Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-01
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more frequently, and resolve to do every
| time he looks at it, than to clean UP the
cellar, and yet invariably leave it for his
wife to do.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper is constrained
| to remark: A good many of the chickens
that come to this market look as though
| they had been Matched out of egg-plants
and then allowed to wither."
THE city of Brooklyn has spent an
average of $S,4O0,000 per annum for the
past ten years. The argus thinks there is
something wrong, and it does look as if
there were screws loose somewhere.
THE largest lobster which has been
brought into the Boston market for fifteen
years was caught at PASSPORT, Me-, the
other day. 1t measured three feet five
inches in length and weighed nineteen
| pounds. -e7 q97a al
/ DIR. HONEYMAN, an Acadian naturalist,
obtained number of army-wofms and
| kept them under glass case to note their
development They turned into brown
moths, each having two white spots on the
back.
THEY arrest and fine people who throw
banana and orange peel on the sidewalks
in Augusta, Ga. Such measures are nee
essary, considering the cheapness of these
fruits there; otherwise Augusta would be
rapidly depopulated.
A BUTCHER at Weaverville, CAL, while
dissecting a beefs liver few days ago,
found an Indian arrowhead in we'll
preserved state, that had to all appear
ances been imbedded in the liver for a
long time.
SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass, is genuinely
shocked at the discovery that the late
George w. Bardwell, a member ofthe Leg
islature of 1878, and man long prominent
in the church and community, had been
guilty of forgery in several cases, and OF
the gravest business deception, his irregu-
larities extending for several years.
eyes, SIR" promptly replied the boy,
as the grocer asked him if he wanted any
thing. 81 want two ounces of XII and two
ounces of pepper" xxi? Ki?" queried
the astonished man. Eyes, sir; mother
told me to get XII and pepper here, and
some corset strings on the corner" 1t
was good while before the grocer got
| hold Of the right article.-DetroSt Free
| Press.
JUST above the depot, the other day, a
man caught the heel of his boot in jaw
of the track. A long train of ore cars
were coming down the grade toward him
only few rods above where he was, and
there being no engine attached it was APP
parent they could not be stopped for sew
eral minutes; but as they passed HIM on
another track, some forty or fifty feet from
where he stood, he had plenty of time to
loosen his foot and walk on about his
| business. If the man had been crushed to
most satisfactory jelly his obituary
would scarcely have made more pleas
ant and breezy paragraph than this
| Marquette Mining Journal.
The Communists of the Wallingford
| Comm Community have discovered a
very simple remedy for fever and ague.
For some years past the disease has been
so prevalent in the region that, two years
ago, the Communists seriously thought of
abandoning their property and flourishing
business in that place. But the idea was
suggested of trying heated stove in a
small room, inducing profuse perspira-
ton, followed by shampooing and thor.
ough cleansing of the body with both
warm and cold water, and these simple
means were found to be thoroughly eff
fective remedy. Not only the Commu-
nists themselves, but the people of the en-
tire region round about, have resorted to
this remedy and have been thoroughly
| cured.