Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-13
ALI Sorts of Paragraphs.


| = Moving for new trial-Courting Sc
| cond wife,
} Why is John Biggers boy larger than
his father? Because he is a little Bigger
Tobacco of good quality from Maryland
seed has been raised in California.
Over one hundred thousand veterans
have re-enlisted since the first of October
| last.
| - Do one thing at time-thats the rule
When you have done slandering your neigh
| bors, begin TO say your prayers.
| = If a woman has heart she should new
| er suffer it TO lie in her bosom as dead capt.
tal-it ought to circulate and pay interest
Why is minister like locomotive =
Because we have to look out for him when
the bell rings.
| An old topper says the two most precious
| things now included in hoops are girls and
| kegs of whiskey.
Solomon advised the sluggard to go to
the ant. In our day, the sluggard has to so
to his "uncle."
If brigham Young should lose one of his
| sixty wives, would he be widower? Not
enough so to hurt much, we should say
-Thalberg, during the years 1862 and
1868, made by giving concerts no less than
sixty thousand dollars
A young gentleman says he thinks that
young ladies who refuse good offers of mar
riage are too "No-ng by half"
In the march of life don't heed the order
of right about )" when you know you are
about right.
Some say that the formation of the In
valid Corps it without warrant of law. If it
| is not illegal, how can it be invalid?
Mrs Darlington wants to know why cap
tains don't have their ships properly nailed in
| port instead OF waiting to tack them at sea.
"A philosopher, who married a vulgar but
| amiable girl, used to call his wife brown SUI
gar, because, he said, she was sweet but un-
refined.
&C Mr.. Smithers, how can YOU sleep so
The sun has been up for two hours" "Well,
what if he has (hiccup.) He goes to bed at
dark, while I'm on a bender till midnight.
"A married monster said that he lately
dreamed that he had an angel by his side, but
upon waking up found that it was nothing but
his wife.
An ED bachelor being told that young
man of his acquaintance had just got mar
ried. "Alas!" said he, "what pity it is
one should come to misfortune so young !"
An old bachelor'says he received bas-
bet of peaches this summer that looked as
though pretty girls had watched their growth
and tinted them with their bushes.
Three men went into two of the boilers
of the Ravine Coal Company at Pittston, Pa,
to clean them. While they were in, some
one accidentally turned the hot water into the
boilers and scalded them to death.
There is a dentist in Russia, who gets his
patianfs IN r1rOnnunaa hiS mama which n,
simultaneously drows out the tooth that af-
fiicts, carrying along with it one or two
others.
-" Six feet in his boots !" exclaimed Mrs
Darlington. "What will the Importance of
this world come to, | wonder? Why they
might as well tell NE that he had six heads
his hat
Swift said that the reason a certain Uni
versity was learned place, was, that most
persons took some learning there, and few
brought any away with them, so it accumu-
lated.
-" your son Timothy failed ?" inquir-
ed Gubbens of Stubbens, the other day.
"Oh, not all, he has only assigned over his
property, and fallen back to take better posi-
tion," was the reply.
"A lecturer was dilating upon the power
of the magnet, defying any one to show or
name anything surprising it. nearer de-
INJURED and instanced young lady, who used
to draw him thirteen miles every Sunday
- What is fame to heart yearning for
affection and finding it not 1t is like the
victor's wreath to him who is parched with
fever, and longing for one cooling draught-
the cup of cold water.
A genius in New Bedford is fitting up a
steamer for the purpose of towing icebergs to
India, where they sell for six cents perpound
Another proposes to do still better-to fit a
screw'in the iceberg itself, and thus avoid
the expense of ship building.
- 1t is said that there are people in the
"MOuntain District" of Kentucky so green,
that they followed wagon that happened to
pass that way, twenty miles, "just to see
whether the hind wheels would overtake the
fore ones"
A sixty-nine FOUNDER shell burst near
an Irishman in one of the trenches Pat
coolly surveyed the ruins the fragment had
made, and exclaimed Z" Be iabers thm's the
fellows to soften the wax in a mans carp
"A correspondent tells of soldier wound
ed by a shell at Fort Wagner. He was going
to the rear with multiated arm.
"Wounded by shell ?" he was asked.
eyes" he coolly answered, " | was right
under the darned thing when the bottom
dropped out"
"A rich merchant named Hogg once re-
quested person to bring him load of corn
in a stated time, which he failed to do and
brought it the day after the one proposed.
The merchant refused it. WELL" replied
the WAGNER, "you are the only Hogg ever
knew to refuse corn"