Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-29
MULTUM In PARyO.
IT'S a bad omen to owe men.

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West and South are suffering from ty-
phoid and bilious fevers and from fever
and ague.
THE past summer has been noted by
meteorologists as being cooler by five de-
grees than the average season for more
than eighty years past.
| A GOOD many supposed rich people,
who have nothing but real estate for de-
pendence, are worse oil just now than poor
people. They are land poor.
| A WOMAN is very like kettle, if you
come to think of it. She sings away so
pleasantly then she stops--and v hen you
| least expect it she boils Overt
| TANBARK for bedding is recommended
| for horses suffering from the epizootic. 1t
has been tried and found successful as
eure.-Cbscago EUenSaag Journal.
THE melancholy days have come,
The saddest in the year;
Like frosts before the morning sun
The wood-ples disappear.
TITIENs is to receive $1,000 in gold for
every concert of the series of 100 in which
she will sing this season. This is the
New York newspaper story, at all events.
| THE success of the Sunday lecture sys-
tenn in Chicago moves the New Orleans
Republican to say: Chicago delivers
sententious lectures to ten centiOus audi
| ences."
THERE never was but one woman who
didn't believe that her husband would
take second wife If she died, and that
woman got killed on the cars.-DetroSt
Free Press.
"NOw, PAPA, tell me what is humbug."
1T is" replied papa, "when mamma
pretends to be very fond of me, and puts
! no buttons on my shirt till reminded of it
a dozen times"
| LADIES can shop to great advantage at
this season of the year. All sorts of goods
have been reduced in price, and cheapness
| is the prevailing feature. AT least so the
merchants say, and they ought to know.
ONs opeal to the United States Circuit
| Court 1t has been decided that the benefit
of the Virginia homestead exemption
cannot be waived by single partner
| signing firm note stipulating to that eff
| feet.
A BOY who has just learned to smoke
| inquired at store yesterday for pack
| age of nnikinnickerbocker" Thus
early do the brain -softening tendencies of
the weed begin to manifest themselves
| Brat1osao6cker.
! AN honest reputation iswithin the reach
of all men; they obtain it by social vir-
tues and by doing their duty. This kind
of reputation, it is true, is neither brill
liant nor startling, but it is often the most
useful for happiness.
In washing calicoes in which the colors
are not fast, be careful not to boil them;
but wash in the usual way with soap and
rinse in hard water. For dark -colored
| goods add little salt to the water; for
light, little vinegar .-Sctenttfc AnaerScnn,.
1T is said that on various railroads, not
named, orders have been issued forbidding
the assault and battery practiced by train
peddlers in discharging their wares on
passengers laps The Pennsylvania Rail
road issued orders of this kind some time
ago.
THE collecting of monograms is the
latest wrinkle among the young ladies.
| When large number are obtained the
young ladies paste them on their fans, and
| the one who has the most and finest holds
her head in lofty scorn at everybody
else.
A MAN who has spent his early years in
the boiler business, holding his hammer
against rivets on the inside while some
body hammered them on the out-that
man can pass through the collie period of
his first infant with comparative indiffer-
ence.
SOME apples of the maiden blush vari-
| ETY. were temptingly displayed in market
| in New Bedford, Mass. The boy in at
tendance being asked what kind they were
replied: 81 can't remember believe
they are the widows smile or some such
name"
MRS. PARTINGToN having heard her son
say that there were a great many anecdotes
in the new almanac, begged him to cut
| them all out as she heard that when any
body was poisoned nothing was necessary
| but to give him an anecdote and it would
cure him.
In making whiffietrees they will be
stron ger if the front side of the while
tree is nearest the heart timber and the
back side toward the bark; they will re-
tain their shape longer if the timber be
cut in this direction, across the grain OF
the wood.-EGc7s01age
A REPORTER being called to accountfor
the statement thata certain meeting was
a large and respectable one," when only
| one other person besides himself was pres
emit. insisted that his report was literally
! true: g for, :" said he, " / was large and the
other man was respectable"
| A LADY called upon her milliner the
other day to get the character of her
| servant The respectable appearance OF
the latter was beyond questioning. But
is she honest?' asked the lady. 81 am
not so certain about that" replied the
milliner. :" have sent her to you with
my bill dozen times, and she has never
yet given me the money!
A DETROIT boy surprised his father the
other day by asking: g Father, do you
like mother?" 8 Why, yes, OF course. ;"
And she likes your "Of course she
does.'' Ibid she ever say so?'' Many
a time. nv son. "Did she marry you
because she loved your" Certainly she
did, The boy looked the old man over
and after long pause asked: Wen,
was she as near-sighted then as she is
now?n-Detroit Free Press. t.,i
DuRrNG the war Georgian started TO
Marietta with some chickens for sale. He
met a squad of soldiers and they bought
all his chickens but one rooster. He in
sisted they should take him, but they were
out of money, and couldn't buy. The
old man said he hated to go on to town
with only one chicken, and was greatly
puzzled about it. At last one of the SOL
diers said: g Old man, I'll play you
game of seven-up for him." Agreed,
saws the old man. They played long
and spirited game. At last the solaler
won. The old man wrung the ROSTERS
! neck and tossed him at the soldiers feet,
and mounted his swab-tailed pony and
|; started for home, After getting some 2OO
wards he suddenly stopped, turned round,
and rode back and said: You played
far game and won the rooster fairly, put
, I'd like to know what you put up ag'ln
that rooster. "-Meridian (Ga.) Hsnecse0o'