Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-25
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SARATOGA has, 10 "a sGid, more noleh
than either Bostol or Philadeipnla.
There are thirty-seven Of them, put bey
are insufficient to accommodate twenty
thousand guests. ~
AN old East India Captain lately lost
new iron steamer on her nrst. voyage,
only eight hours out of Glasgow, by utter
inability to tell which way was nortn, ms
compass being entirely capricious.
TnE State Of Michigan is aDout TO erect
Soldiers Monument which will cost
974,000. OF this sum s4s, 600 has already
been secured. 1t viii contain eleven
pieces of statuary, two 6dSSo fateeos, anu
four allegorical figures.
MRs. SToUT, wife Of the proprietor OF
hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, w'@s buried 70
death in Indianola, on the 14th Instant
She was preparing medicines over stove,
when the liquid caught fire and the iiaines
communicated TO her dress. ss-
AN old Treasury clerk, John ID, Barclay,
recently celebrated the sixty.fotirth ami
versary of his entrance into the Depart
ment lie was appointed under President
jefferson. How many grindings out OF
the political hopperhe has survived
A CORRESPONDENT tells ns how 70 pre-
vent hydrophobia. sprissins says ne
once prevented a severe case of the malady
by simply getting on high fence ana
waiting there until the dog left
A PROMINENT photographer, of Pitts
burgh, has been arrested for libel, whlch
consisted in manufacturing and circulat-
ing pictures of the head Of well known
and respectable young lady of that city,
to which little boys body had been
coupled -
a CASE before the Birmingham magis-
trates, has ELECTED, among other curious
details, the fact that cOnfectioners often
buy decaying fruit for 1avoring ice cream
aud confectionery, asthe juice Is obtained
from il in larger quantities.
\ CoRpEsPoNDENT, writing from Rome,
says the health of the Pope is excellent,
and that when complimented recently on
his appearance by one of the prelates,
Plus 1X, replied 81 eat well, drink
well, | sleep well l never was better in
my Lie"
The number of persons committed for
! trial in Eugland and W.iits last year was
| 1891, of whom only 3,763 were females,
the lowest number of female offenders re-
corded I'm fifteen years. OF the whole
number of persons committed, IA, 4,207 were
convicted.
THERE are more Methodists in Ohio
than in any other State, more Baptists in
Georgia, more Presbyteria:rs in Pennsyl-
vania, more Congregationalists in Massa-
chuselts, more Episcopalians in New York,
and ten times more Unitarians in Massa-
chusetts than in any other state.
IN Kansas City there is man who is
III years old. He is an old trapper, and
his name is Fernance. Only think of it
he. was % years old when the Declaration
of Independence was mode, and GA at the
battle of New Orleans, in which he took
| part under Oh Hickory Jackson.
! A YoCNG man in Newark, N. j., has
| gone insane over the idea that his mar
riage was not legal, and that he viii lose
| his wife. Per contra, large numbers Of
young married men throughout the coun-
try are in various degrees of distraction
because of the idea exactly opposite.
WHAT strange creatures girls are Offer
one of them good wages to work for you,
and ten chances to one Il the old woman
can spare any of her girls but just pro-
pose matrimony, and see if they don't
jump at the chance cf working a whole
lifetime for their victuals and clothes.
ONE Of the sources of income to the
Mexican Indians is the scnlps they take.
These are sent to France, boiled, carded
purified and perfumed, and come to this
market in the shape of curls and fancy
chignons, Most of the Mexican scalps
have jet black hair. In this great world
nothing is lost.
THE street robbers, with whom London
is infested just now, have hit upon a new
dodge. A Tuflian stoops down, as if in
the act of tying his shoe, and then sud
denly bouncing up butts his head violent
ly into the stomach of a pedestrian who il
passing by, and sends him head over heels
Confederates then pounce upon their vic
tim, and fleece him of his money.
A RAPID youth of twenty.One wal
found steadying himself the other nigh
against one of the lamp posts in a certain
city. On being asked by policeman
what he was about, he replied, "Sir-l
(hic) Im-don't you know YOU nig'ramui
lin practicing the Gecian bend, l am.
He was permitted to finish the exercise a
the station house.
THE English women who own property
demand that their names be placed on the
voters lists. In Manchester alone oVel
5000 women have urged their claims I,
the franchise, and though the claim WA
not allowed, similar cases have arisen il
other towns, and created such Juror,
that the question has been brought befor,
the judicial authorities.
A MAN in Albany has invented
"union selfheating Sleigh which carrie
heating apparatus in front, consistin.
of oil-lamps supplied with smokeles
burners, which admit the heat to the fee
through perforated sheet of metal, pro
, tected by wire gauze. The forward motion
OF the sleigh causes the air to circulate a
il is needed.
To illustrate the wonderful rise in III,
+ value Of property, and the great change
made in New York in a short time, Signo
Blitz relates that fifteen years ago he hire,
house and seven acres of ground, wher
Fifty-third street now is, at 5000 pc
annum. The entire property was offere,
in fee to him for $4,000, an offer which h
rejected. Had he accer.sd it, his $500
, would have grown by this time into half
3 million or more of dollars.
AT last the monstrous wads of wool an
( hair with which women nova days dil
: figure their heads, have proved usefu
AT Salem, N. j., recently, Miss Ella G. UT
e dyke, of Princeton, in attempting
: spring from her carriage, caught her skin
in the seat, jerking her under the wagor
? The horse became frightened and started
dashing her head and body against ID
pavement. Then the pnas and rolls i
her hair saved her brains from beip
dashed out. She was reseiiad with a feJ
bruises.
RUSSIAN papers tell of convict name
+ Gorski, boy of eighteen, who was Ser
T terced 70 be hanged for aesassinatine
whole family Of seven persons. All In
/, preparations had been msde, the crowd ta
! assembled, the prisoner was standing on
stool while the rope was adjusted round hj
, neck, and in moment more would haV
+ been executed, when decree from III
Emperor was received, committing III
? punishment to hard labor for life. He ha
: been sent to Siberia.
A THEATRICAL manager In New Cal,
= donia, a French settlement near Australi,
. hit upon curious expedient not Ion
since. In order to give additional sffet
TO piece called "Vet du Soir: ON. pHo,