Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-31
Foreisn, Gossip.

| There are thirteen railways III CANADA,
with 2,14S miles of road open for traffic
| The Central American States are now
at peace, which is an extraordinary and
gratifying fact.
| There are over four hundred dealers in
cheap toys for children in Paris, employ
ing two thousand workmen.
They have female beggar in Quebec,
who goes on her professional rounls i'll a
sleigh drawnb by her own horse.
The King of Dahomey has inaugur-
ated war against the Ashantees by the
| sacrifice of two hundred subjects lie
may feel the need of them before the war
is over 1858
The London Reoieao says that Dickens,
Thackeray, and, other ingenious and popu-
lation humorists of latter days, in England
have all taken their cue from Charles
Lamb.
The London Telegraph, according to
an official statement, has daily circulation
of 1873, 7O4 copies This is far ahead of the
London Times, which does not circulate
more that 10000 copies
M. Silvertio Camerino, an illiterate
! man who could hardly write his name, has
Just died at Padua, Italy, leaving fortune
of forty-two million francs, most of which
goes to needy nephew.
An editor in France who sold a free
| pass over railroad that had been given
lin by the company, and the man who
| bought it, have both been sentenced to
three months imprisonment.
The other day Judge of the Tribunal
| of First Instance, of Rheims NJ. Luzler-
Lamothe was so awkward or so unlucky
as to wound three people, including one of
his brother Judges, while aiming at wood
cock
A scientific Frenchman thinks that
once in ten thousand years the earth is
deluged by the sea passing over it from pole
to pole But no one now living need feel
any anxiety, for the next deluge is not due
for six thousand years.
The Barnsley explosion is found to
have been occasioned by the leaving OH
the top of the blacksmith's safety lamp,
the flame of which must have ignited the
gas. He had gone down to shoe the horses,
and was found with his head blown off.
Two children have lately been fined at
town in Lithuania for speaking Polish
the father, who was mulcted in the sum
of 100 roubles, had recently arrived with
them from Warsaw, the inhabitants of
which city still enjoy the right of talking to
one another in their native tongue.
1t has been ascertained that weekly
journal is printed, published and circulated
in Hungary secretly, neither its writers,
publishers, nor even the place of publica
ton being known, and all the efforts of the
Austrian Government to ferret them out
have up to the latest dates proved fruit
less.
Five persons living near Madgeburg,
Germany, recently ate some raw pork
which the official inspector had certified
was free from trichine They became sick
and second investigation showed that the
| animal was deceased. Persons who ate,
| cooked, the sausages made from this
| trichinOus meat were not injured.
Some few months ago the railroads of
France announced that a reduction of fifty
| per cent. would be made in the transport of
| goods to the Paris Exhibition of next year.
| The British railways have responded to
| this liberality, and advertise that after the
| 1st of January they intend to make certain
advances in the rates for the conveyance of
shipping and other goods.
Refractory soldiers at st. Domingo are
| brought to their senses in an amusing man
ner Cufee is punished by having his
| hands tied behind him, and then barrel
with both ends open placed over his per-
| son. The locality most infected with flies
is then honored with his compulsory pres
ence and then his nose is smeared with
| molasses, and he is left to the polite atten-
tons of his diminutive tormentors.
Should Moslem, when praying feel
himself disposed to cape, he is ordered to
suppress the sensation of the work of the
devil, and to close his mouth, lest the
father of iniquity should enter and take
possession Of his person. 1t is curious that
this opinion prevails also among the Hin
docs, who twirl their fingers close before
their mouths before gaping, to prevent the
evil spirit from getting in that way.
Some week ago, Francis Joseph, En-
peror Of Austria, assembled eighteen Par
lament in his Empire, and laid before each
of them a speech written expressly for it.
SELF In these Parliaments were represent
ed at least eleven languages or dialects,
and the only ones among them all that do
not require the presence of an interpreter
| to make the members ineligible to each
| other are the Hungarian and the Croatian.
1t is said by atraveler recently returned
| from Western Africa, that the equatorial
regions would be uninhabitable were it
not for the ants that are constantly engag-
| ed in clearing away the putrescible matter.
The hives they build themselves in Libe-
ria are, in an architectural point Of view,
far superior in appearance to the huts of
the negroes; they are in the shape of pyra-
mids, sometimes 30 feet high, and upwards
of 10 feet IN diameter
| The London Lancet in note on the
confessional, now extensively discussed in
England, referring to suggestion that the
married condition of the English clergy
initiates against the maintenance ofsecresy,
observes: Medical practitioners are en-
trusted with secrets as important as those
divulged In auricular confession, and it is
rare indeed to find their wives in any wav
cognizant of them. 1t is universal rule
for wives of medical men to avoid asking
questions respecting patients, lest they
should unwittingly become aware of facts
of which they had better remain ignorant y
A Canadian paper relates that as DR.
| Hamilton, of Sutton, Brown county, was
returning from visiting patient a few
DAYS since, his horses took fright and upset
the vehicle. The doctor twas thrown out
and the horses continued their mad career
but the doctors dog seeing his master lying
motionless, ran after the horses, caught
the reins which were trailing ON the ground
with his teeth, and succeeded in stopping
them-no would he let go until his insens
ible master was brought the car
rage The doctor has recovered from his
injuries.