Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-04
Foreign Gossip.

"A new color in Paris is called "Bis-
mark angry" 1t is of fiery hue.
London temperance reformers are
epdeavoring to secure Cough for year,
Eighteen priests in Italy have con-
tracted marriage under the new civil code.
The exact population of the Kingdom
of Italy, according to the figures of the
recent census is "a, 100000. ',3-. i.2at .''t 81
Five hundred and fifty-t police
men and fifty-two detectives, commanded
by twenty nine officers superintend the
Paris Exhibition.
Mr.. Robert Tones, in his entertaining
little book on the Champagne Country, re-
thief" is raised, every lnhabitant takes to
his heels
Sir John Pakington asks Parliament
to pay 963, 600 for billiard tables for the
use Of the off1cersinathe army. The Brit,
ish papers recalcitrate against it, They
say it is unprecedented and absurd.
What a mellifuous language is the
Italian In that sweet tongue the cele
brated composer of al Trovatore" is
known as II Signor Giuseppe Verdi. In
English he would be plain Joseph Green.
The flag OF the new Dominion of Can
ada will retain the British union jack in
the corner, and the remainder will be filled
with four stripes, red, white, blue and
green, to represent the four Provinces
which used to be.
- The CorsiCan journals give an account
of duel which lately took place in that
country. Three brothers on one side
against three others of different family,
met in wood, armed with axes and poin-
ards, and an indiscriminate melee took place.
None of them were killed, but all were
wounded and some are manned for life.
"A boy who joined the Phoebe, Brit
ish steam corvette, as midshipman, was
seized by his fellow -middies, dashed to a
gun-caniage, and the "broad arrow" of
the navy, with which Her Maiesty's stores
are usually marked, was indelibly tattooed
on the unoffending victims nose. The
ringleader in the outrage. who ought to
have been doubly tattooed, was only dis
missed the ship as punishment.
The Emperor of Russia seems to have
made the most of his time in Paris. He
telegraphed in advance for private box
ut the well-known theatre, Varieties, Of
the Boulevard Montmarte, and went to see
the bufioonery of that play house on the
very evening of his ival in Paris. On
Sunday, like good Greek, he went to
church IN the morning, III the Russian
church; in the afternoon, like bad
Frenchman, he RECALLED himself at the
races, in company with the French EN-
peror.
Among Messrs. Schneider s. Cos
10000 workmen, 500 have within the last
six years become proprietors of the conf
Portable model cottages erected by the firm.
They form altogether quite large town,
of not less than $4,000 inhabitants, whose
natural increase proves by statistics TO be
four times the average of France IN gen
eral, the mortality of children being re-
markedly small. There is no poverty from
sickness, accident or death, for the unfor-
tunate are amply provided for by the pro
vident fund to which all able to work pay
~ per cent. of their wages The fund
now amounts to 100000, and there are
also $4,000 of the workmen's wages in
the savings banks. There is no magistrate,
no lawyer, and no policeman in the com
munity, and the number of crimes is less
than the average proportion of the country
at large. u.a .aa.. ~ i-l,-