Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-04
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
They are already saying in Europe
| that the next great Exhibition must, be held
in New York, say five years hence. of
course it must.
~ The Jews in the various nation of the
earth number, as is estimated, not far from
100000, about the same as in the most
prosperous days of the nation in ancient
Palestine.
According to statistics, Turkey, in
1865 had $4,000 schools, attended by Co.,
900 boys and girls, out of population of
| 25,000,000.5 In Russia there are 10000
schools, and 100000 boys attending them.
"A law exists in Germany to prevent
drinking on the Sabbath during divine ser
vice 1t runs thus: any person drink
ing in the ale house during the service on
Sunday, or other holiday, may legally de-
part wi WINS ~ pay nggtI2 pNUTTIT
The Great Eastern Steamship Compa-
ny took part of its pay for the services of
their boat in laying the cable, in stock of
the Atlantic Telegraph. 1t is now to be
divided among the stockholders of the
Steamship Company.
The London Lancet is in doubt what
to cali several young ladies who recently
passed an examination for admission to the
Society of Apothecaries 1t suggests
"apothe caresses" as an appropriate title.
The successful passage of their examina-
ton might be styled apothe-o'-sis.
"A microscope has been manufactured
in London which "magnifes three thou
sand diameters with its lowest eve piece,
and fifteen thousand diameters with its
highest, so that an object is made to ap-
pear one billion five hundred and seventy
five million times larger than it really is. !"
The French journals are alarmed at
the rapid extension Of absinthe drinking in
France. Absinthe is declared by the med
ical faculty to be direct and powerful
cause of apoplexy, Of affections of the
heart, lungs, nervous system and stomach,
and especially of brain diseases. The
chances are that an absinthe drinker will
become either maniac or lmbecile.
Count Bismark recently presented a
faithful but poor Secretary with portfolio
bound like a book, in which was deposited
five thousand thalers. On meeting the
Secretary next day, the Count asked him if
he had perused the volume. Yes, your
highness," said the Secretary, land am
so captivated by its contents that | am
waiting the appearance of the second vol
ume with feelings Of the greatest interest"
The Count smiled, but said nothing. A
few days afterwards the Secretary received
a second portfolio, bound and filled like
the other with the sentence "This work
is complete in two volumes" II y
Two young, Barons" are being lion
lied in New York at present. They ex-
press themselves much surprised at the at
tentiOn they receive in American society,
which is so much more than youths Of their
age ever receive at home; but American
girls, We regret to say, always grow enthu-
siastic over any titled foreigner, At din
ner party, the other evening, a young lady,
thinking to be polite, rather annoyed one
of the Juveniles by asking his title.
\" Baron -" was the reply. 81 know
that, replied the lady )" " but have you no
other title at home 2" Oh, yes" respond
ed the Baron, INA calls me Bobby
"A correspondent of the New Orleans
Ptcdyuae gives an account of the adven-
lures of party who attempted, without
success, to reach the top of the volcano
Orizaba, in January last. They reachedsa
height of sixteen thousand feet, when one
Of the party had his shoulder broken by
the fall of detached stone from above,
and they were compelled to turn back
The difficulties in the way of reaching the
top are perhaps insurmountable. During
the war with Mexico a South Carolina
officers undertook the ascent He fell par
alyzed at a height of $1,000 feet. A flag
staff. which is still standing, was erected on
the spot.
The London At1en@asnp says that Bres
lau will be represented at the Paris Exhl-
bition by work of art which may not
have its equal 1t is an astronomical clock,
which has been admired by scholars as
real work of genius. The clock shows, on
a large dialplate artistically decorated, the
time of Breslau, and on a smaller plate i'm
mediately underneath the Berlin time, with
seconds stroke. On the back Of the case,
which is made of gray marble, and before
which the pendulum swings, are, on the
right and left, two vertical rows each of
twelve al-plates, which show the cores
ponding time, by hour and minute, of
in the world, viz: Pekin, Sydney, Calcut
Ia, Moscow, ST. Petersburg, Constantinople,
Rome, Paris. Marseilles, London. New
York, Washington, San Francisco, etc.
On those twenty -four dial plates the minute
hands only move, all at once, minute on,
after the lapse of minute, with the stroke
of the sixtieth second, but each plate
shows, by a special index, also the time of
the day. Under the dial-plates, and over a
looking glass, stands nicely-finished globe
of the earth, which completes its movement
round It's axis in exactly twenty -four hours.
A hand fixed above it points to the merid-
ian, so that at one glance the different
places on the surface of the earth may be
read, in which, at the corresponding mo-
ment, a good watch must show the hour Of
noon. The weights which set the whole
clock work going are a very curious and
interesting sight By clever mechanical
combination they are united, and form a
very tastefully ornamented whole, which
carries, again, three hands, representing a
complete almanac, one hand pointing to
the month. another to the date, and third
to the day of the week while, under the
middle dial-plate, ball, figuring the moon,
represents the different phases of light of
the earth's satellite But Herr Scholz is
not content with the different functions o.
his clock, such as we have described them.
In the lens of the second pendulum he has
introduced carefully executed spring, or
metal barometer, and, besides this, he uses
the pendulum itself as thermometer.
Religious and Educational.
"A gentleman In Boston has given
100000 to- found a. theological school
| EpiscopaD at Cambridge.
! Nathan L..-Dearborn,a of Wakefield,
NJ H., has copy of the Bible, the printing
of which was commenced in the year 1900,