Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-29
Foreign Gossip.

"A LONDON l0UG0T-WTltoT Says GudG U10
Prince of Wales has not read book
since he left college, and that he de-
clares himself unable to keep awake
over the cleverest novel more than five
minutes at time.
The latest distinction that Gladstone
has achieved in London is the reputa-
ton, universally conceded, of wearing
"the most shocking bad hat " of any OF
her MaJesty's subjects. Gladstone is one
of the men who can afford to do that
sort of thing.
HERBERT SPENCER is travelling in the
Highlands of Scotland, and seems to be
enjoy ing better health than he has for
years. He is very fond of fishing, and
has spent most of the summer in pisca-
torial sport in the Scotch lochs and
mountain streams.
THEIRS and the Orleanists in the
French Assembly are moving heaven
and earth to prevent the election OF the
Imperialist, Rouher, from Coz sica, where
Deputy Abbatucci resigned to make
way for the foremost of the Bonapartists.
In case Rouher is elected the majority
will refuse to unseat him.
The Marquis of Butte has been at the
Passion Play at Oberammergan for a
month or more, sedulously attended by
his spiritual mentor and physical shad-
ow, ,Monsignore Capet-C -Catesby of Lothian,
and the gossips are greatly edited at
the close companionship of the two ia
nous characters.
PAsCHAL GRoUssET, the notorious Com
munist, has the reputation OF being one
of the daintiest and best dressed men In
Paris. Since his arrest and arraign-
ment for trial he has been more than
ever elaborate in his toilet, SO much so
that the satirists on the Seine call him
the perfumed and curled cut-throat of
the Faubourg st. Antoine.
BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian novelist, is
now pastor of village church near
Trondhjem, and is in receipt, from the
sale of his works, of $1,000 year, which
is considered princely income In that
remote corner of Scandinavia. At the
beginning of his literary career no pub
Usher would take his books, and he
was forced to print them at his own ex-
pense.
THE ex- Empress Eugene is said to be
in the habit of assuring her acquaint-
ances. very confdentially, that she al
ways loved Louis Napoleon-even be-
fore she married him-but that, since
their fall from power, his resignation to
misfortune, and his patience in the
midst of adversity have raised her atfec-
ton to the point where worship is sup
posed to begin.
CLARA GoTTsCHALK, sister of Colts
chalk, the deceased musician and COM
poser, visited the Emperor of Brazil,
while in London, and obtained from
him a solemn promise when he return
ed home to look up her brothers eff
fects. The pianist is said to have left
good deal of .jewelry, manuscript mu-
sic, and an autobiography nearly fin
ished. His sister is very desirous to
obtain the autobiography for publica-
ton.
THE Princess Mary of Holland is said
to be FIVE years the senior of her new
husband, the Prince of Weld, to whom
she brings vast fortune as a compensa-
ton for heg superior age. She had de-
termined to live and die maid, until
she met the Prince, when she changed
her resolution in an instant. She is re-
puted to be an excellent musician and
an accomplished cook, and, what is more
remarkable, to have made her own we'd
ding cake.
EXPLORATION OF THE BASIN OF THE
YELLowsToNE.-Th Secretary of the In
terror received letter from Professor
Hayden, United States Geologist, dated
Emigrant Gulch, Yellowstone River,
Aug. %, iii which he says:
The exploration of the Yellowstone
basin is now completed. Our labors
have been entirely successful. Up to
this time no accident has befallen any
member of our party. We think no
portion of the West has been more
oorof,Ily r,,rvavad than the Yellowstone q