Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-20

-Idleness is the key Of beggary.
"A good life keeps off wrinkles
Adversely makes man wise. not
rich.
of earthly goods, the best is good
wife.
Religious contention is Satan's har-
vest.
-Modesty has more charms than
beauty.
The first step to greatness is to be
honest.
Money is good servant but bad
master.
Best exercise of memory-remem
Der the poor.
Drive thy business or thy business
will drive thee.
"A good book supplies the place of
companion.
Lovers, like armies, get along well
enough till engaged.
Pride goeth before fall 1t also
goeth before waterfall.
The right man in the right place
husband at home in the evening.
1t is stated that Secretary Stanton
had $4,000 of insurance on bis life.
Money is believing very badly. 1t
is tight every day.
The way to make tall man short
is to ask him to lend you dollar.
Henry Ward Beecher's salary has
been increased from $4,000 to ST.
500.
Age should always precede beauty.
Therefore LET the old folks retire before
ten o'clock.
Prentice says that man was the chief
consideration at the creation. Woman
was only side issue.
The Bishops are trying to force the
Pope TO present the question of Infalli-
bility to the Council.
Why do young ladies whiten their
faces? Because they think the powder
viii make them 60 off.
The fund for the relief of the widow
of Secretary Stanton already reaches
twenty thousand dollars.
-Spriggins says he once prevented a
severe case of hydrophobia by simply
getting on high fence and waiting there
until the.dog left.
Elm ruined" as the old woman said
when her house was on fire; but it's q
cold night and I may as aoeU aoarme
myself
AN Hibernian Senator speaking of
suicide, said: The only way to stop it
is TO make it n capital offonse, punisha
bic a0ith death.
1t is said that the " Editors Draw
er," in Harper's Magazine, is made mp by
woman. So are great many Editors
drawers.
A bachelor used the following mod
ification of hackneyed phrase in con-
graduating a newly married friend: " l
wish you much jaw.
The principal occupation of the
"girl of the period" is said to be TO sit
at the window and watch for the "coming
man."
Gov. Fairchild has called spec
ial election to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death Of Mr.. Hopkins.
General Sherman has announced
in general orders the death of General
Mower, than whom, he says, better sol
der or Drawer man never lived.
"A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Rome. says the
Pope will probably proclaim the dogma
of infallibility by a decree not admit
ting an appeal to the General Council.
"A dangerous counterfeit of so cent
fractional currency notes of the new Lin
coin vignette issue, have just been put in
circulation. The backs are very good
but the faces of the notes look rather
dark and blurred.
In the great champion Billiard
match in San Francisco, between Deery
and Dion. the former won in a score of
$500 TO 1856. The game lasted about
5 hours. Deery retains the champion
ship and the diamosd cue, and wins the
thousand dollars.
A New York girl recently eIoped
with her step father. This is step far
tier than most young ladies would like
to 60.
The bridge over the Missouri river
at Council Bluffs. built by the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, is completed,
and trains are crossing.
The Missouri Legislature has ratified
the Fifteenth amendment by vote of los
to 81.
An Irish absentee landlord wrote
TO his steward: "Tell the tenants that
no threats to shoot YOU will terrify
me-"
A little girl who was sert out TO
hunt eggs. thought it strange that she
did not find any, as there was several
hens " standing about doing notAing"
Gen. Fremont sold in Paris $780,
100000 Of the bonds of his Pacific
Railroad, and has contracted 200 miles
Ct it from Jefferson, Texas, to which
place the rails will be brought by water,
80 miles north to the main line, and
thence west $50 miles towards Ell
Paso.
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