Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-21

The rust has struck the tobacco plant
badly in many parts of Connecticut.
To ASCERTAIN whether bull is mad
Twist his tail and punch his sides with
pitchfork
THE greatest glory is not in never
failing, but in rising every time that we
fail.
THE board for pet dog is five dol
lars per week at the fashionable watering
places.
VICroR EMANUEL is writing an ac-
count of his reign, to be published after
his death.
TIE sugar crop in the West Indies
promises to be very large one this
year.
PHILADELPHIA does less in life in
surancc than any other city of hnlf its
size.
TIE preponderance of women over
men, among the English Quakers, is
twelve per cent.
Six paupers recently died in Springfield,
Mass, aged respectively 80, 30, 80, 81, SO,
and 100.
BOILED oranges are considered very
good as a side dish by Japanese gour-
mands.
The reported discovery of rich gold
fields at the Cape of Good Hope is con.
firmed
PARIS has new journal which bears
the astounding title of Bed Bugs in the
Butter
MRs HARRIET BEEcmER STOWE is writ
ing novel ut her summer retreat at Stock
bridge, Mass.
WHEN you go fishing, be sure and take
n bite before you start, for you may not
get one after.
No LESS than two hundred kinds of hats
are worn by men, and all fashionable, the
present season.
THE wheat harvest in Minnesota is es-
timated at fifteen millions bushels, nearly
double that of last year,
A METEoRIc stone about the size of a
tea cup and of reddish brown color fell
in Fairfield, Conn, a few day since.
Ir is estimated that there are two thou
sand news-boys and three hundred news.
girls in New York city
Plies have been driven one hundred and
sixty feet in San Francisco without finding
hard pan.
THE Sultan has n watch mounted on
the size of silver dollar, finger
thick, and worth 100000.
A PiTrsFELD (NIass,) firm has paid
100000 for insurance In the last thirty
years and never lost u cent by fire.
THERE is n man in a lunatic asylum in
England who believes that the English
Government wishes to build an iron
in his stomach.
THOSE who ought to know say there
is not bottle of pure wine in the United
States, nor has there been for twenty five
years.
AN eccentric blackbird has astonished
the good people of Leyden, Mass, by be-
coming domestic fowl and roosting with
the chickens.
A FEW days ago a gentleman we'll
known in Troy, N. Y, was married to his
sixth wife. He buried his fifth wife less
than year ago,
A WEALTHY stock broker of New York
city is about to erect mammoth art gal
lery, for the use of the publlc, at an ex-
pensc Of nearly $2,000,000.
IRRuATING-After rolling all night in
your berth at sea, till you are miserably
i'll, to have steward open your door in
q fresh roll for breakfast"
You've women are to be taught by the
Government of Prussia how to tend
wounded soldiers. A detachment offlying
ambulance wagons Is set apart for this
purpose
DURING late hail storm at Wellsboro,
Penn, sheet of ice measuring about
two feet square and three inches thick fell
from the clouds with the hail stones.
A BRILLIANT lady at ball in Saratoga
sent to newspaper correspondents a memo
randum OF the size of her waist and the
great cost of her toilet. She understood
the tricks of the market
john HARVEY TUCKER, London bar.
ristcr, who was graduated at Yale College
In 1100, died at Somerville, Bermuda, on
the 20th ult. Yale now has only four sur
viyors among the graduates Of the last cen.
tury
A FARMER near Davenport, Iowa
while binding wheat, stuck thorn into
his hand, poisoning it so as to kill and
putrefy the flesh on his hand, and make
amputation probably necessary.
NAPOLEON and his family and guests
lately had a spelling match, The Empe,
ror missed nine times, the Prince Imperial
eleven, Prince Metternich six, and the
ltterdtetr Octave Feuillet, was the worst
ofall, having fourteen faults.
TuE number of emigrants passing west
ward through the city of Milwaukee, du
ring the past year, comprised 5000 Nor
wegians, 5000 Swedes, 1000 Germans ant
afew hundred Bohemians, Hollanders, and
Frenchmen.
TuREE little girls of Patterson, N. j.
family recently murdered neighbol
about their own age, by throwing her il
well, to obtain her fine clothes On,
of the murderesseS, Sarah Long, tel
years old, is arrested now for larceny a
Newark.
THE entire district swept by the grea
Hood in Baltimore is coated with a sticky
slimy mud to the depth of six or eigh
inches, and the smell arising from the mix
turo is very offensive and dangerous to tn
health of the city.
TnE number Of cigars sold per day OF
Broadway, New York, is estimated a
10000. Broadway eXpends upon its cigar
$S,S00 per day, or $2,050,S5 yer year |
is estimated that in the city of New Yorl
75,000,O00 cigars are consumed yearly, tn
total cost of which is $9,750,OO0,
A RICHMOND lady sent silver urn :
an auction TO be sold. IL was the last q
her once great wealth. The people pres
ent who knew her made up heavy purs,
put it in the urn, and sent il back to tn
owner.
w. Q, RAYMOND, near Cedar Rapids
Iowa, lost his voice for two weeks, in con
sequence of sun.stroke. He suddenly n
covered il the other day by an almoS
compulsory effort To hallOo at a team likel
to run away.
A LARGE rock, weighing about twely
tons, broke loose from the side of LookoU
Mountain, recently, and rushing dow
struck the dwelling of Mr. Geo Ashcroft
instantly killing his wife and her infar
and injuring seriously three other chi
dFen
In Russia, for distance of nearly fort
miles around -. Petersburg, immens
numbers OF trees were destroyed by n
Tigor OF last winter Many oaks. asa, an
walnut suffered greatly and the map