Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-03

"A Berlin railroad Spectator hasagreed
to feed twelve handred of the star wing East
Prussians for three months.
Two tipsy British soldiers cursed the
Queen, and are now serving fve-year !.
sentence with branded backs.
Russia, with an eye to the health of
the rising generation, forbids the manufac-
ture or sale OF, colored sWeetmeats.
A learned boot black, who has been
arrested for petty crime in London,
speaks English, French and German.
--A1ady in Paris recently gave party
and all invited were obliged to wear false
noses. The effect was very ludicrous.
The cable was mistaken when it an.
nounced the death Of the young King of.
/ Bavaria. The royal defunct was the ex-
King, old Louis Is affooni2l bagos q
-Advertising is valuable in Paris. An
agent there has just paid $1000 900 to hang
framed advertisements in the Grand Hotel
and Hotel du Louvre for five years.
Travel in the Holy Land, accordingto
letters received from there, is becoming
hazardous, owing to the, exactionsy and
threading attitude Of the hostile tribes.
| "A French doctor processes to have
found that life remains for q long time in
human heads cut off by the guillotine, and
that the body suffers terribly until the head
dies. alesl s'fH FL siat 7o1'saj f'Hs
--Ninety-one journalists fought duels in
Paris during the year 1867, but, as none of
them were hurt much, it is fair to conclude
that their pens were mightier than their
swords. it2Go3aD e ha7af 3 .Tiu es5
q There is said to be now $7;O000O0
worth of American silver in Canada, and
duty of fifteen per cent. has been inn
posed upon the importation of such silver
coin into the Province. "a Haf aaf r.,
in London it is said that man may
live a year without hearing an alarm of
fire. In that vast city of 100000 people,
with q closely covered area of 10 miles by
g. there is fire brigade of little more,
than 800 men. b., 49, a,fs s4st1 o[ft
Australia has trees that are taller than
those of California One has been dis
covered four hundred and eighty feet high,
which is taller than the highest church spire
in Christendom, and as tall as the great
pyramid of Cheops. sbssa +, seisT h
"A Belgian boy in London hung him
self by accident the other day, and his
| father testified that the boy had read SEN
| sation stories of suicides, and afterward
| manv times experimental on his own neck
| before the fatal occasion.
"A French writer in the Re0eu des Deo1
| Mondes says, of the numerous American
visitors TO Europe last year: "The men
were distinguished by an abundance of
| dollars in their pockets, the women by an
abundance of brains under their bonnets."
The House of Lords has recently de-
cided the important Bredalbane case by
| asserting that when a man and woman
have long lived together and been looked
upon as man and wife, they must be con-
sidered as welded by habit and repute,
| and their children are legitimate.
The largest organ in the world is said
to be in the little city of Freyburg, in
! Switzerland When in full play it pours
| forth tempest of sounds through forest
Of pipes seven thousand eight hundred in
number shaking the walls and the founda-
| tons of the old church In which it stands.
- Children at the Cape of Good Hope
| pick up and fill their pockets with bright
| pebbles, which sharp lapidaries buy from
them for trifling sums and then sell again
| for fabulous amounts. They are diamonds,
and the shrewd dealers prefer to pay
small sum for them to going and picking
them up themselves.
lo0-There is IA certain lady of rank and
fashion in Paris who constantly believes
herself to be dying. TO her husband,
who is absent on political mission, she
recently sent the following telegraph: ERE
turn instantly. am very ill-dying." To
which M de ~ replied: "Pressing bust
ness. Wait fortnight" Madame de. -
has waited.
A house in Toronto was invaded,
few days ago, by a small army Of rats,
driven, in a hungry condition, from their
homes in the street drains, ETC., by heavy
rains. They attacked two little children
sleeping in the house, whose lives would
probably been destroyed by the furnishing
fOragers bad not their mother been present
to frighten the invaders, numbering hum
dreds, away. '5Aa} fa# % iiHi'54 ~" u
"A number of ladies and gentlemen Of
London and other places are projecting a
Woman's College, somewhere between the
capital and Cambridge; in which institu-
ton the girls are to have the customary
education of boys with the addition of
those branches more, peculiarly suited to
their sex. The cost is estimated at
g30, 00O-one thousand of which has been
contributed by Mrs. Bodichon.
There is a story current in London
that Lord Lytton one day asked Earl
DGrDy, VINO luau JUST TcSlSueU Inc ITe-
miership on account of the gout, whether
he would rather be the Premier Peer of
England, with a rent roll of 100000
year, but sixty years of age, or an officer
of the guards, aged twenty-five, just upon
town with only So note in his pocket;
and Lord Derby is said to have replied
that he would exchange with the young
officer at that moment, if he could.
"A young lad was recently brought be-
fore Liverpool magistrate, charged with
embezzling nine pounds from his employer.
pOn investigation it appeared that the boy,
less than fourteen years old, had spent the
money in entertaing his sweetheart (aged
twelve) with pleasure trips on Sunday,
donkey rides, and other refreshments. The
young lady testified to this effect, and also
averred that she had frequently drawn on
young Lothario to the amount of two or
three shillings and that her drafts were
always honored through female friend,
who acted as messenger. The young
scapegrace admitted the charge, and coolly
told the magistrate that he "allowed Miss
Taylor IS. a week" r ..s..,sq ygTa4 IA
"A paper of Nantes, Franch, publishes
the following GA farraer was found
hanged by his dreside. Suspicion fell
upon his wife she was arrested; and,
when questioned by the magistrate, made |
the following affectionate confession !:
Well, in faith, there is not much to be
told Going home last night, found my
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