Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-01
CLIPPINGS.
Miscellaneous items

lately in st. Clair river.
The assessment for the income tag
of 1867, viii commence at once.
The Great Eastern has now been
idle for four months.
The cost of each pupil in the New
York public schools is $40 20 a year.
Eaters of horsehesh In Paris are
said to be suffering from nightmare.
Isaac E. Allen, the attorney general
Of Iowa, has become hopelessly insane.
The Ohio river is 900 miles in
length, and has 500 steamers enrolled
upon it.
in Fiushing,L. l., there is home
stead said to be more than four CEN
turtles old.
Miss Harris, the American canta,
trice, is the ruling Star at the Paris
Italiens.
The widow of the ex-Emperor
Iturbido is ia Paris and in need of
money.
"A boy of twelve, named Dudley
Waller, is astonishing Canada with
readings.
"A man in Norwich dropped a live
coal into bomb shell ''to hear it fizz. 4"
He Leard it.
Charles Dickens is $50 600 better
off than he was when he arrived In this
country last November.
"A young lady fell dead suddenly in
the streets OF New York, recently, from
the effects of tight lacing.
On the New York Central railroad,
by a late regulation, lost time is not to
be made mp by increased speed.
The Yale Courant is about to open
an Intelligence office for students III
want OF innumerative employment.
Sheridan is growing fat in these
piping times of peace. He needs some
chap like Early to give him exercise.
On Monday last Miss Gilbert,
aged 10, residing in Newark, New Jer-
sey, eloped with her fathers coach
man.
Penny readings are successfully
tried Ia Liverpool Choice literary Sc
lections aud only two cents admission
fee.
The new volume of poems by
Adah Menken, just issued in Paris, is
dedicated to my ''friend Charles
Dickens"
Gold in 1867 opened and closed at
very nearly the same figure. 1t stood
Jan. 1. 1867. at 81 %. aud Jan. 1, 1865.
at S1.33 IL.
Four hundred and fourteen brown
stone front buildings were put up in
Brooklyn, New York. during the past
year.
The oldest inhabitant of Detroit is
a negro whose years are said to mum
Der Ia His fifth or sixth wife is
woman of 50.
Mrs. Mary Gray,of Greenup coun-
ty, Kentucky, has been proved, in open
court, to be one hundred and eighteen
years old.
Photographic operators are begin
ming to style themselves ''Tele
gramers, and very bad grammars they
sometimes are.
Near Paris is cemetery having
upon its gate the following inscription:
Only those who live in this commune
are buried here.
Miss Emma Hunt, not discouraged
by the failure OF female suffrage, Is a
candidate for clerk of he Kansas House
of Representative.
-Overcoats are advertised in the
. Derbyshire, (Eng.) Gazette, for 81;
mems boots for S2.75, and full b ack
dress suit for $500.
The poet to when the French
, Academy voted a prize for an ode to
} the martyred Lincoln, is going to send
5000 Of IL to Mrs. Lincoln.
= Work has been suspended for four
centuries on the tower of the Cologne
! Cathedral, but in the spring it will be
begun again after the brief hiatus.
1t has recently been discovered
: that five or six boys of good families,
,, living in WilIiamsville, n. Z. have or
ganized tbieviDg band. The body
has been broken up.
The Chicago Evening Post wants
the reporting OF divorce cases by the
newspapers prohibited. Half the Chi
cago papers would wind up if that was
! done.
MFR. Charles G.. Burleigh, prOmi-
nent merchant and citizen of Saco,
Maine, died instantly Tuesday. He
appeared to be in his usual health the
day before.
1t is proposed to establish in Con-
| neeticut an Industrial School for va
grant AID vicious young girls, and S25,-
900 have already been pledged for the
purpose.
"A iaborer in Silesia picked mp a
SO 900 diamond the other day. The
Prussian government lays hands on
80, 900 and generously let's him keep
the rest.
"A Missourian vindicated his right
to seat his little daughter on hot
stove, by shooting a friend who IN
wisely interfered with the family dis
cipline.
"A COW in West Brattleboro', Vt,
! recently lost large part of her tongue
by Its being bitten off by horse stand
ing In an adjoining stall. The COW was
accustomed to steal hay from her neigh
! Dor, who showed his resentment by de-
priving the culprit of the ''unruly
member"
Miss Letitia Christian Tyler, born
In the presidential mansion, the beau
tiful and accomplished granddaughter
of the late President John Tyler. and
the oldest daughter OF Robert Tyler,
is setting type in the Montgomery
(Ala.1 Advertiser Office.
"A Roman Catholic damsel In Con
nectieut was beloved by Protestant
youth, and loved in return, wherest
her parents arranged her for taking the
veil. Loving the bridal rather than
the coBventual veil, she ran off to