Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-01-13

"A fifteen year old lady OF Palmer,
Mass, is the mother of furnishing
pair of twins.
Hon. r. Fl. Stanton is proposed as
the next United States Senator from
Kentucky. -. l~s
"A man was frozen to death in the
streets of Memphis one night last week.
After lying in the undertaker's Office for
several days, the body was at length
recognized as a son OF Judge Logan, of
Louisville. Ky. q
The newly finished wing of the
Tuileries, on the water side. is now
undergoing the process of washing with
diluted sillicate of alumina, or common
white clay slaked in water, for the pur-
pose of hardening the soft stone used
in the building. This operation was
successfully performed on the build
ings of the New Louvre, a few short
years ago. -.aaa4
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that twenty five cents
is the highest rate of stamp duty upon
warehouse receipts, whatever the value
of the property deposited or stored.
Miles O'Reilly, through the New
York Citizen, says that the Wearing
of the Green" song is modification of
the old Irish chant, of which he recalls
these lines:
''Then up stepped General Bonyparte,
And took me by the hand
Ssyin' how is ould Ireland,
And where does she stand? ?"
A little girl of four yesrs was say
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her little brother, three years older,
Without moving her head she paused
and said, .'Please Lord, excuse me a
minute. while / lick Freddy"
A family in Cincinnati has this ex-
traordlnary record: The father was
killed by falling from the roof of a
building, daughter burned to death
with camphene, one son was drowned
another killed by railroad accident, and
still another came to his death by acct
dent. The mother is now In the city
prison as a vagrant, and two daughters
are in houses of ill-fame.
-Gottschalk, at last accounts, was
giving musical entertainments at Lima
and Calalo. At his second concert in
building gave signs of not being able
to sustain the weight, and at an exam
ination the next day the structure was
found to have been SO mnch weakened
as to be dangerous for third attempt,
consequently it was closed by govern
ment order, and the other concerts
would be given in another hail.
General Burgevine, who went to
China, and engaged in the services of
the Imperial Government, but after
wards deserted it on account of some
difficulty about payments, and joined
the Tapping rebels, was recently de-
tected in conspiracy at pekin--where
he lived on parole-arrested, thrown
into tank while in irons, and drowned,
after the Chinese fashion. His career
had been one of romantic interest.
A Western farmer, who wished to
invest the Accommodations of his indus
try in United States securities, went to
Jay Cookies Office to procure the treas
ury notes. The clerks inquired what
denomination he would have them in.
Having never heard that word nsed,
excepting to distinguish the religious
scots. he after little deliberation, re-
Piled: Well, you may give me part in
old school Presbyterian, to please the
old lady; but give me the heft ont in
Freewil! Baptist. s~r-...r-~.-u-s
Some miners in Nevada county,
California, were re emily working a
quartz vein, when they struck cave in
their ledge. No opening has been
found in the cave save the one found
by the miners. Close to the edge of
this subterranean vault was found can
non ball enclosed in solid quartz, as if
it had grown with the quartz, and
buried seventy-fve feet beneath the
earth's surface. The ball was perfect in
shape, and when the dirt was taken off
was found to be as smooth as if it had
just come from the mould.
When the Hon. Caleb Gushing was
Attorney General of the United States,
he was said to be the only member the
Cabinet able to converse in any Ian
guage beside his own. At O diplomatic
dinner in Washington, given by MIR.
Bodisco, the Russian Minister, he
conversed in French with M. Sartiges,
the French Ambassador; in Spanish
with Don Calderon; in Dutch with
Baron Won Gerott; in Portuguese with
De Figanere; and in the purest italian
with the representative of the two
Sicilies. The distinguished party were
surprised and charmed. and some
thought the Yankee polyglot could have
added the Chinese, had representative
of the Celestials been present.
Josh Billings breaches a temper
ance lecture, and says:
Bee zee temperate IN swareing; on no
ockasion, taking yure makers name in
vane, and seldum, if ever, unless yu
stub yure toe, or are thrown suddenly
into the sosiety of musketers, say zee,
''condemit blast the dam curb stone
devlish blud sucking musketers tew
thunder and litening"
Thirdlee. Bee zee temperate IN
affeckshun--dontg go into fits over rat
tarrier, bekus he has been bred SO fine,
that yu cant Gee the last 3 inches OF bis
tail in cloudy da without the ade ov g
looking glass, don't love boss so much
that yu hav tew Civ yurs noat for him,
and amt never abel to take up the noat
till it spiles,-dont fall in luv with evry
woman yu see, and kant sleep, unless
yu hav yure bedroom shingled with
fotograffs ov painted girls, with pewter
eyes, and pudding bags, full ov black
tow, and ded rats, on the back of their
beds; and bi awl means, don't get on sich
load ov religion az will make VII
roundshouldered, before yu git half way
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