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

The National Debt is a very uncer-
tain thing. AT least, it is due-by-us.
AN ice flood in the west branch of
the Susquehanna has swept away
81. 000, 900 worth of saw-logs.
The total defalcation by subordi-
mates In the paymaster generals depart
ment is about 100000.
Some brave New York girls have
Resolved, That if We, the young la
dies of Seneca Falls, don't get married
during the year to come, somebody will
be to biame.'
An innEeeper in Andernach, on the
Rhine, lately made bet that he could
drink ten quarts of beer in a day. He
won his bet, drinking five more quarts
than was required.
"A lady once remarked that scare
lessness was little better than a half
way house between accident and de-
sign.
| "A Weybridge. VT, farmer, who
refused $4,000 Tor merino buck, bad
the chagrin of seeing the buck die a
few days afterwards.
AT ball in Vienna an officer caught
in lady's crinoline, fell and broke his
Leg; she also fell ard broke her leg.
The head book-keeper of leading
dry goods house in New York gets
salary of SIS. 900 year.
The rats in Norfolk, Va, attack
small children. Here both rats and
mice attack grown women, and run all
over their heads.
John Cleveland, deceased, of Wood
ford county, KY, lett by his will $780,
900 to found place of refuge for orphan
female children The institution is to
be located in that county.
Ladies' wigs were found in abund-
ance in the dead letter Office in Wash
ington.
Josiah Pierce, Jr., of Portland,
Maine, who has been in Russia some
years engaged in railroad matters, has
been knighted by the Gar.
A French savant says Adam was
one hundred and twenty-thrse feet nine
| inches tall, and Eve was one hundred
and eighteen feet nine and three quar-
ter inches. Noah, he declares, was an
equally large young man.
Mr.. Saunders, Philadelphia mer-
| chant, was thrown from his buggy the
other day and had his brains dashed out
| against lamp post. -~4as
A girl in a paper mill in Bangor
found ring, composed of 80 diamonds,
among some rags she was picking.
Compressed air, costing $3.50 n
day, aud good for ten mile heats, is to
be used to propel the Albany and West
| Troy street cars.
"A man in Albany turned his little
son out of doors the other night, and
the poor boy was found almost fro zen
to death. The place destined for the
father will not be so cold.
"A writer, describing fashionable
costumes as he saw them on Chestnut
street, Pennsylvania, says: 81 observed
that the prevailing style of garters was
blue. The late style of hoops is what
enabled me to make the observation. ;
The New Workers are collecting
800, Din cash for present to Gen.
Grant, and the Bostonians are procur-
ing him asplendid library.
"A man named John Jones. living at
Atlanta, Ga, sends to sthe Wyandotte
| (kansas) Gazette the small sum of
SGT, ZOO, Confederate money, and asks
the editor to send the paper a month |
Tho Queen of England has a spec
lal private fortune of a quarter of a
million of pounds left her by Mr..
| Neeld. a-
| Stephens, the Fenian head-centre, is
said to be an excellent French scholar,
having translated several of Dickens
works into that language.
Olive Logan, the actress, was
divorced from her husband last week.
He says he is quite satisfied.
Roman remains are constantly turn
ing up. A tesselated pavement was re-
Gently discovered near Bristol, EGG
land. Te s.. ecc-
Earl Russell is seriously i'll. He is
70 years of age, and his sickness may
hasten a change in the British Govern
ment.
1t is said that George Sands sew
enty-five volumes have brought her in
an average of $4,000 each. This is
exclusive of her plays, which have
brought her in $4,000.
A Young lady of twenty-five years
is now an inmate of lunatic ASYLUM
near Prague. Last summer she won
thirty or forty thousand thalers at Ba-
den-Baden, and her success turned her
head. She always imagines herself at
the roulette table.
| Thirty conductors on the city rail-
road cars in New York were dismissed
for dishonesty, last week. One of the
companies has posted up in large let
tiers, at its depot, Honesty is the best
policy"
Rosa Bonheur is to have q COM
panion in her glory as cavalier of the
Legion of Honor, in Madame de Cha
baunes, wife of the maritime Project at
Toulon, who won so much admiration
for her exertions during the prevalence
of the cholera IN that city and district.
The Viceroy of Egypt has given TO
the American mission at Cairo, a block
of houses worth 200,0O0fr. He has
| also given the missionaries free passes
for the railways, and has decided that
| religious journals and books shall not
be subject to any tax.
Go to Japan. You can buy first
class house there for thirty dollars, and
live comfortable in it for two cents a
day. Servants charge fifty cents
month, and horse and groom may be
had for the same time for one dollar
and fifty cents. fhl
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