Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-02
9reuitirs.
Miscellaneous Items.

The Pacific whale fishery has proved
failure this year.
1t is reported that the Dirsrael govern
ment is about TO create twelve new peers.
Lord Lytton is writing play for the
London Lyceum, to be called the ''Sea Rover"
Recent wet weather has greatly dam
aged wheat sacks in Genesee Valley, New
York. PEE
Two belligerent .agriculturists at Mis-
souri, fair shot at each other and killed young
woman.
It is asked. evil the coming woman
work." Will Mr.. Parton elucidate the ques-
ton?
The waters of the Seine are now so low
that navigation near Paris is entirely sus-
pended. 3ih
This years crop of cranberries in New
Jersey viii require $4,000 barrels OF sugar to
sweeten.
1t has been discovered that the higher
branches were part OF the original tree of
knowledge.
France has given two ifon-clads to Tur-
key, and lent an officer to teach the OTien-
tails how to use them
An edict comes up from New York that
no more photographs must be exchanged
if you would be in style
The Sorosis societies have finally decided
to adopt the tea leaf as their emblem. 1t will
make good Irvine for the members.
The pretty Princess Dagmar writes very
graceful sonnets, and even her marriage has
not caused her to hang her harp on a willow.
"A chap in Memphis has written fif v
page pamphlet to prove that Abraham Lin
coin was the Cog foIetold by the prophet
Ezekiel
Phillip Miller, Detroit carpenter, fell
from scaffolding in the operahouse in that
city, on Saturday last, and was killed in
stantly.
The foot of the Venus de Medici is in
! length One-seventh of the height of the whole
figure, and in width little more than one
eighteenth.
-Greeley says the sale of his american
Conflict fell off fearfully as soon as that
howl was raised against the author for baihng
jeff. Davis.
Richard Lupton killed a pelican, recently,
on North Skunk river, near Union Mills, Iowa,
that measured seven feet and two inches,
from tip TO tip.
"A curate who believes that the lower
orders of the English clergy are underpaid,
proposes clerical strike as a means ofsecuT-
ing better wages.
-High-buttoned vests, bright-colored plain
silk scarfs, tight trousers, large coats, and
Tapped talmas for overcoats, are the fash
ions for gentlemen.
"A devotee of fashion predicts that anoth-
er season of short ball dresses, tight boots,
and an agOniZed expression on the faces of
the wearers, will be III fashion.
"A Michigan paper says ''there was never
perhaps, a state which required SO many pi-
oncers as Ohio to settle 1t, where they
lived so long and died so often"
The daily ornaments of Ben. Griffith, a
Texan desperate, were three siX-shOOters
and double-barreled shot gun. Through
the energy of a sheriff lac now ornaments a
rustic graveyard.
Mr. John Currier, Jr., OF Newburyport.
Mass, has just launched his eightieth YES
sci, most of which were ships, and has laid
the keel of the eighty-frst. He is the lreavi-
est ship builder i'll New England.
The religious services of Boston Com
mon are attended by large audiences
Preaching there was in vogue l2S years ago
The celebrated Whitfield and James Daven-
port, of New York, drew large assemblages.
While sinking well at Antelope Station,
on the Union Pacific Railroad, human skele-
ton was found eighty feet from the surface
the diggers having previously passed through
rock formation six feet thick. There's
''lead" for the Mr.. Pickwicks.
Arthur Kellogg, a thresher, was killed by
lightning near Fulton, Iowa, on Friday morn
ing last. Tho lightning struck stack of
straw at the same time, setting it on fire, in
the flames of which Kellogg body was al
most entirely consumed before he was missed
by his companions.
Greeley, in his Ledger ''Recollections,r
says OF his American Conflict" 1.-THE sale of
my history very large and steady down to
the date Of the clamor raised touching the
bailing of jeff. Davis, when it almost ceased
for a season; thousands who had subscribed
for it refusing to take their copies, t. the sore
disappointment and loss of the agents -
There are few people who have not been
occasionally puzzled whether to write ei or IL
ia the words that 50 represent the sound of
long e. A very simple rule, says schoolmas-
ter, removes all difficulty. When the dip
thong follows c, it is always ei-ceiing, con
ceive, etc; when it follows any other letter, it
is always ie-gricf friend, niece, etc.
Tho street robbers with whom London is
infested just now, have hit upon new dodge |
\ ruffian sto0ps down, as if iii the act of ty- |
ing his shoe, and then suddenly bouncing mp |
butts his head violently into the stomach Of J
a pedestrian who Is passing and sends him /
head over heels Contederates then pounce I
upon their victim, and fleece him of all his |
money.
An English artist writes to the London |
Athen9um, to complain of the heavy duty !
ten per cent, imposed by the American tariff |
upon imported pictures, and says, II leave it |
to your readers to Judge of the state of Art in /
a country of such boosted freedom, when ma
tive artists require such ample protection |
from foreigners. To judge by the character
Of the English pictures sent to this country,
duties equivalent to a total prohibition might |
be imposed upon them without serious detri- /
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