Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-16
Miscellaneous Items.

"A Boston cigar dealer says ne sells 500
cigars daily to women.
Boston has a wooden building which was
erected in 1909.
-Harper's Bazaar is q very great success
Over fifty thousand copies are printed weekly
General Worthington, of Chilicothe, O..
has raised a cRrt-lOad of figs the present
season.
1t is estimated that there will be $4,000
miles of cOmrleted railroad in this country
by the end of 1870.
-Velocipedes are interfering much with
the profits of suburban railways and omni-
bus lines near London.
Never in the history of Baltimore has
there been more rapid progress in building
than during the present year.
The fruit crop, particularly apples, is SO
abundant in Northern Berkshire, Mass, that
the trees in many of the orchards are
breaking down with the immense weight Of
their fruit.
"A Troy exchange SAYS that the wife Of a
teamster employed in the Clinton foundry,
named Kelly, gave birth, few days since, TO
four infants all boys.
The cry of give Orsini," which occurs
IN Wagners new opera of ''R'enzi" has TO be
changed fol something quite unhistOric for
representation i'll Paris
"A Frenehman vino proposed To open
restaurant on Madison Avenue, New York,
has been bought OFF By a wealthy and fash-
lOnable resident of that vicinity.
Who wrote the most Dickens, Warren
OF Bulwer? Warren wrote Now and Then,
Bulwer wrote Mig lat aud Morning. Dickens
wrote "All the Year Round"
Fourteen silver bars, valued at $40, 900
each, were received in s.. Louis On the 29th
nlr., from the st. Louis and Montana Mining
Co., the result eff single clearing up
The Lisbon gold mines in New Hamp-
shire are worked seventy-one feet below the
surface, the vein being twelve feet wide.
Four days crushing recently amounted to
S20l.
A mercantile house in Boston lately re-
ceiyed dispatch dated Calcutta, September
81 which had been less than twenty-four
hours on the way, and which reported the
fact that their ship was ready on that date to
sail for Boston.
Not satisfied with the rate of speed at
tanned by the velocipedes, the French have
invented locomotive with four wheels,
which Is said to be safer, sTifter, and less ia
tiguing to the rider than any road vehicle
known.
The Continental (Paris) Gazette says
One thousand Belgian carrier pigeons left
the station of Fontainebleau last Sunday
morning at seven O'Clock. The owners OF
these birds reside in Blughes-one of whom,
it Is SAID, has bots upon them amounting to
1000, 600 francs. They have given them
champagne, as 1T is supposed to strengthen
and enable them to fly a much greater dis
lance. Champagne-fed pigeons would not be
bad eating.
arrangements have been concluded be-
tween the postal departments Of the United
States and Great Britain, to take effect Janu-
ary~1 LIST, 1869, for registration Of letters con-
veyed between the United States and BF' .isl
and West Indies, and al parts of Columbia, |
Bolivia, Peru and Chill IN British mail The |
registration foe 10 be collected in the United |
States on each letter is eight cents in addition
to the rates of ordinary postage.
The Louvre was commenced by Francis |
l. in 1541; the Tuileries by Catherine de |
Medicis, in 1864. The. Tuileries were united |
20 the Louvre by Napoleon Ill, from 1852 to |
1857. The orange .trees1Qf which there are |
several hundred in the garden of the fuller |
les, were placed there by Francis l., and are !
now nearly. $50 years old They are noble |
tire sand still in a fine state of preservation |
They are carefully removed to the hot-house |
upon the FIRST approach Of cold weather,