Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-14

his garden grapevine which was set two |
years ago last spring and has made very |
remarkable growth II is more than fifty |
feet in length, with tendrils running in !
every direction. It estimated that there |
are on the vine more than ono thousand |
perfect clusters of grapes, The extra !
growth is supposed TO be from the fact that |
sink water has been applied to the roots
from day 20 day
BoGUs iwclry makers in New York |
have new trick. They have been max !
ing fine gold watches" which they sell !
at profit for fifteen dollars, but are so
well calculated to deceive that they dis
pose ofthcm by carrying them TO pawn.
brokers and nhtsin easily loan of from
$25 to $50. 10 ia said that nearly every
pawnhrokcr in the city has been victim
lied at least once by this swindle The
watches are really worth about FIVE dol
lars.
A CoRREsroNDENT of the New York
7fmsS states, for the benefit of hydropho-
hia victims that il has been discovered in
America that hnrScradsh and sweet oil
Tablespoonful OF this mixture as often as
1t can be swallowed aud retained on the
stomach, together with q poultiCe of the
same over the wOund--has proved u
prompt and perfect cure for this appalling
mHladv in several instances-indeed, all
in which IL has been tried so for MS known.
THE silk-worm disease the disastrous
results of which are much complained of
| by the sill-growers Of France, is found to
proceed from the presence of monads and
other organized beings in the intcstincs of
! the worms, caused by bad digestion. The
same auimalculp are found in a tcrmentcd
pulp of mulberry leaves. Whole breeds
l,,f 4 1,N I,
| disease
THE latest case of female authority
comes from Newburyport, where there is
n rooster that has hatched and is rearing
brood of chickens. The bird was asso-
ciatod with hen, and badly hcnpecked
Amer the hen had been sitting Il few days
some weeks since, she left the nest and
drove the male to her place, where he
continued to perform her duties until all
the chickens appeared, and then took the
sole charge Of them.
Or course every intelligent person on
this hemisphere knows that Boston pos
| sCsses u great organ; but few can realize
| its imm1usc size, or great capacity 70 at
| tract dust until they read the following
| from the Boston JOUrRdL of Saturday;
"Persons who are sometimes annoyed by
dust upon the great organ ut the Music
Hall are probably not aware that it takes
six or seven men nearly week, and in
wolves an expense of upward of 800, to
give the instrument n single thorough dust
ing. The operation has been gone through
with this week."
Tue New York Obser0er tells of clergy
man whose horse died of bots. Some of
the worms were put into spirits of turpen-
tine and other fluids commonly fatal to
| In, hut t1n,y ~ ~ tnl
They were then put in the juice of the
common potato, and died instantly. An
other horse in the same neighborhood was
suffering severely from bots, when quart
Of potato juice was poured down his
throat, which soon relieved him of his
pain, and u continuance of the treatment
ellecteda permanent cure.
, LIVERPOOL. has good local story of a
, tiger which escaped from menagerie and
terrified the suburbs for some hours. In
q one outlying district man who had "lost
the use of both of his legs" had sat for 20
years sturdy, stunted vagrant, making
n u good thing out of his iufirmity. But in
an evil hour for his professional profits
the road where he had taken up his seat
: for a score Of years was on the morning
of the tigers escape the scene of fierce
stampede. Down it poured pell-mell
men, women, and children, at full speed
screaming with terror and crying out
. "rhe tiger, the tiger 2" The cripple had
heard the news of the tigers escape, and
now fear lent him legs, or restored his old
limbs he started up, threw away the big
bowl on which he had sat doubled up
, every day, and, with an energy that left
, nothing to be desired, he bounded down
Q the road, and soon outstripped all compe-
+ titors The tiger was caught but the
cripple" was never seen again, at least
Q in that noighborhood.
A NEW YORK firm have lately invented
and patented a most amusing and ingen-
9 iOus toy. II consists of walking horses,
] dogs, and children These little creatures
are formed of wood, china and iron, and
4 so accurately and artistically are they put
@ together that the motion is perfectly life
@ like. They are made in all patterns, boys
I and girls drawing wagons, horses to car
riages, and dogs running wild. The
p machinery which moves these toys is
@ made entirely of iron, and so strongly put
q together that II will last for years Many
/ of them are supplied with clock works
inside, and on being wound up will move
of their own accord, while with others the
! motion is produced by child moving tho
V little carriage to which the figure Is at
tached. They move at any gait desired
u and the horses pace, trot or run at the
option of the operator. Whether this in
II vention will ever be any practical bancfi
Y other than to amuse the little ones remain
d to be seen. The firm, however are build
It ing horse on this plan, of about twelY'
n hands high, TO be run by steam, and which
will be thoroughly tested in every way
d with view to ascertaining if it can bt
S made useful for farming purposes or ether
L wise,