Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

On the 1st inst. the new monetary sys-l
tenn of Germany went into universal and
compulsory operation throughout the EN-
pire. 1t had been in partial and LEGAL OBJ
Grafton for some time, 80 1850. IN
Mr.. GEORGE SMITH, of the British
Museum, has resumed his explorations of
| the mounds in Assyrias aaqsue, ol notion
THERB's nothing mean about the Sultan.
| of Turkey His servants at the palace
number 5 800, the kitchen employing 500,
| the stables 400, the menagerie 200, and
others accordingly The gentleman's
wives number 1900! g3e.BG gmEsa7 iiaa
a FRENCH manufacturer of organs has
laid a proposition before the Pope TO put
the biggest kind Of organ in ST. Peters
Church. 1t is togbe of, the newest ,inven-9
ton, and will fill the building properly
with sound, hitherto inadequately given
| forth by The instruments used.
THE Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals latelyH charged a.
man named Wyatt with cruetygto dog,
| by biting its tail off The defendant adj
nlitted the act, butdeclared thathis object
was to prevent the puppy from having the
&C staggeIs.'' The case was dismissed Oh
the ground that Myatt's objecto wasatoe
benefit the. animal. a.f. 800. la ia go
| HERR Knapp has announced that in the
| next sitting oflthe German Parliament he
will ask, the Government whether the iac7y
cident which has betallen the German
steamer Deutschland viii be only inquired
| into in England by English officers, and
| whether the long expected bill providing
I for the examination of German ship
wrecked, sailors will be soon INTRODUCED.
| THE water of the Thames is full of inn
purities, and the Pollution of Rivers Com
missioners have recommended that las
early as possible, the river be abandoned
/" as source OF water supply for domestic
use'' and that the sanction CT the British
! Government be in future withheld from
all schemes involving the expenditure of,
more capital for the, supply of Thames /,
water to London. 1t is proposed to sup /,
| ply the city with water from deep wells.
/ A BERLIN correspondent of the KoI-
inSsets Zeitstng disputes Prince Bismarcks
remarks concerning the inferiority of.the
| German and the superiority Of the En-
| glish press. He sayszthat since the days
of the Erfurt Parliament, when young nj.
Won Bismarck began. lis warfare against
newspaper men, he has never had good
opinionso of German journalism. WallenI
stein, adds.nhe correspondent, could mott
| bear to hear a cock crow, and Bismarck
has q like antipathy toward the press, &
TIE closing of the franciscan monas-,
terry at Salminister, in Germany having
been directed by the authorities, every r
thing portable within the building was
| carried off by die monks, not excepting the
stoves.d One gigantic steVe5y however,
withstood their efforts, and was purchased
! at the Government sale OF the property by
| Prince Ysenburg Birstein. THIS mann
| moth stove, which stood in the refectory
| of the monastery, is said to have been
! built in the fifteenth century, and, ac-
cerding to the monks, is hesidentical
stove at which Martin Luther, on his re-.
turn from the Diet of Worms, warmed
himself in the house of his friend Ulrich
Won Hutton. saw Efe af4tfs.4 fax-
| A FRENCH connoisseur lately entered a
Paris I" curiosity shop" and saw a beau
| tifdl Dresden vase. Asking the price, he
was told $40, land, = said the dealer, ! II
| I had the pair they would be worth f200'
/ Ma. offered go, and came several days
running. to renew Lis proposition, but in
vain One day man came to NJ AS
apartments to show him some old china
| plates, and induced him to visit his shop
| in the Batigonolles To his surprise and
delight M A. sawsin an obscure corner OF
| the shop vase exactly similar to the COW
| eted Dresden, and eagerly secured 1t for
/ f4S, with the assurance that the pair, II
! forthcoming, would be worth t40O- M
| A. rushed off to the first dealer, and Of
fered him his own price Tor the vase.
| sAh,n said he, you come too late;
| sold it-yesterdaY to a dealer at the Batig-
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