Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-24
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a MOONLIGHT MAIDEN-Sarah IN ade. y
DISTANT RELATIvEs-Our foreign re-
lations.
KERR EMIT LITERATURE-Pun on the
Speaker.
SOME Kansas papers are urging silk
growing in Kansas.
A MAN born without feet must neces-
sarily be notorious.
A cow WEIGHING 1,450 pounds is
claimed by Berks County, Pa.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND sheep have been i'm
ported into Montana the present year.
HISTORY classes, it is said, will take
the place of spelling schools this winter.
JAPANESE paper-napkins are in use in
a number of the cheap eating houses in
New York.
A BILL OF SAn.-Tweed.-Neo York
Commercial AdUertiser. A-dieu Bill
That $6,000,000
THE last season is said to have been
one of the best for years for the White
Mountain hotels.
Thus far fifty-seven different conven-
tons have been called at Philadelphia
during the centennial year.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY-Two friend
less dogs were slaughtered by the San
Francisco pound-keeper in November.
THE New York papers tell about a
=" drawback on sugar. That's nothing.
There has been fearful pull-Gack on las
ses all summer.
THE New York Even51ag Postsays that if
the city charities had been wholly for
gotten in Mr.. Astor's will the public dis
appointment would have been less.
A BANK President of Lancaster, Pa,
has been arrested for aSsaulting an orange
boy, who importuned him to buy of his
wares. The President whipped the lad,
who caused his arrest.
A NEwLY-MARRIED couple in Lewiston,
Me-, who had just gone to housekeeping,
had pudding and milk for their first sup
per, declaring that they wanted to begin
as they could hold out
A PHYSICIAN who does not possess a
regular diploma from an established med
zeal college, or who has not practiced
medicine IN the State for five years, must
stop doctoring in Nevada.
YOUNG loafers in Minneapolis are di-
verting themselves by disturbing religious
elected from a chapel the other evening
"JoHN," said fond wife, enthusiastic
cally, pointing out to her husband little
shop on Main street, "when you die Pm
going to take the insurance and buy that
little place and set up millinery"
THE son of Patrick Casey, of Calais,
Me-, of course did not mean to kill his
father when he strung a rope across the
road few days ago; but it was night, and
the father fell over it and is not expected
to live.
THE Troy Press says: " A teacher in
one Of our prominent female seminaries
on the Hudson, on being asked by a
young lady of her class what pig-iron is,
replied "Iron given in exchange for
swivel" sea. 4.c
OSCAR COHEN, talented inmate of the
State Prison at Carson, New, is accumu-
lating capital at fair rate by manufacture
ing gambling implements combining va
riOus cheating devices for the benefit of
blacklegs.
WHEN the weather is wet and gloomy
the people commit suicide, and when it is
cold and brisk they go skating and get
drowned. This is what makes it so very
hard for cold Prob' to decide which
kind to deal out.
AN exchange says fashionable young
people are calling upon somebody to in
vent a new dance. Suppose somebody
invents one wherein the young lady
dances around the house and looks after
everything.-Chicago Tribune.
A PORTLAND (NIe.) merchant went over
to Fryeburg with a Sheriff. the other day,
to collect bill of Mr.. Hatch The lat
ter raised an ak, and the enemy retreated
They soon returned and creditor and
debtor had a hand-to-h hand set-to. The
merchant fioored his antagonist, and he
agreed to pay up at once. But just then
his wife came in and grabbed the wig of
the Forest City merchant, while sister
in-law drew a broom stick across the Sher-
itt's nose. Mr.. Hatch Immediately vowed
that he wouldn't pay the debt, and he has
kept his word.
THE first spelling-bee in England was
held recently at Islington, ''under the
American rules" Webster's dictionary
being the standard. Thirty-two gentlemen
and eighteen ladies essayed their skill be-
fore crowded audience. In the end the
sexes divided the prizes equally, though
the first prize fell to gentleman. The
words that proved too much for the pow
ers OF all except the prize takers were not
very difficult " Rhododendron," "apoc-
ryphal," "philippic," "hebdomadally,"
and " camelopard" put large number
hopelessly out of the contest, and at last
sesquipedalian" was only spelt correctly
by Mr.. Jameson, the winner. Prizes to
the amount of eS rewarded the six success
full spoilers out of the fifty who entered.
COMMODORE SHUFEIDT has ordered The
proper authorities of the Boston navy
yard to make several seven inch steel-wire
hawsers. These will probably be the
largest wire ropes ever made The Navy
Department has use for immense hawsers
to tow monitors and vessels in distress.
They are put on board the men-of-war for
use when required The usual appliance
| is twelve-inch hemp rope, but it swells
when wet and gets very heavy by ABSORB
ton of water. The steel-wire hawsers
will be seven inches less in diameter,
much lighter, non-absorbent, more pliable
and durable, and in every respect better.
This is curious, and, in fact, wonderful,
advance in the application of steel and
iron to commercial uses. A hemp hawser
twelve inches thick is wonderful thing
in itself, but a steel-wire hawser seven
inches in thickness, better answering the
same purpose, is something fruitful of
thought to the student of shipbuilding and
| rigging.-N. Y. Bulletin.