Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-18


In his recent diplomatic circular, the
| Emperor Napoleon gives it as his opinion
that g a century hence the United of Amer
lea will contain one hundred millions of in
habitants. 2
! Alta Russian theatre the orchestra was
nonplussed when the officers of our squad
ron called for Hail Columbia. The mana
ger expressed his regrets, but he had never
seen the music.
During the Doncaster races, a gentle
man .waeered $500 against carrot that
Rustic would not VIM The bet was made
in good faith, as both the money and vege-
table were deposited.
The London Era devotes considerable
of its space each week to discussion OF
! Blind Toms musical talent. 1t pronounces
his feat of playing three different tunes at
the same time g q task beyond civilization,
sane people generally, and the entire white
family"
Passengers on the railroad from Alex
andria to Suez make bitter complaint OF the
bad usage they receive. The carriages,
they say, are "something between beast
trucks and fourth class carriages" and be-
tween o'clock in the evening and o'clock
the following morning-the time taken oy
the iourney-no food or drink could be had
at the station.
"A woman named Steele,f sentenced to
six months imprisonment, at the City Police
Court, London, seems to have carried on a
wholesale system of HOUSEKEEPING IN the
neighborhooo Of Rochdale road and Old
ham road. The thoroughness of this thief
is not often surpassed. In one instance
she stripped a child while it lay asleep in
bed ), and carried away its clothes. ~
= The Madras Railway Company have
been experimenting on the relative costs of
wood and iron for railway sleepers. 1t has
been found that for series of years the
wooden sleepers have averaged cost Of
$3.50 per mile, while the iron ones have
cost but $74 per mile. The advantage Of
iron over wood has been made so apparent,
that the company has resolved to use iron
hereafter altogether. -%eS 20
The pledge system, long a favorite en-
CINE of the temperance movement has been
applied by the Free Church Society of Eng
land in the following form 81, the under
signed, believing that any charge for the
means of grace. or for the ordinances of
Christianity, and any respect of persons in
Gods house, because they pay$or don't pay,
is against Gods command in holy scrip
lures and unjust to the poor, engage never
to pay any pew rent so long as continue a
member of the -"
The Lake of Agnano, in the Neapolitan
territory, SO famous for savory fish, threat
ems to become fshless sheet Of water like
the. Dead Sea, not from an excess of salt,
but through the agency of that mischief
brewing botheration called Vesuvius A
subaqueous Eruption from that dreaded
mountain has engendered gases Of such
mephitic nature, at the bottom of the lake,
that the poor things rush to the shore and
die: The banks are swarming with the
dead.
"A Paris letter, speaking of the cholera
experience, says: ssBut the total Of it a.
believe: First, that the disease is most FREE
quently developed spontaneously, under the
influence of some atmospheric condition
not yet understood; second, that persons
who would not otherwise take the disease
may do so from breathing the air which
surrounds cholera patients and third, that
the vitiation Of this air is caused mostly by
the elections from the sick"
1t is reported from Bucharest that a
Frenchman named Poltin had arrived in
that city to exhibit two elephants, male
and female, the same which were shown in
Paris few years since. These animals
have killed their master in singular man
ner. The male seized him with his trunk
and threw him into the air; the female
caught him as he fell and threw him back
again, and this game at ball was continued
for quarter of an hour. When assistance
arrived it was too late; every bone in the
poor fellows body was broken.
The influence of costumes on mortality
is shown in a very instructive manner by
by one Of the English Register Generals
reports. Thus, from one to five years there
is an equality of deaths by scalds and burns
among boys and girls; but from five to ten,
double the number of girls to that of boys
die from these causes, while from ten to
twenty, there die one hundred and two
women and only twenty seven men; and
from twenty and upwards, seventy one
women and twenty-five men-showing the
influence of muslin and founces in produc-
ing death, Notwithstanding the greater eau
ton of the female sex.
-" They have singular mode Of pun
fishing robbery in China" said mission
airy who had just returned from the Celes-
tial empire, to anumber of friends who had
called in to hear his account of things in
the land of marvels. "Does it cure the Of
fender, Of his unfortunate propensities ?"
eagerly inquired a philanthropist, whose in
terest in human beings was in exact ratio
with their villainousness. FaWell," replied
the missionary, 6 | never saw the saw the
punishment inflicted but once, and [ will
tell how it was done, and then you can
judge for yourself as to its reclaiming and
converting powers. They put the culprit
ina large mortar, and then fired him head
foremost against stone wall" ea
"A most ludicrous conversation took
place, few weeks ago, in small village
near Paris, Two peasants were discussing
about the war between Prussia and Aus
tria, when one of them remarked that he
not understand how messages could be sent
by the electric telegraph. His companion,
after having tried to make him comprehend
the manner in which the telegraph works,
at last, struck with bright idea, ex-
claimed, :. Imagine that the telegraph is an
immense long dog-so long that its head is
at Vienna and It's tail at Paris. Well, tread
on his tail, which is at Paris and it will
bark at Vienna. DO you understand now,
stupid, what a telegraph is like p go,
yes!" replied the other, g have an idea
now what telegraph must be-"
The health of the French Emperor con-
tinues to be matter of much solicisude
In addition to his regular physician and
personal friend, Dr. Conneau, he has COM
manded the services Of the three most en-
inent men in the profession in Paris-Drs.
Rayner, Nelaton, and Ricord-a fact that
would seem to indicate case almost des-
perate. Perhaps it is more likely to insure
one. Ricord is an American by birth, a