Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-22
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fined $5 for cursing the Queen. 94f'16
Suicides for the last eight years in
England average 1900 a year. raa syad
The excess, of births over deaths, in
England is more than 1000 day.
A French doctor says that the fer
mented milk of mares will cure consump
ton. ~
There are said to be about five hun
dred American students in the German
/ Universities. - .esa 4,9., ria d )ea8.2
The gold yield of Australia is steadily
| decreasing In 1856 it was 500, 100000 and
in 1866 less than 30,000,0 900. II "a
France is seeking to raise loan Of
twenty eight million pounds, which, it is
represented, the Government wants for
peace uses.
I'm 1928 the city government of Paris
sold the mud collected in that city for
$4,000; since then its value has steadily
increased, and it is now worth $4,000.
"A Paris correspondent says the French
dealers in hair sell 100000 pounds per an
mum, at value of $15,0O0,000, and the
price has advanced so per cent. recently,
because of the demand.
Dublin has new machine for cutting
hair, which by turning screw cuts off
just the quantity desired. 1t goes gently
over the bald head and respects the soft
side-whisker of the aspiring youth. ~
IS AT colliery in Devonshire England,
few days ago, while the miners were at
work one of them declared that he had
seen ghost. The consequence was that
he and nearly two hundred others refused
to work in the mine, and specter holds
possession of it.
RI AT meeting of the friends of eman-
cipation, recently held in Manchester,
England, documents were at hand setting
forth that there were 10000 slaves in the
Portuguese colonies, 100000 in the Span
ish colony of Cuba, and $500, 900 in Brazil.
An old woman who lived in state of
restitution and mendicancy, near Allenson,
France, recently died. The room she
occupied was in O. most miserable cOndi-
ton but in various hooks aud corners
were found boards of money amounting
in all to $4,000 francs.
Two more shops for the sale of horse
flesh have been opened in Paris, which
raises the number of similar establishments
to IS. The Committee for the Propa
CATION of Hippophagy have distributed
meat and sausages to the value of 1885,.
among the poor. '9@' f, ~
The Norman agent in England has
devised nice plan for pretty young
women to emigrate to Utah. He tells
them that when they arrive at the land of
the Saints they can secure rich elder for
q husband, making it a condition of mar
rage that he send for all the rest of the
family. a'S
"A wellto-do English lady, fifty-two
years old, recently killed herself by leap
ing out of window. She belonged to
the Glassite sect, and said little before
her death that the judgment-day was close
at hand, that the last trump would soon
sound, and she would be caught up to
Heaven alive 10
The clown at one of the Paris circuses
having appeared in costume burlesquing
Garibaldi, he was Kissed down by the spec
tators, who manifested the greatest indig
nation. Cries of " Vige Garibaldi! Down
with the Pope |" were uttered, and the po-
lice had TO interfere in order TO prevent
further demonstrations. 't@
"A rare phenomenon has occurred in
England, in the case of a repentant UNI
brella thief A man recently lost one OF
those rainy-day conveniences, and found
it soon after in conspicuous place on his
premises, with the following inscription
pinned upon it: "This umbrillar has
prade hon my konshens ever sin / stole
him. w. r."
:. "A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin, speaking of the terrible carnage
of the Chinese Tapping rebellion, says
One district is described which yielded
ninety thousand chests of tea per annum
before the war and is now desert waste.
A belt of land four hundred miles long by
two hundred wide is literally without an
inhabitant.
"A young fellow in Berlin made bet
the other day that he would kiss twenty
five women on the public promenade in
the Thiergarten. He succeeded in kissing
three, getting his ears slapped by one of
them, and being arrested by constable.
The police magistrate dismissed him next
morning with the admonition to go and
kiss no more.
"A touching incident is related of the
Empress Charlotte. 1t appears that she
has painted a charming landscape of the
park of Tervueren, and placed In the fore
ground her Inflated husband, surrounded
by several of the principal personages of
the Mexican Court Some old adherents
of the house of Orleans have lately gone
over to pay visit, and have seen the pic
ture they all agree that the likeness to
the late Emperor is perfect. aa
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