Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-11

The Italian army is TO be provided with
needle guns. r
Paris has entertained 100000 stran-
gers this year. ao4st asf35s T.
Two lines of telegraph connect Jeru.
salem with Europe g..5,.,. = rz5t54
The Marquis of Westminster has an
income of $4,000 day. ~
M Cochut estimates the value of Paris
manufactures at 100000 600 francs.
--Of the 100000 of people of Italy,
10000 900 can neither read nor write.lm5x
The French army will require FIVE
and-a-half millions OF breech- leaders ..is
There is at the present lime more than
$4,000, 900 OF taxes In arrears in Italy. 20
London fined forty eight merchants in
one day last month for using false weights
and measures.
There are 1884 theatres in Europe;
Italy having 346, France 837, and Great
Britain 100. ss7H5I
1t is said Sonora has eight women in
the population to one man. Counting
ought TO be easy down there.
There are men in London who make
business of fixing up partly -decayed hsh
so that they can be sold in the markets. laI
Prussia has fifteen times as much ter.
rtory and more than one hundred times
as much population as two centuries ago
The railway over the Alps, is known
as the " Fell Railroad from its being con
structed in accordance with the patents
granted to gentleman Of that nameauIIo
The sulphur mines of Italy are now
producing something like 00,OOO tons per
annum, which, taken in the crude stateS
20 may wal Ina Nf ahO71t 41 -
100000. ,t..t .ta.esb5G
--Nabl, the inventor of nitro-glycerine,
is manufacturing it in Hamburg. He has
depots in different parts of the country, to
avoid the necessity of transportation in
small quantities .ss r,a,s gla non
- The French are the originators of
new mode Of advertising. 1t Is proposed
to erect along the bouleVards of Parisva
number of lay figures upon which clothiefs
of all kinds can display their wares paying
for the privilege by the week.
1t seems probable that O new system Of
telegraph construction will soon be adopts
ed generally in England. The wires are,
to be laid side by side In tubes buried un-
der the bed of a railway, each being sepa-
rately insulated in very simple manner.
An American has invented o novel
sort of programme for the French thea
tres. The paper of the play.bill is repre-
sented by light, agreeable crust Of pastry
and the ink is chocolate paste. The ADJ
vantage of the invention isithat when the
spectator has mastered the contents Of his
bill, he eats it.
"A Berlin journal af1rIns that an att
tempt was made to assassinate the Empers
or of Russia at Nicolaien, by two men dis
guised in female attire, but that they were
arrested, and the matter was hushed up.
A short time since there was a rumor In
Paris to this eject, but, no confrmatlona rss
irving, ii was credited. 1it' r 5z'i si.
The Emperor Napoleon is about to
buy an estate for his con, and Is seid TO
have selected tho historic ground lying
between Bourg To- RENE and SecauX, now
the property OF the Duke of Treviso. The
house on the estate was built by Henry
", for Gabrielle distress The Emperor
Is said to have offered the Duke of TreViso
three millions for the estate, but the Duke
demands four millions Of francs ,-,.s4
Charles Bandelaire, one of the French
fantastic school of poets, died at the priv
vate hospital in Paris a few days since. He
was a worshipper Of Edgar A. Poe, and
translated nearly all of Poe's works into
French, in which language they were more
read than they ever were in English. Ban
deiaire, like Poe, died victim Of artificial
excitement. For many years an opium
cater, the last glimmer of fine inteliigenceI
was extinguished long before he suiikAinto~
the grave. s1i ea 1T
The AkgeaaeSne zsttuzlg states that fn'%
England there Is one lawyer for every
1910 of the population; in France, one
for every 1, 97O; in Belgium, one for every
2700: ard in Prussia, one for every 12,-I
600 only. In England the number OF per-
sons belonging TO each of the different
professions is nearly the same, Thus,
there are 34,790 lawyers, 35, 483 clergymen,i
and 81, 995 physicians In Prussia, ON the
other hand, there are 1900 physicfars to
only 1852 lawyers. Ak rs NJ. % sas0v
The earnings of the Atlantic Tele..s,
graph Cable during the past year have
been over million of dollars. after
heavy deductions, resulting from the two
accidents to the cable of 1865. there re-
manned to the credit Of the revenue &C
count $140670, out of which dividend Is
declared at the rate Of per cert, free Of
income tax, upon the first 5 per cent PREF
ferential stock But for these accidents and
q charge for back interest, the net earnings
would have paid per cent on $4,000 900,
leaving $4,000 for reserve fund.