The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-07-28

their body
The House of Bergers is composed Of all
the citizens of Hamburg worth one thousand
dollars and over. All laws are proposed by
the Senate. and sanctioned or rejected by ID
vote of the Bergers.
The pleasure grounds, hower-gardens and
promenades of Hamburg, which are princi-
pally upon and outside of the walls, hold
no inferior rank among similar places in the
most noted cities Of Europe.
Binin Asder is large basin of pure wa
ter, entirely within the walls, covering near
ly SO acres Of ground, upon which there may
be seen in pleasant weather, sailing boats
beating about in all directions, and row boats
almost without number.
The streets, excepting in the new part, are
narrow and crooked, and not remarkable for
cleanliness and the city, although it boasts
an age of centuries, has produced nothing
remarkable, either in literature or art. The
inhabltants have for ages been commercial
people, and the present generation, like their
ancestors, are intent on putting money into
their pockets, and they WELD the art with
master hand
There are number of suburban cities iii
the immediate vicinity of Hamburg, so in
timately connected with it as from general
appearance 70 form part of the city itself
and Altoona, are the largest, and when mum
bcred with Hamburg, they give population
of about 100000 inhabitants.
Altona does not, however, belong TO Ham
burg but is within the Danish dominions,
although so intimately connected with Ham
burg that 1t is difficult to distinguish the line
OF separation between them, and is what its
name signifies (all-too-nigh.)
The most striking difference which have
experienced between residence in Hamburg
and an American city, is in the manner in
which their hotels are conducted and in the
difference between the length Of the days
and nights. The sun rises here about three
o'clock in the morning. and does not set un-
til nine in the evening, to which II we add
halt an hour for dusk after sunset, and the
same time for twilight before sunrise in the
morning, we have five hours of night and
nineteen hours of daylight: quite time enough
to exhaust the strongest frame with labor.
ToADs-A correspondent of the Cam
bridge Chronicle, puts in plea for toads,
and justifies his partiaity by the following
which we extract from his communication
"We have in our garden a small nursery
of plum trees, which have been nearly de-
stroyed by the canker worms. Last season
we commenced shaking them off. One doy
we observed many toads about these trees,
that on our approach became frightened, and
retreated in great haste to their retreats in
the neighboring bushes. Soon finding they
were not pursued, they commenced hopping
back, and eagerly caught with avidity eact
canker worm ds it descended on its tiny
thread. We counted at one time thirty i'm
mediately round our feet. Day after day we
fed them with their favorte food, and they
became so tame as to follow us, watch oul
hand, and take the worm from our fingers.
This is new to us, though it may not be
to many of our readers; but whatever taste
the toad may have for canker worms, we are
quite sure that it does world of good in
garden, by destroying earth-worms, of which
it eats large numbers. We once tried tC
surfeit a toad with earth worms, but our pa
tience was exhausted before its appetite wa;
anneased and we hnve ALWAYS held that Il