Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-18
Personal Items.

The Vermont sculptor, Meade, has taken
to himself an Italian wife.
-Victoria's false teeth are said to greatly
improve her appearance.
One of the Menken's admirers has offered
5000 francs for her horse.
"A young woman died in Baltimore from
being suddenly spoken to-.
Cyrus W. Field intends to buy farm on
the Hudson, ana retire from public life.
The Rev. Orty Skply, who wrote so ably
in favor of celbacy, has just committed mat
rimony.
-Thackeray always considered Robert
Browning prince of snobs, and Thackeray
was right.
-Wilkie Collins spent three months over
his plot of ''The Moonstone," before he be-
gan to write.
"A generous woman has offered the Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary $4,000 worth of
books to start library.
-Tennyson has an income from his works
of about $1,000 per annum, and is said TO be
exceedingly thrifty withal.
Victor Hugo's latest romance is now COM
pleted. 1t will be called ''92." The French
publisher pays 100, 600 francs Tor the work.
"A sister of J. Allen, the ''ex-wickedest
man" has been twice married and once d.
vOrced from the same man in Chicago, and
now she wants second divorce.
-Nelaton, the Paris surgeon, when COM
mencing practice, used to employ boys to
bring him news of any accident on the street
that he might rush out and secure case.
In that way he made great reputation in
surgery.
Olive Logan has been engaged to lecture
before the Boston Bay State Lyceum, along
with John b. Cough, Beecher, and the other
Iectureieelebrities. She is now busily en-
ployed in fulfilling her promises to magazine
editors, by writing steadily eight hours
day.
"A blacksmith OF drunken habits, named
James Wallace, residing in Chicago, was sit
ting at breakfast about Q o'clock Sunday
morning, when he suddenly fell back dead.
An inquest held in the afternoon re suited in
verdict of death from apoplexy, caused by
incorporate habits.
-Eleazer Fitch, of Lebanon, Connecticut,
attempted to chastise Mrs. Fitch the other
day, but she rebeiled, mastered him, stripped
him of his clothes, drove him to bed, then
packed up her things and the family funds,
and went to Hartford The heart-broken
EleaZer then took stTychnine, but the doctors
pumped him out
The only son of the celebrated Carl Ma
ria Won Weber, a composer OF the FreiSchutZ
and Oberon, is popular magazine writer in
Germany; Memberships son also writes for
the Salon and other magazines, and Richard
Wagner himself has promised a number OF
articles to the Gaifealdabe and other literary
periodicals.
"A pleasant incident of the excursion of
the Chinese embassy to Lawrence Mass
was the introduction of Rev. RoDert CoIlyer
TO Mr.. Burlingame, and their mutual recogni-
ton of each other. Mr.. Burlingame while
stumping the state of Pennsylvania, in 1856
received from Mr.. Collyer Cat that tj.ao a
blacksmithl the gift of a hammer made by
his own hands.
The illustrious Tetzel, with whom Martin
Luther had little unpleasantness during
the early stages of the Reformation, seems
to have risen from the dead in the goodly
city of Hamburg. The Chief of Police, a
gentleman by the name of Weber has order
ed ali stores, &C., to be closed ON Sunday,
but those who pay a certain fee into the
police fund are allowed to keep open.