Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-08-06
NUMBER 4S.
MULTUM IN PARyO.

THE noblest Row-mans of them all
the Cornell students.
BETWEEN 400 and 600 sheep persisted
in recent storm in WetherSfield, vt.
THE frog pond of Boston Common has
been thoroughly cleanSed, but not frog
was found. One solitary turtle was the
only inhabitant.
THE prevalent " summer complaint is
that oysters are out of season. Some peo-
pie are shellfish enough to want every
thing all the year round.
=. THE Salt Lake Tribune charges that
Brigham Young and the lesser priestly
saints have stolen lumber to the value of
So COO, 900 from the Government.
A PENNSYLVANIA man captured rattle
| snake and set about teaching it some
tricks. He was on the high road to sue
| cess when they had to bury him.
GA PITTSBURGH man has invented an
iron shirt "-Mtners' Journal There's
no doubt either that the shirt in question
will prove the thing for hardware.
THE worst feature in this whole Charlie
Ross affair is that brand of execrable!
mean!!! sticky!l!! chewing-gum!l has
been named after the poor little abducted.
BUSINESS opens tirst-rate considering
TIC llS III llllcS. Il WO pboplC III O6ldWdIt
have already been choked to death with
peach-stones, and more cases are daily eX-
pected.
FIRST SwELL--Deuced hot Fwank!
Call cab. Second Swell-Tell you what,
old fellow, you shout and I'll hold up UNI
bwellar Get through it that way. Plan
adopted.
A YOUNG lady who vainly tried to stare
gentlemen out of countenance, looking
at him through the border of her fan, sub
seQuently told him he mustn't fan-see he'd
elder down.
"WILL you have small piece of the
light meat or small piece of the dark ?"
asked Bob's uncle, as he carved the turkey
at dinner. 81 will take large piece of
bOth," answered Bob.
THOMAS MOORE, the poet, stopped for
several weeks nearly a century ago in a
house in Norfolk, Va. The building is
still standing and the inhabitants Of the
city talk of celebrating the centennial.
THE Jersey farmer sits among his potato
vines and weeps, like jeremiah in the vine
yard, all because he has visitor from the
West-whose initials are &C. b." and
whose whole name is Colorado Beetle.
WHEN you see a man in the bayfield,
suddenly jump from the ground, fall
down and roll over, spring up and rush
for the barn, you may bet your last dol
lar that something besides sunstroke ails
him.
ONE of the oldest, ablest and bestknown
members of the Suffolk (Mass.) bar once
dryly said that there was no such thing as
knowing what law was until the Supreme
Court had had its opportunity to guess
al 1t.
PUT both of your lower limbs into one
leg of your pantaloOns: take the other
leg, roll it into bunch and tie it behind
you then try to walk. That will teach
you how nice and comfortable an ultra
pull-back dress is.--ErchGnge.
THE Pilgrim Society. of Plymouth,
Mass, having delayed for years to call for
the appropriation of $4,000 granted by the
Connecticut Legislature in the year 1856,
in aid of proposed Irrational monument
to the forefathers," the Connecticut Comp
troller concluded to look into the matter a
little before paying it. He found the
monument in process of erection, with
promise of completion before the centen-
NAL year, and will accordingly pay the
appropriation.
ACCORDING to the Springfield (Mass)
Republican, the fate Of the Pomeroy boy
is not settled yet by any means, the action
vi UllC OONCluOl SOuliIll dSdlbop liihl
being purely advisory If Gov. CASTOR is
opposed to the execution of the boy he
will probably continue to withhold the
warrant on which alone can the extreme
penalty be inflicted. The Governors
Council were evidently divided on the
question of Communication, but Lieut.-Gov.
Knight cast his vote against it.
THE volcanic outburst in Iceland has
now ceased but the devastation is enor-
nous. The surface of the ground for an
extent of 800 square kilometers is COW
cred with an almost uniform layer to
depth of over an inch. The quantity
which fell is estimated at no less than
900 tons The number of persons who
are reduced to penury by this disaster is
about 5 900, or ne-fourteenth part OF the
population. This misfortune will I'M
doubtedly stimulate the Icelandic emigra-
ton to Alaska
Miss MARY WILLETs, of Richmond,
Va, refused to allow the appraisers to
enter a room of her late fathers house,
and after repeated efforts to enforce the
order of chancery two or three officers
and an ak were finally necessary before
she could be taken from her room and
brought to court Her obstinacy was so
extraordinary that the Judge ordered
commission de EatndtScO before Furnishing
her for contempt. The commission will
probably find the whole story to be that
when woman won't she won't.
CAPT. WEBB, an English sailor, has re-
Gently accomplished the task of swimming
from Black Wall to Gravesend, distance
of twenty miles, on the Thames He ac-
complished the distance in four hours and
fifty-three minutes, going with the tide
The water carried him, we are told, four
miles an hour If this is the case, in the
five hours less few minutes it took hlm
to swim down he must have been carried
almost exactly twenty miles. Either
Capt Webb didn't do any very tall SWIM
ming, strictly speaking, or there is some
mistake somewhere.
THE modern school girl must have queer
ideas In a conversation with New
York reporter at hop at Vassar Tuesday
evening one of them queried: " Are you
single Y'-an affirmative answer being
riven. Then she asked thoughtfully: +" Do
, editors ever get rich ~ The "pencil-
beaver'' again replied in the affirmative,
and instanced several leading journalists,
and then added 81 leave for New York
tomorrow, and it will take me three days.
to pay my taxes and cut the coupons on
my bondsw I" Is 1t possible ~ replied the
miss, land you so young, too?'-FonS0-
keepsie Eagle.
THERE is bonanza to be had for the
nicking ND somewhere along the Union
Pacific Railroad. A few days ago gen.
tleman and daughter, travelling east, en-
tered the hotel car for lunch just after
leaving Ogden, Utah. AT table the
daughter removed several handsome rings
| from her fingers and handed them to her