Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15
CLIPPINGS.
msseIIaneous Items.

The finest street in the city of Constan-
tlnorie Is only twenty feet wide.
Sixteen thousand Mormons in Europe
have proposed emigrating to Utah this
spring.
The Union Pacific railroad has just
reached Fort Sanders, 572 miles west of
Omaha and ,066 miles west of Chicago.
"A late fashion letter from Paris states
that there is some probability of the old
fashion OF powdering hair being revived.
"A London paper has advertised that
Two sisters want washing" s'We hope
they may get it," was the disrespectfnl re-
mark OF all who read the notice.
China, it is announced, is rapidly un-
dergoing the process of civilization. Beer
has been successfully made at Shanghai,
and distillery is to be be built there.
The Philadelphia Press says number
ofrich men living in the northern section of
that city contemplate establishing park
which families can visit for drive.
Great preparations are making for the
cultivation of cranberries in New Jersey
this year, especially in the neighborhood of
Hammonton and at Sleepy Creek.
Wilkes Spirit says the beautiful trot.
ting mare Fearless was burnt by her keep
er's lighting his pipe just before he locked
the Sl6,0 600 beauty in her straw-covered
box.
"A Rutland marble firm have received
from Georgia an order for tombstone.
to the usual inscription on which is to be
added: Height, seven feet; weight, four
hundred and thirty pounds
"A young man named Norwood, in
Union Me. J, recently arose in his sleep
and went two miles to the house of his
brother-in-law, in his night clothes, with
out waking.
1t is said that about $4,000 are an
nually expended In Boston for music in
the churches. At one church the music
alone costs $4,000. The highest price paid
for one singer is 81, 500.
A lady was urged by her friends to
marry widower, and as an argument they
spoke of his two beautiful children 'Chid-
ren," replied the lady, ''are like toothpicks.
A person wants her own"
The cotton trade is lively in Boston
One speculatOr a few days since made
s120, 900 by buying at fourteen cents per
pound, and holding his purchase until the
| price rose to twenty-nine cents per pound.
"A precocious boy of seventeen sum
mers has been writing in Mrs. Stanton s
Revolution against the custom, somewhat
prevalent among females, of wearing cor
sets. Of course it's none of his business
AN English paper has discovered the
line which divides distinction from diff
ference. 1t says tina. ''a little difference
frequently makes many enemies - while
little distinction attracts hosts of friends
to the person on whom it is conferred"
"A youngster at the North is congratu.
lating himself that he has got the measles
at last. He says he shall not any longer
be kept from playing with the boys for fear
he may catchit. That little chap is a philoso-
pher, and understands the doctrine of COM
pensations.
"A bitterly ingenious epigram is that of
an old Greek poet on marriage Its trans
latiOn runs thus:
Two happy days in marriage are allowed
wife in wedding garb, and in her ehrOud,
Sure then, that state cannot be called Sc
cursed
When the last days as happy as the first
-Talleyrand's last speech was character
istic If his deep-rOoted distrusti in all profess
sions of disinterested affection. s'The Arch
bishop of Paris would give his life for you,'
observed M. Dupanloup, the spiritual adj
visor of the dying diplomat. He could
make much better y use of it, replied
Talleyrand, CURLY, aud expired
A lady recently advertised in city
paper that she wanted gentleman for
breakfast and tea," while another in the
same journal asks for husband with
Roman nose with strong religious tenden-
cies," and third party seeks to recover
''lost wallet belonging TO a young man
made of calf-skin.
Mr.. W. Boothe, of Mount Vernon,
Mo in digging 3 well, at the depth of
eighteen feet encountered limestone rock.
Eight feet more passed through this into
cavern, fourteen by sixteen feet and
eight feet In depth. Small apertures led
from this room east and west, but they
have not been explored.
The working:nen of the factory of
Stienway and Sons, about $50 in number,
have lately organized themselves into CO.
operative society. They elect a committee
from the number, and to them they give
weekly list of their wants The goods are
then purchased at wholesale prices and dis
tributed. The workmen say that they save
from OIL so to So per week on their pur-
chases.
AT masked ball lately given in Paris
by Col. Norton, the Marquis de la Tour
appeared as court lady. His shoulders,
which were bare, were as white as snow,
as polished as Parian marble, and as sym
metrical as those of the Medicean Venus.
When the hour of unmasking arrived,
everybody was astonished to find that these
charms belonged to man.
"A married lady gave social entertain
ment to party of female acquaintances,
and while regaling them with accounts of
a recent journey, tremendous humping
was heard proceeding from the garrett.
whats thai noise 2" exclaimed one.
ooh nothing unusual Don't be at all
alarmed, my dear friends it's only my
husband. You see he persists in staying
out very late every evening, and thought
/ would keep him In for once, so got him
to examine an imaginary leak in our roof,
and while up there fastened the scuttle
door that's ALL"
1t IL proposed to allow females to take
degrees at Cambridge University in Eng
land. The only conditions which the Uni
versity imposes on students prior to their
passing their examinations are, that they
should keep a certain term of residence,
and attend professors lectures. Many la
dies already fulfil the later condition, and
the difficulties attending the former, 1t is
supposed, can be easily surmounted.
The Memphis Post says that between
four and five thousand persons have left
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