Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-23


Of the afternoon session-say at 8
o'clockl sitting is extremely wearisome
by that time.
II it were possible to conduct recita-
tons apart from the study room, even in
the two higher grades, better and more
rapid attainments might be made by the
pupils, for there would be less confusion,
less friction, stricter and more attentiv e
consideration given to lessons-the
assistant, as now arranged, Temporarily
believe hearing classes in the recita.
ton room, while the study-room teacher,
can attend to the personal wants of every
pupil, etc. B.S.M.
A Coop JoKE-A HUDsoN EDITOR
"soLD."-Some weeks, ago when Asst !.
Assessor FLINT was in HUDSON looking
after The revenues of Uncle Samuel, a
gentleman accosted him on the street and
gave him the startling information that
FRANK HARDIEG was selling Patent
right of stove, and asked if he had a
U. s. license as patent right DEALER
He was promptly informed that Mr..
HARDING had no license for that business,
whereupon the aforesaid gentleman
seemed very anxious to have him as
sessed. Though well aware that Mr..
Hardness patent stove was more use
full in cooking any "greeu" thing whose
bump of inquisitiveness is larger than
the bump of discretion, and as a dealer
in patents, he sold more people than he
did stoves. our assessor received the in
formation very grateful " and SAM. Full
LER went on bis way chuckling at the
huge "seil' he was perpetrating upon the
innocent revenue man.
A week or two elapsed and Mr.. HAIR
DING received the following letter from
the assistant assessor:
Ess'r AssEssoR's OFFICE,
Prescott. Dec. / 1, 1869.
f. d. Harding. Hudson, WIS.
DEAR SIR Il unders:an that you are en-
gagged in selling a patent right of stove or
some of its furniture. If such is the fact you
will require license as a Patent Right
dealer.
Enclosed find application for license as
such. which please sign and return 10 this
office, if the facts in the case are as [ have
stated them. Very truly yours
Il j. FLINT, A. A.
9th Dist.
A private note explained the drift Of
the joke. A summons was to be served
upon S. w. FULLER, by the U. S. Mar
shall. TO appear at the Chaplin Hall House
to attend an examination, in which he
was an important witness, when it was
Intended this great "frode" would be ex
posed, in such a way that FULLER would
call On oysters for the entire court.
II seems, however, that Mr.. HARDING,
being the Dept. U. S. Marshal himself,
did not carry out the programme for
reasons best known to himself, but con
cluded to ''sel" another and an innocent
party. Bro. CLEwRLL, of the Star and
Times, who, by the way, is one of Ma
lures shrewd men, happened TO be down
town on "st i'll hunt" for items one eve
ming. FRANK showed him the above let
ter and remarked that the assistant asses
sor was evidently mistaken as to the ma
turc Of the patcnt,and it would be a good
joke on him TO publish it with appro
pirate observations. STEPHEN, rs limo.
cent and guileless as his martyred name
sake, swallowed the bait, hook and all,
and served up for his readers a heavy mr.
ticle headed "Frode on the Government"
wherein he treated the joke most seri-
ously. We regret that We have lost
that article. We intended it should make
part of this item. How in the world
CLEwELL imagined the assessors letter
was in earnest, and that the writer new
err heard of FRANK CATLlN's stove,
which HARDING sells so extensively, is
far beyond our comprehension. He
must have got his proboscis into the flue
and tho smoke so blinded his eyes that
he was uns Die to ''see the point" We
cannot account for his benighted condi-
ton in any other way.
STEPHEN, my boy, you are badly sold.
We sympathise with you. You owe
FRANK one, and probably always will
fer we never heard that your jokes were
legal tender anywhere. The best way
you can settle it is to tell BowEN, of the
Chaplin Hall House, to order oysters for
four-yourself FULLER, HARDING and
FLINT, and charge the same to your Ed
ncation account. Of course, you wont
charge HARDING for that advertisement
Of his business.
Tri-weekIy Mail to Ellsworth.
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