Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-21
CLIPPINGS.
miscellaneous Items.

The original name of Brooklyn
was Breuckelen.
The Boston restaurants are reduc-
ing their prices
Admiral Porter says he never saw
a very old sailor. Sailors generally die
young of hardship and neglect.
The Lungs Of the Lord was the title
of Scotch paper published fifty years
since in Glasgow.
A medical enthusiast IN Paris s1g
gests that vaccination with dew from in
feeted districts should be tried as pre-
ventive against yellow fever.
Divers are diving for sunken treas
ure in the bav of st. Thomas. Ia one
of the wrecked steamers--the RhOne-
there are five millions of specie.
Mr.. Silas Bronson, who died last
week at New York, bequesthed 5000
900 for public library in bis native
place, Middlebury, Conn.
William Truesdale. formerly Rose
Grams chief detective at Nashville, has
just died at Bunker Hill, Ill of con
sumption. His age was 50.
The following epitaph on husbar d
and wife is found in Partisan Gene
terry:
4 am axtously expecting yOa-A D, 1927,
Here ana D. 1867 ."
-Vestvsli is playing Romeo IN Lon
don. and the chief thing the critic of
the Pail Mall Gazette finds to say about
her is that ''she is very tall. "
-MorIat, the Swiss geologist. pro
vIded in his will that his skull should
be engraved with his name and depos-
tied in the Museum at Berlin.
The King OF Italy has signed a
decree allottiDg $4,000 francs to be dis
tributed in aid Of the wounded in the
Roman expedition and of the families
of the killed.
An old lady was found last week
IN Louisville Watching by the bedside
of daughter who had become a lunatic
through starvation, Neither had tasted
food for several days.
The glass works at Kent, Ohio.
lost 81, 800 recently through a curious
mistake. A barrel of white sugar, snip
posed to be salt, was emptied into the
furnace, ruining its entire contents.
Frank Mcintyre is to start from
New York city on Friday next. 18th
inst, tn attempt to walk to Philadel
phia--11 miles-in 26 hours, for So
900.
"A Missouri paper finds a blessing
even in prairie fires. 1t says that the
conhagrations have wholly destroyed
the malarious poisous. so that although
property is lost, health is gained.
The three banks in Central City,
Colorado. bought and shipped 81, 300
900 in gold In the year ending October
31st last The banks OF Denver City
probably bought as much more.
The Cairo Democrat says a German
II into the river on Sunday evening
last. and was taken out dead. After
undergoing severe pumping and
kneading he came to life again and felt
quite comfortable.
An Alabama paper announced tha
it would keep silent In regard to 3
certain little affair If q bottle OF
champagne were sent to the Office. the
editor received seven bottles from sew
en- different parties.
The Titusville Morning Herald
thinks the yield OF the Pennsylvania
oil wells has increased since the first OF
July. Two wells recently opened have
yielded over two hundred barrels per
day. The total daily production OF
the oil regions is about two Thousand
barrels.
d., yT;oL,,fo - s,;5 !, lo--
gained much hesh-aud she always had
quite enough during the period o.
mourning for her deceased lord. Fal
stan was right ia invoking plague
upon signing and grief" 1t seems t.
have the same effect on women as OF
men.
On Thanksgiving day, at Westheld
Mass, family reunion was held at the
home of Capt. Lucius f. Thayer, al
which were gathered fifteen persons
whose united ages were 675 years
the oldest being 70, and the youngest
81. The distance travelled by those
present was over 1000 miles.
Miss Susan Treston, at the term OF
court Just adjournsd, at Kenoeha, Wis !,
obtained a Judgment against the city
for the sum of $4,000. for damages
received by her when eight years old,
in consequence of an imperfection o.
one of the sidewalks. Miss Treston is
now a young lady.
The q. s. treasury building at
Washington, when completed, will have
cost nearly S. .000.0 900, and 1t will be
the finest Executive bnilding in the
world. The greater portion of it is
built of Maine granite, and it is pro
posed to rebuild the remainder with the
same material, as the porous sandstone
of which it is constructed is disintegrat
ing rapidly.
The engagement of Miss Kitty
Dix-well remembered in Washington
circles By her elegant manners-young-
est daughter of Gen. Dix, our minister
to France, to Mr.. Walch, formerly of
Brooklyn, n. Y, is announced, The
wedding is to take place soon, and
many elegant bridal presents have al
ready been sent TO Paris from this side
of the water.
The accidental dissemination OF
the floral species over vide regions is
illustl ated by the fact that in the Elk
position gardens a great variety of
plants foreign to France have spoDta-
neously grown up around the building
and under the walls. Their seeds were
conveyed to Paris in the packing Of
articles sent from various countries.
The New Bedford Mass Mercury
records this instance of munifcence:
can appeal recently made to religious
society not more than thousand miles
off, in behalf of a benevolent enter
r,riro NOS nat with q dnnatinr of g