Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-01
Foreign Gossip.

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pipes.
i'm the London work houses they lock
up refractory paupers with corpses.
The incense burned in the Chinese En-
pire in idol worship costs So, $50, 100000 q
year.
One of the galleries in the Paris Expo
sition will be devoted to the display of hu-
man skulls. es
The metrical system of weights and
measures has been established by law in the
Sandwich Islands.
"A cheap andpoor coffin, that was easily
broken open, saved man in Brussels from
being buried alive.
The coal panic in England is subsiding
and discoveries Of new coal veins are re-
ported from Shropshire.
The Memorial Diplomatique is about to
prosecuted for charging the King of Prus-
STA with sheep stealing!
The latest antiquarian sensation is the
discovery of an ancient city in southeast
/ ern Africa, believed to be the Ophir of the
Scriptures.
The current number of the London
Society contains portrait Of Mr.. George
Peabody, with poem celebrating his mu-
nifcence.
One Of the oldest papers in the world,
the Postzeitung of Frankfort, established in
1916, has just disappeared. 1t was sup
pressed by Bismark.
"A Fenian in England asserts that liquid
fire and combustibles, similar to those lately
discovered in Liverpool, are stored away in
all the large towns of England.
An Austrian subject, J. Klautschnigg,
has been condemned to six months impris-
onment at Trieste, for having sold one
hundred and thirty three slaves in Egypt.
The number Of deaths in Holland from
cholera from April 28th- to August 25th,
was 15,80S; in Belgium, from the COM
mencement Of the epidemic to August Slst,
16,699. ed1
The net revenue of the Bishopric of
London in the year 1865 was e20,067; of
the Dean and Chapter of st. Paul's, 91O,-
$40; of the Dean and Chapter of Westmin-
ster, e28,7 39. as
1t is proposed to collect OF Calcutta, an
assemblage of living examples of all the
races of men of the Old World for ethno-
logical study, to take place on the occasion
of the Industrial Exhibition in 1069-7O.
"A cylinder printing pressis said to have
been invented in Leipsic which can print
$4,000 sheets an hour, and costs far less
than Hoes great American press.
An immense aquarium is being con-
structed for the French Exhibition, having
front of one hundred feet Sharks, por-
poises, and every variety OF fish are to be
therein collected for the amusement OF the
public. r:,nE fo
"A Paris art critic, wishing to damn a
certain picture recently, did his worst by
saying that &c the visitor could easily find the
picture in question by thesgroups of Ameri-
cans who constantly surrounded it in
admiration
"A correspondent of the New York
Times writing from Pekin, under date OF
June, 1866, relates the discovery of colony
of Jews in the heart of China. They have
preserved till lately many Of their tradi-
lions and the purity of their race.
In the Legislative Assembly at Victoria,
Vancouver Island, recently, a Mr.. Mcclure
spoke for seventeen consecutive hours. His
object was to prevent the passage of GER
tain bill, and he succeeded by retaining the
floor and speaking for that period.
I'm a late speech at Manchester, Lord
Stanley said: 9There is story Of an ad-
mirably conducted man in Jail who by extra
work managed to lay by a respectable sum,
which he Immediately proceeded to invest in
frst-rate set Of housebreaker's TOOLS"
Near Basingstoke, in England, the an
Gent Roman and British capital of South
ern England, some excavations have re-
Gently been made which have laid bare
Roman street, with another smaller one
running from it. Twolarge Roman houses,
with tesselated payements, the ssite of an
amphitheater, and a portion of the walls
surrounding the ancient capital, have also
been dug out. Several coins, of periods
anterior to the Christian era, have been
found and brick, with parts Of an in
scrlption upon it. grqs
The Rsjah of Bolapoor died last month.
According to custom, before his death the
Raj; had himself and his wives weighed.
The reason for performing this ceremony is
that it is the custom among the natives Of
India for husband to leave his wives as
many rupees as each of them weighs. In
the present case, the Rajah only weighed
four thousand rupees, while the weight Of
his two wives amounted to fourteen thou
sand rupees, thus giving each fortune of
seven thousand rupees. These wives may
indeed be said to be worth their weight in
gold.
- "A London letter writer expresses doubt,
should Napoleon die, whether the French
nation would submit to a ten years regency
even of the Empress, personally popular
as she has made herself. She is not a
French woman, and there are many in
France who, to this day, persist in doubling
if she is the actual mother of the Prince
Imperial. Besides, religiously speaking.
sheis the most superstitious and fanatical
| woman living, and would be certain, sooner
or later, to involve herself and the nation
in some serious disaster, growing out Of
her wild vagaries.
in 1904 coal mine in Scotland, which
could not be reached by water, caught fire.
It burned for thirty years, battling all the
| efforts made to extinguish it, until finally,
in 1884, an eminent engineer, Mr.. Colds
worthy Quincy, undertook the task of put
ting it out. He covered all the openings of
the mine, leaving only two holes, into one
| of which he forced steam, mingled with
the products of the combustion of coke
fire, which generated impure carbonic
acid and nitrogen. In six weeks the fire
was extinguished, and then new diff
Guilty presented itself-,how to. cool the
heated mine, eothat when fresh air was re-
admitted, combustion would not again be-
| gin. This was, however, effected by spray
| of water with the jet Of sufocating gas.
"A London Times correspondent gives
an amusing incident that took place not long
since in Greece. The writer spent an even
1 ing in society with ten educated persons,
members of nine different nations. The
Ia N cuooaa snokan were Enrlish modern