Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-23

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/ ia 10 carry little pellet of lead attached
| to very fine bit of silk. When pas
senger in the omnibus has paid his fare
and is about to close his port.monndae, the
thief dexterously pops his pellet into 1t and
thus can draw out the pocket-book at any
/ convenient moment.
| The opening of the Amazon River 10
| foreign navigation has been followed by
decree of the state of Bolivia, whereby
| the Madeira, one of the tributaries OF the
great river, is also opened to foreign trade.
| The Madeira with its branch, the RIO
| Grande, has length of from 1,50O 10
to 1000 miles, for nearly 1000 OF which IL
is navigable
| Somebody in Paris has constructed an
apparatus which not only marks ON DIAL
the distance travelled by cab, by means
of an index worked by the rotation OF the
wheels, but which also indicates the dls-
lance it would have 1un at five an hour
during any time it may have been kept
standing after the hiring had commenced;
When the reform comes into operation, all
fares are to be charged by the distance.
| The Sultan's yacht is described as a
perfect chef GgW0re of English build and
Oriental luxury. The state bedroom re-
calls that of Louis XIV. at Versailles, from
the profusion of gliding with which it is
decorated, and the form of the bed. Two
Mosques are erected on the deck. The
sailors on board the Sultanish utterly dis
dain fees, which is not the distinctive char
acteristic Of those whose duty it is to show
visitors over the royal yacht.
When counterfeit is presented at the
Bank of England gold is Immediately paid
for it. If it comes from some known per-
son, he is only asked where he got it. Ii
from stranger, the cashier signals to his
detective, always in waiting, and the Off
Ger follows secretly Before many hours
the bank is in possession of the strangers
biography. The offender, once arrested,
is likely to be tried, convicted, and SEN
fenced within two days.
The Liverpool Albion is responsible
for the following story: A rather amusing
circumstance was connected with the sup
per to the Belgian officers in the Prince
of Wales room The value of the plate
on the table was G25,00O, and it had been
lent by Hancock and other celebrated sill
versmiths. The question was how to pre-
serve it. The matter was effected by hay
ing the company waited on by detectives
dressed up as walters. Nearly every at
tendant was police officer in disguise.
The latest pin which disrespectful
Britons have attempted to stick into the
bladder of royalty is a comic cartoon rid
iculing and rebuking the Prince of Wales
1t represents the Prince as Hamlet strug
Cling violently with paternal looking
John Bull as Horatio, who vainly tries tc
restrain him from rushing after the ghost
of that rake and roue, George w. The
Prince gazes earnestly after the ghost anC
cries, "Ill follow thee" 1t is sad TO see
young man with such noble opportuni
ties-excelled by those of no earthly posi-
tion-throwing himself away and prepar-
ing trouble for his country.
| To view the Paris Exhibition accord
ing to an English writer's calculation), il
is necessary to uevOte on an average five
minutes to the glass case of each exhibitor
These number, it is stated, $4,000 it would
therefore, take 225,000 minutes, making
$3.50 hours, or 1856 days hours; that is
months, 6 days and 6 hours, reckoning
"a hours for each day. But as the interior
of the place can only be visited from 1C
o'clock in the morning till in the even
ing, there are only hours at the visit
or's disposal instead of a. One would
therefore be occupied in the inspection Il
months, 90 days, 2 hours, supposing tina
he entered the building at 10 o'clock ant
did not leave till 6. From this calculation
it will be obvious that it is by no mean
possible to examine the whole of tn
exhibition during the period of its dura
ton.
, The rumors of the insanity of tn
Archduchess Sophia of Austria, are con
firmed. She showed strong symptoms Q
madness Immediately after Francis Josepl
told her that his brother, her son, had beel
= shot. An utter prestration succeeded tn
first violent outburst of her grief, and thi
was followed again by appalling fits of de
spair and rage. The old Archduchess hay
ing always possessed an excitable, head
strong, and violent temper, little or n
/. hope of her recovery is entertained. o
course her sad condition exites a grea
deal of sympathy in Germany, but tn
compassion felt for mother, stricken
down as she is, is somewhat tempered b,
the reflection that it was principally OWN
to her merciless councils that so many no
! BILE German and Hungarian patriots wer
assassinated, in 1848 and 1849, by the mir
, ions of the Hapsburgs.
-"Poor Carlotta resisted strenuousl
when told that she should be removed fror
Miramar to the palace of Laeken, nea
| Brussels. She said she would die rathe
than leave her villa. Her DOCTORS Hiede
the celebrated psychiatrist, of Vienna, an
DIR. Heck, of Trieste, after making val
efforts to persuade her, finally gave it VI
> and advised Imperial family to leave ht
at Miramar However, the King of Be
. GUM and his brother, the Count of Flal
l ders, insisted on her being conveyed to hi
d old home at Laeken; and DIR. Bulken
Director of the lunatic asylum of Ghee
: in Belgium, succeeded during visit whic
n he paid to the unfortunate lady, IN pc
$ suading her to consent TO her removal
Ii Belgium. The kind-hearted man addres
ed her in the Flemish language, which 81
d had not heard for ever so long, and whi6
n delighted her now. She would not let Il
It Doctor leave her, and made him even sir
= to her a number of Flemish songs. Wht
he incidentally asked her if she would n
a. like to return to her native country she I
" piled at once in the affirmative.
h Curious anecdotes are in circulation
k, Rome respecting the Oriental customs
some of the bearded patriarehs now thel
and of the pious horror they excite in t
W mind of the Cardinal Vicar. One venei
" BILE old Byzantine is accused of having l
20 paired to the Pincian Gardens, at the re
- of the promenade, attended by his isl
bookjee, who spread his masters carpet
be a suitable spot on the ground, where t
Ue cross-legged patriarch enjoyed the ts
: book and the music with Asiatic sereni
,ir Spanish and Portuguese prelates roll thu
n cigarettes in the Cafe Greco, and
French cures visit the seven Basilicas ;
companied by demure white capped bonn
ei But the greatest infractiOn of etiquette "