Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-02
MULTUM IN PARYO.

THE average length Of a farmers life is
sixty-six years, that OF a printer thirty
three years Hence, a healthy farmer,
who is inclined to be dishonest, may, by
beginning early and enlisting all his en-
ergies in the work, succeed in starving
two printers to DEATH
HE sheep raisers of New Mexico en-
ploy goats as leaders to their herds OF
Sheep because they understand a PERSONS
voice so we'll, and will come whenever
they are called. The goats have to be
trained, and the sheep will always follow
them. When stream has to be passed
this is very important. Raising goats is
quite a business with the MeXicans.
HoBE was once stricken with what ev-
erybody supposed to be his last sickness:
He called his son John to his bedside and
said in husky voice: John, when am
gone wish my death to be published in
the papers. Oh, John, will you put in
the words I tell you ?" oh, yes, father"
said the mourning son. "Well, John, put
in the papers that was the sickest man
that ever died"
A WOMAN appeared in Canada court
| the other day and made complaint that
another woman had called her an cop
| probriate epithet'' 6 What was it, mad
ann" kindly inquired the magistrs..e,
GA piano, sir,n replied she, in a voice
| hemi- demi-semi-quavering with emotion.
GA piano, madam; come, now, that's
| played" said the Judge, and he closed
| the court.-Nep York Commercial AdOer-
| t5ser.
A MAN wearing nice "plug" hat was
arrested and incarcerated in the Provl-
! dence (R H. lookup, the other day, and
was very anxious that no one should
know of his disgrace. After his release
he was observed about town with his nice
hat on, having upon it the tell-tale legend.
s'This hat belongs to man in cell No. II, =
the officers having been very careful of
his property, but having forgotten to re-
move the label.
Now, WHEN the soft Sunday afternoons
come, adolescent couples wander to some
shady nook, and, seated on a grassy knoll,
gaze with SPECIFICS rapture upon the
| greenness in each others eyes, and sit and
gaze and sigh until the evening shadows
| fall, when slowly home returning she tells
her parents, with voice subdued and rev.
erent bearing, that she has been out to the
quiet abode of the dead, reading the in
/ scriptions on the tombstones.
In a case where teacher punished a
boy for throwing stones ct teamster,
/ while on his way home from school, the
| Supreme Court of Maine has decided that
either teacher or parent may correct
child for misconduct on the way between
| home and school. In school the teachers
authority is absolute; at home the parents
to and from school the jurisdiction is con-
current. Both teacher and parent must
keep punishment within humane limits as
to severity.
] WHEN man cultivates patch OF
| tomatoes only to find at last that he
! has been deluded, and that the plants
are but weeds bearing a fatal resem-
blance to the tomato, can you expect
| that man to evermore take any inter
est in gardening, or could you severely
blame him should he cast off all social
/ ties. and with heart embittered against
| the world, plunge into the stream of vice
and dissipation and drift recklessly to
eternal Bruescicker.
/ A YOUNG man employed for two or
/ three wears in hardware store, and who
| belongs to a very respectable family in
! CORY, Pa, had loaned his employers money
ON various occasions, for which he held
their note for 81 200 at 10 per cent. He in
formed the firm that an uncle in New
York State supplied him with a regular
stipend, which accounted for his being in
funds at time of general commercial de
| preston. One of the firm learned from
| the uncle that such was not the case and
| then accused the young man OF embezzllng
] their funds. He owned up that ne had