Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-10
Foreign Gossip.

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! Alexander Dumas gave Aldridge, the negro ira
gedian grand supper at Versailles.
The Artemus Ward nose is thought, by Lon
| donpaper to resemble the beak of an eagle.
An American teacher in Europe says the lump
of butter an American girl puts on plate would
| make a Parisienne stare wildly. ia u.
! Ten or eleven distinct shocks of earthquake
were recently experienced at Sorel Canada
East, being period of thirty or forty seconds
altogether. -sa1
There were eighteen Macdonalds, of whom
eight were Donald Macdonalds, upon the petit
| jury called at the Quarter Session at Cornwall,
Canada West
-,The Paris Universal Exhibition is to be opened
on Monday, April 1, 1867, and the Imperial Commits
sion will have review of the Exhibition complete
on Thursday, March 2Sth. e-J
I'm the will of MIR. R. Garrett, noted agricul-
| tural implement maker of England, occurs the sim
gular but sensible bequest of great coat to each Of
his three hundred employees.
The Prince and Princess of Wales lately planted
couple of memorial trees, and the spectators of the
ceremony Immediately set to work to cut the trees
in pieces to get memorial sprigs.
Gossip says that the Queen of Spain lately de-
termined to raise tenor singer to nobility, but the
MlnlsLer threatening To resign outrage DC
perpetrated, Her Majesty was compelled to abandon
her design. s"
An Australian colonist has harnessed up kan
CARGO and put him to labor-turning machine with
| halfhorse power. If he gets lazy, pin stuck in
him makes him jump up; and when he dies they
cook and eat him. $50
Snails, one of the principal Partisan delicacies,
are said to have almost supplanted frogs in that
| market. They are sent in great numbers from the
surrounding country to Paris, Burgundy and Cham
payne alone supplying 100000 snais daily.
An emigration of Chinese farmers of the bet
ter class has begun to arrive j the Sandwich Is
lands. A Honolulu paper thinks 1t not unlikely
| that the Chinese element may in time supplant the
native race with a new and superior stock.
AS matters now appear, half Of the leading
Mexicans are secretly pledged to Maximilian
to Juarez and to Ortego. Very little makes one
of them an open Imperialist one day, and very
little makes him pronounce for the Republic the
next.
-Hippophagy is making rapid progress in Paris.
The number of establishments for the sale of horse
flesh is rapidly increasing, especially in the poorer
quarters of the city, and epicures are of opinion
that an overdriven cab-horse will soon become as
| popular delicacy as a hunted hare.
I'm 1921 the population of France was 80 461 ,s75.
81 $50 u.s. in 1851, to s. 7s3 10; and in 1861, to
Sc, 11y,254 The annual rate of increase has thus
been less than one half of one per cent, and it
is apprehepded will fall below that small
! figure. E<5 EsI1 G2IH 49, ID
The days seem short enough here at this season
of the year, in all conscience but just think of the
days in Russia At st. Petersburg, the capital the
sun rises at quarter past nine and sets at quar-
ter before three and at Archange town of q, 600
inhabitants, the day lasts only from twenty-four
minutes past ten to twenty-four minutes before
| two.
| The son of the Emperor of France, though only
10 years old, is an expert compositor and printer
The sons of the royal family of England are all
taught trades, and some of the princes understand
| enough about carpenters work to disgrace young
| man in New York. Many noblemen's are
taught some trade. That they may be in measure
| independent of the freaks of fortune.
| All the water used by the inhabitants of Mas
saga town Of 2,000,-in Nicaragua, is brought
from lake in the mountains some two miles distant.
1t has been the custom for the past three hundred
years to convey the water to the town in vegallon
earthen jars, which are carried the heads of
women, about six hundred being thus employed.
A company is forming in New York to supply the
! town and erect water works.
| The Tycoon of Japan, who died at Osaca early
in September, was a young man just arrived at
maturity, and destitute of AGILITY or energy. He
died of disease resembling dropsy, which the
Japanese call Kari. His successor Stotbashi, was
unanimously elected by the Gorogio or Great Conn
! cil and Ia said to be an able statesman who has
already secured the submission Of some the great
rebel prices SO that there is prospec Of the speedy
! restoration Of peace to the Empire. p