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ants for honors in chemistry has been a well-known Paris butcher, who last week won the prize, and was to be crowned with a laurel wreath in presence of the admiring multitude.--When his turn came there was a noise heard in the room, and it was declared that an unsuccessful candidate had blown his brains out. Enquiry was going to be made, when the butcher rose and said: "Calm yourselves, ladies and gentlemen. It was I; I sighed with delight. I am strong; I am a butcher." The Aigledes Cevennes says that the worst anticipations of the breeders of silkworms in that district have been realized. The crop of silk is decidedly worse than that of last year. Some few growers have been fortunate, but taken altogether the result has been disastrous. The Emperor Napoleon has ordered the reserved portion of the park at Fontainebleau to be thrown open to the public, and walked about for some time among the crowd, leading the Prince Imperial by the hand. It is asserted in the Londo