Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-20

| 10th of June. Sir r. Murchison has every
hope. of Livingstone being alive lat any
rate heswill follow up his discoveries. y
Americans in China have secured for
American steamboats, the exclusive use OF
two of It's rivers. The British there can
not furnish the equal of our boats in speed,
and SO have been shut out, which has
awakened qu1tea breeze. II r II
An Old soldier named obn Harper had
leg amputated at the Toronto General
Hospital the other day. During the per-
Torrance of the operation he was so tull OF
his Jokes and .comicalities that the sur
geons found it difficult to restrain their
laughter.
Ia German and wife were arrested re-
Gently in the Paris Exposition, the former
charged with fraudulent bankruptcy.
They were searched mo effects" was
the reply of, the searcher when the size of
the lady's chignon eaughtehis attention,
and he pulled it off. II was a nest Of bank
notes
g Chung Loo, d native Burmese, who is
featuring on Burmah, says kissing is I'M
known in his country. The corresponding
endearment is to press the lips and nose
closely to the cheek of the fair one, and in
hale the perfume. To ask for Kiss they
say, n qsoe nse a. SjaeyJg" Poor-eountry to
live in, that.
Suction of wells, is a principle patent
ed and illustrated by NJ A. Donnet civil
engineer, of Lyons France, by closing the
well fright, and exhausting the air, the
water currents reached by the well will be
drawn upon, together with their branches
and remotesta connections, with consider
able force, and the flow of water, where in
sufficient, will be materially increased.
While the Prince OF Wales was in
Paris, he called on his old French instruc
tor, M. Brasseur, who told him his great
ambition was to possess the ribbon OF the
Legion sd'IIonneur, but that he had not
sufficient interest to make his claims known
to those in power. The Prince laid his
case at once before the Emperor, and be-
fore night the teacher was Chevaliera -
The presumable expense of an Amer
can travelling in Europe this yea of the
Exposition may he thus gauged: list. For
very shrewd, economical single gentle
man, an average of 81 per day. I'd; For
one moderately economical, yet with a
luxurious person, IS 10 perday ~ Eth For
the sons of petroleum and shoddy, 500 to
$50 per day.
al a. ISCCDb tlldl Ill Vic -OOniby SOUlb
of Dover, England, the Judge asked the
| witness, "What is an Anthony" he re-
piled, "The littlest pig, your honor. The
| little pig is always Anthony On an
inquiry why the little pig was SO called, the
attorney replied, {" believe, your honor, it
| is associatedIwitb saint of that name
| from the fact that in his unhappy time the
smallest and least valuable pig was usually
| picked for the church"
There was bit of romance connected
| with the great Derby race which took place
a fortnight ago. AByoung lady was en-
gagged to be married to Mr.. Chaplin, but
| twenty four hours before the proposed
wedding eloped with the Marquis,iof Has
tings. At the Derby Mr. Chaplln's horse
won, and the Marquis of Hastings in con-
sequence lost $4,000 nearly three quar-
tiers of a million of dollars currency. The
Marquis is now hard up and Mr.. Chap
lin has had his revenge.
The following obituary notice recently
appeared in German paper:
My husband is no more. He did not
wish to live longer, and, if he had, it would
have made no difference, for govt entered
mis- stomach and was soon followed by
DEATH shall marry the Doctor who so
kindly attended my late husband; [
| learned then to trust him. Soft rest the
ashes of the departed one, q whose whole
sale liquor business shall continue at the
old stand-1N0rla W. Sehlenam.
| The English begin to suspect that they
| are tricked in the exhibition of war mate
rial at Paris They find that while they
have freely showed their hand, placing the
best results of their ingenuity and lavish
expenditure at the service of all who choose
to take drawings and specifications of their
ships, guns, and projectiles, other nations,
| particularly France, have been careful to
expose nothing that is of the slightest noy-
rivals had got the substantial advantage,
by leaving them the empty triumph, OF
i" walking over the course. TN TlQ CTrT
A poor citizen of Berlin was recently
left some $4,000. Being very old and
feeble, he was puzzled as towhom he should
leave his money. Thinking none of his
friends worthy of it, he at last determined
| to leave it to a. bitter enemy, who had a
large family and no money, except his
daily earnings He made his will to that
effect; he made it a condition, however,
that the heir should always wear thin white
| linen clothes, and no extra underclothes.
| Should that condition be violated, even
once, the money goes to the executors,
EfFaR + &
| THE Parisians are much interested now
in investigating the Egyptian battalion
| lust returned from Mexico Their favorite
meat is mutton. The sheep is killed be-
fore their eyes. and its flesh is dressed with
rice. They do, not drink wine or strong.
| liquors. At the tables to which they have
| been invited their. beverages have been
| lemonade and beer. The morning after
| their arrival they were "dined by the
officers of the Imperial Guard. Care bad
been taken to serve profusion of legs of
mutton and chops. Yet the guests were i'll
at ease They ate the mutton, but it was
evidently adifficult piece of courtesy. They
/ had not seen the sheep killed.
One OF the best stories we remember
referring to stolen watch comes from a
French source, In the pit of the old
| French opera, one of the audience sudden
ly discovered that his watch was gone. The
evenings entertainment had not com
menced, and the owner of the property
mounted a bench, stated the loss, which
could not have occurred above two or three
minutes, and begged those around, him to
remain perfectly quiet, as his watch struck
the hours like clock, and, it then being
on the stroke of seven, the watch would
speedily indicate into whose, possession 1t
had fallen. There was a dead silence but
J the eye of the proprietor detected an indi
vidual who was trying to edge away from
the vicinity, and he Immediately denounced
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