Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-12
THE "meteor clock - Of Greenwicb.

The "meteor clock" at Greenwich,
deserves to strike if any clock ever did 1t
does no end of work. 1t maintains various
clocks in perfect sympathy with ITSELF reg
ulates clocks in London, sends signals
through Britain, drops the Deal time ball,
fires guns at Newcastle and Shields, and
puts communication in such a shape that
the Greenwich observer can receive auto
matte reports of the going of distant clocks
as he may desire.
"A complete translation, OF the Old
Testament has lately been made into the
Maori language, work, it is said, Of great
difficulty and literary interest. A transla-
ton of the Gospels and Acts has also been
made into the Gueg dialect of the Skepe-
| tax or Albanian, the last being the work
of the Bible Society. AS the translator
calls himself a native of Elbasan, it
is probably rendered in that sub-dialect,
there being indeed no classical dialect of
Gueg.
"A newspaper correspondent mentioned
an amusing anecdote of Lord Glasgow,
which, it is said, he himself tells with great
gusto. Some short time ago he had occa-
sion to travel from London to Glasgow,
and, on taking his ticket at the booking
office OF the railway station, rendered a
$40 note in payment. Before giving the
change, the clerk, In accordance with the
usual custom, requested him to indOrse the
note with his name, and on his lordship
complying with the mandate, and return
ing the note to the official, the latter, after
contemptuous glance at the signature,
Glasgow" tossed it back to the owner,
exclaiming Indignantly, with the air of a
man whose time is TOO precious to be trifled
with, Put your name to it, and not the
name OF the place you want to go to, you
old fooli a." The Qeg0otel13eaas as the penny
novels have it, Is better imagined than des-
cribed. 49, -~ i.
K The Duke of Nassau could never con-
sole himself for the narrOWness of his do
minions, which was perpetual source of
fun to the Prussian papers. They one day
declared that he having exiled a courtier,
stood on his palaces terrace to see the or
der executed the next day the Prussian
newspapers would publish a pseudo-decree
forbiddng all faithful subjects from dis
charging mrpskets or pistols in a horizontal
.hhGifl Jorlett to Iavoitd Violating the from
tiers of neighb0riug States; to their Jokes
yrpop hisatleTnidipgig nagyElh g. owped Qll ".
half 4 riVer| there waSto end The loud
err Prussia laughed the more melancholic
the Duke became. His courtiers tried their
best to raise his spirits the census returns
were exaggerated, the births were in
creased, deaths were diminished, maps
made which represented hamlets which
ceased to exist in the days Of Germanicus
as fourishing citles-all in vain. One day
railroad company asked permission to
build their road across his duchy he
granted permission on condition that the
road should pursue a zig-zag line so as to
double or triple the distance run and force
the locomotives to travel slowly, so that
passengers should think the Duchy of Mas
sau one of the largest in Germany. He
recovered his good humor from that day.
- In military parlance tattoo is night
drum beat. The tattoo, however, as re-
Gently Introduced into the British Navy,
beats drum. beating hollow. Some gay and
festive midshipmen are said to have seized
a messmate, dashed him to a gun, and then
cut on his nose the broad arrow of her Ma
jesty. The outrage was aggravated by
rubbing in CUR powder, thus making the
pictorial device permanent nasal orna-
ment. As soon as the matter was made
known at the Admiralty, the perpetrators
were dismissed from the service. Having
thus inflicted punishment without trial,
two naval Captains were sent to investi-
gate the matter. Meantime contradictions
and Qualifications came pouring in. No
gunpowder was rubbed in; the broad ar
row was merely pricked in coticular fresco,
not painted at all. and would heal without
a scar, leaving no scar behind" Besides
the victim was "willin" and rather liked
it. Moreover, nose tattooing is a time hon
ored recreative custom in the service. So
a general howl arose from the British pub
lic-the lion dashed its tail, and the Admi-
rally reinstated the middies, and we pre-
sumo they are at liberty to practice ma
rine vaccination" at pleasure. Foc the
British MILDLY must have his bit of fun "
occasionallv ~