Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-02

: The annual production of diamonds is
estimated at 81, 100000

E0xeiGn Gossip.
1 The annual production of diamonds il
/ estimated at 81, 100000.
| There is an Italian member of circu!
company at Havana who performs beauti
tful melodies on an instrument called the
Icopsologo, being thirty four ordinary glas:
| tumblers half full of water.
The Japanese Government is particu
larly anxious (unlike the Chinese) to be
come Americanized. In the army and
navy the American uniforms have been
adopted, also American saddles introduced
and used by the Tycoon
IS The following is verbatim report Of
the speech Of the King of Tonga Islands
at late fashionable reception in New
York: "Plen tee uvrumanlotz tod rink
bodice foryu buh lee toryu. Pipezen tooh
akeeran authenticate, bodice foryu buh lee
| foryu."
"A Paris correspondent says 4" Epi-
curean luxury has found a new use fol
| flowers. Violets are eaten with cream and
sugar. The other evening, at an Apician
dinner, given by a merchant prince, they
were forthcoming. They were very nice
the violets taste as they smell"
lin Singapore, the "man- eating" tigers
are so numerous that natives are said to be
carried off at the rate of a man day, and
so used have they become to such accidents
that when a Chinese cooley sees: tiger
trotting after him with an evident view to
dining, he quietly sits down and resigns
himself to his fate.
1t has been suggested by some of the
Canadian papers that one of the first acts
of the new Confederate Government
should be measure to exclude American
silver from Canada by declaring it not a
legal tender, or legal only at the value of
twenty two cents on the quarter of a dol
lar. The retail dealers of Canada, whoare
dependent very largely on American silver,
do not relish the suggestion.
1t is well known that the eyes of GER
tain persons cannot take scognisance of
certain Of the primary colors, as red, ETC.,
and it has long been sought to understand
the reason. Herr Rose, of Berlin, has ex-
perimentally determined that in all such
cases it iseither light Of the least or great
est refrangibility which is imperceptible,
j. e., heiluminous part of one or the other
of the extremes of the spectrum
One of the novelties spoken of in con-
nection with, the internal exposition is a
society for purchasing and conducting the
business of Nadir's balloon LIE Geant. 1t
is proposed to have luncheons ia the air for
seventy people, at rather elevated scale
of charges, of course. The distance at
which the gastronomic proceedings will
take place is five hundred metres high ON
the tete day of Napoleon. 1t will make a
night ascent, and fireworks will be let Off
There are now living at North End,
Boston, two cheerful, contented ladies, each
keeping house with a daughter, one of
whom is eighty eight years old, having
lived thirty-fiVe years in the house she now
occupies The other, aged ninety four, has
a distinct recollection of the visit of Wash
ington to Boston. She has in her posses
sion two pitchers and punch bowl which
have been IN the family more than a cen:
fury.
r, r-Anact was introduced into the, English
Parliament in ITO, providing that all
woman of whatever age, rank, profession,
or degree, whether virgins, maids, or
widows, that shall, from and after such act,
impose upon, seduce and betray into matri-
mony any of his Majesty's male subjects by
the scents, paints, cosmetic washes, arti-
fetal teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron
stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or boil
stored hips, shall incur. the penalty of the
law now in force against witchcraft and
like misdemeanors and that the marriage,
upon conviction, shall stand null and void.
"A Paris letter says "the Chinese
ladies have arrived. We are to have
Egyptians and Nubians-at least so we
are assured. The Chinese disembarked at
Marseilles, and made their first experience
of French life by a drive in cab. One
young Celestial is eighteen, and her younger
companion sixteen. They cost 5000 francs
each. Neither of the young ladies speak
word of French, as they are slaves On
arriving at the custom-house the laws were
read to them by which they become free ON
reaching French territory. They under
stood the purport of this formality, and
Immediately knelt and kissed their masters
hand.
The excursion M. Paul Feval re-
Gently made into Switzerland, as an advO-
cate of the Paris Literary Mems Society,
has revived the memory of his maiden
cause at the Vannes bar--for he was bred
to the law. A Breton rogue was arraigned
for stealing chickens; M. Feval had with
great eloquence defended his client and
proved an alibi. The judges, in conformity
with the French usage, before ordering the
jury to retire, asked the prisoner if he had
anything to add to the remarks of his
learned counsel: "Judges, amt guilty.
killed hundred, for had got to be blood
thirty. was perfect alibi-but swear,
when / went into the chicken house did
not intend to kill more than one chicken;
but, Judges, l was perfectly alibio THE
shouts of laughter with which the prison.
er's speech was received Disguised M. Fee
vol with the lazy
Cheap newspapers seem to be making
great Roadway in London. Besides the
Telegraph, which has probably larger cir
culation than any other daily journal in
the world, reaching 100000 copies, and the
Star, which is party paper and less widely
read, a new penny paper, called The Day,
has just been started. 1t is a qnarto, each
page as large as the Times, printed in clear
type upon good paper, and filled with very
good and readable matter. Notwithstand-
ing the progress Of the English penny
press, the Times maintains its supremacy,
and will dorlbuess7do SO permanently. It's
money, and what is of still more impor-
lance, the great experience and sagacity. of
it's managers command Tor its columns the
ablest and most brilliant writers of the
day; and there IS, and always will be, a
large class Of people in England who prefer
quality to cheapness, and who will have
the best, at whatever cost. In spite of
rivalry, the Times continues to be by all
odds, in all its departments, the ablest
newspaper ever published. Yet without
the least disturbing the position or influ-
ence of that great journal, the penny press
has become one of the constitutions" of
England.
"A French newspaper recently pub
lished q curin,1s confecsion which the late