Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-04

1880. It is the Westminster Abbey of the
ancient republican city. The northern
side has sustained the greatest damage, and,
unfortunately, painting by Titan, tbs
martyrdom Of st. Peter In the forest, has
been destroyed The church contains
paintings by other celebrated painters, one
of them by Paul Veronese, and these have
been saved.
DIR. Cheever's church, on Union Square
New York, having been purchased by
Tiffany, the great jeweler, has now been
rented by company OF religious gentiecc
men, who propose to open it as place OF
religious amusement about the hrst OF Oc-
tober;; A series, of original and cosby 6s
paintings, fifty in number, have been
painted by our first artists to represent
parts of the Pilgrims Progress. SO this
old church will not be wholly lostfto the
side Of good morals. On Sunday the
church will be opened for some form OF
mission work. Rev. Matthew Hale Smith
Is to occupy iton the Sabbaths In October
Mr. Phillips, the distinguished singer, so
well known. in the West, is TO be connected
with this new movement in Dr.. Cheever's
church. r,,...,.., .... ..
"A Salt Lake city letter says Polyg-
ally iSloc SeHoia nJ piaSGisSu, wv ooeI,o
to be INDUCED in according. TO q mans
means as rule, though many wealthy
men in the city have but one wife. In the
country, one canssalways tell, by the build
of the house, how many man has. 1t he
has but one, his house, if one story In
height, Is nearly square; should he have
two, he builds an addition to one end OF
the original house, which is an exact coun-
terpart of it, having an outside door and
windows like the first, and differing from
| 1t only in newness of build. In short, he
| builds such an addition each time that he
takes to himself wife, so that frequently
one may see a half dozen thus growing out
of each other, and presenting, with an
| array of front doors, singular appear
ance. | think that over half of the men
have but one wife, great many have two
or three: numbers have from four to six,
and few have over ten. ouf
"A French sdodas has been making some
new investigations in one of the Com
munes as to the effect of consaDguineous
marriages in producing disease and ldlocy
| in the Offspring. His researches were in q
| locality which furnished large opportunity
| for observation, and he infinitely investi-
gated the history and circumstances of for
| ty families resulting from such marriages.
He has prepared tables to show that nei-
Their vices of conformation, insanity, idiocy,
cretinism, deafmuteness, nor epilepsy ex-
listed among any of these families; and he
has come to the conclusion that the dam
gers of consanguine marriages result from
an intensifcation Of any morbid hereditary
tendencies that may exist In each parent,
while, if each be perfectly healthy, the
fact of consanguinity counts for nothing.
The subject is one regarding which our
knowledge is very imperfect, and in which
anything like scientific investigation is very
limited. Though of great Importance to
the human race, it is moreover subject
about which accurate dates are. exceeding
| ly difficult of collection. 1t is always
safe, however, to follow the ole injunction
that imam shall not marry his grand
mother"