Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Italy traveller has got himself in
trouble through owning too intelligent
horse. This animal, whenever any person
was met or Overtaken on their road, threw
himself in the same so as to stop his
progress. Some people handed out their
purses at once; some produced pistols and
opened fire It is supposed his former
owner was gentleman of the road.
AT small church in England, recently,
upon the reverend gentleman" announc-
ing his text, respectfully -attired female
entered the church, causing the hearers to
look around to see who the latest arrival
was, whereupon the reverend "gentle-
man" said: "Now, my friends, just look
at me- Let me have your attention, for
those who come in late are not worth
looking at"
A PARTISAN thief at the Auteuil steeple-
chases was caught by detective with his
hand in lady's pocket. 81 am no
thief" the pickpocket Indignantly pro-
tested. II am in love with this lady, and
was only slipping note into her pocket"
and he produced as proof love-letter
hidden in the palm of his hand. As, how
ever, the lady was old and ugly, and forty
one purses were found on the ingenious
Frenchman, he was taken off to durance
vile.
A CORRESPONDENT in an English paper
tells the following: "Some twenty or
thirty years ago the inhabitants ola parish
in the Northumberland district engaged q
singing master to teach the church-singers
some new tunes. He found his pupils not
inapt, most of them being able to read
music Butwhen the music came to be
welded to immortal verse certain old
gentlemen who sang bass were detected In
substituting for the sacred words the
monotonous syllables boom. boom. One
of them, on being demonstrated with, thus
replied: Yer ways may a. be vera weel ,
but they dunnut suit me. Al always dud
sing bum bum, an a. always will sing
bum bum"
A SINGULAR wedding took place at Vim
cennes, in France, the other day. The
ceremony was fixed for eleven o'clock in
the morning, at which time all the parties
appeared But the bridegroom looked
sullen and annoyed all through the cere-
mony, although he said nothing out of the
way Suddenly, as they came out of the
church, he took his new mother-in-la
aside and said to her: Madame, have
just been rejecting a great deal, and
have concluded that your daughter does
not suit me at ALL [ had never noticed
before that she was freckled. prefer to
go away" and, Notwithstanding her en-
treaties, he jumped into a passing carriage
and drove hastily away. He has not yet
returned.
In keeping fowls healthy we have
found nothing equal to onions chopped
fine and thoroughly mixed with meal, OF
meal and mill-feed. They eat it readily
In the incipient stages of most of their
common diseases, including cholera, we
have always found this an effectual RENE
dy. AS sulphur enters largely into the
formation of the feathers it should be fire.
quently fed to them. In winter or when
kept confined, hens to lay well must have
meal often, and pounded bones, the fresher
the better, or oyster shells. If fed with
these plentifully, with such variety OF
grain as they like best, and well housed
and watered, they will lay nearly as well
in winter as in summer, and will seldom,
if ever, eat their own eggs.-Cor. ". 7.
Tribune,