Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-30
Foreign Gossip.

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Is IA advertisement in the London Times
informs the world whom it may concern
that Joe Pickles will take the name of
Macaulay, and that his present name is Joe
Pickles aMacaulay. ron s4' 5aa s4oz
The Chinese, nine-tenths of whom never
saw q steamboat, possess the finest coal in
the world for generatin steam. 1t is found
near Pekin, the capital, where coal field
exists of no less than three hundred miles
in extent. ;gs
MR. Russell, the London Times cores
pondent, says that Marshal Benedek fought
j the battle Of Sadowa in the full expectation
of defeat. Two days previous, he sent a
dispatch to Francis Joseph worded thus /:
"Sire, youmust make peace"
The French Minister of War receives,
as Minister, $4,000 year; as Senator,
$4,000; as French Marshal, $4,000; as
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, $500.
Total, $38, 600 Besides, he is lodged,
lighted, and warmed, and his horses ARE
fed, at government expense.
When man becomes famous for his
| forgeries, the Chinese authorities do not in
ccarcerate him in prison, or imprison him in
a pei .ntiary, in order to suppress the evil,
| DuG OnS DdnkbES anu WCdAOAy 1I1Sii iA SA1S
| locality make up purse sufficiently large
to buy him off from that crime, and to bind
him not to instruct others.
On the occasion of Queen Victoria re-
cent journey to and from Balmoral, an ex-
I pertinent was made at every Junction on the
long line of 500 miles to hold communica-
tions, by means Of a new electrical appara-
!; tus, between the guard and the engine
driver, while the train was in motion. The
communications were made by her majesty,
to whom the mechanism was explained by
Lord Charles Fitzroy. and in every case with
instant and complete success. r
A lady writes of costly stud in India:
'The first show Of the day was RUM eet's
private stud. I suppose fifty horses were
led past us. The first had on its emerald
trappings, necklaces arranged on its neck
and between its ears, and in front of the
saddle two enormous emeralds, nearly two
inches square, carved all over and set in
cold frames, like looking glasses. The
cIupper was all emeralds, and there were
stud ropes of gold put on something like
martin gale Heera Singh said the whole
was valued at ST., 850,000."
"A letter from Baden contains the fol-
lowing, which illustrates the state of feeling
| in the lesser German States :--' Last week,
40 students arrived near the Castle Of Dur
bach, near Ofenburg, from Friburg, accom-
panied by surgeon. They were armed
with rapiers, and retired into the interior of
forest, where they selected a sliMable spot
for fighting duels on large scale, 70 to 70
They fought for a long. time, inficting
wounds on each other in the face and arms
One is said to have had his life endangered.
What was the origin of this battle ? Politics
-20swere for Austria and 20 for Prussia.
"A curious case of kleptomania is re-
ported in Paris A lady bought half pound
of prepared wool at q shop at 10 francs the
pound, but popped leg of mutton belong
| ing to the shopkeeper into her bag with it.
The action was seen by the master, who
politely took away the lady's bag, and said,
So think my assistant made mistake-he
has given you too much wool Wewwlll
weigh it, indeed, the bag weighs seven
pounds, which, at 10 francs the pound, will
be IS francs. Will you take the whole Of
the wool ?" Too glad to fall in with the
humor of the shopkeeper, the lady agreed,
paid, and departed with her leg of mutton,
and the shopkeeper sent the money to the
poor of the quarter.
"A foolish wager was made at wine
shop in Paris, WHICH resulted in death. At
( a breakfast where the conversation turned
on the quantity of drink which person
could take, bricklayer, named Floren-
tine, made bet that he could drink twelve
glasses of wine While the clock of the TUT
Ieries was striking twelve He drank three
glasses before the clock had struck three
times. At the next glass he stopped to
breathe At the seventh he began to drink
more slowly, but, making an effort, he
drank off the eighth glass. He then turned
very pale, and breathed with difficulty.
His friends wished to stop the wager, but
he said he would go on, come what might,
and swallowed the ninth glass. He had
4 hardly ernptied the glass when he fell down
senseless surgeon was sent for, but, in
spite of all his efforts, the foolish man died
/ in three hours. ts -. @1