Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-28


the last census is 632, $40.
The French are about to build a short
railroad from Shanghai to Suchow. -
\ 1T is said that d THOUSAND French sol
]diers deserted on the march from the CAPT
tai to Puebla, distance Of thirty leagues.
1t is no longer q secret that the true
name of the author of the SchOnberg-
Gotta Family is Mrs Carter, all English
woman. -
"A Turin iournaigtates that there isea
.familg-in that city, consisting of five per-
sons, who, for the last year, have lived
upon cats flesh.
= They work the Parlianent of 7 Finland
! In five different languages The Finnish
comes in last, and it is only used by the
peasant members.
"A sweet potato from the Azores,
weighing thirteen and quarter pounds
and thirty inches in circumference, is on
exhibition at Boston.
IRA hundred years ago, itwas the Eng
FISH custom stodahaoufceA the fortune of
lady atthe publication of her marriage in
the newspapers. a revival of this custom
would give added zest and interest tolmar-
Sunday and Saturday the two favor
ite days for marriage in England, are blank
days for marriage in SCOTLAND Friday is
the day on which the English do not marry,
but in Scotland it is one Of the favorite
daysfor marriage.
From the statistics of the Registrar
General of Great Britain. it appears that
a much larger0 number Of those children
born at the latter part of the summer die
within year Of birth than is the case with
those lbornNat 6ehef periods. 2 ILL
"A new trade has been openly started
in Pafis-that of spy 4 A person adver.
tises an office at which you have but to
apply in order. to obtain information as
regards family secrets, the tracing of
debtor, and the general surveillance of
parties in whom enc may be interested.
The tunnel between the island of Sici-
1yand Ortyg ia-builtT during the occupa-
Ntion of the former by the Greeks-was re
opened few years ago, and found to be
twelve feet high by six wide, and about a
mile in length 1t iSquite equal in all re-
spects TO that under the Thames, at Lon
don
An American company has engaged to
keepCa ship, during the Exhibition, at
distance of three nautical miles from the
/, French shore; the said shipto be flttedup
as a. observation-disclosures boarding house, and
devoted to the exercise of all the games of
hazard which the French Government in
it's paternal solicitude for the well being of
its subjects has made illegal on the soil of
France. -
b. G-AJapanese1P Prince, now at st. Peters
burg, asking certain favors of the Russian
al
in favor of granting them, that if his mis-
Sion is not successful, he would be COM
PEELED to disembowel himself on his return
home The argument is said to have great
weight with Prince Gortschakoff, but he
said, 81 must not cut open the bowels of
Umy mother, Russia. ID cara
PARIS is going mad over a sort of hum
ming top, just Invented by a. patientless
doctor. It is made to revolve by vulgar
whipcord and handle, and when it reaches
its maximum of rotation, six small tops
come out of it-and begin to whirl round it.
At the will of the spinner they return to
the bosom of their mother. The inventor
calls this the prolific top; a happier name
would be the opossum top. .,..
+ Count Bismark is credited with bon
mot which makes everybody smile but
Louis Nanolaon. They were talking of
the results of the late war before the Prime
Minister. Prussia" some one remarked,
" has had the line of the Maine; Italy has
had Venetia; Russia has the East at her
disposal" "But France?" France"
the Prime Minister Of King William re-
piled, "well, she. has her-Exposition."
Among the rare and sumptuous
editions is new Hundred Guinea Edition
of the Bjbge of which Mr. Mackenzie, of
Glasgow, has printed but twelve copies
Its size is atlas folio, the type great primer,
with two small columns ofvreferenees, and
asthick red border Surrounding the page.
The paper which is very heavy, has been
made at large cost expressly for the work,
which the twelve fortunate owners will
doubtless value fully.
Some two years ago woman at East
ELaiworth lost her wedding ring whilst en-
Gagged in herAeomastie duties. A few days
ago she was peeling potatoes, and on
dividing a sort of double potato, she found
in the inside of the potato the lost we'd
ding ring, which she was able to identify.
The potato was grown in q field some
half a mile from the cottage, where it is
I supposedAthe ring had been carried in
the manure, and the potato had grown
Ethroughlt.a "a - l.
| M Name, a Frenchman, takes hens
egg, makes small hole. at the top, pierces
the yolk with q needle previously made
red hot, and then lets ABOUT aSthird of the
contents run out. This done, he fills up
the egg with distilled boiling water, plugs
| the hole with wax, and leaves the egg eX-
posed tn a temperature varying between
II and "a deg Centigrade. Five days
after he examines the egg with the micro
scope, and finds the inner substance of the
former swarfning with vibrios remark able
for their agility. - -. ,.-~.
]l----.-There is. says ictorA Hugo,zin Napo-
I Icons table, in his study, drawer, fire.
/ quentlyo half open. He takes thence. a
| paper, reads it to q Minister. 1t is de-
cree The Minister assents or dissents.
If he dissents, Louis Napoleon throws the
paper back into the drawer, where there
4 are many other papers, bundles OF papers
the dreams of an all potent man-shuts
the drawer takes out the key, audsieaYes
the room without saying aDwordA The
Minister bows and retires delighted with
4 the Difference which has been paid to his
| opinion. Next morning the decree is in
the 1NoniteiLr.
The costliest watch that was ever
made is. said to have been one which was
| constructed in 1914 for the Sultan Abdael
Medjid, who must have found it rather
vieeoh venient, since IitCwas FIVE inches in
diameter, and struck the hours and quar-
81 teTs ON wires, with sound resembling
Y that Of a powerful cathedral clock Itcosi
1900 guineas Another famous watch was
noted for its smallness. It was inserted in
the top of a pencil case, and though it wa:
4 butthGee sixteenthsgof an inehin diameter