Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-07-26
Foreign Gossip.

1T is stated that Queen Victoria sends a
Geographic dispatch every morning to the
King of Prussia, containing commonly only
these words: sGod guide you for the
best"
The 18th of the group of asteroids
was discovered on the night of June l6, at
Madras, India The new planet has been
named Sylvia. 1t can only be detected by
very powerful telescopes.
Queen Victoria remarked, recently,
g Alice cher daughter) is ruined; for Hesse
has ceased to exist. / have written for her
to come over here; unless she do so, there
is nothing left for her to do but to 60 to some
cheap place in Switzerland, and live as
economically as she can"
The device of the House of Hapsburg
is the five vowels, A, E, I, o, U, which the
Emperor Frederick Iii, chooses to interpret;
"Austria Erit Imperat,i1 Omnis Universi."
Austria wizI be the empress of the whole
world. In the course of the war, Austria
viii probably have often to make use of the
very common device of simple 81 0 u"
The detailed accounts of the fighting in
Germany, contained in the correspondence
of the English papers, attribute the re-
mdrkaDl0 SuCC0SS VI Inc IIuScldHO W ClO
superiority Of their arms. The needle gun,
in particular, is mentioned as being very
effective. A military correspondent, who
saw the fighting at Podoli, says that the
Austrians who fell under the fire Of infantry
as compared to the Prussians, to l.
The disease called fe6ris migra, or black
death, has appeared in Ireland. Four
cases occurred lately in Dublin, and an in
quest has just been held on an artisan in
Belfast, who, when dying. had deep blotches
and black marks over his body, as if (said
the surgeon who had attended him) he had
been fired at from a short distance with a
blank cartridge. The spots were raised
above the level c. the skin, and could be
quite sensibly fell Death in this instance
was accelerated by drinking. Febris nigra
has heretofore been almost entirely unknown
in ireland.
A letter from Brazilian officer de-
scribes some of the beauties of soldering
in South America: " Amphibious crea-
lures abound. In my own tent | have
already killed four snakes. Every morning
find myself accompanied by body guard
of fifteen or twenty monstrous toads, which
have frequently spent the night under the
!
Enormous aligators promenade regularly
from lake 10 lake every night. In a Majors
tent, the other day, one was killed that
measured six feet in length, and an unfor-
tunate Brazilian soldier was unexpectedly
taken off his legs By one of these horrible
creatures and carried into the near est lake"
1t is stated as striking instance of the
forethought displayed in the Prussian mill
tary preparations, that not only had the War
Office obtained the exact measurement of
the Saxon railway bridges, but had actually
had the timber required for their recon
struction already prepared and fitted before
the beginning of the war. As soon, there
fore, as the Saxons had destroyed them,
three hundred carpenters were sent off from
Berlin with the necessary materials, and
had nothing more to do than to put them
together.
The London tea merchants give each
year prize of $4,000 to the ship that
brings the first new tea to England. OF
course there is great competition among
the vessels, and this year no less than ten
clippers are to start from Hong Kong and
race all the way to England. Last year
the clipper ship Fiery Cross wen the race.
She and the Tapping sailed from Hong
Kong, around the Cape of Good Hope, and
into the English Channel, side by side, when
the wind failed, and the fiery Cross, pro-
curing q tug, beat her competitor a few
hours, accomplishing the voyage in eighty
nine days.
1T is stated in an English paper that al
late banquet reporter was sitting direct.
ly behind Mr.. Disraei, s.taking him down
in reportorial sense. The reporter missed
an important sentance. and somewhat audi
bly, expressed his annoyance. Mr.. Disraeli,
on this, hesitated in true Parliamentary
style, and very quickly repeated the dropped
sentence. No one but the grateful reporter
knew why he did so. This delicate compli
ment to the usefulness Of reporters il
worthy of record, for the great orator wa
aware that while assisting an individual II
perform his task, he was also doing ser
vice to the million of readers who were tt
be benefited through the medium of the re
porter's pencil and the press.