Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-19
Foreign G0ssir,.

Foreign Gossip.
The Duchess of Sutherland is danger
ously i'll. She was the most magnificent
looking woman in Europe.
The British army in England is 40, 900
strong, in every regiment of which arrests
for Fenianism have been made.
HOLSTERS are getting scarce in England.
Mr.. auckland attributes the scarcity to the
practice Of selling Holsters eggs in the mar
kets.
Fashionable young lady, detaching her
hair before retiring: g What dreams may
come when we have shuff1ed off this mortal
coil"
The Governor Of New Brunswick has
approved the confederation scheme. This
event has so surprised the Government
party that a Cabinet rupture is imminent.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is at Cannes,
France. Her health has greatly improved.
The local papers announce concert to be
given by her for the benefit of the Cannes
hospital
-Mazzini, the italian republican, sees
hope in the sky abroad. He writes hither ::
g An energetic conduct Of the United States
in the question of Mexico would hasten the
fall of Louis Napoleon. liz
Parliament has voted monument to
Lord Palmerston. So they did 20 the Duke
of Wellington, thirteen years ago, and not
one stone of it is laid yet; while the lions
for Nelson's monument have been in the
hands of Sir Edwin Landseer for something
like quarter of century.
nj
novel method of forcing the growth of wit
He intends to give a series of dinners, to
which the witty alone will be nvied, and
such of them as fail to come up to the pro-
per standard of humor will thereafter be
dropped from the list.
DIR. Mackay, poet and Times especial, y
has compiled dictionary of obsolete terms
and phrases, and of such as are still in use
in out-of-theway sections of England, Ame-
RIGA and the Colonies, which Messrs. Turner
& Co., of London, have just published under
the title of g Lost and Perishing Beauties of
the English Language"
The Egyptian government has published
an announcement that Prince Ismail Bey has
been made an {. infant" and that none Of his
debts, contracted without the written con
sent of his guardian, will be paid This
infant is about forty years old; it was he
who, last summer, lost twenty thousand
dollars a day at the Imperial Club, Paris.
Louis Bomber died recently at Nieuel-
Ia Dolent, La Vendee, France, at the age of
one hundred and six years. He served in
the armies of the first Republic for many
years, was subsequently married and be-
came the father OF seventeen children, and
to the last retained all his faculties, being
remarkable for tae correctness of his mem
ory.
The tycoon of japan has sent a valua-
Bile present to Napoleon, consisting Of
$4,000 cases Of silkworms, more priced, in
asmuch as it has been clearly proved that
Japanese silkworms produce q superior
quality of silk, and are less liable to the
disease which has of late years caused so
much distress to the silk growers Of the
south Of France.
M. Liddet, President Of the Civil Tri-
bunal of Loches, France, while on a deer
stalking party, had the misfortune to shoot
his friend and host dead, mistaking him in
thick wood for deer. At the court of Or
leans, where the case was tried, the jury
found the presiding judge Of the court of
Loches guilty of homicide by imprudence,
and sentenced him to pay fine of six hum
dre6 francs.
The Suez Canal is partially completed.
A schooner having actually navigated the
canal from Port Laid to Suez, direct com
munication between the Mediterranean and
Red Sea may be regarded as an accomplish
ed fact Nothing now remains but to give
to the canal all the width and depth neces-
caYxr IN fpoo fnYs lnr
ships; to finish the Dykes ports, basins,
and dockyards.
"A hand-organ player in Paris has re-
vived interest in that antiquated style of
musical entertainment by gravely turning
over the leaves of a music book with his left
hand, while he worked the handle with his
right hand, as if he was really playing by
the notes. This ingenious proceeding ex-
cited considerable amuse Iuent, and was on
the whole favorably received by the public,
end rewarded with a liberal supply of sous.
Mrs. Brooke publishes the last words
of her late husband, Mr.. G " Brooke, who
was one of the passengers in the London.
They were found In bottle on the Brighton
beach, and have been forwarded to Mrs
Broke by Mr.. G. A Elliott, of Trinity Coils
lege, Cambridge The note is written in
pencil on torn envelope, and read as fol-
lows: "llth Of January, on board the Lon
don. We are just going down. No chance
OF SAFETY. Please give this to Avonia Jones,
Survey Theatre. - Gustavus Vaughan
Brooke"
-Gustave Dore; it seems, is not to illus
trate Shakespeare, after all. A publisher
offered him four hundred thousand francs,
b,,+ 10 ~
lion. For the fables of La Fontaine, upon
the illustrations of which he is now en-
ployed, he receives five hundred francs for
each one, and it is said that after making
his studies he draws two day, for which
he receives cash on delivery. He may be
seen almost every day now at the Jardin
des Plantes, studying the movements and
peculiarities of the animals which will &C
cupy places in this great work
According to official statements, the
Republic of Liberia has brought under its
control 900 of the aborgines, beside
5000 reeaptured from slave ships 1t has
turned more than 500 miles of coast from
being slave mart to the peaceful and hon
est pursuits of agriculture and commerce.
More than $50 churches have been erected.
About 200 schools are in operation; 20 600
children have been taught in English, and
10000 persons have united with the church
es. There are between sixty and seventy
settlements, and their commerce annually
amounts to between fifteen and twenty mil
lions Of dollars.
Several stories have lately been floating
about with regard to Leopold Meyer, the
celebrated pianist, and his adventures with
different sovereigns The most amusing
was his visit to the Sultan. Musulman Ell
quette would not allow of piano touching
the floor of the sacred apartment of the
head of the believers. The piano was sup