Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-03-12
NUMBER 27.
CURRENT ITEMS.

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A TERRIBLE blow--b'low zero.
A PAIR of tights-two drunkards.
A FINISHED gentleman dead one.
How MANY sleeves has coat-of-arms?
STEALING with scissors is cliptomania.
Why did Freedom shriekg Kos--ciusko
fell.
UTICA, N. Y, is the Hub-of the cheese
interest
A DETROIT boys composition: "The
horse runs; SO does a gazelle; so does
my nose"
SENATOR RANDOLPH, of New Jersey,
has invented stitching-m machine and one
of the best plows In use.
MRS. TRAsK has completed.a pamphlet
commenced by her husband and
launched at Surgeons nicotian procliyi-
ties. he.rs
VERMONT husbands will sit up all
night to keep the fire going under the
soap-kettle and then rock the baby all
next day.
AN English newspaper says "eggs, not
fish, contain most phosphorus and are
the best food for those persons deficient
in brains"
In some parts of Louisiana, when q
girl sets the marriage day, she counts up
her ague days so as to have the ceremony
come on the off day.
If you want newspapers to publish >
your poetry and to be anxious to secure
it, always start off with: He faded
away like a summer flower"
THE seals have, in many instances be-
come disgusted with the extreme north,
and sought a more congenial latitude in
the neighborhood of the New York
coast.
SOME one sent Delaware man by ex-
press a paving-stone weighing thirty-six
pounds, and as he opened the box after
paying eleven dollars charges his voice
was heard clear over in the next county,
THE Chinese in California have taken
to eating the tule root as food. The root
finds good market at six cents per
pound, and at that rate tule swamp
would be more profitable than wheat
field of equivalent extent.
THE newspaper reporters of Chicago
propose to give theatrical entertain
ment at an early day for the benefit of
the poor of that city. 1t will not be
advisable to marry into a poor family,
though, on this account.-MSlao0lSkee
Neaos. a4# tI
In Boston the simple vulgar notice
Post no bills" never mars the surface
of dead wall. There is posted up in
stead the elegant legend: Please at
tach no distiguring paragraphs of mer-
cenary literature to the virgin face of
this perpendicular plane"
A NEW kind of bird has made its ap-
pearance at Hartford, Conn, in large
numbers The descriptions of them say
that they are similar in color to the cat
bird, bigger than the bluebird but not
quite the size of robin. Every flock of
them has several beautifully tinged with
red.
A GERMAN named 1hachtman, residing
at st. Louis, is the victim of singular
form of insanity. The playing of music
excites him to frenzy and at certain times
he expresses desires to murder the per-
forming musician. He is not the first
man who has felt that way when some
people were performing.
MARK GRAYsoN, of Richmond, Va, is
backed for $25000 to walk round the
world-a distance Of 19, 226 miles by his
route-in 600 days, which makes his av-
erage thirty-two miles day. Duringhis
shipboard travels he will walk his dis
tance regularly. He is twenty-eight
years old, five feet seven inches high,
and weighs 139 pounds. He starts from
the City Hall, New York, April 3, 1875,
and agrees to walk back to- it Nov. %,
1876. He will not stop at lunatic asylums
on the road though he would grace one
immensely. .afA-'~
ONE of the most important railway
lines in Bavaria has for many years been
H.. Oh rsa1
is obtained from the bogs of Haspel-
moos, abundant in quantity and of the
best quality attainable. The method
pursued in its preparation is that de-
vised by M Exeter, and which is alleged
to possess superior advantages on the
score of adaptation and cheapness. The
turf, as dug or dredged, appears COM
with a considerable proportion
of earthly matter; from this it is separat-
ed by grinding up, large dilution with
water, and decantation of the water
bearing the light peat particles still in
suspension from the heavier earth matter
which has deposited. This is left to dry
in LAYERS exposed to the air, and COM
pressed in molds by power. E
AS you cannot support your wife's re-
lations and all the rest of your troubles
much longer and as you are thinking
about the thing any way, you may as
well know now it will feel when. you
come to do it. Having attempted to hang
himself, but having been prematurely
cut down, young gentleman Of Paris
has survived to give this account of his
As kicked away the chair
and fell had the sensation of receiving
a blow from hammer on the top OF my
head. did not feel the rope, and the
only defined sensation succeeding that OF
the blow was sensation OF weight n
my head My head seemed heavier and
bigger than the great bell ofNotre Dame.
1t was night all about me, and then there
came terrible cold in the lower part of
nv body, and then sharp pain where
the rope was tearing my neck, and then
THE Meadville (Pa.) Journal says:
g There is being built at Franklin, by the
Galena Oil Company, a miniature oil
farm for exhibition at the coming Gen.
tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia 1t
will be q complete and accurate repre-
sentation, upon a reduced scale, of Sec
tion of the oil region. There will be
rocks, bluffs, hills and ravines, creeks and
rivers. There will be railroads with
trains in motion, moved by miniature
engine. There will be four oil wells IN
the process OF drilling, other wells pump
ing, horses and drays Transporting the
oily product overland, pipe lines, tanks.
a village containing costly residences OF
the successful operators and the Dine
board shanty of the pumper, and in the
foreground the Galena Oil Company's
works, including tanks, stills engines,
agitators, storehouses, etc. The whole
farm will occupy a space about twenty
feet square, and will cost many hundreds