Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-04
"A splendid opera house is to be erected

A splendid opera house is to be erected
III Evansville, Indiana, next spring.
An experiment tried by an eminent
physician Of st. Petersburg, during the
prevalence of the cholera there several
years ago serves to illustrate the influence
of the mind upon the body. He obtained
| of the authorities two criminals who had
been condemned to death, to do with them
as he thought fit. One of these convicts
was made to sleep in a bed, in which he was
told, man died with the cholera but the
night before-although such was not the
fact. After restless night, the criminal
was taken with all the symptoms of cholera,
and died of that disease, declaring that he
had caught it from the bed--a victim to his
own fears. The other was made to sleep
on bed wherein man had died a few
hours previously of the fatal disease. This
fact however, was unknown to the occupant
of the bed, who awoke in the morning
refreshed by his sleep, remaining in perfect
health.
The English court of appeals has de-
cided that if the husband and wife have
known nothing of each others existence for
seven years, either of them may marry
again without being guilty of bigamy.
Peter Timmons, of Coles county, ILL.,,
has sow that raised him twenty-five pigs
IN eighteen months, twenty-five of which he
sold for S535, and the remaining three, not
sold, are worth $50 each, making 1928 gross
receipts from one sow in eighteen months.
| The same SOW has since raised fourteen pigs
at one litter, supposed to be worth SIC each,
making 1924,
"A new and frightfully literal transla-
ton Of the New Testament has been printed,
! in which John the Baptist is styled g John
the Dipper." Another specimen is: "Nei-
Their do men light lamp and put it under a
corn measure, but on lamp stand, and it
| giyeth light to all who are in the family"
This new version, the Springfield Republican
suggests, might suit that rustic minister
who, in hot controversy against immersion,
took for his text, g Be not carried about
with divers" s.
The citizens of Rushville, Illinois, have
subscribed ninety odd thousand dollars for
the suppression of the liquor traffic in that
town
The most inspired and distinguished of
the New York hair dressers has introduced
| the custom Of dressing the hair of his lovely
| NOStO1HCAo3 Ny 00It1hEa ttuu OlcHO11lS Will tuS
natural growth tresses of false hair. This
| is, perhaps, no new thing, but the novelty
Of the present fashion rests in the fact that
there is no wish to match the natural hair
with the false, but the eontrary--locks OF
yellow are intermixed with the dark hair of
the brunette, while the blondes golden
tresses are striped with black. This unique
| style is called the Zebra, and it is expected
that it will be a great success.
Roman tombs, more than l 800 years
| old, containing cinetary urns and fragments
of pottery, have been exhumed close to
Queen Victoria's palace, at Windsor.
| Another new steamer, the Endymion,
| has been launched for the British navy.
Her armament will be four 100 FOUNDER,
Armstrong guns, rifed, muzzle loading, and
nine 11O-pounder breach leaders.
| The Canadian Government has decided
on sending special commissioners to Eng
| land, the West Indies, Brazil, and Central
America, for the purpose of concluding
| treaties of commerce i'll the hope of increas.
ing Canadian commerce in those quarters,
| in the same proportion, that it may diminish
with the United States in consequence OF
the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty.
"A man at St. Cloud, Mimi, eat on a
wager the other day, six dozen raw eggs in
80 minutes, and the offered to bet that he
| could eat four dozen more. He had already
eaten three hearty meals the same day
We should like to know whether the eggs
"set well'' on his stomach.
"A Paris newspaper announces, as an
inducement to subscribe, that none Of its
patrons have yet died Of the cholera.
Norway and Sweden, which touch each
other on the map and politically are united
are separated physically by high noun
tains. This barrier is about to be pierced
| by line which will connect the railway
| systems of the two countries, and, eventual.
| ly, permit travellers to travel by steam from
| Stockholm to Christiana
in Siam, white elephant is valued
above all creatures and things and worship
ped as deity Recently the King sent 8
collection of valuable gifts to the Queen Of
England but the one which he considered
worth most of all was a small bunch of the
hairs of white elephants tail, tied togeth-
er with golden string.
"A strike of a peculiar character has
occurred in Belgium, which has brought
| the desired change. The consumers OF
oysters by some agreement, decided from 9
certain day to commence a strike, and eat nc
more of the dainty fish till the price was
lowered. The effect was magical In few
days the stock Of oysters had increased to
an alarming extent, and the proprietors OF
the fisheries were right glad to give way.
| The winter has seen a new fashion in
ladies' dress inaugurated in Paris. 1t con-
sists in havin the great coats which, in imi-
tation OF the men, are now worn fabricated
partly of one color, partly of another-the
| body, for example, being black, and the
sleeves blue. At first view, the contrast OF
the colors in one garment seems strange, but
improves on being looked at, and the fash
ion, consequently, will probably become
general.
"A curious and cruel way of cooking
turtles appears in Chinese cookery book.
The turtle is placed III vessel of water on
the fire, with lid over it having,an aperture
of such size and so arranged that the turtle
can just get his head out, and within the
reach of highly spiced wine. AS the tempera-
ture OF the water increases, SO does his
thirst, and he gradually goes on drinking
the seasoned fluid until the heat kills him,
by which time his whole system has become
impregnated with the vino -aromatic season.
ing, and favor, described as delicious, is
Impaired to the flesh.
The Irish papers are making consider
able fuss over what they call the s.cattle
Melon which is considered quite an acqui-
sition to the agricultural resources Of Ire
land 1t is nothing more thar the Yankee
pumpkin, good thing to have about the