The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13
Hon. H. E. Prentiss, who died a few

Hon. III. E. Prentiss, who died a few
days ago in Bangor, Maine, was educa-
ted at West Point, and when a professor
there was ordered to his regiment, at
Mobile. He walked the entire distance,
carving law-book, which he studied
by the way. Two years later lin 1885
he resigned and walked the entire dis
tance to Bangor, reading law as before.
In 1887 he was admitted to the bar and
opened an office in Oldham, working
hard. frequently walking to Bangor,
twelve miles, in the morning to attend
Court, and returning i'll the same man
ner at night. He once walked from
Bangor to Paris, Me-, in day and
half. but his greatest days walk was
eighty miles III twenty six hours.
The Daily Graphic can afford to be
excessively generous in offering people
free passes for a trip to Europe i'll its
balloon, for nobody has yet been found
who can possibly "get away" Dana,
Butler, James Parton, Whitelaw Reid,
Mcclellan and Eli Perkins all decline
with thanks. Some of them say they
would be happy to go but professional
engagements make it impossible" Rob
ert ColIyer hits the bufl's-eye, as usual,
by frankly stating that he has got to
preach at home all summer, but would
be afraid to go anyhow. That is what
they all meant, but they couldn't say it
in so few words.
Disguised. d.-The Liberal Christian, in
an article on the Massachusetts govern
ment, probably from the pen of DR.. Bel
lows, says: If Massachusetts, does not
spew General Butler out of her mouth
she will please, in future, to take seat
very far back in our court of State hon
or. We account him the most danger
Gus man in America, with the feweSt
scruples and the most diabolical ability;
and he, forsooth, is in fair prospect Of
becoming Governor of our hitherto no
BILE Bay State."
A Nevada paper relates how couple
of homemade servants were discussing
the cause of the saline character of the
water in the Great Salt Lake. Said one,
''Well, it's my opinion that there's an
underground connection with the Pa
eiic ocean, and it's filled with water
from the Pacific But" said the
other. salt Lake is seven thousand
feet higher than the ocean; what do you
think of that?" Think of it! why,
think it bursts my theory all to
thunder -
nVictOr Hugo is dying France is about
to lose one of her most famous children.
The sturdy egotiSt is man of genius,
and it will always be remembered, to his
credit, that he was one of the few indie
pendent spirits who never forgot Louis
Napoleon's perfidy, and never made
peace with him. We trust he has al
ready composed his own epitaph, for no
other pen than his could pay fitting
tribute to his eccentric genius.
Rubenstein, the pianist, does not like
Beecher tries to bring religion down to
The people, instead Of bringing the peo-
pie to religion" Supposing man was
overheard, what would Mr.. RubenStein
do-throw rope to the person in peril,
or call upon him to come after the rope?
"What are you about my dear? y
SAID grandmother to a little boy, who
was idling about the room and casting
furtive glamces at a gentleman who was
paying a visit. 8 | am trying, grandma,
to steal papa 5 hat out of the room with
out letting the gentleman see it, for papa
wants him to think he's out.
Dry your tears. Science, which makes
dark places light and rough ones smooth,
has discovered a way to peel onions with
out tears. Science simply fills a deep pan
partly with water and peels the onions
beneath the surface 1t is a small dis
coyery, but it saves an ocean of tears.
Dan Voorhees, has sent a little bill to
Figo county, Indiana, of S8325 for le-
gal services in a railroad case in which
he was employed by the County Com
miSSioners, and it is stirring up a good
deal Of indignant comment among the
taxpayers over there.
A respectable English magazine re-
ports, as fact of encouraging interest,
that of tile fifty thousand cIergymen of
the Church Of England as many as four
thousand actually abstain from the use
OF spirits.
Old John Robinson admits newsboys
free to his circus. He finds about a
thousand "Newsboys" in every little
village, ard he thinks the press is get
ting to be the biggest thing in the
world
There is man in Pottsville who owns
six dogs, named respectively Jim
Fisk, General Grant" Wander
biIt, Josephine Mansfield, "Topsy"
and "DOlly Warden -