Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-17
Foreign Gossip.


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| "A lady at Cheltenham, England, found
thirty-six pearls in q dish of oysters.
There is a law that every house in
| Antwerp must be painted once year.
There are now wanting only $50 miles
of wire to connect New York with Pekin.
With fifteen millions of inhabitants in
Spain, only three millions can read and
write. 49, .- -.- "a, tn 1890 81.
The Naples Rothschild has retired
from from business with fortune of $780,
100000 sa dj;H uad3 lae4.4G.n ed. Il .
"A Mormon preacher in England has
been sentenced to one years imprisonment
for bigamy.
The consumption of cheese in England
amounts to the amazing quantity Of S21,
100000 lbs. a year ---.-,-
The practice of .duelling among the
German University students is even more
common than ever. "a =, .tf..., asrl-y, tz.,t
The Shah of Persia is about to bring
libel suit against a French author who has
abused him in a book.
The famous @rolite, weighing 1900
pounds English, which fell in Mexico, has
been received in Paris. ..
One hundred and twenty millions of
steel pens are yearly made at the Victoria
Works, Birmingham, Eng m v0Tp
"A sleighing club, recently formed in
Montreal, astonished people by driving out
| twenty-five cutters in procession.
The late Peruvian Minister to England,
has been charged with frauds on guano
contracts amounting to $9,000,000.
In Berlin, horse meat has found so
much favor that the number of horses
slaughtered in a year has already reached
2, 800 and is constantly increasing.
A tobacconist at Berlin on opening
package from ST. Domingo, recently was
astonished to find near the top of it the
dried human hand of negro, and little
further downa bowie-knife.
Professor S. f. B. Morse, now in Paris,
! has sent his check for 81 900 to his brother,
b. c. Morse, Esq, to purchase Allston's
Jeremiah" for presentation to the Yale
School of Fine, Arts, and the picture is
now the property Of Yale College
In the London Times of Dec Sth, there
appeared obituary notices of five ladies and
one gentleman whose united ages amounted
to 525 years-an avera ge of 81 years and
six months to each. The gentleman was
81 years of age, and one of the ladies o.
"A few days since, a tailor in Croydon,
England, was Ecarelessly bending needle
with his teeth, when it suddenly snapped.
and the greater portion of it passed some
distance into his throat Severe infamma-
ton followed, and the injury terminated
fatally.
> "A lad in Ireland recently found under
the flooring of room in which he was
working, a mass Of honey weighing 1870
pounds, the fruits of many years industry
of the busy insects The proper precau-
tons having been taken, the monster
honeycomb was made secure by the finder.
1t seems that America is not the only
country troubled with high prices for food
and other articles in common use. Arpa-
per published in Glasgow, Scotland pub
fishes table showing an average advance
in the cost of all staple articles of food of
food Of about 35 per cent in the last two
years
Lieutenant Mage, of the French navy,
recently read before the Geographical So
ciety III Paris a narrative of his travels into
the interior of Senegambia. He mentioned
that he met in a village, which MungO Parl
records he visited, an octogenarian negro,
who remembered to have seen in his early
| youth a white man, sbut a white man who
must have been extremely poor, for he
made him no present. LkGt
When a lion reaches the age of two
yeats he is able to pull down horse or an
OK; and so he continues to grow or IN
crease in strength till he reaches bis eighth
year, and his talons, teeth, and mind are
perfect and he grows no more. For TWEEN
tyi years after he arrives at maturity his
fangs and talons show, no signs of decay,
but after that he gradually becomes feeble
his teeth fail him, and he grows 9 cub
Dish"
In the latest edition of Carpenters
.Phgsiozogyitsis mentioned that out of three
hundred and fifty.nine idiots in England,
the condition of whose ~progenitors, could
be ascertained, ninety-ni1le were children
of absolute drIlnkards, and large proper
ton of-the parents of the remainder were
more or less incorporate. Of the three
hundred and fifty4nine idiots seventeen
were the children d, parents nearly related
by blood III gti Y Mil Il ILL
"A sad occurrence has happened at
Arth, in France Lieutenant Felchin was
some time back bitten in the thumb by a
man named Muller, but he thought moth
ing of the wound, and went next day on
journey on, his private affairs. On reach
to swell, and medical man declared that
the case was one of poisoning from a hui
man bite. He at once returned home in
haste, but he refused to have the arm
amputatedL The consequence was that
the inflammation increased frightfully md
he died some days after inhorrible suffer-
ing.
The Montrealers are discussinga mag
nifeent scheme for utilizing the immense
waterkpower of the ST. Lawrence river at
the Lachine Rapids. These rapids are
about a mile in length. In that distance
| the level of the river sinks 20 feet. In the
midst of the rapids lies a cluster of islands
extending through their entire length. The
only channel that is ravigable runs between
the islands and the. southern, bank of the
| river. The sources of the water supply
are so immensely distant and varied, and
subject to so many mutually compensatihg
influences, that the river is not materially
affected either by floods or drouths. The
hEdraulier power at the RAPIDS us estimated
to be equal to the combined forces of four
million of horses. gx -Er
Benjamin. Vale a london surgeon,
died recently from excessive drinking. He
had an annuity of $40, and,a in 1854 the
Dean Of Lichfeld left him e400, which. was
invested in house property, and yieldedhim
another $40 per wear. lie gave up his
practice and drank until all his money was
gone. He mortgaged the house to a pawn
| broker, and spent the money so obtained
| in drink. Whatever money he obtained
he spent in drink. He had nothing to
cover himself with excepting an old coat
| --he had neither trousers nor shirt = He