Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-03
Eoresgsa Gossip.

1
Every English steamer built now is on
the American model with Scotch engines.
"A young blood" in crack London
regiment has lost $1,000,000 recently in
gambling.
Members of the '.conjugal relation"
viii please notice that the penalty in Paris
for selling ones wife is eight years hard
labor. Better put up with her
1t takes three columns Of French
journal to give "full particulars of how a
girl in Paris was miraculously cured Of
mortal disease by having her eyes rubbed
with piece of the Pope's petticoats.
"A singular innovation was made at a
funeral in Paris the other day. Instead Of
a laudatory discourse in honor of the IN
dividual inferred, one of his friends read
extracts from a newspaper article in his
praise.
The ariesian wells Of Grenelle and
Passy, France, now emit volumes of steam;
the temperature of the waters, which rise
from the depth of two thousand three hun
bred feet, reaching eighty-ive degrees
| Fahrenheit.
"A French Court has decided that when
a railroad fails to transport passengers to
q given point in given time, by the break
ing down of an engine or any other accident,
the company is bound to pay the expenses
of passengers who may adopt other means
to reach their destination.
An English jury has decided that when
man who is moking in railroad car re-
| fuses to remove his cigar at the request of
his fellow passengers, they have the right
| to knock it out of his mouth; and the
Judge thought that tho blowing of tobacco
smoke in the face Of q fellow passenger
might be considered an Insult.
In one of the great clubs in Paris there
/ has been desperate gambling bout which
lasted twelve hours on each of three sue
cessive days. The players were young
Russian and Turkish Grand Siegneur,
both very rich. The first night it cost the
| Russian $50, 900 francs the following day
he regained 10000 francs; the following
night he again lost these 20, 1000 francs and
i $50, 900 more Russia then gave in, and
withdrew from the combat with net loss of
| 400, 900 francs.
When Queen Victoria made her recent
visit to Northampton, England, to dedi
cate the statue to Prince Albert, her cor
tege passed under six ,riumphal arches on
their way through the principal street The
!
to which the Earl of Dudley contributed
twenty-five tons from one Of his famous
collieries, some of il being hewn into blocks
weighing two tons each There was also an
arch composed Of hardware and japanned
goods among which coal scnttles were quite
conspicuous.
| The Steinitz Bird chess match has
come to conclusion in manner neither
satisfactory to the chess public nor to Mr.
Bird. At the conclusion of the sixteenth
| game, Mr. Bird was compelled, by business
! engagements, to leave London for America,
and accordingly requested postponement
| Of the. match for several weeks, to which
proposal, however, Mr.. Steinitz did not
| yield assent, end he accordingly claimed
the stakes and the match. The score stood:
| Steinitz, six; Bird, five; drawn, five From
the score it is seen that Mr.. Steinitz has
very little claim to be considered the first
player in Europe.
The shlpwreck of cargo Of rum, near
the mouth of the Mersey, England, few
weeks ago, led to hideous consequences.
The cargo was beschtd at New Brighton,
we'll known bathing place. AS the barrels
were washed ashore, they were preached
on the beach, and the bystanders drank till
they dropped One young man died on the
spot. Nearly a hundred others suffered
! desperately from the effects of their de-
bauch. 4 scene OF violence and debaucherY
| ensued such as has never blotted the annals
of civilization, and, even as described in
the most respectable English papers, unfit
for publication in detail.
"A Mexican letter says: awe have had
some celebrated runners in the United
States, but scarcely equal to young Next
can SO years of age NAMED Ochoa, who
lives at. Hidalgo, in southern chihuahua
He has been known to beat man on horse
| back for distance of thirty miles. He has
often made $50 miles in "a hours. A friend
of mine lately gave him S. to carry letter
| so miles and bring him an answer. He did
it in ~ hours, taking, as he thought, plenty
Of time, there being no great hurry. The
last fifty miles he made slowly in seven
hours From this may be gained some idea
of the trained courier systems of Montezu-
ma and the Peruvian meas"
The advances of Egypt since the be-
ginning of this century have been great and
sure. For long course of years the ma
terial development Of the country has gone
favorably on. Manufactures, agriculture
and commerce have alike been fosterCd and
stimulated. Railways have at once en-
ployed labor and assisted industry. Canals
have fertilized wide extent of territory,
and remuneratively dispersed over the
whole country and conveyed to foreign de-
pots the products of the various districts
This year Egypt has produced a cotton crop
estimated at twenty millions sterling, and
it is credibly told that the condition of the
common people has begun to be sensibly
improved.
"A man named John Norton was exam
ined before the London magistrates the other
day on charge of picking pockets on
BIackfriar's bridge. The prisoner, in de-
Tense, said he was on the bridge looking at
The works, with vast number of persons,
when he missed his handkerchief. He
looked round to see if any one was near
him of suspicious character, and, not see
ing anybody that he could fix vpon, he went
round the company examining the hand
kerchiefs in their pockets to see if they had
got his. Loud laughter.1 When he came
to the prosecutor, his handkerchief was
very similar to the one he 1.-THE prisoner) had
lost, and he took it to see whether it was
his or not Renewed laughter] He had
no intention Of stealing it; he only took it
to examine it, SO it was so like his.
[Laughter1. He was sent up for trial.
ArG and Science.
Transforming sand into stone, in the
short space of ten minutes, is an English
invention.
| A microsc0pe. with double the nower