Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-24
Foreign Gossip.

OEetHfssA ~OBSARs
Sailors in the French navy must shave
their moustaches. ff.7 1f ~ '''.s
A young married man lost recently,
at single sitting, 800, 600 at Paris club.
--Challier, the new reigning tenor of
Paris, is hunchback.
The Turkish Government has decided
to spend 100000 on two turret monitor
which shall be built in England.
Ten thousand copies of Mrs. Stoves
book. Chimney Corner" have been sold
in London. S''a ~
The sale of church property in Italy
is going on rapidly. Estates to the value
OF five and half millions sterling have
been sold. g"
Cuban authorities are obtaining reg.
lister of the slaves, as a preliminary to fix
ing the indemnity to be paid to their
owners when emancipation shall be de-
clared. g 5# e9i JtsssfI..s {s.t5 Fl be
The youngest child of the Grown
Prince of Prussia and the Princes Royal
of England, has been baptized Joachim
Frederick Ernest Wademar. l sa
--Bismark declined to personally confer
with the English ambassador at Berlin,
but referred him to a subordinate, because
he was not accredispd in "first-class y
manner. se 7} t.agt.7 srlsr.fxs 81 ri. esf
1t turns out that the poet Swinburne
knows nothing about Menken, and that
the joint photograph of the two is gotten
up by some of the enemies of England's
greatest modern poet. 3lo9g e .@
"A man in Durham England, became
enraged at an apprentices, and threw. q pair
of pincers at him, killing him instantly
He was sentenced to three months impris-
onment for getting mad, and nothing at all
for the murder. i.-ss. f.:.- 800.
If DR.. Livingstone ever gets Back to
England he will have the pleasure Of read
ing as many obituaries Of himself as ever
fell to thelot of any man to read on his
own life and character. ... .....,. ....
"A Chinese sword. swallower, at Mar
settles, who fires off rife with the hilt
while il projects from his mouth, had the
weapon forced down his stomach by the
recoil of the frearm, and found 1t incon-
venient to digest. aozsA odT
An English paper sdvertises vacancy
on q farm for an agricultural pupil, and
SAYS great pains will be taken to give the
young man an insight INTO farming Terms,
81 900 year, and the use Of a horse, with
hunting. slaae.o az H,-.J sidg aHW e,
An English critic makes mention of q
class of Americans in this wise "They
all belong to that keen, nervous, sallow-
faced breed of mankind who are qualified,
at moments notice, to keep school or
edit a newspaper"
i'm Liverpool, at present, there are
said to be 10000 poor persons who are re-.
ceiving relief, while 5000 others are in the
parish warehouses. These figures show
that one in every eleven of the population
of Liverpool is pauper.o Bley is8t3s ~
Excavations have brought to light, in
Syria, a Hebrew house, dating from about
the second century before Christ. Some
of the rooms are in good preservation, and
among the books found is collection of
Hebrew poems, said to be unknown to
present Crientals.
The Bishop of Calcutta has recently
visited the District of Orissa, the scene of
the terrible famine, and reports that T" all
traces Of it (the famine) seen to have
completely passed away, except when one
comes occasionally on heaps of human
bones-a sad memento of the dire ca
lamity." 8 taas s-gs1 b.5s .ta.l1 iei39su
"A bride was carried off by a railroad
train from Dion, France, while her hus.
band was left at the station. She fran
tIcally threw herself out of the coupe at
the risk of her life. When the train was
stopped and the young woman picked up,
the head official gave her bit of prophet
ic advice: Madame, a few years hence
the leap may, perhaps, be made when you
are both in the coupe"
The attention Of the Paris Academy
has been occupied recently by "a trembling
plant called Coiocasia, which exhibits vi
bratory motion without any. appa rent
cause. About 100 vibrations have been
observed in minute. The vibrations are
strong enough to cause motion in large
fower-pots. re, II. eyi. ~ tsT -
"A Corsican farmer and his concubine
were recently put on trial for one of the
most atrocious crimes on record. They
had thrown his wife into red-hot furnace,
where she persisted amid horrible suffer.
ings. The concubine was found guilty, but
the husbond was, owing to some legal
bubble, acquitted. No sooner bad he been
set at Liberty, than the brother of his de.
eeseed wife shot him dead