Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-08
Foreign Gossip.


account in New York city.
"A minister in Switzerland has written
biography in 81 different languages.
The total value of prizes to be given at
the Paris Exhibition is 100000 in gold
Since 1861 the production of sugar in
the Sandwich Islands has increased from
100000 pounds to 20,000,000 pounds a
year.
"A German mile is as long as two of
ours. A German pound has several more
ounces, but German dollar is considerably
| less.
AT Glasgow, in Scotland, on the 10th
inst, there was reform demonstration Of
the most enthusiastic and imposing dsscrip-
ton. The number of persons present was
estimated at 10000.
While the celebrated giant Ching
(height about eight feet, weight 20. stone)
was on exhibition at Worcester, England,
the prodigy stumbled, and out rolled two
living bodies, one of which had been hoisted
ga top o tother.''
A firm of Scotch warehousemen in
London have in their employ knitter who
has discovered the art of knitting two
stockings at one time on the same pins.
When finished, the stockings are drawn
away from each other.
The estimate originally made by the Bel
gian engineers, for the wear of rails upon
their lines, was 100 years. At present 10
years is not under the average life of rails,
whilst many are actually so much worn in II
months as to be no longer ft for use.
A correspondent of the New York
Times writing from Pekin, under date Of
June, 1866, relates the discovery of colony
of Jews in the heart of China. They have
preserved till lately many of their tradi-
tons and the purity of their race.
An express train carried the twenty
millions of thalers which form the war in
demnity that Austria must pay Prussia.
The whole amount was paid in silver. 1t
was loaded by the ton and took twenty men
six days to count it. Ten clerks, twelve
tellers, and thirty gendarmes accompanied
the train. - -ttAS
An English wag tells this story: "The-
passengers in first class railway carriage,
on arriving at the terminus, were addressed
by the guard with the customary request:
Gentlemen, show your tickets Among
them was one man rather SLOWLY attired.
He produced ticket Of leave"
There has been an outbreak among the
convicts at TOulon, because they were not
allowed as much tobacco as they thought
they ought to have. The Penitentiary
buildings were almost entirely destroyed by
fire, and fourteen prisoners persisted in the
flames. The riot was put down with the
aid of strong military force
The chief mechanic in the Imperial
Turkish mint is an American, who has been
employed there thirty years. A CONSTANT
nople correspondent says that he has not
been paid cent of wages for a year, the
finances Of the country being in a very de-
pressed condition. A great temptation one
would think, to coin few gold pieces for
himself.
When the Seine inundated the meadows
near St. Denis, the gudgeons, being fond Of
insects, invaded by thousands the grass
which was under water, to feed upon them
The waters having subsidized rather sudden
~, the greater portion Of the fnny tribe
were left high and dry, and became the
prey of the country people, who armed
with shovels and buckets, soon transferred
them to the frying pan.
"A French paper says the excavations at
Herculaneum are expected to be much more
productive than those at Pompeii, whence a
great many persons had time TO carry away
their chief valuables before the storm Of
ashes and lava overwhelmed the place. At
Herculaneum the case was different. The
labor will, it is said, be greater than at
Pompeii-a mountain of lava has to be
pierced, and descent made into the city
as into mine.
"A correspondent of the New York
| Times l., q letter. from pakiu giyaa q curi-
GUS history OF the decay of the Jewish
colony in the Chinese city Of Kai-fung- gee.
They have gradually abandoned their pecu-
} liar rites and at last begin to intermarry
, with the Chinese, although they still re
member the names of the Feast Of Taber
, naeles, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and
a few other ceremonial rites, which were
practiced by former generations.
: 1t would be impossible to transfer to the
English language the wit of this fine French
jeu q esprit on the situation Of Europe re-
. suited from the German wal and its settle.
ment:
L'Italie est fate,
! Eft Rome contrefaite;
L'Autriche est defaite;
Et p Allemagne relate;
La Prusse est surfaite
/ La France parfaite,
Eft L Angleterre satisfaite.
The meaning may be approximately ex
= pressed thus:
E Italy is finished, and Rome is counter
= acted: Austria is undone, and Germany
/ reconstructed; Prussia is overgrowI
e France is just right, and England is salts
fed.