Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-06
Foreign Gossip.

The French have three hundred ways
for cooking eggs.
The amount of glass desired for the
windows of the Paris Exposition is 80, 1000
metros, which is q sufficient quantity TO
cover nearly twenty acres OF land
"A French magazine Of the fashions has
been interdicted in Spain, on the ground
that its pictures Of the dresses worn in
Paris at the present day are Indecent. 7 g
"A new daily journal has appeared at
Vienna, price one fifth of penny. It is
Government organ, intended for distribu-
ton among the people, is printed on good
paper and contains eight quarto pages
"A few days ago one-p ouDd note was.
paid into Mr. Gees bank, Chelmsford, Eng
Land It was dated 1923, and it is calculat-
ed that the bank has been gamer of ct los.
in the shape of interest at five per cent, by
its non-circulatioR. sas -.aa
in Russia three cities only have popu-
lations above 100000: they are Odessa, the
chief port in the Black Sea, with 119, COO;
Moscow, the ancient capital, with $4,000;
and st. Petersburg, the present capital,
which numbers $4,000.
The population of Chilli is 1854, 943,
its area is 1872, 500 square miles, and its ex-
port and import trade for 1854 amountedt to
$50, 1856 303. There are eight hundred md
thirty-two inhabitants of from one hundred
to one hundred and forty years of age in
the Republic.
1t is now said that the reported attempt
to assassinate the Emperor of Austria was
mere hoax The English Captain Palmer,
who claimed the circuit of saving the EN-
peror's life, is accused of concocting the
| plan in order to attract attention and ac-
quire notoriety. This is not unlikely.
| The Paris journals announce that the
Empress Eugene has placed in the Church
of Notre Dame des Victories q magnificent
lamp, bearing the initials L. ~, which is to
burn perpetually before the high altar 1t
is presentto which is said to be attached
a VOW relative to her family.
The Queens huntsman was buried re-
Gently, and, strange as it will seem, just
before the interment his favorite horse was
killed, and its ears cut off and buried in it's
old masters grave The only excuse
offered for this brutality is that it was in
accordance with a very ancient British
custom. IL
Horses are getting to be ridionlcuslyl
cheap in Honolulu. A fine looking young
mare, well broken to the saddle, was recent
ly purchased at auction by gentleman for
So 80. A sea captain--probably under the
Influence of recollections Of the sold horse''
of his forecastle days-got one knocked
down to him the other day for fifty -three
cents.
Rev. DR. Begg states that.there are in
Scotland 1864 houses, or more properly
novels, occupied by human beings, @itFouf
| ,oindoscs, and 2l6,723 houses of only one
apartment, large number Of those in the
cities being occupied by families of six and
seven. Thus nearly million Of the peo-
I pie of Scotland or ne0rly ome-Mud Of the
entire population, are living in places totally
unfit for human habitation, in which neither
the comforts nor decencies Of life can be
secured. $500,
In March last man named Walker, of
San Francisco, left that port in a brig owned
by his firm, and sitter touching at the Sand
witch Islands, and stopping at three ports
in Japan, landed at the mouth Of the Amoor
river early in the summer. From there he
assembled that mighty riyer-larger, il is
said, than our famed Mississippi-in q
steamer some thousand miles, and then
proceeded overland to ST. Petersburgh,
which he reached on the 3D. of September.
He expects to be in San Francisco some
time in November. -,t, +,
We find the following story in the Pail
Nall Gazette. +" 1t is a curious illustration
Of the strange notions prevalent in France
in reference to the Emperor Napoleon, that
among TIE workingmen of Paris there is a
story that he has been dead for a fortnight,
and was personated at the review recently
by a we'll known fentmaker. There are
three men in Paris it seems, who closely
resemble His Majesty-one being the tent
maker in question, another woodran ger in
the Bots de Boulogne, and the third the
keeper of a dancing room at Mount Par
nasse."
IN. de Gobineau, French traveller, has
lately published in Paris volume on Cen
trail Asia. IN the course Of his travels he
met q learned Persian, who told him that
he greatly admired the French newspapers.
and especially their fourth page (which
contains the adyertisements) "This foss,tb
page cannot be thoroughly oomprehended
except by eage. He who invented it was
a benefactor to humanity. In singularly
narrow space he has been able to collect the
most valuable information: the honorable
marriages which have taken place in the
best circumstances Of fortune the honses
on sale or to be let; the best works: and.
above all, the most precious and venerable
medicines