Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-18
VARIOUS ITEMS.

to % cents apiece in Utah.
TIE Horseshoe Falls at Niagara have
receded six feet in the last year.
A MONUMENT TO the late Mr. Elliott Is
talked about by his artist friends.
FouR thousand Mormon immigrants
have passed through Canada this year.
ST. PKTERsBuRa has five daily papers
-four published in Russian and one in
! French.
! New JERSEY temperance men propose
to circulate 10000 copies of Parton's wine
article.
THIRTY MILLIONS of the annual revenue
of England is derived from the sale Of
opium to the East Indians.
AT recent book sale In London, six
volumes printed by William Caxton
brought the enormous price of $5,4S0
IT is said that the Editors Drawer in
! Hdrpcr's Migdzias is made up by women.
SO are good many editors drawers.
A wRITRR in the Paris Figaro says all
most men like to be possessed Of
A GERMAN statistician has found that
j universally the deaths are most numerous
in the first four months of the year.
A NEW YORKER advertises to give les
can get il cheaply by eating green apples.
In London there is a man who lives by
begging catalogues and selling them for
waste paper at three half pence per
pound.
RESTORING lost children is big business
in Brooklyn. Last month 139 anxious
and aimless babes were restored to their
parents.
| KARL DAMN, writer in New York
German paper, says that arsenicum, given
homeopathically, will cure the cattle
| plague.
A BRIDAL pair in Savannah were chic
reformed by burglars, and robbed on
their wedding night, recently, and the
bride died.
A wIDowER in Hardwick, VT, forty
five years old, and who has children mar
ried, was lately welded to a girl twelve
years old.
A CLERGYMAN, after marrying a couple,
made a prayer over them, concluding:
Forgive them, Lord, they know not what
they do"
OLIVER DYER who brought "the wick
edest man in New York" to public view,
is the answerer of correspondents in the
New York Ledger.
A LADY in East Bridgewatcr, Mass, was
! recently severely burned in the face by the
explosion of a sealed can of tomatoes left
on the stove.
"WHY don't you ask me how l amp"
smilingly said lady visitor to four.year
old girl. ~ don't want to know" was
little innocents reply.
A VALUABLE jewel, stolen from the
Royal Treasury at Lisbon two years ago,
was recently recovered at Athens. 1t was
a diamond worth $150000.
A JOKER in New York has posted up in
! his place of business "No money lent
in sums less than million dollars under
any circumstances"
A MAN in London kept the body of his
| dead daughter in the house seventeen days,
until he could get up rattle to pay the
funeral expenses.
THE letter carriers for the suburbs of
Paris are to be supplied with velocipedes,
which will enable them to finish their dis
tribution four hours earlier daily.
THE grain crop in California this year
! will be immense At least 10000, 900
bushels of wheat have been harvested.
The grape crop is also above the average.
PROFESSOR WATSON, of the Detroit OBJ
| servatory, announces the discovery of
another minor planet, hitherto unknown.
1t shines like star of the tenth magni-
tude.
HOWE WHITE, of Norton, Mass, eighty
six, and wife, seventy.seven years OF age,
were delighted few days ago by sur
prise visit from forty-six children and
| grandchildren, who had not all met togeth-
er for forty years.
A LONDON letter carrier, with children
and sick wife to support on nine shillings
a week, stole twelve postage stamps from
a letter, and has been sent to prison for
five years.
ALBANY has the credit of having fur
nished New York with its wickedest
man" John Allen was graduate Of AL
bany Academy His name of Allen is said
to be an assumed one.
THE mail agents on the Union Pacific
Railroad have been armed with Spencer
carbines, with which to defend themselves
against any attacks the Indians may make
on mail trains.
A. L. BURDEN, of Stafords Springs,
Conn, poisoned the flies in his house re-
Gently, and swept them out of doors,
where they were eaten by brood of
chickens, every one of whom died.
The editor of the Vermont Journdl, pub
lished at Windsor, in that State, has in his
garden O tomato nearly ripe, measuring in
circumference one way seventeen inches,
the other, twenty and half inches.
SPURGEoN says: "The world maintains
its players and tiddlers far better than the
Christian church remunerates its minis
ters and dancer or an actor will receive
more than the most learned and edifying
divine"
SMOKING by ladies in Boston is on the
increase. An extensive cigar dealer in
that city says he sells an average of three
hundred per day for ladies' use, and thinks
a thousand per day at least are pulled by
the fair ones.
JOSH BILLINGS says: "Most people de-
cline to learn only by their own expert
ence, and guess they are more than half
right, for don't s'pose man could get a
correct idea of moiasses candy merely by
letting another feller taste it for him."
THE distress of the people in the Red
River settlements of British America,
north of Minnesota, is represented as eX-
treme. The crops have been a complete
failure, and the people are in danger of
general starvation.
ARCHBISHOP KENRICK, of st. Louie, has
instructed the Catholic clergy in his do
cese TO denounce Planchette," and warn
Catholics that if they do not desist from
its use, after reasonable admolition, they
will be excommunicated from the church.
ais YOUR father at home ?" inquired the
man of the little girl who admitted him
"Is your name Bill9" "Some people call
me so" he replied. "Then he is not at
home, for heard him tell John to say if
any bin came to say he is not at home"
A MAN In Hudson City disputed the un-
dertaker's bill for the burial of his son.
Thereupon the undertaken opened the
grave and broke off piece of the coffin
| TO substantiate its fine quality, and is now
to be prosecuted as resurrectionist
ANA, if l should die and go to heaven
should wear my moire- antique dress"
"No, my love we can scarcely suppose
we shall wear the attire Of this world in