Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-02
"A farmer in the province of Limburg,

| "A farmer In bQo pfOV1Hce OI LlDQDuTB,
France, has hit upon curious way of de-
irving profit from horseflesh. He keeps
| some two hundred fowls. which are the
latest IN the country, owing to- the way in
| which she feeds them. Every week he
Su i two q three dead horses, which he
| cuts up and boils. The broth is given to
| his pigs, that seem to enjoy this novel
soup very well and thrive admirably upon
| it. The meat that has been used for the
broth is hashed and given to the fowls, and
| what remains of the horses carcasses is
sold to the sugar refiners who convert it
into lampblack The eggs of his fowl he
sends over to England, realizing six cen
times apiece for them, and the fowls go
the same way when they have done laying
eggs. ~ ~ -
The people of Abyssinia are said to
belong mostly to the Shemetic race. an0 to
resemble the Arabs both in physical
characteristics and structure oflanguage
The King is Christian. and his religious
faith is spoken Of as very decided. His
military strength may be judged OF from
the fact that on July 30, last year, in bat
tie with the forces of two insurgent, prov
inces, he is represented to have been at the
head of ninety-five thousand men, and
after tremendous conflict, lasting all day,
against larger number of insurgents,
whose evolutions were directed by English
officers, he remained at night master of the
field, though he purchased his success at a
loss of $4,000 dead and $4,000 wounded.
Such an enemy situated on the remote
Ethiopian plateau, England may find very
difficult to reconstruct by force of arms.
There is now building in busy quar-
ter of Paris an experimental house, which,
if successful-and there seems no reason
why it should not be so-will serve as
model for similar structures in ether great
cities. where the value Of land is very high,
and the economy of space matter of vital
importance The chief novelty in this
house is the absence of any staircase, the
place of that hitherto necessary means of
access being supplied by hydraulic ele-
vator, ascending and descending noiseless-
ly every minute. By means of this the
dodgers will reach their respective floors
speedily and without effort at any given
| minute of day and night. Another advaii
tage of this arrangement is that it enables
houses to, be bpiltto much greater height
the upper floors being as easily accessible
rs the lower, and for that matter prefera-
BILE, on account of better air, light and
freedom from intrusion or the noises OF the
street The tenement house building in
Paris will be eleven stories high from the
street level. oa ao atfas
Lieutenant Baron Won Rothkirch- Pan
ten, of the Prussian Cuirassiers of the
Guard, took odds that he would walk eight,
ride eight, and drive eight German miles,
twenty -four in all, within twenty four
hours without resting. a German mile is
four and three fifths English, the whole dis
| lance to be covered being about one hun
bred and ten English miles. The wager
was decided on the 9th ult, commencing
at 4:15 D. M The baron walked his eight
| miles in ten hours and a quarter; then
rode his eight miles on four horses, mostly
|. at g. trot or walk, in four hours and quar-
ter, and finally drove two pair of horses
the remaining eight miles in three hours
| and fifty-two ,minutes,l finishing his feat
| in eighteen hours and twenty-five minutes
without much fatigue except from tender
| feet, and as it was at the rate of four and
| half miles an hour throughout, this effect
could not be wondered. No wonder men
who can do four and a half miles an hour
by horse and foot for wager can accom-
plish such feats of marching against time
as that which won Sadowa.
| Paris was never so infested with NAL
factors of every description as it Is at pres
ent. There are SO many piC.lpoCkets the
police cry aloud in the railway stations !:
"Beware of thieves" Men are assaulted
in broad daylight. Some days since fat
gentleman was walking near the Buttes
Chanmont park when a lad observing how
the promenader's movements were OBJ
j structed by his obesity snatched his hat off
his head and ran away with it. The vic,
tim gave chase. 1t was hippopotamus
chasing greyhound. The fat man was
soon obliged to stop, mop the torrents OF
sweat which flowed from his cheeks and
lean against wall putting and blowing.
The young rogue was far away with his
prize. A man came up and asked what
was the matter. The fat man related his
misadventure, adding, ~ am really ex-
hausted, cannot bulge another step. L
thought my legs stronger" Tie new com
er said Nonsense You don't mean to
say that tia thief tried to take your watch
you could not prevent him ;, !" Alas that
| is my condition" In that event shall
profit by it !" so saying the second thief
thrust his hand into the fat mans pocket
1 and took his watch and chain before obesity
could recover from his surprise.
Incidents and Accidents.
There is boy in Minnesota, twelve
years old, whose legs are only ten inches