Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-11
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d HERE is very Frenchy story A
worldly cure was offered seat in box of
a certain French Senator, to witnesses a
representation Of La Belle Helene" He
replied to the offer: 1t is impossible for
me to 60 The ecclesiastical rule prevents
me. But if M. le Senateur wishes me to
confess him, ! might get an idea of the
piece in that way"
TUE quantity of flowers cut and sent
out of New York last winter was about
half million. Within the last few years
the demand for cut flowers has doubled
in that city The largest establishment
for the cultivation of flowers in the city
has fourteen greenhouses, each one hun
dred feet in length, six about half as long,
and several others devoted to the cultiva-
ton of camelias. q 9 J.H fJ,ed i9ietmf
FAN important change will be made on
the first of October in charges on printed
matter sent to California by overland mails.
Printed matter is now charged the same
as letter postage. This regulation has
caused much vexation and loss to persons
who did not understand the law, as mat
ter placed in the mails with newspaper
postage was not for warded. After the 1st
I of October, printed matter will be sent at
newspaper rates. III Ut, ~ '...- s"f's
THE Koniteur publishes some interest
ing statistics of the, produce of the chase
in the province Of Arehangel,. Russia,
from which it appears that the number of
animals annually shot. amounts to about
100000 squirrels, $4,000 ermines, 40 600
hares, 5000 white or sky blue foxes, 300
large wolves, 175 small wolves, $50 bears,
10000 brace of woodc0cks, 10000 wild
geese and ducks, and 120C0 swans. 5slls
AN American tourist, while descending
the Granda Mulets, near ChamouniX, lost
his footing and slipped over the precipice,
dragging his guide with him. A project
ing rock fortunately saved them from In
evitable death, whence they were drawn
up by ropes. The guide was perfectly as
tonished at the sang ffoid Of the American,
whose features never denoted the least
emotion throughout the accident, neither
fear at the commencement nor pleasure
at the lucky termination. A- -Qag 3.
THE Montreal Gdzette'is in terror over
the hazards to which a supurb heifer "
is exposed in crossing the waters. {" Never
BEFORE" it says, had the ocean such a
precious freight exposed to the hazards of
wind and wave, in shapeof COW, as atEthe
present time.p Her price was one thou
sand guineas in England, or $5,250 in
gold, besides cost of agency, passage, in
surance. etc. She is the Duchess family,
tribe of Bates, and was bought by Mr..
William H. Cochrane, of Montreal,
THE Green Bay (Wis.) Gazette tells of a
worm which is destroying the oak trees,
especially black oak, on Astor Hights, and
states that the pests have not left a leaf
from the brow of the hill around to the
Ellis residence, a distance of more than a
mile, including the fair ground and the
old cemetery. The fun grown worm Us
from an inch to an inch and a half in
length, about the thickness of an ordinary
clay pipe stem, and striped with black or
dark brown and yellow. .aoI 9rsd
A NEW method of dressing wounds has
recently been adopted in Belgium. A
sheet of lead, one-fifth of an inch thick, is
applied to the injured limb, and made by
pressure to assume its shape. The lead Is
firmly secured by means of strips of ad-
hesive plaster, and a current OF fresh air
is made to pass over the flesh once or
twice day. Out Of 179 patients treated
for workshop or railway accidents atithe
municipal hospital at Ghent, 165 were dis
charged cured The average duration of
the treatment was thirty-one days. OF
the fourteen who died, the greater num-
Der were mortally injured by the accident.