Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-14

the biudgeon of Brooks ten years ago. He
ia unable to perform continuous and severe
mental labor. Powerful anodynes alone
bring him sleep. His physicians say that
he has overtasked his brain and needs rest.
GEy. ScoTT died in the full acknowledge
ment and hope Of the Christian faith. He
was constant and devoted attendant upon
worship. and, except occasional profanity,
his life was a model to public men in all
decencies and Temperatures. He was par
ticnlarlv noticeable in defending the use Of
the epithet damn. Damn he used to say
verv often, sis not an cath; it is an ex-
preston of vulgarity, simply"
LIszr was once playing before the En-
per Nicholas of Russia. In the very midst
Of the piece the Emperor begun talking.
List suddenly stopped. The court circle
leaked at each other in establishment; the
| Gar sent to ask what had happened.
When the Emperor speaks replied Liszt,
g every one should be silent" Next morn
ing the Car, who perfectly understood the
hint, sent the great pianist magnificent
diamond pin.
President LINCOLN used to tell this story
of himself: He was riding one day on the
top Of stage coach in Illinois, when the
driver asked him to treat i never use
liquor was Mr.. Lincoln's reply, and L
cannot induce others to do So Don you
chew, neither said the driver. No, slr
Nor smoke ?" mo, sir; never use tooac-
co in any form well, remarked the dis
gusted John, 81 hain't got much opinion OF
those fellows with no small vices; they usu-
suallv make it up in big ones
THERE is a little chap in Wells, Fargo q
Co IS express Office at San Francisco, that
doesn't seem born to be killed. At the time
Of the explosion Of the nitro glycerine in
the yard of Wells, Fargo & Co, in that city,
he was sitting cody at his desk writing,
while plastering and timber fell around,
without so much as harminq q hair on his
head. The same chap was sitting on the
paddle box Of the steamer " Osemlte, :"
when she was blown up, on trip to Sacra-
mento, and was blown entirely across the
river, when he cody swan back to the
wreck to offer assistance TO the less fortu-
nate passengers.
De LAVE, tight-rope performer, who a
long time ago aslonished the natives Of Ro-
chester by his feats above the Genesee Falls,
has just returned from many years spent in
South America and Mexico, and is going to
give the public a new sensation. He pro-
poses to cross the Falls of Niagara on q
small wire, as :" the American eagle" To
explain, he is having a large leathern eagle
made in New York, which is to be " stuck
fulp' of feathers and otherwise manipulated
so as to resemble q live one of monstrous
proportions. This is to fit closely about his
body, and on walking the wire he will bal
ance himself by tapping the artificial
wings. At the same time rope is to be
suspended by him below the wire, to which
his son, boy of eight years old, will cling
and go through with various athletic per-
formances as the father advances across the
falls. De Lave likewise proposes to walk
On wire over the falls, carrying both his
wife and his son on his back. This prom
Uses to be the great sensation of the season.
De Lave has been performing at the City of
Mexico, where he occasioned considera-
BILE .furore. lie brings with him medal re-
ceived from the Emperor Maximillian.