Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-31
Miscellaneous items.
"A century plant is in bloom at Troy.

"A century plant Is III doom at IToy
"A new comic paper, entitled Nip and
Tuck, has been started in Schenectady.
The citizens of Providence, r. /, are
subscribing to build hundred thousand dol
lar opera houae.
"A scientific paper states that men with
grey eyes are better rifie-shots than persons
With eyes Of ether coiors.
"A great American Exposition is proposed
for 1876, the centennial anniversasy Of the
Declaration Of independence
of the six hundred ami eighty convicts
now IL the Kingston (Canada) Penitentiary,
one hundred are there fer murder.
"A venerable looking English baIi-eye
watch was lately found in the stomach or a
large catfish, which WAS caught il,xAcnroe
county, Ind.
The treasury Of Amherst College, Massa-
chusetts, reports that this institution is now
worth more than million dollars, and free
from debt.
If the roots Of trees are dipped into We
ter, just before planting, the earth that sticks
to them win give immediate support to the
small fbres.
in Cincinnati. an unfortunate woman
named Cordelia Wade has made twenty-five
different attempts to destroy herself By poi
son. She still lives.
"A young lady living near Powder Springs,
Georgia, was fatally poisoned by using twig
for tooth brush, wherein the locusts had
deposited their eggs.
Eight miles from st. Charles, Mo-, there
is an apple orchard Of hundred acres. In
1867 the yield, at an average price of So per
barrel, was worth over 81 600.
The ceiling of the dome of the Senate
Library in Luxembourg palace lately fell and
destroyed the beautiful painting by Eugene
Delacroix which covered it.
The southern papers continue to fill theil
columns with politics, to the exclusion Of al
news. The war did not teach them the ad-
vantage Of the opposite course.
A New Yorker writes to the papers that
ne can't so to church without being ''awful-
II shocked by the tobacco juice Of the boys
and the ,firtati rs of the girls.
The drought in France is so extreme
that the working-women are gratuitously
transported to the River Rhine BIZ the rail-
way companies, In order to wash their family
linen.
-California sends denial of the report
that she is already overcrowded. Figures
are given by the Alta California to show that
the demand for labor is greater than the
supply.
+ 1t is remarked that the sewing women
are the only working people who never strike.
AAclK SEt w 5IIidil lO1eEu ,HI1u
of course they have no strength for violent
exertion.
The population of France is shown By the
latest statistics to be IS, 067, 07S people; 49,
Ola, 100 are men; e, O52, 965 are women. The
excess OF women is smaller than in the New
England States.
"A gentleman in Davenport, Iowa, has SO
constructed his dwelling house that, every
thirty minutes, it is completely exhausted Of
all the air it contains, and re-tilled with pure
fresh air from without.
"A celebrated old document known as the
National Covenant Of Scotland signed two
hundred and thirty years ago by the Scottish
people, is at present in Canada, in possession
Of family called Henderson. ba Ao
Mortimer Doesticks Thompson prints in
the last number OF the Public Spirit magazine
an article entitled Lost. wherein ne endeav-
ors to show forth that Ia the greater proper
ton of sudden and mysterious disappearances
in the New York metropolis are purposely
effected, BY persons who desire, through
crime and shame, to become s'losts to their
friends and acquaintance. Is4t