Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-26
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tails set on fire by hot stove, and his
wife became so frightened that she
dropped dead.
Col. GIIDERsLEEvE, one of the crack
shots of the American rifle-team, has
been elected q Judge in New York for
fourteen years, with an annual salary of
$4,000.
THE Khedive of Egypt has donated
e65, 900, contributed for monument for
himself by his admiring countrymen, to
found young ladies' school at Alex
andria.
IT MAY be interesting to teachers out of
employment to know that very high wages
are paid in the Cherokee nation Of Indians,
namely: 1926 per month for males and
5000 for females.
A MOVEMENT is made in England to re-
form the traditional civic robes that now
make every state ceremony more or less
ridiculous. The wearers desire robes
suited to modern times.
THE Louisville CourSer-JournGJ objects
to exchanges which have been run through
the press three or four times, as it mixes
up the tax sales so that they can't be dis
tinguished from the leaders.
A GOOD old lady living in Detroit was
around among the grocers yesterday ask
ing if they had any fresh fall sugar on
hand. She didn'twant any that had be-
come old and lifelesS.-Free Press.
ANOTHER monster telescope, the largest
yet attempted, is in course of construc-
ton at Dublin for the Austro Hungarian
Government. The object-glass will have
an aperture oftwenty seven inches, and the
total length is to be about thirty-two feet.
THE tickets admitting people to the
Moody services in the Brooklyn Rink,
which were intended to reach those unac-
customed to religious worship, in some
cases fell into the hands of spectators,
their market value being seventy five cents
each.
A THIEF entered the cellar OF a grocery
store in a Canada town the other highland
ingeniously contrived to steal several gal
Ions of molasses by boring hole through
the floor of the salesroom above and let
ting his auger penetrate the bottom of
cask, whose positionS6e had carefully as
certained in the daytime.
MASSACHUSETTS is warmly agitating in
her mind whether the property owned by
religious corporations shall be taxed, as
some people want it. 1t will make diff
ference to taxpayers, as the church prop
erty IN that State is by no means incon-
siderable. In Boston alone there is over
$40, 900, 900 in that kind of property
A REMARKABLE article called fish flour
| has been brought forward in the last few
years. 1t is not as yet manufactured in
any great quantity, as the article is still
new in the market, and consequently there
| is no great demand for it. The. flour is
prepared from dried fish Of the first quail
| ity; it is thoroughly desiccated and then
ground in mill.
IT is a good thing to have tools marked
permanently, and if it be desired to place
the marks on iron it can be done by run
ming a thin film of wax over the place for
the mark and then drawing the initials
with point. Run little strong muir.
attic acid into the grooves and in a few
minutes you have mark that cannot be
effaced and can be easily recognized.
A DAsHING young broker, beloved of
women, admired by men, was unable to
pay his honest debts. When pressed by
| friend who had assisted him to change
his too profuse mode of living, said he:
81 can't live for less than $4,000 year;
/ must live like a gentleman" "Not at
my expense" was his friends reply.
This is essentially phase Of New York
city life.-NeW York World.
THE Grafton wv. Va) Sentinel states
that one night lately the fireman Of To-
connective on the Baltimore 81 Ohio Rail
road noticed that the engineer did not
blow the whistle on passing a station, and
going up to him found him sitting on his
box with his hand on the throttle, unable
to move or speak. The train was stopped
and the engineer was transferred to pas
senger train, when he was found to have
been stricken with paralysis.
A CURIOUS correspondence has been
published between the Earl of narnley
and one of his tenants, Mr. Lake, the
Mayor of Gravesend. The Earl quar-
relied lately with the officers Of the West
Kent yeomanry and resigned his COM
mand. He expected his tenantry to fol-
low him, and most of them did SO, but Mr..
Lakes son did not, and the Earl, resenting
this as a breach of the "feudal tie" be-
tween them, gave Mr.. Lake notice to quit
his holding, which he had kept for thirty
three years, as his landlord acknowledges,
in good care and culture"
AN American lady not long ago made
good answer to an English lady who,
shortly after Webb's swim across the
channel, was good naturally twitting her
and asking: Where were the Americans
now 2" and that they must admit that Boy
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the reply of the daughter of Columbia,
there is no comparison between the two
cases. What Capt Webb has done is
simply an interesting exploit OF personal
courage and endurance, but of no partic-
ular use to any one, while what our Capt.
Boyton has proved is in the interest of hui
mainly"
THE Bangor Commercial gives the fol-
lowing story illustrative of the intelligence
of the horse: " Mr.. w. H. Pritchard has
in his stable grain chest which locks
with a spring. The boy who takes care
of the horse always pounds the spring to
raise the lid. Wednesday morning Mr..
Pritchard heard loud humping in the
stable and, going out, found the horse
initiating the boy by pounding with his
fore foot the top of the grain chest I'D, en-
deavoring to get it open. The knowing
animal was returned to his stall and re-
| ceived an extra quantity OF oats Tor his
endeayors."
| OLD AUNT JANE, a newspapers
of Charleston, S. c., died few days since.
The Neaos and Courier says of her: at
the commencement of the late war she en-
tered upon the business, and during the
| four dreary years of war and strife which
followed the fall of Sumter Aunt Jane
regularly made her way over the island
every morning, carrying the paper to the
boys in camp. To the residents of the
island she was as well known as anyone
| in the city. Of late years she has had al
| most the entire charge Of the delivery OF
the Neoos and Courier to the island, and
She has never failed to fulfill her duties.
| Tn all kinds of weather Aunt Jane was
promptly at the delivery-room for her pa
pers, and the hundreds of newsboys who