Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-03

short time since, when DR.. Upman, of
| Salem, exhibited to his class the pulsations
of patients in the Boston Hospital, four
teen miles off. A telegraph wire on the
pulse received the pulsations and record
| ed them in the distant lecture-room by
the oscillations of ray of magnetic light.
| Ar the performance of Bellachini, in
Berlin, they have speaking machine,
which has created the greatest sensation
among the spectators. The sounds pro-
| duced by this machine are very similar to
the human voice. and, though its alphabet
contains only fourteen letters, all the
| words of the different modern languages
and complete sentences can be pronounced
without inconvenience. With the excep-
ton of the cultural sounds and the usual
sounds of the French language, the pro-
nunciation is quite distinct. On the whole
the speaking machine is great success.
IT is curious illustration of the bad
ness of the times in England, that the
marriage rate there this year is the lowest
recorded in any corresponding season
during the last quarter of a century. 1t
has been long noticed in England that the
rise or fall of the number Of marriages is
in tolerably strict accordance with the in
crease or decrease of the means of living.
When the times are good, young couples
begin housekeeping; when the times are
bad they wait for better. The depression
of trade, which thus reacts upon the mar
riage rate, is universal throughout Great
Britain this year and its result in the
diminished number of marriages is care,
fully noted by the Registrar General.
MIR. CHERvIN, the founder and head
director of the Paris Institution for Stam-
merers, has written report for the Minis
ter of Public Instruction, wherein he
argues that this defect has almost invari-
ably moral cause. A violent agitation
leaves its trace deeply printed in young
brain. This trace is often indelible; it re-
appears even long afterward on the slight
est emotion, and paralyzes the act of speak
ing. In the opinion of Mr.. Chervin, STAN
mering often takes its rise in the arms of
the nurse, who screams in the ear of the
child, devours it with embraces, filings it
in the air to prevent it crying, and filings
it also in the air to make it laugh. Later
on the Imagination of the poor little being
is still sedulouslv tormented with the phan-
toms of fear.
ST. JOHNS, N. B., has a young lady who
may be pronounced very safe companion
for a journey along unsafe ways. A local
paper says: "A young man was attacked,
while escorting young lady home from
church, in Sackville, few Sunday eve
nings ago, by gang of rowdies, who at
tempted to ill-treat him. He would, prob
ably, have been severely injured but for
his fair companion, who came to his assist
ance and used her fists with such vigor
and precision as to bring down three of
his assailants to mother earth, while he,
encouraged by her bravery, inflicted sun
dry wounds on several of the others with
rusty pocket knife, the only weapon in
his possession. The rowdies, surprised at
this unexpected resistance, and finding
themselves outfanked, suddenly decamped,
leaving the young couple to go on their
way in peace"