Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

CHINA is preparing to establish lega-
tons and consulates abroad. NO less
than ninety officials are already selected.
SINGULAR coincidence-the manufac cure
of surgical instruments in Paris is declin-
ing, and the death rate is diminishing.
AN English missionary deputation called
on the Sultan of Zanzibar to request some
privileges in the dominion. ooh, GER
tainly," he replied through an interpreter
ssyour holy men will be made welcome,
and I am quite sure we shall be able to
convert them"
In South Russia, in order to prevent a
duel, dispute between two young men
was settled by an agreement that the man
who drew the shortest straw was to give
up home, position in society and wealth
and retire to foreign land to begin life
anew empty-handed.
Tr rs proposed in Paris to place in all the
tobacco shops umbrellas to be hired out at
a modest price, small sum being re-
quired as deposit until the umbrella DE
returned. In fact, about the same system
will be pursued as is at present carried out
in theaters and other places OF amusement
by persons who let opera glasses.
TT has been stated on good authority
that at Walton Hall, England, milestone
was to be seen in 1868, in the center OF
which was growing filbert tree, which
had completely filled the hole in the stone
and actually raised it from the ground:
The tree was said to have been produced
from nut, which was known to have
been terminated in 1872.
ONE of the most inconvenient labor
strikes on record occurred the other day at
the Sydenham (England) Crystal Palace.
About 2,700 licensed victualers had sat
down to special dinner, and just as they
were waiting, knife and fork in hand, TO
fall upon the good things, the whole body
ofhired walters " struck" for higher wages.
The proprietor 6 caved."
A CHINESE commissioner is now in
specting the coal-felds of Great Britain
He has been sent out by his Government to
obtain information on the machinery used
in raising coal and the method generally
of working collieries, with a view of APP
plying his knowledge to the working and
the opening out new collieries by the
Chinese Government.
AN affair has happened in one of the
poor quarters of Paris in which romantic
Young ladies may feel interested. A
woman named Adelaide Robin, aged fifty
six years, threw herself from an attic win
dow, suicidal victim of unrequited love-
This calls to remembrance the tale OF the
old beau, who asked certain Duchess,
aged ninety, cat what age women ceased
to feel the effects of love-" The jolly Old
lady answered: +" / don't know"
THE Pail Mall Gazette makes the follow
ing suggestion, which will be OF much
value to advanced women who do not see
their way to admit members of their sex
to military service: Among other occupa-
tions,monopolized by man, but admirably
adapted for women, is that of navigation.
The sea is prominently one of woman's
" spheres.'' The roar of the tempest
would not drown the clearnote of her mu-
steal voice when issuing her orders, and
her eye, more watchful than mans, would
detect in an instant any flaw in the gen
eral arrang of the vessel which might
escape the sheepish chances of the inferior
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