Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-02-12

Secretary had of Mr.. Carpenters ability.
In the Senate Mr.. Carpenter will find
congenial field where, as orator, scholar
and jurist, he will fad among the new
members no superiors and few equals.
Lecture by Henry Ward Beecher.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER lectured in
Plymouth Church last week on the sub
iect of rational amusements. The main
idea of the lecture, which was elaborate
ly illustrated, was the fact that man must
have pleasure, recreation, amusement
outside of his daily occupation, for the
sake of economy of strength, for the
sake of industry, and for the sake of life
itself. He closed as follows
/ shall not attack or defend the thea
ire in its moral aspects. They please
only small portion of the population
dwelling in cities, and whom nothing
else could please. Where they are pro-
vided for they are enormously expensive.
One theatre costs more than twenty lee
lures or clubs. The best plays of
Shakespeare are spoiled in the attempts
to act them. What is more pleasant
than to read the witches of Shakespeare,
and what is more ludcrous than to see
the witches as represented upon the
stage-if | am rightly informed =? Good
dramas do satisfy the tastes of these
people, and So we see Hamlet played
once year and Humpty Dumpty a hun
dred times. AmuseTents are called for
more than anything else to give play to
the muscle. There is talking about who
the coming man will be and how he is
coming. | think he is coming on a We
locipede. | have bought two machines
for my boys. I should net wonder if
the day came when the thousands of the
congregation of Plymouth Church would
be seen slowing away their velocipede
machines in a proper quarter. The game
of billiards is a gentle exorcise-it stands
first Of ali games, and the only objection
is the associations around the billiard
rooms | could not ask you to 90 to
them Base ball and cricket are good
Yachting is a good amusement, but it is
not within the reach of all; but the oar
is democratic; and its use is healthy nd
pleasureable. Driving of horse is good
exercise. 1t is not cruel to race unless a
man wishes to be cruel. The pedestrian
is not injured by running fast; nor is the
hnrca. hut tho hattinor l;oh e 81 ..
man is the objection. The fast driving is
not. Dancing is good healthy amuse-
ment, and there is no injury in it, but a
midnight dance is not right. 1t may be
an innocent or a wicked pleasure. That
is wrong that does wrong, and that is
right that does right. | perceive have
taken more time than | intended to-
That is all.
AGRICULTURE IN GERMANY.-From
the special German correspondent of the
Iowa Homestead, we clip the following
picture of farming in some parts of Ger
many:
The fields of grain will compare well,
as regards size, with an ordinary city lot.
Indeed many of them are much smaller.
Perhaps two by eight rods would be
their average size. This, of course, re-
ters to the fertile plains where the entire
surface is under cultivation, and not to
the highlands that are appropriated to
raising timber, or to pasturage. Little
corner stones mark the boundaries Of
these small farms and lots. l think that
the objec. of thus dividing into such small
lots is to secure better opportunity for a
regular and systematic relation of crops.
Side by side, with only deep furrow
between, one sees there little patches of
wheat, cats, barley, peas. potatoes, etc.
When one can look over large tract
Of country, the different tins given
by the various little fields give the land
scape the appearance of huge chess
board.
.g A noted disciplezof vulcan, ia our
town, says Pike county paper, return
ed to his home little late, and consid-
erabIy dunk the other night. His whis-
ky would not stay drunk, but sought the
outer world with the natural gusto of n
strong emetic. He was standing over a
basket in which some goslings were
snugly wrapped for the night. But they
didn't like whiskey, and set up such a
cry as only goslings can.-Mr Vulcan
was exceedingly amazed, and exclaimed
in great alarm" My God. wife! when'd
l swallor them are things?"
g" Is that marbleG" inquired n
gentleman, pointing to a bust of Ken