Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-06-25
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MULTGM In PARyO.

THE fear that surrounds us all-The
atmosphere.
A NEW YORK personal inquiries for a
lady with "biue eyes dressed in black"
THERE is some talk of re-establishing
the Government ordnance works at
Harper's Ferry.
PROF. H. r. PALMER's Musical Insti-
tute at Dunkirk, N Y, begins July 10,
and holds four weeks.
"IN word" says the Texas papers,
"there is promise of a year of plenty
such as has never been witnessed"
CALIFORNIA LICK say he knows b s
business, but by tomorrow he may come
out with the announcement that he
doesn't.
IT is a subtle remark of the Chicago
| Journal that "there is often just as much
| difference between two sisters as there is
| between trailing arbutus and a horse
| radish plant"
CALL loans are so low in New York
that when, between friends among the
brokers, small balances are wanted for
overnight use, the consideration is
"cigars for two"
MAJ. PHINNEY, of Barnstable. Mass,
denies that the Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock. They came ashore at
Provincetown, he affirms; and he wants
a monument there.
THE conductor of one of the grammar
| schools in Nashua, N H., has disoov-
cred useful method of teaching gram
mar and rhetoric. The pupils are award
! ed two marks for every error In a local
| newspaper.
| MARK TWAIN, apropos of a new porta-
| BILE mosquito net, writes that the day is
| coming "when we shall sit under our
nets in church and slumber peacefully,
| while the discounted flies club together
| and take it out of the minister"
THE Walnut Valley (Kan) Times says
that "23, $50, 7S9, 745 1893, 574 ,342, 1884 ,436,
659,275 grasshoppers passed over Butler
County last week on their journey North
and East. A few camped over night and
left their sick behind, but they are hot
able to do any damage"
THE Danbury NeDs tells story about
a woman in that town. who sent to the
grocer's for half peck of tubers. The
grocer thought that she must have meant
tuberoses and sent the boy to the seeds
man, who filled the order, and waxed
savage when the woman explained that
she wanted potatoes. The woman was
Boston woman who had married Dan
bury man.
ALEXANDER, the man who was shot
| four times by police officer in Philadel-
| phia, refused before his death to tell the
| name of his murderer, and in Brooklyn
a similar CASE las occurred A rowdy
was stabbed fatally three times in the
lungs, and, when asked to tell who was
his assailant, replied: "Id die with the
name of the fellow in my throat before
I'd give him away"
GREENHoRN LUCK" is a legendin the
mines. An incident illustrative of its
meaning occurred in Nevada County re-
Gently. A young man from the East, in
poor health, thought he would exercise
his muscles by digging little. They
sent him to Deadman's Flat as the near
est place where pick and pan could be
used. He went there and began to dig.
He took out $50 that day, and has done
well since.-AItG California.
JAY Cooke is credited with this mode
of fishing at Putin Bay, for descrip
ton of which all lazy fishermen will be
thankful: He had large glass jar
filled with minnows in the place which
he frequented. The big fishes would
swarm around the jar, seeing their COW
eted prey, and hungry for the expected
lcdSb. liz WOulu QIOJ LIS HUN dl1OuS
them and haul out the victims of his
novel delusion with the utmost ease and
readiness until tired of the unsportsman-
like sport"
A REMARKABLE verdict was returned
at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions at
Knutsford, in England, the other day.
Two men who were accused of destroy
ing fish by putting chloride of lime into
stream at Wsodford were, after long
deliberation by the jury, found not gull
ty of the offense with which they were
charged, but were, with solemn formal
ity, pronounced guilty of " fishing" with
which they were not charged. The
Chairman, Sir Henry Mainwaring, char
acterized the verdict as the silliest he
had ever heard in his life. The men were
of course discharged.
THE water furnished to the residents
of Washington must be in a condition
which would shock even the least fas-
tidious stomach. A. recent cleaning out
of the sediment of the main reservoir
from which the citizens derive their sup
ply of water developed the fact that
thirty-one bodies Of dead infants had
been deposited there. Other complaints
are made that the bodies are filled with
small dead fish, and the fear is expressed
washed out in few days the cholera
will break out in that city before two
weeks, as it did in Norfolk in 1853
Nor very long since the wife of the
professor, Mrs. Agassiz, rose one morn
ing and proceeded, according TO custom,
to put on her stockings and shoes. At
certain stage OF this process q little
scream attracted Mr.. Agassiz' attention,
and not having yet risen he leaned anx-
iously upon his elbow, inquiring what
was the matter. "Why, Professor,
little snake has just crawled out of my
boot" said She Only one, my dear?"
the professor, calmly lying
down again; there should have been
three" He had put them there to keep
them warm. Pleasant man to have In The
house, particularly in ones sleeping
room.-Neao York Letter.
NEW ORLEANS lady had her sleep
oddly disturbed one night lately. She
was living quietly in her bed when she
was disturbed by noise in the vicinity
of her child's cot in the same room.
She raised herself and peered intentiy
into the darkness, when she discovered
a black object climbing up the bed-post.
up all her courage she
sprang out of bed, when the black OBJ
lect leaped toward her, ana tue heAl ~
slant she felt the sharp fangs OF some
animal in her flesh. Her shr1eks Tor as
slstance seemed but to enrage the Deast,
and it climbed up her BODY, nercely
burying it's sharp teeth deeper at every
move. Finally assistance came and
ight. and then the quality of the mon
,ter appeared-it was a huge raccoon,
,ne Of the largest ever seen, and in APP
a frenzy of rage it sprang for