Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-27
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Gibson, the artist, used to say that, IN
hiswhole experience, he had never known.
but one person whose figure was really
without fault Of some kind. Either the
face was faulty, or the head, or the neck,
or some one part of some one of the limbs;
and it was the work of the true artist to
correct the defect of the Individual figures
which were without fault in one particular
curves or forms in question. The only one
exception that he had met with was a
bow belongipgto the Roman laboring class,
and he D'Azeglio's admirable Antonio, had
been once in prison for stabbing a compan-
| ion.
| "A man, who is still stout and good
servant of the railway company in whose
employ he has been for some thirty years,
was on duty one night on the platform
/ he is still stationed, when the London train
came in. ! Among the passengers was one
| gentleman who missed his footing at the
Carriage door, Just as the train was about
to start, and fell between platform and
wheels, AT that instant the train moved on.
| Another moment and all would have been
over, but q strong hand seized him and
twiched him on the platform, 80, with no
worse injury than fright and shaking,
the passenger went on his way. Had that
ticketcollector not been there, or had he
been less ready, the history of the world
would have read, no man can say how diff
ferently for the traveller was Louis Napo-
leon. s.,,oI4o ZqfIE 1gy5y0jT
"A London correspondent of the Man
chester EGdnaS7aer says: 1t is understood
that the Queen will shortly lose the per
sonal services of her faithful highland gil
lie. John Brown. who has been Her Males
tvs chosen attendant in her rides and
drives ever since the death of the Prince
4 Consort-who mad a special liking for anc
trust in transferred him to her ser
4 vice. He was included, as it may be re
membered, in the striking picture by Sir
Edward Landseer, of the Queen at Osborn,
in this years Academy Exhibition, and NJ
photograph could have given more per
feet fac smile of his personal appearance
4 and respectful bearing. 1t appears that
despite the confidential post assigned hin
in the royal household, be is DESTROYS to re
deem the troth longago plighted to young
Scotch woman of his own grade, and 1t il
understood that residence in one of the
lodges at Balmoral, with the supervision
of a part of the domain, will prove graf
living testimonial to him Of the value en-
tertained of his services by his royal mis-
tress.
"A correspondent of the Glasgow Her
aid who recently visited the Island OF Lew
is, in the Hebrides, says The women d.
all the heavy work. They dig, delve an,
hoe; they carry heavy loads of manure t.
the fields, and in the peat season you ma.
see them all day, carrying creelsful of pea
; from the bog. You will often see a mai
! trudging along the road beside q woman
. but the creel is always on the woman 8 back
Ii they come to river or ford, the WOmal
crosses first, deposits her creel on the Othe
: side, and then returns to carry the ma
across. The woman in the rural district
here is, in fact, beast of burden, and me-
Z in looking out for wives, look largely t
muscular development. In the middle G
/ one peat season, when labor was much L
demand, man who was supposed to be
, confirmed old bachelor, suddenly married
, A friend met him some days after. Wha
for did you take woman like that ?" sat
!, the friend. "Did you not hear" replie'
: the man, " that my horse was dead r
= DIR. Bellows speaks, under date of MI
remburg, of the precautions which are ia
ken against premature burial. He say
> that in the cemetery there is a house
J pleasantly arranged amid fower-beds ant
shrubs, to which all the dead are at one
carried after being laid out, and Their
placed on beds, each with a be1-pull 8
connected with the hand that the least me
ton of the supposed Fcorpse on revivin!
must arouse the attendant and bring in
: slant attention All this humane precau
ton has never yet been rewarded with
single call upon its watchfulness. Once
however, in case where the deceased ha
died with dropsy, the subsistence of waite
caused fall of the arm-the bell rang, an
the attendant who had watched for year
for the sound, when it came was SO fright
ened that he ran from his post and alarme
the neighbors, who after sometime rallie
and discovered the cause of the alarm
This method Of guarding against prems
ture burial is quite common on the Cont
nent, but he thinks it not worth adoptin
much too early for decency.
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