Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-11

AN lilpoIbAul CuhnGt VIII Oe maze on
the first of October in charges on printed
matter sent to California by overland mails.
Printed matter is now charged the same
as letter postage. This regulation has
caused much vexation and loss to persons
who did not understand the law, as mat
ter placed In the mails with newspaper
postage was not forwarded After the list
of October printed matter will be sent at
newspaper rates.
THE Moniteur publishes some interest
ing statistics of the produce of the chase
In the province Of Archangcl, Russia,
from which it appears that the number of
animals annually shot, amounts to about
100000 squirrels, $4,000 ermines, 10000
hares, 5000 white or sky blue foxes 200
large wolves, l75 small wolves, 260 bears,
10000 brace of woodcocks, 10000 wild
geese and ducks, and $4,000 swans.
AN American tourist, while descending
the Granda Mulets, near Chamounix, lost
his footing and slipped over the preoipice,
dragging his guide with him. A project.
ing rock fortunately saved them from In
evitable death, whence they were drawn
up by ropes. The guide was perfectly as
tonished at the sang fr0id OF the American,
whose features never denoted the least
emotion throughout the accident, neither
fear Mt the announcement nor pleasure
at the lucky termination,
THE Montreal Gdzette,is in terror over
the hazards to which "a supurb heifer I"
is exposed In crossing the waters. "Never
before" II says, "had the ocean such
precious freight exposed to the hazards of
wind and wave, in shape of COW, rs at the
present time" Her price was one thou
sand guineas in England, or $5,250 in
gold, besides cost of agency, passage, in
surance, etc, She is ofthe Duchess family,
tribe of Bates, and was bought by Mr..
William ii. Cochrane, of Montreal.
The Green Bay (Wis) Gazette tells of
worm which is destroying the oak trees,
especially black oak, on Astor Hights, and
states that the pests have not LEFT a leaf
from the brow of the hill around to the
Ellis residence, distance of more than a
mile, including the fair ground and the
old cemetery. The full grown worm is
from an inch to an inch and half in
length, about the thickness of an ordinary
clay pipe stem, and striped with black or
dark brown and yellow.
A NEW method of dressing wounds has
recently been adopted in Belgium. A
sheet of lead, ono-fifth of an inch thick, is
applied to the injured limb, and made by
pressure to assume its shape. The lead Is
firmly secured by means of strips of ad-
hesive plaster, and current OF fresh air
is made to pass over the flesh once or
twice day. Out of 170 patients treated
for workshop or railway accidents at the
municipal hospital at Ghent, 1875 were dis
charged cured The average duration of
the treatment was thirty-One days. OF
the fourteen who died, the greater num-
Der were mortally injured by the accident.
A HINDo priest called in all the members
of II large family, one of whom was known
to have committed theft, and thus ad-
dressed them: "Take each of you one of
these sticks, which are all of exactly
equal length, put them under your pillows
to night | do not at present know the
offender, but you must return the sticks to
me tomorrow morning, and the one be-
longing to the thief will have grown an
inch in the night" The family retired to
rest, but before he went to sleep the man
who had committed the theft, thinking to
outwit the priest cunningly cut OF an
inch from his stick, firmly believing that it
would by this means attain the length of
the others by the next morning The
sticks were returned, and by comparing
them the priest was instantly able to pitch
upon the offender, TO his great surprise
and dismay.
THE saying, "One half the world does
not know how the other half lives" is
well illustrated by some revelations re-
Gently made in England. A letter carrier
was convicted and sentenced TO five years.
penal servitude for stealing twelve postage
stamps out of letter, His pay had been
nine shillings a week, equal to about fifty
cents day, and his wife in an appeal for
herself and her children, which she makes
through the public press, says that she and
her husband suffered four years of some-
thing very like destitution before he got
his appointment" and during that time
sold their furniture and most of their
clothes. She used to earn six or seven
shillings week by needle-work, but ill
ness now prevents her doing this, and she
finds herself with four little children on
the verge of starvation.
A MARINE monster, which was captured
off Eastport, Maine, recently, is thus de.
scribed by the St. Croix Courier: "After
being towed ashore, he was found to meas
ure thirty.fve feet in length and seven feet
across. His head is shaped like bull
frogs, and his skin resembles the hide of
an elephant, 1t possesses two legs or
paddles about five feet from the tail. Soon
after II was caught, IL was seen by Rev. III.
A. Philbrick, L. L. Wadsworth, Esq, and
others. 1t is to be stuffed and exhibited,
so that the curious will have an opportuni-
ty Of seeing this wonderful creature. OF
course there are various conjectures as to
the nature of the nondescript. Some think
II a species of the shark, but the shape of
its head, and the size of its mouth are OPP
posed to the theory. Others think ii is a
whale, but it does not seem to possess the
breathing apparatus ofthat denizen Of the
Deep"