Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-27
Pen and scissors--MostIy scissors.

When flatterers meet, Satan goes TO
dinner.
| Better be alone than with bad com
pany.
Some are very busy, aud yet do
nothing.
A Missouri editors name is Wufa
dam. His paper isn't. II
The Stanton fund has reached
100000, and promises to grow much
larger.
The Mississippi Legislature has rati-
/ fed the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments.
A clergyman in Ohio has sued
his congregation for sos back salary.
Secret societies for the expulsion of
the Chinese abound on the Pacific
coast.
-" lie told me-" says Aitemas Ward,
"to git out of the office. l pitied him
and aren't"
The Methodists control forty nine
colleges in the United States.
An old trapper of Arizona. who
has just scalped his fifteent Indian,
says: +" 1t is good Staying out here this
season."
There are 100 men engaged in
Wisconsin state prison making chairs,
who turn out from 1000 TO 1000 week
ly.
An ingenious Englishman has con-
structed perfect steam engine SO small
that it will stand on three-penny
piece.
The Bishops in attendance at the
Council in Rome receive daily allow
ance of eight francs from the Pope and
are lodged gratis.
Henry c.. Bowen, Of the hide
pendent, whom Mr.. BeecEer will not
speak TO, paid the second largest premi
um, $500, for bis pew in Plymouth
Church.
| Two hundred and eighty two pre-
lates, entitled to seats in the Gcumenical
Council, have not made their appearance
in Rome.
Hon. Charles Durkee, formerly
United States Senator from Wisconsin.
and late Governor of the territory of
Utah, died at Omaha on the 5th.-
His remains'will be buried at Kenosha.
Hon. George II. Pendetou has &C
cepted an invitation to deliver the Grafton
on the next Fourth of July, before the
students of Gen. Lees College at Lex
ington, Virginia.
Owing to the unusually mild win
ter, heavier grape crop is anticipated
for next season in California than has
ever before been known. More vines
will be planted this season than in any
previous three years combined. yr 81
Pope Plus TX. distinguishes the
Spanish Bishops beyond all others, by
the most marked attentions. He treats
the French and German prelates, with
the exception of the few Ultramontanes
among them, with marked GOODNESS.
One of the Democratic members of
the California Legislature, who bowls
most fearfully about Chinese immigra-
ton, is reported to have a swarm of
Cinnamon employed on his ranch.
Brick Pomeroy boasts that he once
worked at the case beside darkey, and
feels proud Of it. We wonder how the
darkey feels.
| "A Boston firm recently telegraphed
TO Sheffield, England, an order for steel,
and in twenty.one days from the date of
sending, the steel, which had TO be man.
ufactured, was landed ut Boston.
When Mormon is sent abroad on
recruiting service, Brigham appoints a
man to act rs brevet husband until his
return. IF the wives are good looking,
Brig. appoints himself.
John Onion is the ST. ggestive name
of an Illinois editor. When he peels
himself and gets down heartily to his
work. he must bring water to the eyes of
his readers.
The ruin of some men dates from
some vacant hour. Occupation is the
armor of the soul. There is satirical
poem in which the devil is represented
as fishing for men, and fitting his bait
TO the taste and business of his prey, but
the idler, he said, gave him no trouble,
as lie bit at the naked hook.
Members of the Ecumenical Coun.
ell have their little difficulties. The
Bishop of Sura, it is said, had warm
reception the instant of his arrival at
Rome. AS he was waiting, with two
other Bishops, at the station for bis car
riagc. the Bishop of Thun attacked him
with violence that threatened personal
collision, denounced his audacity in in
truding on the holy ground, and had
to be forcibly withdrawn from the scene.
Tho Bible in the schools question is
agitated in Switzerland as well as here.
BY recent law the masters are required
TO teach "rcligion," and this require.
mcnt led to some controversy. The or
thodox Protestant party demanded that
the Christian religion should be specified,
aud this was agreed, but the Government