Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-07

stabbed to the heart a man named Turner
at q ball given by the nynaphs DE- pace, On
! the corner of Edward and Texas streets
Turner fingered day or two and expired
/ g Foreign Gossip.
| The cypress of Somnia, in Lombardy,
! is the oldest tree on record, being more
than 1900 years. q h Glib
Almost everybody is going to Europe
/ is estimated that at least 10000 New
| Workers will be in Paris next summer
The deaths Of seventeen infants, all OF
whom hadcbeen accidentally suffocated
in bed" were registered in London in one
| week.
Our Minister at London is deluged
with letters from Fenian agents, begging
| him to assist them to return to the United
States. d'& }31
The Prussians are so unpopular at
| Frankfort, that when the burghers give a
party they send out cards with "S. Pr
(sans Prussians) in the corner.
| -Crebillon tells us of Partisan woman
who never had experienced an affair of the
heart until she was seventy -four, and the
| fury of her passion then caused her to com
nit suicide
= one-eyed baby, otherwise a proper
child, was recently born at Ottawa, G. w
The "orb was situated in the centre OF
its forehead, an inch and half from the
roof of the nose.
1t is said that there are bricks in the
Mosque of st. Omar that retain as fully the
scent of the musk with which they were
originally impregnated as on the day the
mason set them in the wall.
The Duke de Dino used to keep a sup
ply of two thousand seven hundred waist
coats. Pince Won Schwartzenburg never
had less than four hundred complete suits
of new clothes in his wardrobe.
An English manufactures, featuring to
| his. neighbors on this country, on his re-
turn from tour, said that one of the first
memoranda which he made in his diary,
after seeing the United States, was, that it
was no use to send fool to America
"A young man in Paris who wanted to
drown his dog, took him in boat and
animal from the boat with his oar he fell
overheard, and would have drowned had
not his dog held him up till assistance
came.
"A Bohemian was recently murdered
Ny Ills WIG, viz was CtlltCu NY Ills sui dllUl
daughter. She attacked him with spade,
when he was in the barn, and the son fol-
lowed it UP by throwing him down stairs
The wife'sexcuse was her husbands deaf
ness, which made him practically useless.
The Quebec N6acs states that the Fire
Relief Committee has reached the climax
of its audacity in deciding, in total disre-
gard of every principle of honesty and
ightforwardness, to set apart 100000
out Of the fund, for the purpose of aiding
proprietors in rebuilding the burnt dis
trict
"A Turkish gambler won, in Paris, in
one of the fashionable gambling houses,
nearly 100000 francs. The Emperor was
Informed of it on the next morning He
hates all kinds of cards. and still more haz-
ard games In the Tuilleries cards are
strictly prohibited. He at once ordered
Lavellette and Hauseman to look after these
fashionable resorts, and to suppress by all
means the games of Lanzknecht and Ba-
carbat
The miners belonging to "union''
recently fired one of the coal pits at the
Pineton coniery in England. A tremen-
dous confagration took place, consuming a
great mass of coal, and destroying the par
tition walls of the mine When the fire
was at its heightlthe heat was so intense
that hard, flinty rocks were made red hot.
The loss to the proprietors Of the pit will
be very heavy. A reward of $50 has been
offered for the discovery of the perpetra-
tors Of The outrage.
The Paris sepicures have found that
snails possess a flavor superior to frogs
Consequently the trade in the latter has
been for some time noticeably decreasing
/ The new favorites are sent in great mum
burs from the surrounding country to
Paris, Burgundy and Champagne alone
supplying 100000 snails daily. Frenchmer
eat horse meat, snails, fried Hottentot and
other outlandlsh dishes with relish. The
French Zouave eats rats, cats and puppies
! A French cook can make good soup out o.
dried sole leather.
Governor Andrew lately proved that
though the death penalty was the policy Of
nations, it was not their administrative
system In France not more than one
half of the condemned are ever executed
In Prussia scarcely one-tenth In Austria
ninety-five in one hundred have now theil
sentence committed to life-imprisonment
In Portugal the last execution occurred
ten years ago. In Switzerland the gallows
is nearly unknown In Tuscany the pun
ishment is abolished by law. In 1866 the
Italian Minister of Justice declared for it
abolition throughout Italy There have
been no executions in Bavaria for foul
years past.
The populations of London is gradu
ally decreasing. This may be a startling
assertion, but nevertheless it is true. TIL,
last census shows that the city prope
numbers only 100000 actual residents, anC
this number is diminishing, dwellings bein.
replaced by warehouses. The solid mel
who give the city its Importance are nearly
all non-residents. The actual population
is largely composed mainly of the workin!
classes and those in the humber walks o
: life, and constitute but forty per cent. @
: the number of persons who transact bust
! ness there The city of london proper
7 not much OF London after all. Its sur
roundings count millions