Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-25
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4 -Rumor has it tn at Gen Tom Thumb
will soon have another Thumb on his hands.
More than q million.eof new laid eggs
are daily imported into England from
France.
Elephant trampling as means Of cap
ital punishment has been abolished III Hin
doostan.
About thirty journals were & killed.
during the German war The complaint is,
| that thew sspoke their mind. - ~"--s~
Professor Agassiz says that " God save
the Queen is an old Swiss national air that
has been known for centuries"
A few days ago two hundred organ men
and Italian itinerants in the. musical line
left England for America to ply their art.
About five thousand coolies were sent
to the West Indies last year. Ten per cent,
of the whole number died on the voyage.
in time of peace Europe keeps in arms
nearly four millions of men, at an annual
cost of over six hundred millions OF dollars.
An artist sketching in Switzerland sat
down near the brink Of a precipice, lost his
balance, fell distance of 1853 feet into a
lake, and was drowned.
According to the ceDsus recently taken
for the city of Paris,sth population OF the
capital, exclusive of foreigners, travelling
through it, is 100000.
The publishers of the AagJo-Amer'ca'l
Times, the American weekly paper in Lon
don, propose similar journal in Paris, to
be called the Franco american.
The Mont Gents. Railway is nearly
done. Il willsbe open for travel by winter.
The incline sometimes attains 81 feet to the
100, and some of the turnings have radius
of only 1873 feet
There is an organized band of kidnap-
pers in Pekin, China, who steal children
and young women, and carrying them with
but the walls, put them todeath unless paid
large ransoms for their release.
"A London paper is esponsible for the
statement that a large quantity of the whit
ing manufactured at the chalk quarries on
! Che banks of the Thaihess is exported to
America to be returned mixed with -four.
"A new practice is in vogue among the
fashionable Of both sexes. in Paris. They
Of bath establishments, singing, playing
games of dominoes, chess, etc., and also in
Irritation. aa tea i "r - ~
"A Paris tradesman was in a fair way
Of making his fortune by advertising that a
five franc piece was secrete1 in one of every
hundred sausages sold; but his brother
tradesman have stolen his idea and he is
nowhere. -eg'a g z
The proposition made TO send section
of the "original big tree" from California
to the Worlds Fair, at Paris, is said by DR..
McGowan to be impracticable, for want OF
saw long enough to cut it, The cutting
will require a saw forty feet long. ~
1t is ascertained by the cholera returns
in London, that the cases were always
heavier on Mondays and Tuesdays than on
any other days, owing to greater drunken
ness which prevails on Saturday. night,
often extending over Sunday morning.
1t is an interesting item in the history
Of the Atlantic telegraph, that the manufac-
ture Of the wire for the cable laid this year
kept nearly two hundred and fifty hands
employed in England for eleven months.
Upwards of thirty thousand miles were sup
piled.
Among other novelties which seem-like
ly to become very fashionable in Paris, are
watches and chains made Of hardened india
rubber which closely initiates different
sorts of,wood. Should these articles go in
to general use, the pickpockets will lose-con-
siderably. c7
=" Let me CO." said a pickpocket to a
| gentleman in Paris, "and + will return
your pocket book-upon my honor will ;
a spap has it." The gentleman released
him, and in few days the pocket book and
contents were restored. THERE'S "honor''
among thieves.
During the performance of the ssBaz'
Der of Seville" recently, at Hamburg
Miss Alice Riggs, of New York, sent Patti
bouquet larger than corn basket, AND
which the pretty singer was unable to Gear.
ry. She had to get assistance to remove il
from the stage. 81 Sk S% @
The Emperor Napoleon is plunged N
gloom by the successive deaths Of all his
most intimate friends -Morny, Mocquard
and now Baceiocchi. The latter was Cor
sican, and arelative of the Bonapartes, and
one more personally devoted to the Emper'
or than any other of his followers.
One of the interesting features Of the
Paris Exhibition will be the collection Of pc
riodical literature now in course of forma-
tion in England. Newspapers, magazines,
and pamphlets of all kinds are to be CLASH
fed and exhibited; the issues of the year
1866 only to be included. y
| LIT is Gannounced that The privilege Of
printing the catalogue of the Paris Expo
sition has been sold at auction for 100000
to Paris bookseller Upon this he oalcu-
lates that he will make a profit. OF $4,000
byselling q million copies, the probable de-
mand at the Exposition. s''"
"A servant girl at a farm house in the
vicinityof Guilford, england, dreamed one
night, that the house was attacked by rob-
bers, and, getting up, hid her watch in q
roll of butter, where it was found at the
tea several nights after, to the great sur
prise Of the family and Of Saraheherself, az
well: = : - !
An entertainment called q Lucifer il
the Jaws of HELL" was announced recently
at Dieppe, France, and crowds focked t.
see it. At the appointed time, q great pile
Of wood, saturated with turpentine, was
lighted, and the performer, clad in a fan
tastie fre7proof suit, and holding huge
fork in one hand, walked through the flame
stirring up the wood as he went. .Encour
aged by the applause, he entered "a ssecoht
time, lost his way, and wandered aimlessly
forward and backward. The fremen, see
ing his condition, exerted themselves to
4 save him, and in q few minutes he; was with
drawn. -&He died shortly afterward
Sensational paragraphs aboutfh Grea
Exhibition Of s67 are beginning To creep IN
TO the paper, and we are. tolfthat. one .
the novelties which will attract most atten
ton is new model guillotine invented by
compatriot of Count Bismark. The guillo
j tine is CAPABLE of cutting off six heads pc