Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-09
VARIOUS ITEMS.

OMAHA, Nebraska, contains $4,000
people.
TuURLow WEED was recently in Paris,
with improved health.
NAUTICAL neatness-sweeping the ho-
rizon with glass.
OVER head and ears in debt--Wearing
an unpaid for hat.
Boston has wooden building which
was erected in 1909.
IT Is said there is not single Hebrew
beggar in New York city.
In London 500 men live by writing
cheap sensation stories
THERE are 100000 worth of window
glass in Stewards new store.
THE Apprentices Library, in New
York, contains over 10000 volumes.
A SHORT drive with many men--Being
driven to their wits end.
THE number of thieves of all kinds in
New York is estimated at ten thousand.
THE total number of cattle in the vari-
GUS European states is not less, it is said,
than 94,700,000.
THE French Emperor is arming loco
motives with artillery for scouting duty.
A WORCESTER Yankee has raised four
hundred pounds of squashes from four
seeds.
Two THOUSAND new buildings have
been erected in St Louis within twelve
months. .. '.
A MAN has just served out a sentence Of
one hundred years in the galleys, in
France.
TIE telegraph is more freely used in
Belgium than in any other European
country.
NEW York merchants are subscribing
to aid the sufferers by the South American
earthquakes.
JOHN III. FAsEY, said to have been the
fastest type-setter in the country, died in
Philadelphia last month.
| MRS RoBERT LINCOLN wore white silk
trimmed with white satin, with pearl or
naments, when married.
| AUGUST BELMoNT's picture gallery is
| valued at $500000, and is one of the best
collections in this country.
DURING the past year, 400, 900 meals have
been furnished to the poor at the Five
Points House of Industry, New York.
WHY is baby like wheat? Answer
Because it is first Graded, then thrashed,
and finally becomes the flower of the
family.
AN English amateur having propelled
himself on velocipede at the rate of fif-
teen miles an hour, intends racing loco
motive.
THAT was a weak. minded foreigner who
declared that the oyster stew was the no.
blest insti-stew.tion of America. How
steso-pid9
TIE Cincinnati Commercial states that
| Gov Warnnuth nf T,nuieiana for.
merly rival of Robert Lincoln, for the
heart and hand of Miss Harlan.
THE Prussian troops are learning to ex.
ecute a new mannuvre. A battalion
throws itself on the ground and two other
battalions march over them at quick
march to the front.
AFTER the 1st of January next, the reg
istration fec on all letters registered in
and addressed to any part of the United
States, will be fifteen instead of twenty
cents.
A CONVENTION of persons interested in
cattle raising is to be held in New York in
the latter part of November. Delegates
from each State, and also from Canada, are
| expected.
BY recent law in England, parents
who neglect their children may be sent to
| prison for six months, and similar pen
atty is attached to the husband who fails
to maintain his wife.
OUT of 203,214 conscripts Of France
during the present year, 219,087 can read
and write, ,079 can read only, 60,266 can
do neither, and no information was gath
cred as to 0,602.
THE Little Corporal, published in Chica
go, Ill, by Alfred l.. Sewell, and which il
to appear hereafter in magazine form, has
now the largest circulation of any juvenile
magazine in the world.
A PAPER mill, in which was manufac
tured paper used by Benjamin Franklin
in his office, is still in operation in Della
ware County, Pa. 1t is named the "IvN
Mill" and was erected as long ago as thu
year 1878.
THE revising barIister at Manchester
England, has decided that the 5,700 ladie
who had claimed To have their names in
cluded in the Parliamentary register coul'
not be admitted to the franchise.
A PACKAGE of currency, containing
twenty five thousand dollars, was stole
the other morning from Broadway E1
press office, while the messenger was q
the front door, The man supposed I
have stolen 1t escaped.
Asst hoU1s printer has attached In
ballon Hercules" on an unpaid bill II
expects his property will 60 up on hi
hands The lawyers say the attachmer
viii prevent this, and call 1t very, (serC
nauty case. ag
"LrrTLE CHEsTER,n son Of "John A
!, len," the "Wickedest Man in New York
II Il named after the Rev Chester Van A
Q len, pastor of the Baptist church at Sc
9 tia, Schenectady county, N. Y, who
brother to the Wiekedest Man"
Q SrxgY-FIyE velocipedes were enterC
s | for q aariee ~ raeea latalv hald near Par