Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
greuities.
Miscellaneous Items.

"A one-armed veteran organ grinder SAYS
he has received on Broadway, New York, IN
one day, as much as $50.
"A sign on Bowery corner in New York
reads: Persons standing here will consider
themselves loafers."
A skating rink is nov in process of cree
ton in Boston. The building is of brick, and
will accommodate 500 skaters and seat 5000
spectators.
A Portland gentleman going out of his
house, stumbled over dog in the entry, fell
and broke his nose, then attempted to kick
the dog, but missed him and kicked over a
hat-stand, put his ankle out of joint, and was
laid up six months.
"A young rhinoceros has just been landed
IN this country, the first for twenty years. He
will not get his growth for twenty. years, but
weighs {, 900 pounds, and eats daily two bush
els of corn, one bushel of potatoes, and 300
pounds of hay, drinking fifteen to twenty
buckets of water.
-Osmond Patten, of West oreland, Oneida
county, New York. was stung directly over the
left eye, on the 21st inst, by a honey bee.
The sting was soon taken out, but IN about
fifteen minutes he became dizzy and faint, and
although sensible at times, grew rapidly
worse, and died in three hours.
Augustus, on reading an account of the
murder of a woman, declared that the man
who would kill woman must be vulgar
fend. "Why, Gus" exclaimed his sister, Il
thought you'd prided yourself on being a
lddy-hiper ever since your mustache took
root !" Augustus was silent.
DR.. Biggar, of Cleveland, was called last
Friday, to set the dislocated shoulder of a
man who had been sparring. AS his friends
were carrying the patient up stairs for treat
ment, some of the drunkest Of them let HIM
fall. The patient as he fell struck on the dis
located shoulder, and knocked it back to its
place, so that the doctors services were not
required.
M ~ a
five years ago an Ethan Allen colt was en-
trusted to the care of Harrison Rogers, of
Bridgewater, Mass. for training. That gen
tleman pronounced him valuelesS as racer.
and he was sold in Boston for one hundred
and twenty dollars. The man who was fortu-
nate enough to buy him at that price has re-
comfy refused twelve thousand dollars for
the stallion.
"A flag has just been manufactured in Bos-
ton, by r. NJ. Yale, to the order of Hon. An
SOD Burlingame, for the use of the Chinese
Embassy, which will be displayed from the
quarters of the distinguished visitors in all of
the principal places they visit during the full
fllment of their mission. The flag is made of
yellow bunting, with a blue border, measuree
3Ox2O feet, and bears upon 1t q monster drag
on, painted in blue, and extending it's entire
length.
Powers is now employed upon statue to
which he has not yet given name. 1t might
be called THE Last of the Race" A tall,
beautiful Indian woman lis represented as in
the act of running, but with a WEAKNESS of
body and limb that indicates that the end of
her flight is near Her head is turned to one
side, as if listening to the sound of pursuit.
The face expresses both fear and pain, not
sharp and desperate, but dulled by tho knowl-
edge of an inevitable fate.
Among other American sensations that
London is undergoing this year may be noted
the new and striking picture of Bierstadt,
now on exhibition. 1t represents VesuviUs
in of the grandest phases of her late vol
canic fury, and so real, vivid and startling are
the colors that it is difficult to believe it a
mere illusion. The scene Is at night and the
fiery, dazzling glare of the eruption, which
crimsons both earth and sky, is blended and
softened by silveTy moonlight The effect is
wonderful and beautiful, and will add vastly
to the artists reputation.
Very little pure wine or brandy is now to
be had in France. Real brandy is nearly IN
known to the classes who like it most. 1t is
with strong alcohol, distilled from
fecula-colored, sweetened, and made twenty
years old IN ten minutes-so as to deceive the |
most expert connOisseurs. The government |
Inspectors confine themselves to preventing |
as much as possible the addition of noxious |
and dangerous substances. The disposition |
to drunkenness seems to increase in the low |
er classes with the scarcity of unadulterated |
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