Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-07-31

term Of the Supreme Court for chasing
COW until she was so exhausted that she
died
TIE Peoria Transcript says n family
consisting of gentleman, his wife and
two daughters, were recently poisoned in
that city, as was supposed, by some new
milk Of which they had partaken.
PERHAPS the best pun recorded was
that inscribed on q tea-chest, viz +: " Th
dOccS" The words are the second person
singular Of the verb d6ceo 20 teach, and
when literally translated become, "Thou
tea chest" . ..
ADMIRAL FARRAoUT, by the time he
gets through with his cruise around the
world, will have the satisfaction Of being
able TO say that he has personally enter.
tained, and been entertained by, all the
royalty Of the world. '/F
A HUSBAND complains sadly at the
price of "ducks" His wife recently
bought three for $228, viz: A "duckh
OF dress, duck" of bonnet, and a
"duck" of a parasol.
THERE is a landlord In Boston who Is
in the habit OF placing an extra fork be-
side the plate of such boarders as have
not paid promptly-being an intimation
TO fork over" likewise. ...,-'
A BACHELOR sea-captain, who was re-
marking one day that he wanted good
chief fofflCer, was promptly informed, by a
young lady present, that she had no obiec.
tiOns to be his first mate. lie took the
hint-and the lady.
Eco shells, empty but unbroken, are
used in pistol galleries as targets. The
shell is placed on the water iet of foun-
tain, where ii dances fantastically as
swallows flight. The utmost skill is re.
quired to hit It,
A HOME VERSE
Though frosts the flowers kill,
though birds depart and squirrels sleeps
Though SHOWS may gather cold and deep,
Little folk their sunshine keep,
And mothor'love makes summer still.
The people of Cohoes are excited by
the discovery Of huge skull, supposed to
be that of another mastodon, lodged on
the centre rock of the fills. Though the
water pours down on every side of 1t,
1t is to all appearance as firm as the rock
itself
NEWSPAPER publishers are imprisoned
in Bavaria for inserting patent medicine
advertisements. In Mecklenburg all medi-
cal advertisements have TO be submitted to
the proper authorities before they are per
mitted to De published.
BARON CUvIER states that the progeny
of n pair of herriDgs went on increasing
and multiplying without molestation or
destruction of the ova, in twenty years it
would require all the seas in the world to
contain the hcrrings that would result. If
only half the spawn came to life, and half
the young fish lived, boat could not move
in the sea.
A BUFFALO policeman kept his pistol
cartridges and his tobacco loose in the
same pocket. He concluded to take
quiet smoke, and filled his meerschaum
with the miscellaneous deposit. All
went merry rs marriage bell until the
fire touched cartridge in the pipe, when
further exercises were suspended
AT North Bridgeport, Conn, a child
was recently born with no upper or lower
jaw, but protuberance like chickens
bcak. A physician cut off this deformity,
and formed lip by pairing the skin from
the checks on either side and fastening it
with silver pins. The strange operation
bids fair to be successful
SUGAR candy, it is estimated, is con-
sumed in the United States at the rate of
25O,OOO pounds per day, OF 100,000,000
pounds per year. OF this amount, New
York manufactures about 26000 pounds
per day; Philadelphia, $4,000; Chicago,
$4,000; st. Louis, 10,500; Cincinnati, TO-.
600; Baltimore, S,000 Boston, 1900.
IT is said to be fact that thief in
Nashville had trained rat to steal paper,
and the animal was detected in carrying a
300 greenback from brokers' window to
his proprietor outside. The broker saw the
theft, saw the thief run off, and captured
the rat on the street, but before he was de-
tectcd he had carried off $3.50 from the
window.
A PAPER hanger of Reubaix, France,
fell victim to his imprudence some short
time back by going to his breakfast with.
out first washing his hands after handling
some green papering The inquest proved
that death was caused by introduction into
the system of salts and copper, now so
much used in the manufacture of green
coloring for paper. -..N
AN explosion ofa nitro. glycerine manu-.
factory in the neighborhood of Stockholm
lately occurred, by which fourteen persons
lost their lives, and the laboratory with its
valuable apparatus, the managers house
and small adjoining workshop, were to-
tally destroyed. In the city, most of the
windows were broken, and within circle
of three miles the violent commotion of the
air was distinctly felt.
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