Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-07
miscellaneous Items.

4 $40 AShfdhAksuo lOE vi
beer apiece last year.
In the population of Paris one
person out of Lib is a registered and
relieved pauper.
The ''tiger" at Saratoga recently
squeezed a Cuban to the extent of
so 900.
Slaughtered cattle and sheep ere
being transported from Ohio to New
York in refrigerating cars.
Playing Daniel in the lions den at
menageries has just been prohibited IN
London, and oughtto be here. Y q
The female suffrageans in Kansas
are to cold a=grand Mass Convention
at Atchison, Sept 3D. 6(4.F
The anti-gambling society in New
York has been beaten in the eourts,and
the gamblers are ehuekLng. @
The gamblers of New York are
getting mp a protective union, and talk
about a license law,
There is a blackberry patch in
Maine 20 miles square. Ten thousand
bushels were picked there last year.
The income of Oxford University
is near three quarters of million dol
lars and Cambridge little less @
The total sum handed to the Pope
as Peters pence by the French bishops
is estimated at from fifteen to sixteen
millions. af&~ 30
"A dispute about which way the
figure of carpet should run. post
poned marriage in Hartford last
week. ..trs .....
In England they attribute the high
prices to the abundance of gold; here
we think its scarcity cause of the high
price.
The buildings of the College of
the Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass. !,
are to be enlarged and improved OF a
cost of $4,000.
The experiment. with fax in Ore
gOn is said TO have been very success
ful. The general crops of the stateare
very good this year.
The New, York billiard keepers
have at last generally resolved to adopt
the time system, charging sixty cents
an hour.
The Honolulu Advertiser predicts
a cable from San Francisco TO the Sand
wich Islands within few years. The
distance is 2sQS3 miles.
The Church News publishes list
Of one hundred and fifty Episcopal
churches in which lights are habitually
placed on the-altar
"A lake is told of in Oregon sur
rounded by perpendicular banks of D.
600 feet high. No living man has ever
reached the water.
The New York Tribune association
has decided to erect new edifice at
cost of $4,000 1t is to be built on
the site of the present building.
The Central Pacific Railroad has
rooted ia ten miles of road through the
snow region, and intend to cover All
the worst exposures for winter travel
- Erie, Pa. which used to be only a
pea nut stand. now claims IA pOpula-
ton Of 10000, and is having NicolsOn
pavement laid in its principal streets.
From April 18th to August 7th, not
a single death occurred IN Coldwater,
Michigan, city of G, 600 inhabitants
Doctors can not be very numerous in
that town. tsfe.
"A dispatch from ShawneetOwn, Ill.
says the cholera has made its appear
ance in Gallatin county, Ia its most
malignant form. Out of some thirty
cases, twenty have proved fatal. 4.
There are 40 10 acres OF grapes
on Catawba Island, near Sandusky,
Ohio, viz: POI bearing, aud 22I
non bearing. The first roots were set
in 1858. ues seL Pa .ee,.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle says the
managers of the Agricultural Society
of Duchess county, n. Y, have deci-
ded that their show shall not be all
"hOrse'-a wise determination, which
might be initiated with profit in other
localities. ~ t5 sa
"A learned author remarks that We
can seldom fail in tracing death from
sheer starvation; but the opposite, from
gluttony and surfeiting, is not so
easily got hold of. Hence the prOverb,
Few die of hunger, but hundred
thousand of snrfeit."
TT wonder where these clouds are
going?" sighed Flora, pensively, as she
pointed with herdelicate finger to the
heavy masses that hoated in the sky
81 think they are going to thunder, "
said her Young brother. satfiaaei Ola .
"A few days agOa lobster was caught
at Jonesport, Maine, which measured
three feet five inches in length, nine
teen and half inches round the body,
and weighed twenty seven ponDds.-
The largest claw weighed eight pounds
fourteen ounces. = 1000 --
a faw davs aoo a man pOE ont Of
the cars at Peoria, ILL.,, with a large
bag In his manu-, which M o@..siad very
carefully. After waking up the Street
a short distance he put his bag down,
united it and lifted out good sized
boy. He lad brought him several
miles as baggage and without having
him checked, r. a.ssa5 ls5I--.TzrI
N When Van Amburg's show was in
Burlington, Iowa, a few days ago, and
parading through the streets, the old
elephant Tippo Saib refused to venture
on the Main street bridge; no persua
sion could induce him 10 cross. 1t rs
said that this same animal fell through
this bridge ten years ago, and he7i5
supposed to have remembered it.
---As a. man named ShatTef was
threshing wheat for a farmer in Central
Illinois, on Tuesday night, his machine
took fire from friction, burning 500
Bushels of wheat belonging to the
farmer. Shaffer, in trying to cut the
belt of the machine. so as TO take it
away from the stack of grain, was
caught in the machine and his leg torn
OFF. He died soon after.
III Tba c,,.auy,da v,ara stood the fnr-