Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-15
RREvITiES


the menken is going 20 california.
Horace Greeley is 81 years old to
day.
The New York Blot Club is a sue
cess.
Ballet girls in London get $4 9
week. Ter
"A minor chord-a "short" load oil
wood.
-Napoleon's boy viii be twelve in
March.
Olive Logan will return to the
stage.
Elephant steak is the latest French
novelty.
Maine instructs her delegates to go
for Grant.
Paper pantelettes are the latest
notion.
-Meerschaum pipes are now made
of potatoes.
Toronto ladies are forming snow
shoe clubs.
No one in Texas owns to having a
gold watch.
Great religious revivals are in pro.
gress in Iowa.
The incest opera hoods in Paris
cost about $400.
"A cooperative store has been
started in Newark.
Two women run a printing Office
in Ossippee, N. H.
-Du Ohaillu has forehead on the
back of his head.
Dickens sou, Charles Jr., is stroke
oar of boat Club.
Building associations are multiply
ing in st. Louis.
Homeopathic physicians in Erie
have cut down rates.
Several Indians were recently nstu-
ralized at Topeka.
New York has. lady physician
whose income is $4,000.
Ohio fell $4,000 behind meeting
the expenses of the mails.
George Alfred Townsend has been
writing about skating"
Fifteen Dukes and Counts serve as
privates in the Papal army.
There is less suffering at the south
than is generally supposed.
L. N. fell on the ice in the Bots de
Boulogne, and injured it.
Americans eat yearly Al pounds OF
sugar each, oman average.
-Transations from Hawthorne are
becoming popular in France.
There are %, 693, 427 acres of I'M
improved land IN farms IN Texas.
Thirteen divorce cases are on the
docket of the Supreme Court of Maine.
The Germans in Cincinnati have
waltzing matches for barrels of lager
beer.
1t is terrible fact that there are
100, 600 drunken women In the United
States.
"A cat has just died in Cleveland,
o., at the uncommon flor cats) age OF
% years.
The Princess of Wales has recov-
cred sufficiently TO be able to go to
church.
The Cooper Unions receipts last
year were $39, $685. expenses, $780,
225.31.
"A child with six mature teeth was
recently born at North Adams, Massa-
chusetts. .....
The Viceroy of Egypt has got Ed
mund About to write book about that
country.
Charleston has now a population
of only $4,000, Before the war it had
40, 900.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Com.
psny carried 1850 through passengers
last year.
"A young lady in Columbus, Ohio,
died the ether day from over-exertion
in skating.
"A party of rufians in Detroit gag.
ged woman by stufing an apple into
her mouth.
<Eugenie shot thirty-one head OF
game with her own fair hands the
other day.
The Sitkans are rapidly learning
the American method of swearing. -
Our first gift.
"A Boston paper says: "Whlsky
worth So per gallon retailed by the glass
brings $27. -
Clever and well-recommended
saleswomen get fifty dollars per year
and board.
Five generations lately met in the
house of Mr.. Dolliver, of North Ellis
worth, Me.
The projected soldiers monuments
10 the United States will cost over
$25, 100000. .ssrr
1T is asserted that 'frst-class bars"
make 500 per cent. profit on their
sales of liquor. .a.a
-Four field marshals have been
added to the British army, making
seven in all. .t
-Lamartine desires that his death
shall not again be announced until it
actually occurs.
The Montreal Gazette calls Nova
Scotia, by an intentional inadvertence,
South Carolina.
Those who have tried it, say that
elephant meat becomes palatable after
"a hours boiling.
1t costs million aud half dollars
a year TO do the printing for the ma
tional government.
1t is said that Brevet Major Gener-
al Grierson was in 1843 banjo player
in Youngstown, Ohio.
William b. Astor's real estate is
said 60 increase about 81, 600, 600 year
by the natural advance.
--Lorrillard paws over one-sixth of
the tobacco tax. Yet he manufactures
only one-twentieth. rk
The new Gait House. at Louisville,
KY, will cost 81, 200,000 and will be