Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-11
T-Pussian railway bridges are REQUIRED eor ed

-PrusSlan railway Dr1dgeS are required
to-be built with chambers in the piers, ar
ranged according to military directions, so
that they can be efectually blown to pieces
below the water level, in case of military
necessity.
Mr.. Mill advocates woman suffrage in
England, but the London Times saws it
will not do, for the women have million
majority in the population, and will out
vote the men and have everything their
own way. ...... .........-.
-Of the Judges of the Court of Queens
Rench. two are members of the Established
Church. one is a Roman Catholic, one is a
Rantist. and the fifth a Unitarian. This
diversity of beliefs considered good thing
for the dispensation of justice.
One of the officers of the Bank of
ENGLAND said the other day, that 81 in all its
dealings with the United States the bank
had never lost dollar by an American"
The largest "piece of paper" ever dis
counted by this bank was bill for
100000. H., f.,s e.a
There is an amusing anecdOte about
Lord Derby. Tt is said that some wine
merchant persecuted the Premier into tast-
inc a wine-claret, or sherry-which was
to keen off the govt, and that he got this
reply "I have tasted your wine, and |
prefer the govt"
Cats are said to be at this moment in
great demand at Lucerne, IN Switzerland,
and to be selling at a high price, in conse
quence of a malady which has greatly
thinned their numbers. The head Of the
animal swells rapidly, it refuses all nourish-
ment and soon drops down dead.
Bright, in one of his late speeches,
said that one half of Scotland is owned by
twelve persons, and one half of England
by one hundred and fifty. Thus the peo-
pie are nobody, and a few individuals every
body. No wonder the aristocracy fight
so desperately against any popular move
ment
The San Paulo Railway bridge over
the river Cubatao, Brazil, rests, in four
spans of seventy-five feet, upon three piers,
consisting each of three iron tubes or piles
standing in triangle, screwed into the
bottom of the river by screw blades at
tached to their circumference, and united
at convenient intervals in iron frames
"A marvellous increase in the circulation
of English newspaper and periodical litera-
ture is noticeable Thirty years ago,
$4,000 00-say forty five, millions = of
newspapers were issued in one year in
England last year, $780, 600, 00O-say nearly
six hundred millions-were issued! Thirty
years ago, 100000 of periodicals were
published; last year, 100000 were sold.
SO much success has attended the
Flying Dragon, the only Chinese paper
published in Europe, that the proprietor
has imported fount of Chinese type. The
DIV 1aIa i've of
the PHILIPPINES, and Japan, as England is
allowed intercourse with, and is read not by
traders alone, but by kings and princes, for
the information it brings about European
arts and machinery. The Chinese have
begun to print from movable type
The Russian Prince Mitrofan Mescht-
scherski was recently tried at Moscow. A
year ago he was imprisoned for insulting
policeman, and was placed in the same
cell with drunken woman. When she
became sober and was released, she missed
three silver images The Prince confessed
that he had taken them, and pawned them
to Hebrew in order to get something to
eat, he having been so poorly fed in
prison, where he had been detained 40
weeks. -. -- ~ &C.
Perfect combustion of fuelis claimed
in new English stove, with which no f1ue
or chimney is used, although vent is pro-
vided for small residuum of gas if de-
sired, through halfinch pipe The eff
fective principle consists in making all the
gaseous products of combustion pass into
a chamber filled with the patent nodded
peat charcoal, which is said to have the
property of absorbing carbonic acid and
other gases, and burning with a very small
supply of air, until entirely consumed.
The famous gentleman who won an
elephant in a rattle would not have been so
very unfortunate, if his prize had been of
the dimensions of one lately imported from
Siam by naturalist in England. This
creature is only three feet high, and very
docile, in proof of which it is alleged that
on his way from the ship, the day of his
arrival in England, he walked into public
house like veritable Briton, inserted his
proboscis in pitcher of beer that stood ON
the counter, and drank off the contents
without spilling drop.
An enthusiastic Russian, the General
Count Araktschejew, who died in 1888,
deposited in the Imperial Bank $4,000
roubles, to remain at interest until 1926.
100 years, at which time the accumulation
will be given to the author of the COM
pletest work and best history of the EN-
peror Alexander the First. The Russian
Academy will decide. A portion of the
which will amount to 100000
roubles, is to be expended in the transla-
ton of the work into all languages,
and it's publication in all the European
journals. ....-.......-,
An extraordinary act of foolhardiness
~ o1 Of 0rCn A
young man, dressed as sailor, assembled to
the lower gallery of the tower of Pey
Berland, and, finding that he could get no
higher, got outside, and clambered by the
projections up to the statue Of the Virgin,
on the top, finally seating himself on the
head of the figure, where he remained for
a considerable time, dangling his legs and
When he was informed that the
police were after him, he came down the
lightning rod, and safely escaped through
a by-street. ase
The Duke d'Ossuna, Spanish Ambas-
sador to Russia, is one of the wealthiest
men in Europe. He lately gave a ball
which cost him about twenty thousand dol
lars. Two thousand were expended for
flowers alone; and, not thinking anything
st. Petersburg could produce worthy the
occasion, he telegraphed to Paris for one
hundred f0Otmen, two n10dtres d'h0tel, and
engaged three hundred Moujicks to work
under these functionaries. On the ball
night, one hundred horsemen and one hum
dred and fifty of his private guard did duty
outside the embassy.
"A novel and exhilerating species of
chase has just been inaugurated in Italy.
The Government has resolved to rid the
country of its greatest pest-brigandage;
and to accomplish this, not only are the
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