Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-31


being little globes of rock crystal file
with water and miniature sea fishes an
mollusks.
"A laborer in Silesia picked up S12,0C
the other day. The Prussian GoVernmer
lays hands on $4,000, and generously lei
him have the rest. ---~af
The banker Jecker intends to bring
snit against the French Government fo
the recovery of $13000,000 due on Franco
Mexican bonds held by him.
/ =" Napoleon Dying" by the Italia
sculptor Veia, which attracted SO muc
attention at the exposition, has bee
bought by the French emperor for 5000
A Northumberland constable recent
attempted to stop prize fight, but wa
relieved of his watch and pocketboOk, an
and then gently tossed over the cliffs b
the fighters.
In Germany, public and professions
men print in the town or city director
the hour OF each day when they will re
ceive calls. Thus the time and patienc
of all parties are saved
"A French rag picker was seen on
morning after his work to call carriage
place his well-fllled sacks on the top, ant
ordered the coachman to drive to his resi-
dence, "like any gentleman"
Ninety thousand special constablei
have been sworn in already in England
to protect against the Fenians. Thei
captains practice summoning them, to Sc,
how rapidly they could rise in case of ar
emergency. Id slkIE}
"A librarian in one Of the public libra
ries in Berlin, who died recently, in his
S9th year, had never been out Of the city
and for 40 years had never been in any
other house but that containing the library
and his own home. o1't- ~ y ~
--Leipsic makes large part of all the
homeopathic medicine of the world. Ger
many has numerous physicians Of that
school, although they are more eclectic in
their practice than our homeopathic doc
tors profess to be. re .e rs1
Father Babaz, French savant, has
been studying the habits of spiders, and as
serts that they can fly and swim in the air.
He says they perform this feat by turning
! their backs to the ground and keeping
their legs closely folded up on their bodies,
and that in this posture they sail about
with perfect ease. .isslra e. .t-
&@-It may be interesting to some of our
readers to know that the Bank of England
willingly gives "good money" for all sill
yer which has been worn smooth by fair
wear and tear. If however, the coin
bears the slightest sign of i'll usage such
as dint or scratch, they, of course de.
cline to change them. S. e. Hg
g just as the safety of DR.. Livingstone
is becoming certainty, the report comes
from New Zealand that there is strong
probability that Leichardt, the explorer,
long supposed to be dead, is still alive
near the Gulf of Carpentaria. By-and-by
we may hear that Sir John Franklin is
still alive in the frozen regions.
--Thirty-two years ago there was no
written language of the Fills, no knowl-
edge of true religion, no assimilation to
the civilized world. Now they have the
entire Scriptures, with grammar and lex
icon, and many other books, with $500
scholars, 481 churches, 55 English and ma
tive missionaries, Al lay preachers
Very sad accounts are still received of
the famine in Finland. The peasants in
that country are reduced to such extremi-
ties that they think themselves happy If
they can procure lOaves composed, in equal
portions, of sawdust, moss, and q coarse
rye flour. Many have obtained permits
sion from the Government to emigrate.
"A youth living at Cork, Ireland, near
an old ruined abbey, recently planned one
Of those murders we read about in ro-
nance. His object was the taking off of
a servant girl who had caught him in GER
tain pecuniary Irregularities He dug q
grave in the ruin, where he enticed the
girl ct night time, and telling her to look in
-T-Ih hn CT
over proceeded to brain her with a
Ratchet. He did not succeed in his melo-
dramatic undertaking. H.
Australia is rivaling America in rapid
1ty of growth of its cities and increase of
Twentyyears ago Melbourne,
the capitol of Victoria, had 5000 people.
Now it has $4,000. In 1S4S the province
of Otago, one of the nine provinces into
which New Zealand is divided, had pop
ulation Of $780, and in 1864 its people num-
bered $1,000. Twenty three years ago the
population of South Australia was 10000, |
and in 1865 it was 100000.
"A horrible scaffold scene recently took |
place in Prussia. A woman and her son |
were executed for the murder of the hus- |
band and father. The woman refused to |
walk and was carried on the scaffold, her |
son waiting below. Owing to the short
ness other neck, second blow of the axe |
was required to sever the head from the |
trunk. The son tainted, and had to be re-
vived before being brought to thezblock |
still reeking with his mothers blood.
"A new educational movement has
been commenced at Birmingham. 1t is |
that there are 10000 children in
5he town entirely without education, and |
% meet this want it is proposed to raise /
I fund to be called "King Edward the
Sixth's Memorial School Fund" Schools |
IRE to be erected in the most destitute dis
riots of the town, where children of all |
'eliglous denominations arctic be admitted |
without distinction, and without any sac
'ifice of religious principle. 80
"A Paris correspondent says that scare
ty of work and excessive dearness of pro-
visions have more than doubled the num-
Der of poor this year; but it is from Lon
lon that the cry of poverty comes with
most distinctness A philanthropic physi-
ian of that city reports that hundreds
II persons are quietly and calmly dying
~ inches" In a single street of 155
houses there were found to be upward of
90 sick persons. The origin of the sick
less and increased mortality is the abso-
ute want OF the necessarles Of life, food,
md clothing. avt
Public attention in Russia has been
much occupied by the trial of upward of
ltty postoffice officials for stealing money
rom letters. 1t appears that complete
organization existed for this purpose in
he department, and that it has been car
ying on its operations since 1862. An
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