Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-14

it was quite warm IN the snow, and that
he wasn't afraid because he knew his
friends would come for him.
ForeisL Gossip.
Land in London sells at the rate of ten
million dollars per acre.
The Queen of Spain recently took off
herjslippers and gave them toa bare-footed
woman.
1t is reported that forty tons of rust
were taken from the Menai tubular bridge,
in Wales, at a recent cleaning
The Queen of Belgium's crown con-
tains forty five pearls, forty diamonds, and
five thousand small brilliants.
An employee of the Stafford England
town council recently picked up a pocket
book containing fourteen thousand pounds,
which was restored to its owner an
Paris has forty theatres, besides TWEEN
ty-seven other regular places of amuse-
ment, this enumeration being exclusive Of
innumerable Cafes cantants and bathrooms
The Queen of Spain recently gave a
dancer one of her orders of chivalry !;
t'other day she made a comic actor named
Oregon, Viscopnt de Molina, and gave him
a fortune
1T is stated that the Englishauthorities
in India have declined to interfere with the
practise of conveying dying Hindoos to the
Ganges, immersing then1,-. and choking
them with the holy mud. At1'1J I So
A large wholesale dealer in London
has presented the Daily IsIegr0ph with a
press that cost $4,000, as token of the
Appreciation of the benefit he has derived
from advertising in that DaDer
An exchange says: "The Grand
Duke of Baden has conferred the Gross of
the Sovereign Order of Fidelity on the
King of Spain" 1t would have been a
piece of delicate satire to have presented it
to his royal wife.
IA correspondent of the London. Jour-
NAL treats at some length on the best way
to prevent hydrophobia. In reply, wag
suggests that he once prevented a case of
this dreadful malady by getting on a four
teen-rail fence and staying until the dog
had left. PISA %9EIH 9rT9
The fayorite pet of the animal creation
in all Partisan households is gold and silver
fish. You see them in every drawingroom,
on every shop counter, in every window.
Last year 10000 francs worth were sold in
Paris, the current price per fish being fifty
centimes.
The largest anchor in the world has
been completed for the Great Eastern, at
Wolverhampton. Its weight is eight tons,
exclusive of the stock length of the shank,
twenty feet six inches length Of wood
stock, nineteen feet six inches; tread of
arms, seven feet four inches.
The fine old parish church of st. John
the Baptist, at Croydon, England, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire on the 9Th
instant. 1t was built in the reign Of Henry
w, if not earlier The painter, John
Singleton Copley, the father of Lord Lynd-
hurst, was buried in this church. 1850
ri "A number of Partisan seamstresses
have been suffering from violent COLES
from putting the silk they use in sewing
into their mouths This is attributed to
sulphate of lead, and the presence of that
deleterious substance is explained by the
fact that, as the silk is sold by weight, some
manufacturers mix the sulphate with it to
make'it heavier. Z n 500 4 - - -
During a post naortem examination on
the body Of James Wilson, at Newcastle,
England, on the gath ultimo, the surgeon
discovered the singular fact that the heart
was located on the right side. A few years
ago medical gentleman of Kingstown, G.
W., had patient in whom the existence
of the heart on the right SHE was detected
during life and the diagnosis was substan-
tiated by an examination after death. The
occurrence is known to be exceedingly
rare.
4 An eccentric individual has just died
in the Quarter du Val de Grace, Paris,
aged seventy-two. He had resided there.
for more than thirty years, and never re-
ceived any visitor, except his housekeeper,
who came every morning. Hewas known
in the neighborhood as Monsieur lie Savante.
He was occupied in reading and writing
from morning till night. The great fancy
of his life was to collect beans. He had
beans from all the countries in the world,
carefully ticketed and arranged. Only
few days before his death lie paid one
hundred francs piece for five beans. 81 81
Lady Herbert an English traveller in
Spain, few months since, at bull fight
in Seville saw twenty horses and six bulls
killed in two hours and a half, among
spectators "whose delight was the greater
the more horrible was the state of the dis
emboweled animals. One of the horses"
she states, belonged to one of the richest
men in Seville, had been his favorite hack,
and was as well known on the Prado as
his master. The gallant horse, disembow-
eled as he was, would not die; he survived
one bull after the other, though his entrails
were hanging in festoons on their horns,
and finally, when the gates were opened to
drag out the carcasses Of the rest, he man.
aged to crawl away also, and to drag him
self-where? To the very door of hisn1as-
ter's house, which he reached, and where
he finally laid down and died.
A Frenchman, prisoner in Edin-
burgh, having managed to escape, took
refuge in the powder magazine. When
the authorities wished to seize him, they
found him sitting on barrel, with light
ed match, and threatening to blow up the
town. The authorities reflected prudently,
and the result of their deliberations was,
that it would be better to starve the French
man out. But they reckoned witoout their
prisoner, who loved good cheer, and was
determined to live well In consequence,
he called out chat he would blow the town
to pieces if he did not get three meals a
day; he would write out the bill-of- fare.
Sawney succumbed, and the demands of
the prisoner went on increasing. Some
times he had a serenade under his window
then review of the garrison; afterward
sham fight, in which the troops repre-
senting the French army beat the High
| landers. At last he exacted that every
Sabbath morning, before breakfast, the
Lord Provost, in full uniform, should make
his appearance, and read him an address.
This lasted until the allies entered Paris.
/ "A WARNING,-W. G. Baker entities one
1 of his recent songs: TLeape not thy Happy
Home, dear Girl = and warns the young
/ ladies thus g33DBlf0II0J
Leave not thy happy home, dear girl!
hin, who yyooS thee now.