Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
Foreign Gossip.


The Prince of Wales will pay the Sui
tan of Turkey visit in August.
"A London rag-picker recently found
a diamond ring in heap of rags.
The right of voting by proxy in the
British House of Lords has been abol-
ished.
Thirty two books day was the aver
age number published last year in Ger
many. -
There are q, 600 deafsmutes in Eng
land, and the Government does not pro-
vide for their education.
Two editors are undergoing prOsecu-
ton in Bavaria, for satirizing old King
Louis in obituary notices.
has been arranged that the Fenian
convicts are to be employed on the neces
sary works at Gibraltar.
W Mr.. George Peabody, on leaving the
Pope, left 100000 of francs ISL ,000,000)
for the Pontificial Treasury. -.s n fe !
Within the last eight centuries fam
ines have occurred in Russia, on the aver
age, once in every six years. a'ao74 -f7
queen Vietorias oldest daughter, wife
of the Prussian Grown Prince, is now the
mother of six children. 1890 ~. ~
p -Four hundred and fifty-eight horse
fairs are held annually in Russia, in two
hundred and forty different places. hAe .
John Bright said, lately: atIf / visit
ed the United States, the excitement and
the labor would simply be my DEATH
&c MIR. Ward Hunt, the new Chancellor
of the British Exchequer, is six feet six
inches high, and proportionately stout.
Eugene discards trails, and all female
Paris is cutting off the extra length of its
dresses in despair at the mutability of hui
man affairs. obs lss - 2. ieI'
The Marquis of Butte, who is just of
age, has bought furnished residence in
London for million and a half of dol
lars.rf63 laBioaa ze G &" 3'
Anna, once reputed enormously
rich, is now bankrupt In suit recently
brought by him in Havana, he avowed his
inability to give security for his part of the
"A case of genuine ancient leprosy ex-
lists in the Montreal hospital, the patient
being lumberman, who has been pros
trated by the loathsome disease for eight
years. siTo3g T3jj8d Fta fs'9}ae
The New Zealand gold returns for the
IL
ounces, valued at e2, ZOO, 2T5 sterling, against
735, 1916 ounces, valued at e2, al, 708 of. the
previous year. .8aEi .dt j1et Ho1nj iiaf
About 5000 persons, of both sexes,
are employed in cleaning the streets of
Paris. The daily wages of the men aver
age about fifty cents, and those of the wo-
men forty cents a9 aoi3an $3.50 10 eia2to
Paris is to have the most ma gnificent
fountain in the world. 1t will be COM
posed of four waterfalls, eight lions spout
ing water, and immense candelbra to light
up the whole at night. he yd L.im5l aaia
49, "A singular, accident took place in
Paris recently. A gentleman, while bath
ing his feet in a wash basin, attempted to
reach a towel, and in doing so broke the
basin, which cut an artery. He bled to
death. -. .-..-, o4, "A b.,ss,6g4
10 An English school inspector; recently
found a grammer school under Govern
ment patronage where there were two
teachers and one scholar The teachers
were having a combined salary of over
$4,000. 'A" 9h' "''"
Earl Russell once said :i"Only two
men ever did understand the Schelswig-
Holstein question-another gentleman and
L.
planned it to me, but, l have forgotten all
about it."lloUd2I 9AJ 1904 '4ii'@
A subscription has been started in
Canada to pay off the mortgage on the
house now occupied by the family, and
other debts of D Arcy MCGEE This done,
the money voted by Parliament will yield
the widow $4,000 year. q. ry~j .alfa
o.; English dairymen object to the estab-
lishment of cheese factories, on the ground
that they will deprive their wives and
daughters of an honorable and healthy
employment, and by relieving them from
labor lead to idleness and extravaganza.
The tallest chimney in the world is
said to be at Port Dundas works, Glasgow,
Scotland Its height from the foundation
is 458 feet; above the ground, 44 feet, the
foundation being IA feet deep; the outside
diameter, on level with the ground, is 81
feet, at the top, 10 feet inches; thickness
at the ground, Z bricks $50 rel sbHss9Te
"A widow of Brighton, England, has
been sentenced to fifteen years penal ser
vitude for breaking her nephew's nose
beating him with red hot poker, tying
him hand and foot and sousing him in a
tank of water, digging pieces of flesh out
of his face with an oyster knife, scorching
the flesh off his knees, pounding, kicking,
and otherwise bringing him up in the way
he should go. ..os s,l5 s4 sxiasara ag--e.
of all the whimsical advertisements
that appear in the fair city of Paris, the
most curious is that of matrimonial
agent who has lately opened business, and
announces to the public that "ugIiness" is
no bar to his arranging marriages-and
that every human being is formed for all
the witching arts Of love. Apart from the
number of marriages that are made in
Heaven, goodly per centage of those taxi
ing place in. Paris are negotiated by the
hymenial broker. ID -,. -,
"A vagabond of Paris, when lately
taken before the magistrate as a vagrant,
asserted that he had an occupation, and
that it was that of an artist When asked
to be more definite, he explained that he
was the decoy of quack dentist, who adj
vertised to extract teeth without pain
He had one false tooth which, personating
now a peasant, now a workman, and
sometimes a woman, he would allow to
be pulled by his patron as proof to by
ISLANDERS of the truth of the dentists pro-
fessions IS 81. NJ. ..f.t.fs s-f7 6r. q.r-ga
The physicians who made port NOR
tenn examination of the body of Mr..
MCGEE, lately assassinated in Montreal,
found the weight of his brain to be So
ounces. The main weight of the human
brain is 45 ounces That of Daniel
O'Connell weighed 81 ounces. Depruy.
tens was So. The naturalist Cuvier's
weighed 591ss. The brain of Mr.. MCGEE
appears to be one of the largest recorded
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