Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-06-18

THE Shsnp00 newspaper of Shanghai
prints choice pieces of news in blue
ink.
THE first English strawberries ap-
peared in the London markets on the
23d of March and were sold at the rate of
about $3.50 per dozen.
The Hawaiian Government proposes
to send to the Centennial Exhibition a
complete model in relief of the islands,
showing their topography and physical
geography.
IT recently rained boiled shrimps in
France, the contents of waterspout ap-
parently being tumbled on the country
after the sun had heated the water suf-
ficiently to cook the game.
MINISTER DUFAURE has ordered the
French priests, who are salaried officers
of the Government, to sing hereafter
Sunday in church the "D0msaae, sGly0no fac
Republican" God save the Republic"
MICHEL LEVY, the famous Paris pub
Usher, left about 81 100000: but, hunt
where they may, his heirs cannot find the
will which he is known to have made,
and hence donot know to whom the for
tune will fall
THE Gear of Russia will soon receive
magnificent present from the corporation
of London, in the form of a casket weigh
ing nearly seventy ounces and composed
of the finest gold and enamel. 1t is a
souvenir of his London visit.
A YOUTH apprenticed to a Mr.. Hill, OF
st. Pancras Parish, in England, recently
became possessedof the idea that he was
the genuine Roger Tichborne. His mas
ter, while acknowledging that he did his
work properly, had the deluded youth
sent to the workhouse; but the parish
guardians compelled the employer to
take him back to finish his indentures. $
GAMBLING for enormous stakes pre-
walls in the miniature Kingdom of
Monaco. At the salon of M. LIE Blanc
an American is said to have lost recently
$150,000 and Russian Princess ST. $780,
900, at which she went raving mad. A
Scotch. Duke won 100000 in less than hal
an hour and lost all that and great deal
more before the end of the same day.
There were three cases of suicide within
a week, owing to disastrous losses.
& EVERY February about 5000 straw-hat
makers start from Belgium and takerup
their quarters in suburb of Paris and
form little colony there. Most are
married, but all leave their wives and
children at home, and live en- gGrc0n DUR
| ing their stay at Paris. An experienced
man can make at leasteight francs a day,
and, therefore, by, exercising little
| economy, they can easily save thirty
francs week, or about 500 francs dur
! ing their four months stay.
THE ingenious French have contrived
! a novel way to impress the barbaric
mind. nj. de Brazza who has charge of
| the, expedition to Senegal, carries an
electric battery in his pocket commune
eating with two rings on his hand, and
with other apparatus scattered about his
| person. When he shakes hands with a
] savage chief that chief will be very much
| astoEished for an electric shock will run
up his arm, and he will see lightning
playing about the head of his visitor.
+ Naturally he will think he is being inter
viewed by the devil and will be ready
to consent to anything in order to get
away.
A FRENCH chemist has succeeded in
/ preparing mineral compound or paste,
which is said to be superior to hydraulic
lime for uniting stone and resisting the
action of water. 1t becomes as hard as
stone, is Interchangeable by the air, and is
proof against the action of acids. tits
made by mixing together nineteen
/ pounds of sulphur and forty-two pounds
of pulverized stoneware and glass :; this
mixture is exposed to a gentle heat,
which 9melts the sulphur, and then the
mass is stirred until it becomes thor
oughly homogeneous, when it is run
! into mods and allowed to cool Tt melts
at-about 120 degrees, Cent, and may be
i re-emnloyed without loss of any of its
qualities whenever it is desirable to
change the form of an apparatus, BY
melting at a gentle heat and operating
1 as with asphalt.
1t is a. significant fact, as related t,
early piety,. that at the Central New
York Cenferencesof the Methodist Epis
1 copal Church, of $50 ministers present
! the youngest at conversion was onl,
seven, the Oldest twenty, the average fiji
| teen.