Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-02-17

BE true to your friend; never speak
of his faults to another to show your
own discrimination.
Idaho has population of $50, COO,
and has not minister OF the gospel in
the whole territory.
Dean Swift once said that Provi-
dence showed how little it thought of
riches by the fools it permitted to pos
sess wealth.
What is the difference between a
Catholic priest and Baptist? One
uses wax candles and the other dips.
THAT sincerity which is not charit-
able proceeds from charity which is
not sincere.
When wife hugs her husband it is
generally because she wants to ''get
around him."
1t is said that the late Prince AL
bert first introduced Christmas trees
into England. Let all little ones honor
his memory for it,
Sir Edward Bruce and his diamond
star create much sensation in Washing
ton. The ladies pronounce him ga love
of an Ambassador.
The prospects are that compare
lively short time will see q railroad on
the west side of the Hudson river from
New York to Albany.
Many colored women and children
are earning living by digging in the
soil about Petersburg for bullets. They
sell them not for relics, but for old lead,
at six cents pound, and earn about a
dollar day each.
-Twodolls, representing the first and
second Empress of France, are now ex-
bibited in a confectioner window in
Paris. The cost of each of these toys
was twenty-five thousand francs.
AT Binghampton, revivalist,
looking for recruits, found large sized
African, and asked him: "Have you
found the Lord?" ''Golly! massa, is
de Lord lost?"
An enormous trip-hammer has just
been set up in the Navy Yard at Charles
town, Mass. Its weight is one hundred
and twenty-three tons, and it cost $780,
600.
"A magnificent Hungarian mantle,
trimmed and lined with ermine, is
being made at Perth for the entry of the
Empress of Austria into Hungary. II
is to cost 100000.
An exchange says: "I would be
perfectly willing to share the fortunes
of war with the noble army of con-
tractors"
Mrs. Swisshelm is trying to print
male compositors, but says" JHath TIE
Printers Union throws obstacles in her
way which she is determined to over
come.
General John FL. Echols, of the
rebel army, was found dead in the woods
near Paoli, Miss, last week, having ac-
cidentally shot himself while hunting.
A brother of Gen. Grant, formerly
his partner in business, is now 10 WASH
ington, and submitting to considerable
lionizing at the hands of the military
and civic authorities.
The Louisville Journal says the
pork-packing season in that vicinity is
virtually closed. During the season,
rs. 146 hogs have been slaughtered at
Louisville, 7,131 at Jeffersonville, and
10000 at New Albany.
"A French paper says that an Italian
| collector returning from Egypt has
brought back well-authenticated statue
of Potiphar's wife. The features are
said to be exceedingly ugly. So Joseph
did not deserve the credit he has had for
so many centuries, after all IA
"A man named Aaron Bedbug, OF
Lewis county, Ky, has petltioned the
Legislature to change his name. he
saws that his sweetheart, whose name is
Olivia, is unwilling that he should be
called A. Bedbug, she o. Bedbug, and
the little ones little Bedbugs.
| The restoration of the Smithsonian
Institute will cost 100000, The whole
amount of Smithson's bequest, S5l5,'
1859, is in the United States Treasury al
per cent. semi-annual interest. Tota
annual income, $50, $40, but this cannot
be used for building purposes. The
edifice cost $500, 900.