Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-11
.lIatIl III eiltle.
Miscellaneous Items.

NO Hgnt rs allowed TO DE cafTleu III thc
British Museum on any pretense whatever.
The land of teachers and traders-China.
Every child of 10 years old can read and write
Chinese.
Sir Henry Bulwer tells his constituents
that England's immediate business is to con-
ciliate Ireland.
"A generous woman has offered the Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary $4,000 worth OF
books to start library.
"A horse flesh banquet is to be given this
fall by we lthy gentleman OF New York a
due report of it will appear.
DR.. J. III. Caldwell, formerly of Waterloo,
Iowa, and popular lecturer on the horse,
was recently murdered in Texas.
The expenses of the Associated Press, not
withstanding the extra cost of cable dispatch
es, are 600 less than they were two years
ago.
The Chinese have a gambling house at
Grass Valley, California, with a hrst-clasS oar
room, where liquors are served IN American
style.
The Pontificial Zouaves are all armed
with the needle gun. Each gun has been sep
arately blessed, so as to make 1t doubly
deadly.
"A man in Ohio got tired while blaekber-
ry1ng, slept upon railway, and his TRENDS
had to do the rest of his '.burylng for
him.
Six and half millions is the price at
which the Hudson Bay Company proposes to
sell Its proprietary American interest to the
British Government.
"A letter from Soria in Spain, says that
the pine forests have been burning eighty
days, and the number of trees consumed will
not be less than $4,000, 000
On one of the lines of railroad leading
ont of Carlisle, England, a free pass is given
for seven years to any one who will erect a
residence of the value of f500.
"A water-cure costing $4,000 is to be
erected at Centerville, Ind. There are valu-
| able mineral springs just east of the town,
near which the cure is to be built.
Miss Amy Girdlestone, Miss Ames), who
| made her first appearance upon any stage at
the Arch street Theatre, is to play at Broug-
hams Fifth Avenue Theatre next season.
Queen Victoria slept through the journey
from CherbOurg to Paris. 1t took eight hours.
She travels with thirty cooks and fiunkies
John Brown, in full Highland costume, is one
o them.
The Indianola iTexas) Bulletin, of the
] 18th inst, contradicts the report of yellow
/ fever at that place. The Bulletin saws that
| there has not been case of the disease there
| this season.
Some enterprising Philadelphian has
taken out patent for the manufacture of
wooden shirt bosoms and collars, the materi-
al being the same as that now used in spa
pering" rooms.
John Broug hams new novel, of which so
much was predicted, turns out to be an ex-
pansion in narrative form of his play, ''The
Lottery of Life" tbs to appear serially in a
weekly story paper.
"A magazinist makes a grumbling porter
at the Springs say: you cali that trunk, do
you 1t only needs lightning rcd to make it
| look darned sight more like a boarding
house than what's to be found in SaTatogy -
An English civil engineer proposes that
| when rain clouds hover over any district re-
| curing rain, a good volley shall be fired from
heavy guns, which, he says, will have the
effect of shaking the rain out of the atmos-
phere.
An Irishman catching sight of an adveT
Using card got up to resemble a gold piece
on one side. with sudden rush seized the
prize, turned it over, and with the most COM
ical look, said to the clerk: ''Be CORY, when
saw that l thought Seymour was elected
sure"
The Gazette de Cologne states that IL
consequence of the extreme heat, portion
of the rails upon the track between Dussel-
dorf and Duisbourg, have been warped and
twisted, so that they resemble serpents, and
the trains have been detained for several
hours, until they could be replaced.
A widow of Louisville eloped with
promising Young merchant and set up house
keeping in Indiana only to find that her de
votiOn was unappreciated, and, one morning,
that her quasi husband had again eloped,
this time with her daughter, whose age was
seventeen.
1t is proposed to number the organ
grinders in England, and license them, in
order to insure their good conduct and their
punishment in cases of misbehavior. The
Bishop of Oxford, on hearing Of the plan.
said that so far ass he was concerned. he had
rather see the Exodus than the Numbers of
the organ men.
--Goethe's mother said of herself: ''Order
and uuiet are nv characteristics. / despatch
at once what have to do, the most disa
greeable always first, and L gulp down the
devil without looking at him. always seek
out what is good in people, and leave what is
bad to Him who made mankind and knows
how to round off the angles"
An ancient mound, near COvington, Ken
tuckY, was re Gently explored. 1t was about
Is feet high and 100 feet in circumference.
At the bottom of the mound was layer of
ashes, about 10 inches deep. in which were
found a number of eharred bones. and few
pieces of pottery, supposed to be the remains
of the ante-Indian period.
The piercing of the tunnel through Mont
Gents continues to advance satisfactorily. On
the 1st of June s 1874 metres had been com
pleted; during that month sixty additional
metres have been finished on the southern
side. and fiftv-four on the northern. making
a total of g. 49S out of the whole length of 49,
300, leaving 3, 722 metres yet to be executed.
"A bridge with two draws, at an estimated
cost of s2,000,000 is proposed to be built
across the Delaware at Philadelphia. The
flooring IS to be % feet above the high water
mark at the drawbridges, and 100 feet in the
center, or sufficient to allow the largest
steamers to pass under it. though vessels of
the largest dimensions will pass through the
draws.
The roof of the new dem cratic wigwam
at Detroit fell in yesterday afternoon, with a
most disastrous result. One of the work
men, named Meek, had his head crushed in,
and cannot live. Six others were more or
less hurt three quite seriously, but none IA |
tally. Among them was Mr.. st. Aubin, for
merly democratic member of the Legisla- |
ture from Detroit.
An editor in Germany has been heavily |
fined for selling space in his editorial columns |
to M. Blanc, of the Hamburg gambling-hell. |
M. Blanc has filled the space he bought with |
startling accounts Of the heavy losses which |
the bank was reported to have sustained; |
these accounts were, of course, entirely fic- |
titious, and only destined to attract the gud- |
geons to Hamburg.
M Boirgaud, who was for eleven years a
prisoner and chief armourer of King Theo- |
dore. denies that he committed suicide, and |
his own officers. He also states that the ball |
entered the back of his neck. M. Bourgaud /
will shortly publish book under the title of
seThe Announcer of Theodore, or eleven years
captivity in Abyssinnia."
"A friend tells us good thing of wound
ed soldier who in 1864, was brought from the /
Weldon Road to City Point, on the James. As
he Law on the stretcher, an old woman passed |
along peddling pies known as turn overs,
the crTlsts of which were of the real ironelad /
species The soldier bought one, and after /
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