Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-28
Foreign Gossip.

--Du Chaillu, the q eat African traveller,
sends to the London Times some interesting
notes ON "a tribe Of pigmies which he dIscov-
cred in Western africa. They resemble the
gypsies somewhat in their habits, and gain
their livelihood by mapping game which they
sell in the villages. They average about
four feet six inches in height, and are known
as the Obongo.
AT Belleville, a northeastern suburb Of
Paris, recently, an explosion took place in a
firework factory while forty eight people,
more than half of whom were women, were
employed in the building, twenty
one and wounding eighteen of them. " The
whole establishment was demolished, and
the window glass broken in all the houses
within several hundred yards Of the, local !:
ity. ~.
The Persian conquerer, Nadlr Shah,
saw the celebrated Koh-i-noor glitteripg in
the turhani of the vahquished Mohammed
Shah, and proposed in the most friendly
sort of way Imaginable that they should ex-
change head dresses, and as the conquered
man preferred that to parting with his head,
the exchange was made Finally, after un-
dergoing similar exchanges for.centuries, it
has now become, Que Of the crown jewels Of
England. .rr - III -s.,,e, ~. .f !.
-Fhe Bavarian King, a lad over;educated
for his intellect, with d passion for music
and mystical ideas, has been indulging him
self in an escapade. lie was missing two
days. and was at last discovered by his
half frantic court, riding about on noun
tain ridge, where it is supposed that he had
gone to meet Herr Wagner, the composer
of the future" The Cabinet threatened to
| resign unless he came back, and he re-
turned, none the worse for his dreamy ex-
| perience. 7tf-
"A determined double suicide. near
Paris, has just been brought to light. A
] river keeper observed the bodies of male
and female floating near the surface. Hav
ing brought them TO land they were found
| to be bound together, the mans left arm to
tho woman's right, while the former had
also about ten pound weight of stones in
/ his pockets. They were each elegantly
dressed, bore no marks of violence, and
had apparently been in the water about a
fortnight.
An unhappy Prussian inventor most
lucklessly announced just at the present
juncture his discovery of new explosive
cartrige and terrible explosive bullet, two
secrets which it is said will make the Prus.
sian army invincible, and so determined i:
the government that thesecret shall not es-
cape, that the man is guarded night and
day by squad of twelve soldiers: every
letter which he writes is inspected, and hi
is not allowed to communicate OF ally witt
any person, except in the presence of hi.
guard. Rather severe penalty for genius
A Honolulu paper of a recent date re
ports that seaman belonging TO the whale
ship Milo, Brazilian by birth, who hat
been arrested as runaway, On being takel
on board the ship, seized a Ratchet, laid hi
left hand on the deck, and coolly chopped
off at the wrist joint. When taken to tn
consurs Office he said he was determined
not to go to sea, and cut his hama II TO pre-
vent going He declared, moreover, TIA
if ne had knife he would have killed HIN
self. But you are crazy, are you not Z
mo, no more thon you are," he replied
The consul ordered him to the hespita
where his arm was amputated.