Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-06
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
They are fond of titles in the East,
Among his smiling titles, the King of Ava
has that of ssLord of Twenty -four Umbrel-
las" This looks as if he had prepared for
a long reign.
Among the Hottentots, if widow mar
ries again, she is obliged to cut off the joint
of finger for every husband she marries
after the first. This she presents to her hus-
band on her wedding day, beginning at one
of her little fingers a. !
1t has been estimated that one-fourth
of all the patents now being secured in
Europe are taken by Americans. When it
is considered that this is in the face of the
enormous charges made for foreign patents,
the inducement must be very great
The proprietor of Lloyd's Newspaper in
London has Just imported two hundred and
seventy tons of Esparto glass from Algeria
for the manufacture of paper for that jour
nal. The cost Of this kind of paper is one
half that Of the linen fabric.
I'm the Journal Amusant. of Paris, the
name of Stop is often seen at the bottom OF
caricatures. The wearer of this veil IS Nj.
Louis Morel Retz. Stop was the name of a
favorite sporting dog of his; and when Stop
died, Retz sought to perpetuate the name by
assuming it.
The Italian journals report frightful
catastrophe at Placenza. A small powder
mill blew up, and communicated the fire to
factory of cartridges, which likewise ex-
ploded. About sixty young women, some
soldiers and several civil laborers, who
were employed on the premises, were all
buried in the burning ruins. The exact
number of the dead and wounded is not
known.
A small two-act opera has been submit
ted to the press and the artists Of Paris,
composed by gentleman who does not know
a note of music. A similar feat is not al
together unknown here, teste4 certain late pro-
auctions on the, English lyric stage. But
this French composer, who is great man
with archives, and one of the legion Of
honor, is actually ignorant of so much as
the scales. He whistles his airs, and some-
body put them down.
A young American lady Yves riding in
the Bots de Boulogne, with the daughter Of
one of our officials in Paris, when a gentle
man drove past in a plain equipage, and
recognizing the coat of arms on the car
rage, supposing she was ona of the family,
bowed very graciously. The young lady
not recognizing the person, stared at him
in much confusion and indignation, turned
to her companion and said, Ibid you see
that impudent man bow me - ssOh yes,
that was the Emperor"
A London correspondent says: GA
- of 4ho1 oi1ly oh oh
ments in the world told me that his impress
sion was that all this did not equal the
splendor with which the ladies of New York
must be at this time decking themselves.
It was hard, he declared, to satisfy the
American merchants, who always demanded
something finer than the finest they have in
London. And, he said, when we say, That
is the finest silk worm in fashionable circles
here they ask to have finer produced
without regard to price"
1t is reported that two African nations,
Dahomey and Ashantee, are about to go to
war with each other. 1t is, perhaps, not
generally known that one of the causes Of
the hatred of the king Of Dahomey for the
king of Ashantee, is that the latter has the
richest seraJ in all Africa. This prince has
$500 wives, amongst whom is an English
woman who was born in India, and taken
when very young to the gold coast-several
Javanese and two Chinese. The king has
also q battalion of women in his army, but
they are all negresses They are armed
with rifed muskets, which they handle with
the greatest dexterity.
The London Times of August 9th says
of the discovery of gunpowder in the
Houses Of Parliament, the first news O.
which was received by the cable: "At
three o'clock on Monday morning a some
what startling discovery was made by the
police on duty at the Houses of Parliament.
A brown paper parcel was found, and what
is called slow-match attached to it. On
examination the parcel was found to contain
five pounds Of fine gunpowder, done up in
nine smaller parcels. Apiece Of string was
tied several times round the parcel and
round the match, and it is supposed that
the whole was thrown over the wall with the
fuses lighted The string itself had been
used as fuse, and was burnt to the point
at the edge Of the parcel. The exact spot
at which the powder was thrown is about
fifteen PAGES from the Little abingdon side
of the Victoria Tower. At this spot the
wall is nine feet high, and it is supposed
that the person who committed this foolish
and mischievous trick must have stood upon
the steps of a public house at the extreme
end of the wall. The powder, even if it
had exploded, could not have done any harm
to the Houses of Parliament beyond the
breaking of few windows"