Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-04
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Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous items.
Montana exhibits gold bar worth in coin
s24, 722. 50.
-''Uniform Currency'-the money paid to
the soldiers.
To puff ones self, in the Chicago dialect,
lie to 'bloyiate."
The south viii more than supply itself
with breadstuffs this year.
Tenderness is passion in repose, and
passion tenderness aroused.
-sun-eured oysters are becoming popu-
lar article of traffic in California.
The woman jealous through vanity Is
more dangerous than the woman jealous
through love.
Bodies are now in favor again, open
down the front, with lace ehimisettes under
meath, and lace bow craTats on the back.
We import more buttons than books, and
export more firearms than any other manu-
facturc Of iron or steel.
Tho freshet in the Little Kanawha last
week enabled forty boats loaded with oil to
reach market at Parkersburg
Never let a man know you understand
his peculiarities; for he likes to fiatter him
self, that no Is the only one VINO knows
them.
The saw mills at Muskegon, Mich, are
valued at 81 COO. 900, and about two thou
sand men are engaged in the manufacture OF
lumber
-Dessicated Goldfish, canned is now an ar
ticle Of sale 1t is freed from all skin and
bone. and one Philadelphia concern puts up
three tons daily.
Russia sends fourteen Thousand criminals
to Siberia every year. One-1fth OF them die
from the fatigue of the journey, twenty-six
hundred miles. which is performed foot.
The waters of Lake Winnipiseogee are
said to be much warmer this year than usual,
so much so that the fish strike off from their
usual places TO fiiid the deepest and coolest
water.
-Grasshoppers are seriously damaging the
vineyards in Missouri. Their operations are
peculiar. They eat the stem that supports
the grape clusters, and let the lunches fall to
the ground.
"A lunatic at the Northern (Ohio) Asylum
a few days ago attempted to take the keys
from an attendant, when two or three Of his
fellow lunatics seized him and gave him a Sc
we're pounding.
There are six sugar refincries in Phila-
delphia, which refine about 100, 600, 600 pounds
per year OF raw sugar, costing at present
prices s22, 0OO, 600 in gold. After being re-
tined it sells for S26, SOC. 900.
The town of Lapointe, Lake Superior,
was mostly destroyed by fire on the Attn inst.
The Northwestern Hotel, tho store and resi-
dence of Henry Smith, and the residence Of
Julius Austin, are among the losses.
Milton White poisoned himself with
strychnine, in Fabins, n. l., the other day
His father had ordered him away from home
on account OF lazy shlftle5sness, and rather
than go to work, the youth concluded 10 die.
The Cleveland (Ohio) City Council had
approved contract with MI. William Waleutt
to execute statues OF a sailor boy and mid
shlpman, to be placed in proper positions on
the Perry monument. The sum 10 be paid Is
50 900.
Capt. Gregor has discovered the remains
of an enormous animal at koOringa, South
Australia. Among the bones discovered is
part of the lower jaw, in which the teeth are
embedded five inches The teeth measure
two and half inches across the surface, each
way.
The bullion in the vaults of the Bank OF
France, which ON August 9th was stated to
amount to $3.50, 900, 600 in gold, till continues
to increase The latest official statement da
ted August 18th, reports that the deposits
had been augmented by the sum of Sc, S00,
600.
"A southerner is now ia Boston, who has
invented a machine for rejoicing the cane OF
the Florida canebrakes to fibre, and this fibre
he thinks he can put down IN Boston at two
cents pound. 1t is claimed to be equal to
cotton rags for the making of paper, and su-
peTior to Manila hemp for the manufacture
or cofdage.
"A history, by Earl Stanhope, of The reign
Of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utretch,
which will be a connecting link between the
conclusion OF Lord Macauley's history and
the beginning of Lord Stanhope's Lord
Mahon's) viii, it is announced, be shortly
published.
The Tallsker Silver Mining Company, Of
South Australia, have sold in London during
the past six months. FIVE shipments OF silver
lead, weighing 103 tons, and containing LAYS
ounces Of silver. There are now in transit to
the Company agent. in London, FIVE ether
shipments, weighing 122 tons, and contain
ing g, OPS ounces Of silver, making a total Of
Is. sos ounces Of silver and 225 tons Of lead
shipped during the past six months.
-N0dar, OF Pans, recently succeeded in ac-
comprising what sGCGps have long regarded
as al impossibility. He started III the Cap
tive balloon, and at 800 metres above tie
earths surface was enabled 80 skillfuily to ar
range his apparatus that Ill two hour Ee
alighted on this neither earth with series Ct
proofs representing the plane sphere Of Paris
with minute correctness never hitherto Ob-
tanned fTcIn balloon, thus proving the stra-
tegic services which, during siege. might be
obtained by photographs taken from Cloud
land.