Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-22

Miscellaneous items.

in Italy.
There are 5000 students of muaic
in Boston.
Lord Brougham has lost the power
of speech.
Louisville is crazy over Fanny ia
nauschek.
London has thirty two licensed
play-houses.
The tallest man in Cincinnati is
six feet seven.
ks. is the authorized abbreviation
for Kansas.
We have six squadrons, fifty. one
vessels, on foreign service.
One New York concern this year
publishes 432 varieties of valentines.
"A billiard hall, fitted up at cost
of $50, 900, has been opened in Omaha.
"A boy of fourteen is imprisoned in
Cleveland, o., for beating his mother.
The real estate of Jefferson Davis
in the south is reported to be worth
$50. 600
Robins migrating northward have
been driven back by the cold into
Florida.
The Washington National Mnnu-
ment is making an effort to get up in
the world.
On dh, that Robert Lincoln is
soon to marry Senator Hsrlan's
daughter.
"A French engineer wants to build
bridge across the Channel for $50, :
900, 900.
-One-third of the deaths in New
Orleans last year were caused by yell
low fever.
Two farms near Glasgow. Missouri,
we're sold the other day at the rate f
$50 an acre.
1t has cost nearly three millions of
dollars to supply the National banks
with notes.
The color now fashionable in Paris,
''Mentans Red" is brilliant shade,
like ruby.
The editor of the Moscow Gazette
speaks and writes seventeen different
languages.
Lands are given away along the
line of the Florida railroad to induce
emigration.
In Lebanon, ILL.,, full,blooded
negro, named DR.. Ball, edits demo-
cratic paper.
AT Joliet, H., Sunday, six mem
bers of the Black Crook playing there
were married.
Every daily paper in New York is
stock concern, except the Herald,
Express, and Mail.
Stealing gates is one of the fash
ionable amusements in New Haven
among young men.
1t is proposed to uniform the letter
carriers of New York in dark blue, with
cap and red faciDgs.
"A newly married editor has dis
covered that there is q deal of illusion
about evening dresses.
The dresses of the darcers in the
'sWhite Fawn' are two inches shorter
than those worn IN Paris.
One hundred and sixty four per-
sons were run over and killed by
horses in London last year.
The report of the Patti-Caux mar
Rage is revived, the day being fixed
about two months hence.
"A forlorn editor says it IS hard to
live without wife--nO gentle heart to
get up mornings to build the fire.
Speaker CoIfax gives official din
ners in Washington without wine. He
has always been temperance man.
The Boston organists are id to
plav airs from the "Grand Do chess" to
delighted congregations on Sundays.
More than a hundred Inen make a
livelihood in New York by catching
rats and selling them to the rat-pits.
1t is said that the recent practical
Joke played on Mrs. Harrison Gray
Otis has been traced TO a near relative.
Dull times don't prevent the &C.
curreDce of numerous fancy dress par
ties and masquerades in New Orleans
There have never been so many
| beggars in New York as now, and there
has not been for years so much suffer
ing.
"A live fish, five inches long, was
| found inside of an oyster she'll at
Nashua, New Hampshire, the other
day.
California has expended $500, 900
! in gold on her state capitol, and ex-
poets to pay as much more before it IS
done.
"A French restaurant in New York
is about TO try the experiment. of intro
ducing horse flesh as one OF its deli
cacies.
Governor Pickering, of Washington
Territory, says that 400, 900. 900 feet of
lumber is annually sawed in Puget's
Sound.
There is a man in Kentucky who
was born without ears, and a great
many who were born with enough for
| two men.
The carriers of Susan ADthonyis
paper, the Revolution, are chiefly little
girls, wearing pretty uniform, short
red dress.
The Boston Pilot thinks the man
is living who will see majority of the
inhabitants of the United States Roman
Catholics.
1t is calculated that the sum ex-
pended for sleigh-riding IN New York
at present amounts to over 100000
per day.
The Havana lottery, it is said,
draws a million Of dollars annually
from the pockets of the inhabitants of
New Orleans.
Brigham Young exorts the Saints
to 'Iet doctors alone, and faithfully
abide the word of the Lord relating to
the SICK"
New Hampshire has published a
lnxu making IL a nPnal Offence TO de-