Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-23
VARIOUS ITEMS.
A MAN of mark-Tho sign painter.


great grand children.
THE way of the world-A great many
millions of tons.
THE Oldest man in New York is Captain
Laterbush, aged 1903.
SMALL women are noticeable for the
greatness of their sighs.
A PETRTIED crocodile 1876 feet long has
been discovered in Kansas
SARATOGA has had 10000 more visitors
this season than ever before.
PROGRAMMES of the music are distrib.
uted in some London churches.
M. DE WITT, Guizor's son-in-law, is
writing history of the United States.
THE square in which Yale College stands
is estimated to be worth $250000
ONE and a half billions worth of liquor
Is annually sold In the United States.
ENGLISH ladies of nobility took part in
Parliamentary proceedings six centuries
ago.
duty II is to protect the fisheries from dep
relation.
WITHIN one year / 800 persons died
from serpents' bites, in Madras Presidency,
India.
"TLL take the responsibility, as jerks
said, when he held out his arE1 for the
baby.
LONDON UNIVERSITY will be open TO
women May, 1869. They must be seven
teen years old.
JONAH SMITH has flied 10 years for the
parade of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery of Boston
REBECCA BRowN died on the 9th instant,
In New Orleans, at the age of 10S, and was
buried by the city authorities.
THE sign boards put up at the road
crossings on the Pacific Railway are said
TO be, Look out for the Indians"
LIEUTENANT GRINNELL, of New York,
is Inspector General of the japanese Navy
for $4,000 per annum.
MICHIGAN manufactures 150, ,000, 900 feet
of pine lumber per annum. Some days
over million of feet are shipped.
THE Catholics are erecting, at Quincy,
the largest church in the State of Illinois,
except the great Cathedral at Chicago.
A FRENCH chemist proposes a viper's
bite as an antidote to the bite of mad
dog. lie has not tried the experiment.
CALIFORNIA has sent thirteen thousand
dollars to the sufferers by the late earth
quake on the South Pacific coast
THE N0npdreH says that young lady
was struck dumb the other day, at Council
Bluffs, by the firing of cannon.
DURING August the New York Post.
office sent 100000 letters, and received
100000, besides money-order business of
100000.
CRors in Spain are said to be much
shorter than usual Famine is threatened
in many districts, and large quantities of
grain must be imported.
A PLEASANT party of school lads near
Salt Lake City pelted an Indian papoose
to death, the other day, and threw the
body into slough.
THE New York Mail knows of o fur
nishcd house on Fifth avenue which rents
for two thousand dollars a month The
occupants are Cubans.
Mrs. THOMAS Cross, of Maine, has Just
had her seventeenth little cross to bear,
and has borne it. Such is the effect OF
resignation when the husband is Cross.
IT is stated in the English papers that
Charles Dickens gets 100000 for the
series of one hundred readings to be
given by him the coming winter and
spring.
REV. s. MrNToN, very prominent
Clergyman of the Church of England, has
created y sensation by announcing his be
, lief that the doctrine of eternal punishment
, is unscriptural,
A MONUMENT to the late painter Eliot
of Scotch granite, with medallion of hin
by Calverley, of Albany, will be put ovei
his grave in Greenwood, next spring.
7 A SWEDISH professor has made brandy
! out of the common reindeer moss, anC
another has discovered that mushrooms
l are so plenty that there need never be {
famine.
A SUBMARINE diver employed on Tho
Seine went down drunk the other day, anC
|, not making the expected signals, another
,, was sent down after him, who found hin
calmly sleeping on the bed of the river.
, EDER PARKER and wife, of South street
! Boston, recently celebrated their colder
. wedding-day. They have resided in on,
house over forty years. and in the imme
diate vicinity over sixty years
THE youthful pastor of the Kenosh,
(Wis.) Baptist Church could not Undue,
any painter to hazard his life by paintin,
the splre of the church, so he adjusted
rope to himself and the spire and did tn,
work himself
: A FRENCH woman, suspected of hav
! ing stolen some diamonds and laces, chal
, lengcd examination; an old detective cav
her huge chignon a twitch and thereb,
unfolded box in which were the missing
yaluables.
/ ANOTHER cooperative foundry is L
: be erected at North Albany, N. y. II viii
S be a first class affair, and the building vii
/; cost $4,000. The foundry is expected t.
h be in operation this fall 1t will give EN-
ployment to 100 men.
N n,t,t .N,y a -, /,
L ronto about one o'clock on a rccen
d morning and was arrested, sent to tn
Is Assi2os for trial, tried, convicted and ser
a fenced before evening OF tho same day
s. Justice was both swift and sure in thS
VI case.
a "WHEN are you going TO settle TN
billy "Wo'vo had n settlement already
III "When ?" "The last time you called
Ie "llow ~ Didn't then tell you tina
h meant TO settle that billy" ayes.
y VERY we'll, then, wasn't that a Seta
n meant ?"
rs 1T is reported that John b. Young c
81 the lNow York IfibUlit, is decidedly /
% luck. An uncle in the East Indies, whor
y he has never seen and seldom heard o
m has been so good as TO uie and leave hiI
Ill half million dollars.
q A suREwp fellow in Texas protende
|; to have- found box of diamonds on I'll
" shore, and allowed others to share th
\; prize at $3.50 grab Several took III
u, opportunity of onriching themselves, unit
Il Il it was found that the diamonds could /
u readily cut witha good knife.
b IT is noticed as remarkable fact tn,
n. the castle of Pau, where Queen Isabel
IN of Spain is now taking refuge, is the san
re in which Henry ~. OF France, the first
&c the royal line of Bourbons, was borl
ar three hundred and fifteen years ago 1t
" certainly singular coincidence,
"a In Buffalo, the other evening, the cloth,
'e of young man were ignited by an oXpl
70 sion of powder. A lady who was stan,
~ ing In the vicinity with an infant in n,