Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-07-10

made his deputy in the Corps Legi%atif
go to the bank with him to get the money,
taking the honorable member away from
his duty of applauding ministerial
speeches.
A MAN who is in the habit of taking
note of whatever he sees, added up the
aggregate amount wagered by seven young
men in drinking saloon in Cleveland,
and found it to be $749,000. They were
waiting for some one to come with money
enough to "Teat"
DANIEL WEBSTER wore hat the size
of which was ia Thurlow Weed wears
the same size; Abraham Lincoln's was
Z 1-16; Daniel Lords 67s Horace Gree
,ley's ~ James Gordon Benefits 73s
Mr.. James T. Brady has head as large
as that of any public man in the country
A POEM FOR TIE COURTS
Ajudge did once his tipstaif call,
And say, " Sir, desire
You 20 forthwith and search the hall,
And bring me in the crier."
"And search in vain, my lord, may"
The tipstaT gravely said,
THE crier cannot cry to-day,
Because his wife is dead"
SOME old pipes have been discovered in
Scotland, not far from place on which in
former ages Roman camp was stationed,
tifc English gentleman to prove that our
forefathers smoked from the very begin
ming Of the foundation of the Heptarchy.
A LITTLE girl, about four years of age,
was induced by the offer of some candy,
by a thoughtless person, to jump from the
third-story window of building in Han
nibal, Mo-, a few days ago. She was
caught by the person making the offer,
before she reached the sidewalk, thus
probably saving her life.
A RICH farmer of Calais, Maine, aged
siXty-five, recently married second wife
who is only nineteen years of age. A
daughter by his first wife is forty years old
and her daughter aged twenty is about to
be married. Thus there is a child who is
twenty-one years older than her mother,
and grandmother who is year younger
than her granddaughter.
CROSSING the ocean with Mr.. H, his
readiness Mt repartee attracted the notice
of all ON board, and wager was laid that
he could not be caught mapping, but would
give not only n prompt but witty reply.
Next morning Mr. H was observed
looking through the telescope, the atmos-
phere being damp and cold. The interest
ed party, determined to win, touched Mr..
H-'s arm, and asked "Mr. H,
what ship is thatS" "Don't know; but l
hope it's Peruvian bark, for Pm in q per-
feet chill !"
A DOUBLE white camelia, with 1,50G ex-
panded flowers and an equal number of
buds, was recently exhibited at the great
Horticultural show at Ghent. There were
also to be seen on plant of Camelian
Chandlerii, 1000 expanded and many in
bud, with like number on plant of
Camelia Imbricata. These plants formed
cones about fifteen feet through at the
base, and an equal height. They were all
very insignificant plants in pots ten years
ago.
THE amount of nutriment contained in
beer is generally greatly over.estimated.
Liebeg asserts that in one thousand four
hundred and sixty quarts of the best
Bavarian beer there is exactly the nourish-
ment of an ordinary two and-a-half pound
loaf of bread. This beer is about on n
par with our best American beer. Instead
of being condensation of the nutriment
contained in the grain, in just so far as
the liquid has undergone fermentation, the
nourishment has disappeared.-J0urHdI Of
Chemistry.
A scHooIMAsTER in England lately re.
ceived deputation of his pupils who
CdluC W COlnpldlu III lut UuIlG Ol lu6
school of the beer furnished them: "My
dear boys, all men and all things are inn
perfect You too have your faults, and
you ought to occupy yourselves with cor
recting them instead of undertaking to re-
form my cellar When you have corrected
the acidity of your own tempers, it will
be high time for you TO complain of the
sourness of my beer.
Two young women of Wolverhampton,
England, agreed to decide by fight whose
| sweetheart certain young man should be,
who had shown some slight attention TO
both, and who seems to have had no OBJ
lection to the arbitrament, The time and
place were duly fixed, and the women,
partially stripped, set TO on q piece of
waste ground, surrounded by numerous
body of spectators, among whom the prize
in dispute occupied prominent position.
Several rounds had been well fought, and
the battle was still on, when the police
came up and stopped it. The girls were
each fined IS. Sd. and costs.
RECIPES To make lemon drop-let
it fall of the table To make stomach
cake-use plenty of unripe fruit. To
max a (n) ice cream-stick pin in the
baby. To make pastry neatly-have every
thing in applepie order. To make cats.
sup-give them milk. To make toad-in-
the-hole-make hole in the ground, and
drop toad in it. To make nice pickle
hunt in the drawer for something in
the dark. To make bed-dig into the
pillows, rake up the sheets, and hoe the
blankets, sew up all the holes in the quilt
and finish by destroying all insects To
beat carpets-use mating; for GOODNESS ii
beats carpets. To make window blind
fill il up with bricks and mortar. To
prevent the cracking OF door-nail tup
To obtain sleep-haye nothing but mod,
ding acQuaintances. To keep your
spirits-place the decanters on the roof
of the house
Pr HoLE ANGELs--The TiOnesta (Pa.)
Bee gets oil the following; In neighbor-
ing village lives family who recently
emigrated from Pit Hole, and which con-
tains, among other members, two little
girls, Annie aud Minnie, aged respectively
four and eight years One night short
time since, as her mother sent Annie to
| bed, she told her TO b. a good little girl,