Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-30

Says an English paper =" 1t is curl
Gus fact that there are-an unusual number
| of French families in London. Their
houses have been let at a substantial profit,
and they wish to escape chere Paris for a
time" Not a few New Workers are in
Paris, living on the profits of renting their
houses :Al@
The Paris Punch has some clever carl
catures of the Yankees in Paris. The best
represents one in a private box at the
| Chamber of Deputies, who says to the jan
itor, 81 mean to see everything during the
Exhibition. Here are fifty dollars; just
hire Mr. Theirs to make speech now,
while sit here" l3! 4 3f7Fl
The Great Eastern has been withdrawn
from the route between New York and
Brest, and is now laid up in ordinary at
Liverpool. Her one sole trip was a most
disastrous one, the French charterers fail
| ing to comply with their contract, the
American public declining to take passage
In her, and her expenses having to be paid
out of the funds of the company. The loss
on the recent trip is said to amount to sew
eral thousand pounds. 81 .
There is German perambulating in
England, named Herr Ernst Schultz, who
obtains handsome living by making faces.
At his exhibitions he amuses the audience
by depicting, by changes of countenance,
the different passions which are wont to
agitate by turns the human breast. More
than this, he can at the same time represent
with one side of his face excessive joy, and
with the other side the deepest sorrow.
"A correspondent(N New England, prob.
ably thus illustrates the Paris Exhibition :
Take round gingerbread with a hole in
the middle. The holearepresents 2 garden.
Around the whole, describe, with knife,
eight or ten circles; each of these is. an
aisle running quite round the exhibition.
Across these concentric circles draw, from
| the hole to the circumference of your gin
gerbread, thirty or forty straight lines or
radi These separate the nations."i Ra.9
in the course of recent excavations at
| Pompeii, the workmen discOvereda bronze
vase, Theoretically closed, and enveloped In
thick crystalline crust. The interior
| ofthe vessel was found to contain consider
able quantity of water. Some persons pre-
sent ventured to drink some of the liquid,
and all agreed in pronOuncing it clear, fresh,
and of remarkable softness. The water in
question must have been preserved for
nearly one thousand eight hundred years.
"A recent work on diamonds and other
precious says that but small portion of
the gems sold and worn are genuine. The
diamond mines of Golconda are giving out,
and those of India are rapidly failing. The
scarcity of real gems has been met by the
| ingenuity of counterfeiters, who manufac-
| ture spurious gems that frequently deceive
expert connoisseurs. Large quantities of
false gems are made in Birmingham and
Paris, and shipped east, where -Orientals
sell them to credulous European travellers
as the real article.
| British India has an area of 300, 600
square miles, or about seventeen times that
of the State of Michigan. The population
is IA, 100000 The population of Calcut-
ia is 37s, 900, of Bombay, 817,600, and of
Madras 42S,000 The commerce of the
country has increased fourfold in the last
twenty-five years. 1t has 2,747 miles of
railway in operation, 1920 post offices, IT.
| III schools and colleges, 11,736 miles of
telegraph, and $40, 100000 a year is being
expended in public works-altogether a
very prosperous showing.
EXCITEMENT IN A CIRCUS. We have
laughed heartily over the following ludcrous story
and would not deprive our readers of the same en-
| joyment. ge..,--7r
Anumber of years ago, when Michigan was a
| new country in Livingston county, of--there
lived family by the name of Clayton and one
| called Perkins also,-as well as great many
Others
speciman of our Notwithstanding SIX feet
! two in his stockings.
| Pete had taken shine to Miss Sally Perkins, and
it was known in fact that they were engaged, but
the day when the knot was to be tied had not as yet
In the month of August 1S4s, Junes circus came
through their town for the first time and in fact it
was the first circus that had passed that way
and there were great many people that had never
seen one. When the important day arrived, the
town was filled to overlooking with motley crowd,
of course, and every young fellow had his Sal.
Now Pete wanted to get married on the coming
Christmas but Sally wished to have it put off until
| the next spring When the ticket wagon was opened
the tent was filled in hurry. Pete and Sally had
been looking through the side shows and they were
late getting in, and the performance had already
commenced They walked around the entire
ring, trying to find seat, and although they
could seat two thousand people, every seat was
"Never mind" said Sal, sid jest as lief stand
But the gallant Pete couldn't think of it and said
Wait mint, I'll get you chair, - and off he
started, leaving Sal alone.
just at this moment the clown came in, dressed
| in his usual costume, and dancing around the
ring, stopped right in front OF Sal and began to
"Oh Sally is the gal for me-
| This caused Sal to blush, for she thought that
| the clown was looking at her. AS she stood near
the ring of course she hid the view of those lower
seats behind her. and as usual on such occasions,
the clown cracks his jokes at the offenders until
they take the hint and find seat but she said she
| had rather stand up. At this the clown commenced
his jokes, remarking to the ring master:
| "There's chance for me now" a.F
"a chance for you ?" se. 81 a-l ITO
| "Yes, don't you see that gal has lost her beau,
and she is looking at me, know and turning
three OF. four somersaults he stopped directly In
front of Sal and began to sing:
| 80 Sally is the gal for me, ID
| Iwould not have no other,
And if Sal died to morrow night,
I I'd marry Sally's mother"
! This evidently meant for her, raised Sals dander,
and she burst out with, II
I'm the gal for you, am I? Marry my mother
| would yer? You Iow-ived, spotted scum of the
earth If my Teller was here he would woup you
for that / wouldn't stay here another minit-nOr
neither would any decent people etheri Saying
which she rushed out of the tent amid roars of
1 laughter.
The clown assuming comical attitude, remarked
| to the ring master that his grandfather was re-
! markable man, and was his grandmother, too,
but that gal beat all his forefathers. .-T + I'D.
| At this junctnre Peterushed in, closely followed
by Sal and jumping into the ring he squared off
| at the clown and said: ~
| s'rH teach you to insult any female under my.
charger" and let fly at his opponent, and taking
him plump in the face, sent him to mother earth,
at which he jumped ON him and commenced
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