Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-28
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wives as he can build huts to keep them in.
Queen Victoria weighs one hundred
and seventy pounds.
Permission has been given to all the
Paris theatres to give bal Mosques.
Siam will be represented by thirty
five tons ofgoeds in the Paris Exhibition.
The Paris Exposition building covers
twice as much ground as the London Crys-
tai Palace.
The Empress Eugene drinks vinegar
to keep down her fat. Hence the peculiar
ity of her temper.
Giraffe steaks are mentioned as the
latest culinary delicacy Sin Paris. They
ought to be high. & u
The famous gondolas of Venice are to
be replaced by steam tugs, SO adieu to TO-
nance in the city of an hundred isles.
George Francis Train, encouraged by
young Benefits reception, has started again
to get permission to lay down street rail-
ways in London.
The present population of Ceylon is
estimated at "a little over two Million, +" al
most" as an English paper profoundly OBJ
serves, "all colored people"
"A Paris weekly speaks Of Head Centre
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Southern Confederacy, and author of many
poems of merit.
Twenty thousand of the Sultan's
troops are said to have persisted already in
the Canadian war, and yet Gambia is as far
as ever from being captured.
The writer of the article in BlGekaOood
on "Women and Children in America"
says the rockingham is zone of the great
est social curses of the United States"
During the Emperor's seventeen days
sojourn at Compiegne, the hunting party,
numbering nine guns, killed no less than
seven thousand and nine head of game.
"A distinguished New England clergy
man, in Europe, in a letter written in
Paris, says: Americans WHO are well off
at home are very foolish to come abroad
-Lamartine's servants lately threw into
the fire some letters to him, holding $4,000
in money orders. The poor old beggar
will have to go around with his hat again.
According to recent official returns,
Mexico contains twenty provinces, peopled
by 1885, 26 inhabitants. The National
debt is 980,600,000 francs, and the revenue
about 100,000,000 francs.
1t is said that two Munich brewers are
to pay 100000 francs for the space allotted
them at the Grand Exposition Viennese
brewer 100000 francs, and some London
establishment 100000 franc. ~
r. The Chinese have numerous diseases
Of the eyes; every fifthlman having some
ocular defect, and every fifteenth losing his
sight altogether. They attribute it to the
excessive use of rice, and constant shaving
"A season ticket to the Paris Exhibit
ton, including admission on the day of
opening costs sixty francs, is strictly per
sonal, and accompanied by the signature
or Photographic representation of the
owner.
The Prussian Legislature voted to
Count Bismarck $375,000, and to the war
minister and five generals, 100000 each, in
acknowledgment of services in the late
war; The presents were delivered on
Christmas eve OTIS
The total number of deaths from the
famine in India is credibly estimated at one
million, from its commencement in Octo-
Der, 1865, to the date of the latest accounts.
Much of the suffering is due to the wilful
inaction of British officials.
The Dutch are said to be at present
suffering under visitation of both the
leprosy and rinderpest. The, former is
supposed to have been brought by sol
dier from the West Indies, where this
frightful malady is becoming prevalent. s..
The Paris papers give curious statistics
ders is: In England one in $4,000 souls;
Holland, one in 100000; Prussia, one in
100000; Austria, one in $1,000. The writer
has left France out of the calculation.
The question of extending the elective
froy ,l.;c TOW
sion in England. The quarterlies and lit
erary weeklies are taking UP the subject in
all its phases, and the advocates, of wo-
mems rights have found champion in the
Westminster Reoieao.
-" Little Patti" had bouquet given
her in Germany which was in the form of
a life-size statue of herself with an imper-
ishable necklace of precious stones around
the neck. Of course only an American or
Russian could have done so absurd a bit of
munifcence, and this was by an American.
AT Waugaratta, Australia, a little dog
entered the church, and ran around until
the clergyman, Mr. Booth, descended
from the desk, caught him, and, after seve-
raj attempts, deliberately snapped one of
his legs in two In consequence of the
feeling against him caused by this act he
has resigned his position. -
Those who denounce woman's ex-
travagance should read this::"A London
shirtmaker has just finished dozen shirts
for a gentleman, the price OF which is one
hundred and twenty pounds they are, it
is stated of the finest cambria, and have
fronts embroidered with gold threads"
The famine in the Island of Sardinia
still increases the roads are filled with
beggars, or with men and women trying to
sell or trade off their personal effects, and
even their land Robberies are committed
in the day time in districts formerly cele-
brated for the good character of their in
habitants
A resident of Berlin recently went to
sleep with cigar in his mouth. The next
morning he was found to be unconscious.
He slept, and could not be awakened by
the most violent shaking Theexpression
of his features was calm, and his body was
rigid and unimpressionable to pain. He
x A woman in Elgin, G. E., few nights
since heard dog barking furiously at the
door She followed the animal about a
quarter of a mile through the snow, and
found her father dying from exhaustion
and exposure. The dog would scarcely
allow any one to approach the corpse.
"A Paris correspondent of an English
paper writes "Chiefly among the American
colony here, which is more numerous than
during any former winter, does dancing go
on, and with far more animation than in
with the superior freshness and beauty of
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