Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-17
have gradually simmerea down to $780,

The Prince of Wales has subscribed
| $500 to the fund for the wounded Garibal-
dianS
Sensation novels are undermining
English morality. So say the newspN-
| pers. IN. In
Paris has a population of 2,150,916
souls, with the suburbs of st. Denis and
| COeauX. s.-
"A female mesmerizer in England has
| been detected in using chloroform on her
"subjects." s s
-Adelina Patti is to be married to Che
Marquisde Croix, an officer OF the French
Imperial household. s~>
--Vesuyius summit was seen covered
| with snow the other morning, while tne
hot lava plowed it in all directions.
Paris has las. 900 shade trees. When
| in full foliage they cover nearly seven and
| half per cent Of the entire area OF the
city. re- e. sa s9a D.
The widely known Dr. James Hamii-
| ton, pastor of a Scotch Presbyterian
! church in London, and celebrated author,
| Is dead.
In drawing off the water from the
| lake In the Regents Park, London, re-
Gently, the bodies of three little children
were found. ~. .sa Il
| "A lady has recently died at Bristol,
| England, who, during life OF "a years,
| had never tasted animal food, and enjoyed
good health all the time
| "A French company is extracting
| $1,000 worth Of silver day from the re-
| fuse of the old Greek minas managed by
Xenophon 1900 years ago. o.
| The chief of the secret police en-
ployed about Napoleon's person has
grown so stoutas to become marked man,
and thus has lost his position "a
| There were 30151 marriages in Ire
land last year, and II, 677 Of the men and
| 16 ,063 of the women made their marks on
the register instead Of signing their names.
The pay Of the Prussian soldiers has
lately been raised. Hencefsrth privates
| will receive So 90 per month; corporals
and buglers, $l1 sergeants, $14; and or.
derby sergeants, $50. a.
1t has just been declared by the Eng
| lish mint that worn silver and gold coin
| are legal tender so long as vestige re-
mains on the surface of the coin Of its
origin from the mint. f..
The Simplon Pass, in Italy, over which
| Dickens and Collins make the characters
in "No Thoroughfare go, was built by
Napoleon I. as 8 military road, at q cost of
$5,0O0000, and occupied six years in com
| pletion. q 4
An English officer writes from Abys-
| sinia that campaigning in Theodores Go,
| minions is decidedly unpleasant. Their
mometer 1903; snakes in the beds; scorpi-
ons in the mems boots camp fevTs; cpl
denies. d.
in Halberstadt. Germany, a butcher
g. h
penitentiary for negiecting 10 have his
tors, and thereby causing the death of rs
persons % 20
1T is said the Abyssinian war owes its
existence in reality to blun6er. A letter
from Theodore to Victoria lay in foreign
Office by mistake for years unanswered
| Whereat the genial King, exasperated, shut
up the Englishmen, etc. a I.
"A French paper supposes that whale
may be only an antediiuvian sardine, but
thinks it fortunate that mel are deprived
of this faculty OF unlimited growth. cat
the present price of bread" it says, "a
man 80 feet high would be the ruin of
any family" n
There are over 1900, coo old maids in
England and Wales. Sad to say, one
third of the number cannot hope to marry,
as there are not men enough to go round.
OF every 100 women in England, 56 are
wives, 80 are spinsters, and are widows.
The old maids are more numerous in high
life than In low. e.
"A Cuban who, had murdered his IA
ther, mother, sister, and child, on his way
to execution, recently, made cheerful OBJ
servations to the bystanders, warning them
to be careful what meat they bought in
the market the next day, and suggesting
that his flesh might be distinguished by its
peculiar toughness, 90
Queen Isabella is unable to find o
prince that will marry her eldest daughter,
young beauty, with dark flashing eyes.
All courts decline respectfully to enter
into the bonds Of relationship with her
Castilian majesty, although the young
princess is rather good looking, and is
said to be very amiable girl.
An English magazine states that NOUS
tsche may be made several shades darker
III color by tying cabbage leaf on it on
retiring at night. BY repetition the hair
may thus be made as dark as desired. A
reader disposed to be caustic, might won
der whether the person who discovered
this dye, got the specific from his own
head. ~ 81
Official returns show that, in Liverpool,
out of %, 740 persons who were appre-
hended in 1856, only 252 could read and
write well while of the 720 children dealt
with under The juvenile offenders act, not
one could do so. In 148,000 mar 4
riages that were made in England in 1854
$4,000 of the men and IS, 800 of the women
nsing round numbers) signed with q
mark. ~ - ,.g -t}a4. #
"A horrible crime has been committed
in Vienna. A woman of abandoned char
acter aasassinated her mother, an old lady
of more than seventy, after q violent
struggle that lasted over quarter of an
hour. When the remains of the victim
were examined by the authorities, 1t was |
found that they bore not less than thirteen |
mortal wounds. The unnatural daughter
had pierced her mothers eyes with q |
pointed knife, and, in her fury, lacefated |
her cheeks with her teeth.
The French infantry are being trained |
to new sharpshooters drill. They form |
loose square, each man sets up his KNAPP |
sack before and secures 1t with his tent |
pegs, places the two sticks used for the |
tente da5ri on each side of the knapsack, |
and spreads his blanket over 1t as cur
tain, behind which he crouches and fires. |
al six hundred yards the men are thor |
oughly concealed, and this projection, |
though not very efectual, might make the |
men think themselves more secure.
1t is said that the condition of the EN- |
press Carlotta continues to improve. She |
roes ont nvory dav when the weat her rer-