Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
Miscellaneous Items.

An English widow has willed $40,
600 TO Jefferson Davis.
Mrs. Lincoln has bought n small
house at Zurich and viii live there.
Dumas, Sr, is said to be the
father Of eighteen i'legitimate children.
Andrew Johnson says he has no
idea of visiting Washington this winter.
Mr.. Ostrand, Montreal alderman,
has Just welcomed his twenty fifth child.
-Serano is frequently Kissed when
entering bis box in the opera house at
Madrid.
Gen. Fremont pays $4,000 a year
as board bill IN the Arlington House,
Washington.
Thomas Old Farmers almanac
the great Yankee authority, circuates
100000 coEies year.
=" The True Story of Mrs. Shake
speare's Life" is the tito Of late Lon
don magazine article.
-Colfax will hold only one levee this
winter on account OF the illness of bis
wife and mother.
The President received Christ
mas turkey weighing over thirty pounds
the gift Of New York dealer.
The Evening Post styles the Fat
Mems ball given in New York, on Mon
day night, the Forced Meat Ball.
Tho Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria, is the first Christian sovereign
who has visited Jerusalem since the Cru
sades.
Capt. Asa Sherman, of Marshfield,
Mass , is now 81 years of age, and his
wife is 95. Both are in good health, and
able to 60 out.
Napoleon proposes to make his son
familiar to the French, by having his
face on the French coins with bis own, az
ter April next.
"A night dress costing $3.50 forms
part Of a New York bellies bridal trous-
seau.
Fruit trees at DownieviIle, CAL,
have commenced poisoning.
Westminster, VT. with population
of 100 persons, takes 1920 newspa-
pers and periodicals.
The receipts of the Cardiff giant at
Albany were $500.
The La Crosse elevator belonging
to the Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad is
said to do more work than any elevator
of the same size on tue river.
"A new shell fish more delicious than
the oyster has been discovered by the
French. 1t is smaller than the oyster,
more elipticaI in form, and is chrjstened
the "palourdie."
-Oncof Brigham Young's old DANTE
band has made death bed confession of
four hundred murders--errors excepted
for the sake of the Church.
Tho deacons of Des Moines (Towa)
churches are employed all day Monday
mcnding ten cent shinplasters, which are
the favoritc offerings at the I" Lords
treasury" on the Sabbath.
Mrs. Susannah G.. Henshaw, the
mother of Emma d. E. N. Southworth,
died recently in Washington. She was
~ years of age.
The Empress Eugene met with an
agreeable surprise on returning to the
Tu;leries. Her apartments there, which
were freshly furnished in 1861, have
been, during her absence, fitted up
anew.
Mary Harris. of Ch;cago, who shot
Aloniram J. Burroughs, q clerk in the
Treasury Department at Washington. has
been discharged from the insane asylum.
cured, and Is now employed in the Phil
adelphia Postofiice.
OF the Roman Bishops who were
present at the Ecumenical Council, two
are 95 years of age, two others 90 and
upward, and twenty octogenarians, while
the seven youngest are between 80 and
So years of age.
There arc now living on Canandai-
qua street, in Palmyra, N. Y, ten ola
ladies, whose aggregate ages are s37
years. the Oldest of whom is 100 years,
three months and ten days, and the
youngest, 20 years, five months and four
teen days.
Government has granted to rail
roads ls5 s9o,794 acres of public lands,
or 2y0,454 square miles equal to the
combined area Of Great Britain and
France.
"A young divorce seeking colored
woman of Cincinnati plead her own case
as follows: Judge, cant love dat
dar niger; he kicked me in de ribs
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