Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-16


The amount of peat lands in the
river countries of New York alone ex-
ceeds 10000 acres.
Detroit is to have new City Hall,
costing $3.50, 000.
-Paradoxical- the less woman has
on the more dressy she is.
General Grants pay as Lieutenant
General amounts to 50, $40 year.
The largest canal in the world is
one in China, commenced in the tenth
century. 1t passes over two thousand
miles and to forfy-one cities.
"A question for debating society
Which is the most delightful operation,
to kiss fair woman on dark night
or dark woman on a fair night.
Tho celebrated Eastern traveller,
Mr.. Layard, in excavating the ancient
city of Nineveh, discovered the name
of Jonah inscribed upon the ruins. -
That prophet, as our readers know, was
sent to announce to the people OF Nine-
veh the destruction of the city for its
wickedness. s8
"A little girl in Pennsylvania was
lately reproved for playing out doors
with boys, and informed that, being
seven years old, ''she was too big for
that now" But with all imaginable
innocence, she replied: ''Why, grand
ma, the bigger we grow, the better we
| like 'em. Grandma took time to think.
-Radishes may be grown in winter,
by soaking the seed in water twenty
four hours, and the hanging it in bag
in the sun day or two, till it ger min
ates. Then SOW in half barrel filled
with rich earth, place in the cellar, and
place another half barrel over it. Wa
ter occasionally with lukewarm water.
Five cents worth of either lunar
caustic, or caustic of potash, will cure
warts on the teats of cows. Keep the
caustic in n vial; take stick of it, wet
the end with water or spittle. and rub
it on the warts. Two or three applica-
tons will suffice. BE very careful with
the caustic of potash or it will eat too
deep and make a sore.
A rural genius, of Luzerne county,
Pa, has invented plan to prevent
chickens from scratching gardens. The
plan is to secure stick to the heel of
the fowl, so that as the foot is raised
the stick falls and strikes the ground,
throwing the fowl forward. Repeated
efforts to scratch will cause the chicken
to walk clear out of the garden.
The property of the late Lord
Palmerston has been thus awarded {:
Broad,ands has been left to Lady Palm
erston during her life, then revert to
Hon. w. Cowper, and in case he has no
son to the Hon. Evelyn Ashley. The
Irish estates have been left to his lord
ships own family, the Sullivans, and the
| Welsh slate quarries have been divided
between Lady Shaftesbury, Lady Joce-
| Ign, and her second son.
The Jews, both in this country and
in Europe, have for several years past
been making great efforts to raise sub-
scriptions for the rebuilding of the
Temple of Jerusalem, permission to
that effect having been given to them
| by the Turkish Government. There lis
sublimity about the movement which
must claim the respect and sympathy
of Christendom.
A Philadelphia paper tells a story
of remarkable old man in Northum-
berland county, Pennsylvania, who is
about one hundred and eight years of
age, and so strong and active that he
will walk five miles to town and back
again in half a day without apparent
fatigue. He has in his house twenty
four clocks, all going, one a little faster
than the other, sc that there is almost
continual clock-striking. He refuses
to sell one of them, and says they are
his only company at night He was
born in Germany, and when boy
came to Pennsylvania, having sold him
self for his passage to seIvitude for sew
en- years. He is now a man of wealth.