Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-16


Under the head of "Broken English,
Paris paper places such Englishmen a!
get smashed up by railroad collisions.
Over theentrance to the hall where the
French Court concerts are held is the an
nouncement that "You must not look a
the Emperor through an opera glass"
The London Daily Neaos' city article
says the number of messages sent through
the Atlantic cable continues to increase
and the receipts now average about 81 ,15(
per day. o @f s-s> s-F15s* gs-fs-,sF .
"A mysterious paragraph in the fash
ionable intelligence" of the London papers
says that "the Prince of Wales smoked q
cigar recently with the Duke of st. AL
| bans"
The raising Of the ships sunk in Sc
bastopol harbor is proceeding slowly. The
masts and rigging have been removed, but
the hulls still remain six or seven fathoms
deep in the muddy bottom. raQl-s
Brigham Young has rival in the per,
son of the King of Siam, who has taken
one hundred and one savage women to rear
his dusky race of eighty-three, and is sew
enty-three years old himself.
| 1t is q remarkable fact that Just now
Liverpool is exporting wheat to New York,
and Chicago is selling and sending wheat
and corn to the interior. This is revers-
ing the order of things wonderfully.
A regular bounty is paid by the Eng
lish government for every authenticated
case of a triple birth. The Court Journal
complains that they are getting too fire.
quent, and calls for an Investigation.
THE "newest thing out" comes from
Jamaica. A firm there prints at the head
of its letter-paper: Excuses for non
payment of money due must be prepaid,
or postage will be charged to the account"
The Prussian, Bessemer, who only a
| few years since advanced his simple, cheap
and short method Of converting pig iron
directly into malleable steel, is already en-
joying from it an income of 100000 per
annum. ':ies> 'fea. .l.s-e- et'ii @
The Paris & Orleans Railroad has
thirteen locomotives with steel boilers, the
Southern has fifteen, and the Paris d
Sceaux has number. The substitution of
steel for iron in this direction is making
rapid progress. - ..'.a.li.. d
The English and French are anxious
to have an easier passage between the two
countries. They do not affect the sea sick
ness of the Channel. They say if the
Channel was on the shore of America,
flying bridges would soon traverse it."
The national debt of Turkey is about
$345, 100000, upon which the interest
charges are S24,0O0,000 annually. A new
loan is going begging at eighteen per cent
interest, and it is not unlikely that even q
higher rate will have to be paid.
The reclaimed women in London, res
cued by the "midnight movement" have
been provided tor to the number of one
thousand three hundred and ten. A print
ing office is one of the means by which
they are furnished with employment
There is now exhibiting at Redcar, a
small village in England, cork model of
Lincoln cathedral, made by a Lincolnshire
plowman, which contains the extraordina-
ry number of 100000 old corls, and occu-
pied ten and a half years in building.
False ears of flesh color, made of India
rubber, have been invented in France,
for the use of ladies with large ears. They
are used in front of the real ears, which
are drawn back and concealed under the
hair.
1t is reported that system Of slavery
exists on the Society Islands, under the
auspices of the French Government, un-
equaled in barbarity by any former plan
tation system down South. The victims
are Chinese coolies and natives of the
Pacific Islands. -..ls. -rH
-Abyssinia is said to be beautiful
country, with abundant large rivers and
lakes, a fertile soil, healthy climate, and
coal and iron deposits in great profusion.
The cotton plant and tree both grow read
lily, and tropical fruits ripen there in the
fullest perfection.
The members of the Tonkawa tribe of
Indians, in Texas, feed upon roast or
broiled Camanche whenever they can get
one but they eat no other human flesh,
white or copper-colored. The Camanches
are equally fastidious, and eat none of their
kind except Tonkawas.
The Accidental Insurance Company of
London have refused to pay the policy of
Mr. Parkin Jeffcock, who met his death in
the endeavor to save the lives OF his men at
the Oaks Colliery disaster, on the ground
that they did not insure against accident
voluntarily incurred.
The London Metropolitan under
ground railway is about five miles long,
and carried in 1866 1878, 104 passengers
without fatal accident. Its receipts per
mile were considerably more than
those of the ten principal railways center
ing in London. Plans are now in pro-
gress to increase the lines to nearly thirty
six miles in the aggregate of underground
railway.
"A French way of riding ON horseback
is to make a pair of enormously large
wheels, and place carriage body over the
axle and shafts so high that the horse can
travel under it and between the wheels
You will have most symmetrical turnout
such as they use in Paris, beautiful dis
solving view Of driver, horse and carriage
in one, dcfying mans wit to tell where
either begins or ends, and lofty perch
where you can both see and be seen.
I'm compliance with the new Interna
tional Telegraphic convention, the admin
istration of Swedish telegraphs have just
published in the French language report
on the organization of the national tele-
graphs From that it is seen that the ex-
tent Of the lines, which in 1858 was 20
kilometres, had in 1866 reached 5,756. In
| 1853 the number of messages was only S51,
while in 1866 they amounted to 410, IA ;
namely, home messages, 26S, 1913, and for
eign, 150,616, the total receipts of which
had been equal to 933, 554 francs.
"A singular duel recently took place at
| Berlin between a journeyman silversmith
and another artisan. The arms selected
were bottle of sulphuric acid. The ar
sangement was that whichever of the two
adversaries threw the lowest with dice
should swallow the contents of the fatal
/ vial. Chance favored the silversmith, who
Immediately poured out glass of liquor
and handed it to his adversary, who unhes-
itatingly drank off the liquid, but, to the
establishment of his antagonist, instead OF