Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

SOME witnesses, VINO refused recently at
Rome to be sworn on the Scriptures, have
been sentenced to six days Imprisonment
and to pay the cost Of their conviction.
A LADIES debating club has been
started in London, /" to give woman prac-
tice in public speaking and debating"
AS wise precaution the promoters have
decreed that meetings must not be held
oftener than once in three weeks.
A YOUNG man has been brought before
the Police Court at Bordeaux on a charge
of " having committed an outrage on re-
ligion, under very aggravated circum-
stances" He had assumed the surplice
of one of the clergymen at the Church of
st. Delphia, and was in the act of hearing
u "penitent' when he was discovered.
The court ordered him to be imprisoned
for six days, and to pay fine of twenty
five francs. s8E5 GsI4 %s
A REPORTER of the Paris Figure has,
after repeated refusals, succeeded in OBJ
tanning an interview with the eX-Empress
Eugene and her son at Chiselhurst,. The
young Prince told the. reporter that the
g interyiewers'' had become nuisance
at Chiselhurst Not long ago, he said, an
American member of this peculiar branch
of journalism called, having two stenog-
raphers with him, and bearing in his
hand a long catalogue of questions. The
importunate fellow said he had crossed
the ocean for the express purpose of get
ting his questions answered at Chisel-
hurst. uH5si1H Ys0G FfJg q HB&Ef9
THE winter of 1876, which. in this
neighborhood has been a very mild one,
was unusually severe in Europe. Some
days ago Prof. Palmieri, who is watching
the phenomena of the eruption was dazed
with the sight of snow on Vesuvius.A The
Gulf of Finland was frozen over for the
first time in many years, and heavily laden
sledst crossed it from Revall to Helsing-
fors. The winter roads across the, frozen
Neva Bay from st. Petersburg to Cron-
stadt is opened to traffic. In Tula,
manufacturing town south of Moscow, on
the night Of Dec. 1920 twelve persons,
one of them asenunel, froze to death in
the streets. In the districts of Nova Paw
lowski and Stary-Oskoi and in the Don
territory the number of peasants who lost
their lives from the severe cold in the
month of December is estimated at one
hundred. Of the frozen limbs no reckon
ing is made. s F5aa W
a MAN who was tried in Paris the other
day for usury combined the occupations
of shoemaker and money-lender. He
cred to the French armies during thegwar,
and these he assigned at fictitious prices
in any numbers he chose to designate
among his young clients. To one unhap-
by youth he lent 5000 francs, and be
compelled him to give note for 1000
francs, worth of goods supplied. Among
the goods supplied were about 200 pairs
of shoes. s. did not know what to do"
the victim piteously observed - with that
veritabie magazine of shoes" They were
put down by the moncy-lending shoe
maker at twenty-five francs pair, and
the debtor got some one to dispose or
them for him at six or seven francs apair
Another young man of family declared
that for &c, 900 francs lent in small sums
he had to sign acknowledgements for the
money and goods amounting to 325, 600
francs. The shoemaker was sentenced to
six months Imprisonment and a large
fine. fa e
A WISER policy than to make every eff
fort to build up large establishment is
that OF making profitable business, and
to this end nothing SO we'll lays the found
alton as to make every exertion toward
the condition of being able to buy for
cash all the purchasable elements that
enter into it. This, along with the effort
to lessen the cost of that which is pro-
duced, and the third necessary thing, per.
severence in business, may be said to be
more requisite than any other three
things that can be mentioned. The great
ambition to build large establishment
to cover many acres Is not always found
to be the best policy when overtaken by
times like these. A big bank accounts
then better than an oyergrown establish
ment which has been made cumbersome
by years OF effort to that end, particularly
when times OF panic or depression come;
the burdensome expense cannot be con,
tracted proportionately with the lessened
volume Of business Anersca1a Mdn4fdct-
ureY.