Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-27
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--Quinine brings $685. an ounce at Cape
Town.
Baron Brisse, the Paris epicure, com
mends grilled mackerel with truffies. ,a. 9
Gambling is on the increase in Eng
land. The upper classes are the most play
full
Three thousand ,Brazilians have died
of cholera at Curuzu.a Curuzu is evident
ly not curative.
The 4 w. Faber establishment at
Nuremberg, Germany, sends out 100000,
600 lead pencils annually.
A Paris chocolate vender has PLACED
upon the cover of his chocolate, Imita-
tors of this chocolate will be punished
with death"
The metaphorical soft side of a pine
board is realized in flannel blankets made
from white pine, which are used in the vi
emma hospitals L ~
In a window in a shop in an obscure
part of London is this announcement /:
Goods removed, messages taken, carpets
beaten, and poetry composed on any sub,
ject."
The people of Central City, Col, have
subscribed $4,000, to be paid for Indian
Scalps with the ears on at the rate of
$40 piece. ........
The Princess of Prussia gave her
brother, Alfred of England a hearty kiss
upon suddenly meeting him in the Exposi-
tioa., The smack a stonished thecrowd like
a pistol shot4 ~ a@$0R
"A railway is almost finished over
Mount Gents. It is promised to be COM
pleted by the first of September, when the
trip from Paris to Turin will be reduced to
twenty-tw hours '' '.f
About the Paris Exposition, the latest
report is that it is a failure pecuniarily. A
daily ATTENDANCE of forty thousand is nes
cesSary to pay the running expenses, aud
it has thus far fallen short of that.
Two Protestant missionaries have just
made a tour of from two thousand to three
thousand miles in the interior OF China,
and report an open door everywhere for
preaching and the Gale of Christian books,
f Speaking of the plous uses of the turf
Punch asks who, after this years Derby,
will dare say that racing is sinful amuse-
ment?s Think of e100. 900 carried off from
a Rake by Hermit for the benefit of a
Chaplain .,-,.s .s %. ...u...isr.lf- r.. ii
An Englishman lately sold his child,
in an ale house, to one Runcum, for eight
pence. The mother of the child protested
against the bargain, but Runcum refused
to surrender the child until compelled by
a magistrate r TlTA ~Tf
"A pretty little Jewish prina donna in
Brussels was courted by young lawyer
and finally married him in consideration
of his embracing the Jewish persuasion
Such persuasion as she offered he was only
to willing to embrace.
The proposed London aqueduct to
bring water from the Westmoreland
lakes, as estimated, will be one hundred
and thirty-eight miles long, and deliver
100000 gallons a day, and cost over
22,000,000. -. /
|. The iViceroy of Egypt, it is said, has
lately been enriched by the discovery of
about $10,000,000 in ingots and gold coin,
| buried in the garden of Coptic Convent
Agreeably to promise made to the finder,
| in advance, the latter was to keep third
of what he might dig up.
1.-THE A1genaejne Zeitung says that a
merchant of Trieste, who has been. for
some! time in Egypt and made the Suez
canal the object Of his particular study,
reports that at least ten years must elapse
| before the first large ship can cross
from the Red sea into the Mediterranean,
1 The owner of the horse /" Hermit the
unexpected winner of the last Derby,
silences any conscientious scruples on the
| gambling question that NAV trouble him
by the payment of tithes. He has appro-
priated $4,000 of his winnings-about
Ione- tenth-to the restoration. of Lincoln
Cathedral
| "A Notwithstanding in railway cal
in England, was required by the guard to
send small-an playful monkey into the
| dog-van because he was dog Taking a
tortoise from his coat pocket. The natural
| list asked the guard if that, too, was a dog
| After minute inspection he replied, "No
sir-them's all right---tsens b, hinse18 -
The Spaniards are trying to bring thei1
national game bull. f. hts IIintto. fashion al
the Paris Fair. No permission as yet has
| been granted Spain possesses now one
| hundred circuses of solid stone masonry
/ thirty-1ve in the capitals, and sixty-fve III
/ the provincial towns. The largest circus
/ in Valencia has room for 1876 persons.
/ IA diamond weighing between twenty
4 one and twenty-five carats, it is reported
/ has been found on the Orange. river, in
| Southern Africa. The Government at the
Cape OF Good Hope has taken the matter
| ia hand, and we shall soon know whether
| this is to be, as predicted, one of the
diamond producing countries of the world
When Mons Ratazzi took possession
of the Italian ministry he found 10000
petitions, $4,000 from Venetia alone ask
| ing for the order of st. Maurice and La