Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-06-13
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Those who oppose drafting are still
more opposed to the organization OF ne
gro regiments. They are unwilling the
Union should have any defenders.
Talent and worth are the only exter-
mails of distinction. To these the Almighty
has fixed his everlasting patent of nobili-
ty, and these it is which mako the bright
immortal names to which we may all as
pire.
A Philadelphia editor allirms that
the poetical age of women is thirty, when
they begin to love conscientiously.
Moving for new Counting
second wife.
The Missouri Legislature has order
an equestrian portrait of General Lyon
to be placed in the Capitol.
-"Sally," said a swain to his intend
ed, "give me kiss, will you?" mo, |
shan't," said Sally, "help yourself"
-"Too big for his business" as the
lady said to the sweep who stuck in the
chimney.
When a fiddler poisons himself with
laudanum he may be said to have too
much of the base Uial.
= A man in New Hampshire had
| the misfortune recently to lose his wife.
Over her grave he caused a stone to be
placed, on which, he in the depth of his
grief, had ordered to be inscribed -
''tears cannot restore her-therefore l
weep"
- An Albany barber having an in
temperate man to shave on Sunday, beg
ged him to keep his mouth shut, as it
was punishable otfense to open ''rum
hole on the Sabbath
We hate grumbers as we do a rat
tlesnake.-LD Cross Democrat.
How like thunder you must hate
yourself, then. See NJ. M. P.'s army
letters from Helena.
-HAPPY-A child with a rattle-a
darby on Christmas-two lovers walk
ing by moonlight, and a boy sucking CT
der through straws.
- "Was your son engaged before he
went to war;" asked Mrs. Rug of a
neighbor.
mo, but he has had several engage
ments since" she replied.
- An Irshman recently handed in
to the telegraph office dispatch intend
ed to inform another Emeraldcr, employ
ed upon the public works in neighbor-
ing town, of the decease Of friend. Ii
reads thus: Barney, come home: died
last night"
A leading maxim with almost every
politician Is always to keep bis counter
nance, and never to keep bis word.
The Superintendent Of public in
struction in Ohio, has recently been at
tackled by the delerium tremens. He's q
uice man.
CHARLES Lamb records somewhere
that the housemaid who caught him
drumming on tue piano exclaimed in
complimentary surprise that size thought
it wasn't the the cat,
-Bald-headed men take joke more
easily, because they are not at the trouble
of "getting it through their hair
Gen. BANKS allows no private spec
ulators to traffic in the cotton and other
products taken from the enemy in his de-
partment Every thing taken belongs to
the Government. A correspondent writ
ing from his headquarters on the 2lst
ult., says that the property already taken
could not amount to less than four or five
mllions-more than enough to pay the
whole expenses of the campaign.
- Tho following "Owed to Lake
Ontary" is worth preserving;
Green ar thy waters, green as bottle
glass
Behold EN- stretcht out thar.
Fine mnskalonges and Oswego bass
Is often katched thar.
Thar the led Iniin oncet took his delight
Fisht, fit, and bled;
Now most Of the inhabitants is white,
And nary red
- In Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, a
captain who is also Methodist preacher
began to exhort the men, stating that
this war was one of right, and if God
was not in it, he for one would have
nothing to DO with it, and exclaimed In
a vehement manner, "If God is with US
who can be against us?" "Jelf Davis
and the Devil" cried ''wild cat boy"
The service closed hastily.
- A certain Judge was once obliged
to sleep with an Irishman at crowded
hotel, when the following conversation
took place:
Pat, you would have remained long
time in the old country before you could
have slept with a Judge, would you
not?
Yes, yer, honor, said Pat, and /
think yer honor would have been long
time in the ould country before ye'd bin
ajudge, too.
= Is not this an exquisite picture of |
the West
See, with her swelling bosom bare,
Al