal
| ifornia & Oregon Railroad wants to get
married she only takes one refusal to
give consent from her stern parents,
| and then seeks her lover true with the
remark: 'Smithie, old boy, guess we'd
| better canter down to the gospelshop;
it's no use waiting for those idiots to be-
come sane again."
| LET there be no further complaints
about the unemployment of their rights
by the women of Nevada. The contract
/ for furnishing the iron fencing for Cap
itol Square, at Carson, has been awarded
to the Misses Clapp and Babcock, Prin-
cipals of the Sierra Seminary. Their
bid ($5,550 in coin) for the delivery of
the fencing upon the grounds is the low
est by some hundreds of dollars of any
| submitted.
EDWIN p DOYLE, MINOR, by his next
friend, recently brought suit against the
| New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for mai
practice, claiming 100000 for the loss OF
| his sight, which, it was claimed, was
caused by the physician in charge ooper,,
ating upon his eyes, affected with local
| Inflammation, with instruments infected
with avirulent disease, which caused the
patient to lose his sight The decision
of the court was in favor of the defend
| ant.
ssARRAH, me darlint," cried Jamie
| O'Flannigan TO his loquacious sweet
heart, who had not given him the oppor
| tunity to !" get in aword even edgewise"
| during two hours ride behind the little
| bay nags in his oyster wagon, are ye
afther knowin' why your cheeks are like
my ponies there?n "Shure an it's be
cause they're red, is it?" quoth the blush
| ing Bridget. Faith, and a better raison
| than that, mayourneen. Because there
| is one o. them aich side Of Vaughn
| tongue
The way TO WOO: Wealthy widow TN
answer to warm VOWS of undylng love
and admiration -" Then you really think
me beautiful, Mr.. O'Dowd-candlaly
now?n Mr.. O'Dowd-" Beautiful? Indeed
you are. Not, perhaps, in that cut-and-
| dried, regular and insipid fashion that
passes for beauty with the vulgar herd;
| but, OH your face has subtle charm
| a-it-,an inefahle something IA