Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-11
VARIOUS ITEMS.

mouse.
In Boston street peanut venders are in
dicted as nuisances.
THE Boston Olipo Branch says Boston
boy is hub bub.
THE water power of Maine.is equal to
that of one million horses.
THE Niceroy of Egypt spent $1,000, 900
In ten weeks tour.
A CENSUS just completed in Rome shows
217,37S population.
THERE is house in Brooklyn occupied
by fifth wife and five mothers-in.law.
FoR setting bull dog on cat one G. f.
Frank has been sent TO Jail in New York
THREE American citizens have been ap-
| pointed harbor masters in Chinese ports.
THERE are now ninety-nine planetary
bodies on the roll call of the solar system.
In Newtown, Nd, there are 1O3 single
ladies and only sixteen single gentleman.
AN Industrious man in Bangor has his
garden lighted by gas so he can work In it
by night
THERE is an establishment for canning
peaches in Atlanta, Ga, which employs
500 hands.
A Cork jury has given verdict of e10
damages against woman for calling u
school teacher Fenian.
TRERE are four hundred nobleman to
every square mile of Hungary, and one to
every eighteen of the population.
ALLEN, English prize.fghter, is under
bonds not to fight within year. So the
championship match is Off
IT has been stated by savan recently
that Pompeii and Herculaneum were de.
stroyed over twelve thousand years ago.
THERE are 2,053 gymnastc societies
| (Turnvereine) in Germany, mastering in
all about two hundred thousand members
Mr.. Cyrus w. FIELD, it is said, will
soon return to this country, buy farm on
the Hudson, and retire from business life
altogether.
THREE hundred tons of cheese came
down the Hudson in one boat the other
day. 1t must have been nifty mass.
Or seventy-nine new serial publications
which have appeared in London since the
beginning OF the year, only seven are now
in existence.
A MAN in Massachusetts has invented
combination lock, which is, he says, re-
markable for its simplicity, as it has only
100000 combinations.
AN Armenian gentleman has arrived in
| New York with view of finding loca-
| tion in the Southern States for a colony of
two hundred Armenians
In Ohio there are 172 wooden mills; in
Michigan, 40; in Indiana, 1876; in Illinois,
So in Wisconsin, 60; in Iowa, So; in Min
nesota, Is. Total. $50.
A MAN named Royal Scales Jr., of Fish
erville, N. H., threw his child into barrel
of soap the other day and then committed
suicide. The child was rescued.
THERE are 90 cardinals, 90 patrarchs,
archbishops and bishops, 1879 priests 100
seminaries, 2,947 monks, 2, ,101 nuns, 1902
Jews, and 4S8 Protestants in Rome.
A YOUNG man in Lynn, Mass, was re-
Gently fined for dropping dog between
the wheels of his wagon, and then, in
order to kill the animal running over it.
A WELL known New York diamond
merchant estimates the value of the
precious stones worn in Saratoga, at one
time during the present season, at over
$4,500000.
A PHYSICIAN stopped at the shop of a
country apOthecary, and inquired for a
pharmacop@ia. "Sir," said the apothe-
cary, AZ know of no such farmer living
about these parts"
Nor long ago piece of iron ore was
dug out of a mine in Devon, England
seventy-four feet below the surface of the
earth, and on breaking it lizard six inches
| long crept out of it,
AN old shell was put into Lowell Mass,
factory, with other old iron, few days
ago, to be melted, when it exploded and
tore the building almost to pieces, but for
tunately injured no one.
LAST year two Germans purchased
eighty acres of land in county of South
ern Tennessee, and paid for the property
with the proceeds of the first crop of
four acres of strawberries set out last fall
IT is said that the three highest noun
tains on the globe are Gaurisanker, of the
Himalaya range, 29,380 feet Dapsang, in
Western Thibet, 2S,730 feet; and Kunch-
injlnga, in Eastern Thibet, 2S,60O feet.
A STATUE TO Joan of Arc was recently
inaugurated at Melun, France, in com
memoration of the relief of that town by
the Maid of Orleans when besieged by the
English in 1880
AT Wesel, Prussia, wealthy man died
a few weeks ago, who had beard eleven
and one,half feet long, which he wore
wrapt up on his breast. He directed in
his will the skin of his chin to be tanned
and the beard thus to be preserved.
GENTLEMAN Ito boatman), "You must
often, should think, get wetP do you
not" Artless boatman Yes, yer honor,
we does, very wet VERY wet, indeed /;
but Pm VERY dry just now, yer honor,
and no mistake"
A YOUNG man named Cryer died the
other day at Lexington, KY, three weeks
after bullet lodged six inches within his
brain, and another bullet had passed from
his back to his abdomen. He retained his
senses until his death.
OFFICIAL returns show that there are
yet 1913 Prussians exiled in Siberia who
were taken under arms during the Polish
revolution in 1863 Probably they will
be shortly liberated under the conditions
Of the last amnesty.
A YOUNG man in Pittsfield, Mass, at
tended his own wedding and his fathers
funeral ON the same day, recently, taking
a suit of white clothing for the former and
another of black for the latter.
GENERAL statistics of the crops in
France are published. On the whole, the
wheat crop is little if any superior to that
in ordinary years. In almost all the dis
ticts, barley and oats have suffered from
drought, and viii he inferior in quantity
and quality.
A RATHER fast youth was relating the
experience OF MS voyage across the
ocean to sympathizing friend. Said he,
81 tell you what, old fellow, there's one
good thing about il, though, you can get
as tight as you please every day, and
everybody thinks you're only seasickl"
ELEAzER FITCH, Of Lebanon, Connec-
ticut, attempted TO chastise Mrs. Fitch the
other day, but she rebelled, mastered him,
stripped him OF his clothes, drove him TO
bed, then bagged up her things and the
family funds, and departed for Hartford.
The heart-broken Eleazer thereupon took
strychnine, but the doctors pumped him
out.
HERE is a very Frenchy story A
worldly cure was offered seat in BOX of
a certain French Senator, to witnesss
representation of " La Belle Helene" He
replied to the offer: :" IL is impossible for
me 10 go. The ecclesiastical rule prevents
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