Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-04-23
NUMBER 33.
CURRENT ITEMS.

In the darkest night fishes pursue their
usual movements the same as by day
light. aai eri9tg
HIGH living has its penalties among
cannlbals as well as among white folks.
The measles have broken out in the
Fejee Islands. .t.
HORRD! A New York paper speaks
of gentleman who was quartered at
hotel, but does not tell US what became
of the quarters.
THE Erie (Pa.) papers announce with
pride that not single person was ar
rested for drunkenness in that city on
St. Patrick's Day. H aE
AN ingenious Detroit dentist makes
crayon sketches, canes chairs, and repairs
watches and jewelry during his leisure
hours. Hope he doesn't get his tools
mixed.
THE quantity of iron to be used in the
construction of the Centennial building
will aggregate about 5000 tons of
which more than fivc-sixths will be
wrought.
THE Marquette (Mich.) Journal tells
with wonder how certain dog in that
vicinity "having several pairs of over
shoes placed before him, and being told
to watch them, will allow"the respective
owners of the shoes to take those be-
longing to them without trouble, but
should anyone attempt to take those not
belonging to him there is trouble in the
camp Immediately"
IT is estimated that the total value of
liquors actually drank in the United
States during a single year amounts to
one hundred and sixty million dollars.
This is only about one-half of what the
estimate has been heretofore considered,
but it must be remembered that vast
quantity of liquors of various kinds are
used for manufacturing and other pur-
poses besides drinking. I"
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of
the newspapers to this effect: "There
is one good wife in the country and
every man thinks he has her." Old
Brown, who lives ON Olive street, who is
bald, and whose wife has red hair and q
wicked eye, read this and murmured, as
he meditatively passed his hand over his
head: 81 dunno! I dunnoI'-St. Louis
Republican ..t.,st f.a Is
THE Rochester E1press has the follow
ing on the fruit prospect: From all we
can learn through our leading nurserymen
the peach bud is beyond a doubt safe.
In fact the prospects for an abundant
fruit harvest have not been better for
years. When the fruit harvest promises
we'll in this region it is generally cOnsld-
cred safe throughout the State, If not the
whole country"
THE photographic office at Paris has
begun process of engraving on copper
which promises, by its rapidity and the
moderation ofits price, to be very widely
useful. 1t consists in substance, first, in
covering a plate of copper with thin
shell of adhering silver, upon which is
spread thin layer of colored varnish;
second, in drawing thereon, with a dry
point, the lines of topography, and letter
ing, precisely as one engraves with a
diamond upon stone; third, in corroding
the traced parts by means of the per-
chloride of iron.
THE Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes: "Such a
ludicrous affair happened at the Patent
Office the other day The father of the
famous Baltimore quartet, which created
so much comment and interest this win
ter, made his appearance one day this
week before the clerk in charge, hat in
hand. Il want copyright. said pater-
famailias, man on the Liliputian order
of phgssque For what?' asked the clerk
in his most urbane manner. For my
four children, replied the father deter
minedly. Three of the little ones have
died, but the fourth is still alive, and a
photographer in Baltimore is selling pict-
ures of the entire group and making
money by the operation, and if there is
any money to be made by selling pict-
ures of my own children l want to be
the gamer SO would like copyright
to sell these photographs myself The
poor little man was very much discom-
flied upon learning that copyright Sc
cured could not emblazon the photo
graphic cards of his beloved quartet"