Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-08
q REVIviEs.
Miscellaneous Items.

Marc is not succeeding at st.
Petersburg.
-Dade city is the latest western
mushroom.
Nebraska has $4,000, 900 acres of
unimproved land.
Mrs. Lander is playing to immense
audiences in st. Louis.
1t costs 948, 900 to transfer Maxi
miliau's body to Trieste.
Two Wisconsin hunters killed 90
| deer lately in one expedition.
Three infant lions have Just seen
the light in Baltimore circus.
Tho new troupe of Japs IN New
York have Miss 'All Right"
The production of 1.-THE White
Fawn" at Niblo's cost 100000.
The negro population of Lexing-
ton, KY, is estimated at 10000.
Theodore Martin, the translator of
Horace and Faust" is to be knighted.
Senior Romero has accepted a po-
sition In the Cabinet of President Ju-
arez.
Henry Ward Beecher expects to
devote five or SIX years to his Life of
Christ"
"A firm in Maine used over $4,000
bushels of potatoes last year In making
starch.
The ruins of an Aztec city have
been found twerty-seven miles from
Santa Fe.
One of the Hartford, Conn, banks
has declared a stock dividend of 80
per cent.
"A ''lady" 10 Detroit has undertaken
to skate thirty consecutive hours with.
out rest.
There are twenty-five Masonic
Lodges and 1854 Masons in Rhode
Island.
George Peabody has presented to
Cyrus W. Field service of silver cost
ing $4,000.
Last year 1905 patents were is
sued in this country-3.5 15 more than
the past year.
"A family living near Burnt Cabins,
Pa, has lost five children by diphthe-
ria in six days.
The ''Octaroon" has been revived
in London, with J. s. Clarke as ''Salem
Scudder."
"A favorite dish with the Chinese is
balls of cotton fried in oil and stuffed
with beetles.
An individual IS under arrest in
New Orleans for assault and battery on
an elephant.
Two men have agreed to skate one
hundred miles on the Hudson, for
81, 900 a side.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams has the
largest private library in New England
-18, 900 volumes.
Sixteen divorces were granted in
Henry county, Ill, at the last term of
the Circuit Court.
of thirty mine babies born In
West Brookfield, Mass, last year,
twenty-four were girls.
The West Troy Cooperative
Foundry has cleared over five thousand
dollars in five months.
-Proportionable to populations.
Providence, r. l., is the wealthiest
city in the United States.
San Antonio, Texas, recently haI a
sale of sheep in which they brought
twenty-five cents head.
John Henry, of Charlotte, Va, the
last surviving son of Patrick Henry,
died on the 7th, aged 70.
Mr.. Harvey, of Cincinnati, project
or of the Skating Rink, has just re-
ceived patent therefor.
Lord Ranelagh has had to pay
twenty shillings and costs for smoking
on the street cars in London.
"A Louisville lager brewer, married
about year, was presented last Thurs
day with family of four sons.
There is movement looking to-
waTd the admission of both sexes to
the Iowa Agricultural College.
The work of rebuilding William
and Mary College well be completed
in season for the October session.
"A Georgia magistrate examines the
teeth of candidates for matrimony, to
ascertain whether they are of age.
"A young woman logged g man on
New York ferry-boat recently, for in
sinuating that her name was Mary Ann.
BY a new law, all English mer-
chant ships are obliged to carry lime
juice and serve it to their crews every
day.
-Four Vermont schoolboys thrashed
their teacher and we're fined for it,
They found that rule didn't work both
ways.
"A company has been organized to
run a line of steamers from Sioux
City to Fort Benton, for Montana
trade.
There are. but two men in South
Carolina who have respectable incomes
since the war, and Trenholm is one of
them.
"A oolored boy peddled herbs in
Alexandria, Va, to obtain money to
bury his mother, who had died of star
walton.
-Four hundred thousand bushels of
coal have been sent down the Ohio
from Pittsburg since the rise of the
water.
One man at Phillips, Maine, has
hauled out 100000 feet of lumber
this winter, and expects to make it five
millions.
Capt. Brewer, sailing master of the
yacht Henrietta, on her voyage across
the Atlantic, died at Savannah on the
18th inst.
Weekly receptions are held by
General Dix in Paris, to which
flock the aristocracy and wealth of that
gay capital
The Finnish famine is so great
that many Finlanders have applied to