Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

ly married EngllSn LOrCS.
NEARLY one. half of the type.setting on
the Paris literary papers is done by wo-
CEsPEDEs, the chief of the Cuban in
surgents, was student at Middletown,
Conn, in 1857.
= GEAR ALEXANDER has invited Napoleon
to the Russian International Exhibition
next year. vs.,ar.. s...I.Ie4..f
AUBER, now nearly 80 years old, is
about composing an opera called "A
Dream of Love-"
BooT and shoe making is great busi-
ness in Philadelphia to five
millions year.
AT recent wedding in New York,
among the bridal gifts was a bottle OF
brandy corked and sealed in 1772.
OVER seventy thousand people visited
the French exhibition Of pictures on the
opening day of this year.
THE Japanese, in bringing living plants
to this country, wrap the roots in a mix
ture of earth and carrots ground together.
ENGLISH house-sparrows have been i'm
ported into Buffalo. One gentleman re-
ceived sixteen pair few days ago.
SHELBURNE FALLS, Vt, has citizen
who claims to be the champion horse
snapper" Heis 40 years of age, and has
traded horses over 600 times.
THE export of cinnamon from Ceylon
for 1868 was 100000 pounds, and the es-
innate for the present year promises to be
not short of 100000 pounds.
OF the 10,027, 800 furs sold in St. Peters
! burg last year, about 5000, 900 were from
Siberia and 186,500 from Alaska The
value of these furs was about $3, ,4S9,376
in gold. aE
PAREPA RosA's voice is thus described
| by misguided Boston critic "Five hun
dred feet long, three hundred feet wide,
and as high-as the Coliseum"
| A BELLE of Agra, India, is in full dress
when swathed in two shawls, with 30
bracelets, IA pairs of earrings, seven neck
laces, one nose pendant, and seal ring
on each thumb.
A LONDON photographer, who has pho
tographed nearly all the royal family OF
England, has been paid nearly 935,0O0
for c0rtes de 0isSte of its various mem
bers. sf'l-
A YOUNG gent of high standing in
Washington recently attempted suicide
because young lady, who went with him
to a picnic, left him to return with another
fellow. .ot5- tA12 4ta
A YOUNG Welchman, Tilted by the girl
of his choice, has sent in to her bill for
damages, in which perhaps the most cruel
item is, "To 10 days lost in your compa-
ny, ga rs 3d." g z q hs
THE new City Directory of Buffalo con-
| tains about 10000 names. The Courier
multiplies this number by five, and claims
that the product represents very nearly
the population of the city. u.1.
THE children at the royal court of Prus.
sia are never permitted to eat sugar -plums,
bonbons, or any indigestible food, and the
servants are especially forbidden to let
them have any wine or beer.
PRINCESS KAzLowsKY, of Moscow,
whose father lost all his fortune, declined
the aid of her friends, and now keeps
cigar store, by which she earns enough to
support herself and father.
In schem's Ecclesiastical Almanac for
1858, the total number of members in
evangelical denominations in this country
| is placed at 4,904, ,929, in population OF
not less than 35,000000, or one in seven.
Mr. THOMAS SAVERS, son of the pugilist,
| has come out as comic vocalist and ap-
pears at the music halls " wearing the cos
i Juue Ill WulCu HIS ldbuCA lOuSho uAiS hSAAA
orable battle of Marlborough"
SOME indication of the number of per-
sons who for some cause have left White
Pine, is afforded by the fact that there
were recently four thousand letters re-
manning uncalled for in Wells, Fargo 81
| Co.'s Office in Treasure City.
3 THE revolution in the island of Crete,
from August, 1865, to March, 1863.
| Il e ord ho
| has, il is reported, cost the Turkish Gov
| ernment $25, 100000 in money and 30, 900
soldiers. nl aai 30 1.'sift4 t4A
A CHAP, who replied to an advertise
ment offering an article of great use to
those contemplating marriage, "price 3O
cents, or four for ST." received for his
three dimes, pocket handkerchief of the
coarset material, worth about six cents.
AT bull fight in Nismes, Spain, a few
weeks ago. the picadors appeared mounted
on yeloclpedes instead of horses, and dis
played such skill in the management OF
! their iron steeds that the astounded bull
was unable to dismount a single one OF
them. fg 4.l.
:. PHILADELPHIA is particularly happy in
its detective force. One of the papers
says that there is scarcely professional
thief in the city. The chief detective
ehas made the air so insalubrious to them
that the whole party have left in disgust"
AT recent election in Boston, Lizzie
Harrison offered to vote. Being told that
she could not, as she was not on the list,
she declared that she had right to vote,
all regulations to the contrary notwith-
standing, deposited her ballot on the box,
and departed. ,gs.s.56aVA iG ad m
ENGLISH artists take the rejection of
their pictures very much to heart, and
one worthy coroner asserts that he has
held several inquests upon artists who
had been killed by saeer anxiety on the
4 subject before the decision of the hanging
4 committee was made known.
/ n Both Houses of the New Hampshire
Legislature have passed bill making it
unlawful for first cousins to marry. How.
ever, in order not to lead to any breach OF
promises already existing, the Legislature
very considerably provided that the act
should not take effect till six months after
its passage. ~ d
In the city of Cincinnati, according to
the City Directory, there are seventy -four
houses of worship belonging to the Pro
testant Evangelical denominations. Their
average capacity does not exceed 500 sit
tines. The average attendance is less
than 400, so that the attendance in all
these churches is never more than 10000,
in population of 240,0 900, or one in eight.
In the Third Street Baptist Church, OF
Troy, N. Y, a}fcw days ago, as the Rev.
/ Dr Rridcenap Of Albany was passing