Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-23
Foreign Gossip.

"A man found dead on London door
step had $l0,0 900 in his pocket.
-Toads are sold in England at ST, SO per
dozen. They are used in gardens to catch
bugs.
The French Empress has just present
ed the Imperiel LIBRARY of Paris a large
Bible of the 18th century.
Three English women, sisters, have in
creased the number of her majesty's sub
jects to the extent of sixty individuals.
| queen Victoria manifested her royal
indignation at a lady for appearing at court
in very low necked dress by ordering her
never to present herself again.
"A German newspaper states that a
young man recently married widow twice
his age, and he ascertained subsequently,
that his wife had once been his wet nurse.
-Baudelaire, the French poet, had to
take 100 drops of laudanum before his verse
would fow. He never went to bed, and
died raving, bowling, disgusting lunatic
Punch says:
When the defeated Austrian flies
Across the Alpine ridge,
Fair Venice with her bridge o. signs,
VIII soon her size abridge.
The French Academy has given as the
subject of itg next prize poem, " The Death
of Lincoln" Last year no prize was given,
ali the poems being of discouraging me-
diocrity.
"A question has been put to Mr.. OAR
win the naturalist, by the London Punch,
who desires to know whether or not, by Mr..
Darwin's theory of development, bay po-
ny may become sea-horse.
An article in London magazine dilates
on the palatable quality of steaks from
lions and tigers. 1t is not certain about
lions, but it is said that those who "fght
the tiger" rarely get their stakes.
Napoleon III. is not half so much ag-
grieved by his ill-suocess in making peace
as by the Prussian success in making war.
The glory of Solferino disappears in the
blaze of proof that the Austrians may be SO
easily beaten.
Mrs. Mellen, of Darlington, Durham
county, G. W., has eloped three times with
one man. Her husband followed her up
and caught her twice, but he concluded at
last that she isn't worth chasing any longer
1t is pretty evident that AIellen isn't a can't
elope.
1t is said one cause of the Austrian de-
feat at Sadowa was that Benedek. who is an
immense landed proprietor 5he troops
march round of six miles, "a passing
over his property, and thereb, injuring his
crops, vineyards, sc. His troops conse-
quently arrived upon the field completely
exhausted.
AT late medical dinner in London,
Sir Charles Locock, who has been nearest
to the queen in some of her most trying
moments, was facetiously toasted as the
earliest friend of the rising m smbers of
the royal family. He was also cougratu-
lated on the honors attained after mum erous
and arduous labors."
French authorship pas 1a'her hand
somely. Theirs sold his two greet bistori.
cal works for 100000 each. Dumas pere
has earned by his pen 5000, 600. # which
he has saved nothing Madame Sand has
taken an average OF $4,000 for each of
her 76 volumes, and $4,000 more for her
plays-SS40, 600 in all-which will do for a
woman.
The London Tines, in article, on the su-
periority Of the American guns, both large
and small, over the English, says: "The
most defective breach-loader known to the
Americans is an immeasurably more ser
viceable arm than the needle-gun which
has started the war department into spasm
of activity, while some of the best of their
rifles have scarcely been seen in this coun-
try. 1t is exactly the same with their ma
Wy; while we are hesitating and delaying,
the Americans are working and finishing .
"A Paris correspondent says the En-
press Eugene is extremely superstitious,
and wears an amulet in which she has I'M