Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-07

The psychologists say that good
many people have the bumps of con
structiveness. We hope that some o.
our public men have that of reconstruc.
tiveness. II a
Brig. Gen. James p. Brownlow,
son of the Tennessee "Parson, is to be
married to daughter of DIR. Cliff oil
Frankfort. President johnson is ex-
pected to be present at the wedding.
Upon the occasion of the marriage
in Fall River, recently, of son of Col.
onel Richard Borden to q daughter oil
Nathan Durfee, the officiating clergy.
man, Rev. Eli Thurston, received 0
marriage fee larger than was ever before
paid In Massachusetts,. The families OF
Colonel Borden and DIR. Durfee ,gener-
eusly extinguisheda mortgage of g, 500
which rested upon the homestead of the
parson.
the Island of Jersey has an area OF
less than seventy square miles, Guernsey
of about fifty square miles. Neither isl
and is manufacturing or mineral, yet
the population of the former in 1861
was 50, 613, in the latter 20, $50; being
at the rate of over eight hundred per
square mile for Jersey, and six hundred
per square mile for Guernsey. The av-
erage population of Great Britain is I'M
der two hundred and eighty per square
mile; In Belgium it is four hundred and
forty persons per square mile; Holland
two hundred an eighty. ..4@t
"A correspondent describes Provis-
ional Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi,
as being the embodiment of conserva-
tism. His spinal column is proverbial-
ly week, he is a pliable as a lump of
dough, is immensely gnlible, and slight
ly bibulous.
"A lady in Lansinburg has in her
possession an apple, one half of which
is said to be sweet and the other por-
ton sour. The taste of the fruit cham
ges alternately with each quarter, and
the two kinds may be distinguished by
the difference of color. The sour part
of the apple tree is to be used for the
benefit of JEFF. Davis.
The late Professor Aytoun, who
was an enthusiastic admirer of Mary
Queen of SCOTS, became an irreconciia-
BILE enemy of Mr.. ThacEeray, ON ae-
count of the latter's insinuations against
the character of the unfortunate queen
in his famous lectures on the four
Georges and, while attending one of
these lectures, Aytoun became so excit-
ed that he could not repress his feelings,
and was heard to apply the epithet of
sinfernal qnack" to the sarcastic and
humorous lecturer.
The Toronto Globe publishes re-
tusH showing that the number of acres
assessed in Upper Canada is Is. LA, 600,
and in Lower Canada 13, e63, 900. The
number of ratepayers assessed in Up
per Canada is 2S5, 900, and in Lower
Canada oil, 900. The assessed value of
real estate in Upper Canada is $780,
900, 900, aud in Lower Canada $3.50, 000,-
900. The assessed value of personal
property in Upper Canada is S25, 00o,-
900, and In Lower Canada is 81 400,
600. This statement includes cities,
towns and counties. awo.t
Hon. MIR. Grennell, of Iowa,
has signitied his intention of appearing
in Congress, at its next session, dressed
o.
wool from which the cloth is to be man
ufactured was sheared from Mr.. Gren-
nell's own sheep. It is to be made into
cloth end dressed at Davenport. He
sent thirteen feeces, $50 pounds, of
wool to the factory to be worked up for
the purpose of making the cloth. He
SAYS he wishes to wear what is fabri-
Gated at home as an argument in favor
of protection. -hf1
Fanny Fern, lin the New York Ledg-
er, says she is not six feet high; she
belongs to no women's rights conven-
ton; she is just little woman, four
feet in stature, who would much rather
love than hate everything and every
body in this lovely world; who would
much rather have friends than enemies,
if she could without muzzling her
thoughts or her pen.
The Claremont N. III. Advocate
says, a lady in Unity, not long since be-
came the mother of fine daughter. A
few days after, a copperhead neighbor
happening in, said to the mother,
"Well, 1 suppose you will call it Abe
Lincoln. "No," she replied; 81 am
sorry can't. Like your friend JEFF. it
will wear petticoats. Copperhead va
moosed.
The son of Bavarian butcher has
lately been dipping the frequenters of
the fashionable German Watering places
by assuming crinoline and an entire fe-
male toilet. He professed to abolish
beauty of ancient family, and in this
character succeeded in obtaining money
from admiring dupes.
The Prince of Wales has been late
ly at Wiesbaden, and made himself very
popular by his unassuming manners and
appearance. IL order to amuse his
wife, the prince gave her one gold piece
after another to try her luck with one
of the numbers of the roulette table,
As, after several trials, the number was
not hit by the roulette, the prince walk
ed of, telling, the princess in German
RomDs, paein Kind, mir haben Pech.
Come along, my child, we have i'll
luck. ~
A shower of frogs fell lately in Max
well town, near Dumfries. Scotland.
After an ordinary shower the ground
was observed alive with small brown
objects about the size of an almond.
They were found, upon closer examina-
ton. to be frogs, about the size these
lively reptilians are when they emerge
from the tadpole state. The ground
was thickly sprinkled With them for
about fifty yards. They were in thou.
sands in the swollen cutters, and being
swept into the mouths of the drains,
Inv fha rain r,arfialIv oboEal fbar,a