Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-07-17
VARIOUS ITEMS.

evening.
A MAN has lately died in Paris, leaving
fortune of $4,000 in postage stamps.
ONE-FIFTH of the people of Algeria
have died of cholera within the past six
teen months
A GENTLEMAN is TO build 100000
church at Yonkers, as q memorial of his
deceased wife.
The proof of the adagc that time is
money is found in the fact that times
change.
DAVIES arithmetics net him $4,000
annually. A mathematician can cut
good figure at that.
SHEnB9ooKE, Canada, claims to have
hen which manufactures needles and lays
one with every egg.
LEGAL Qu1BBIE.-A barrister should
cultivate good temper, If he would sue
coed as cross-examiner
A BOY in England was blown by the
wind across a railroad track just in time to
be run over and killed.
THE grasshopper plague in Utah has
been less severe this year than usual;
whereat the Mormons are joyful.
THE leaders of the. Pittsburgh EUening
Mail arc written in q prison cell by its
WHEELS like men are often tired, and
very frequently from kindred cause
going round so much.
BAYARD TAYLOR, when last at Rome,
opened a studio, employed models, and
went through regular course of art in
struction.
PRINCE NAPOLEON is said to have re-
mained three quarters of an hour on his
knees before the tomb of the late Emperor
| Maximilian.
LIVERPOOL gives its chief constable a
salary of 81, 100 year and provides him
with house, rent free, forage, fuel, and
light.
A GRAND angling match is announced
in Paris. The system is to be that of
whipping, or lly-Catching and the prize is
$4,000, given by Russian prince.
AN cx-city official in Troy, N. Y, lately
corrected his wife with an ax-handle, for
breach of etiquette in helping herself to
butter at the tea-table with her own knife.
IT is estimated that in the breadstulTs
trade of this country from the farmer down
to the consumer, the transactions amount
to three billion dollars annually.
SEVEN of the leading theatres of Paris
received during the last twelve months
! 10000, 756 francs, an increase of more than
three million francs over the preceding
year.
GARLANDs of natural flowers are now
used to adorn the hair of ladies in evening
toilette They are kept fresh by quills be-
| ing filled with water and sealed at both
ends.
A DEERF1ELD Mass man, who has al
waVs resided in Deerheld street, recently
visited Greenfield for the first time in
| twenty years. He was somewhat aston
ished at its growth within that period.
A Boston rat built himself costly nest
recently, using therein $4,000 worth Of
bills belonging to Joseph Burge, The
money was recently reclaimed, not yet
beyond redemption.
A NEW scientific toy Is a magnetic fish
cut out of paper, colored to initiate nature
and which, being placed in the palm of the
hand, wiggles as naturally and uneasily as
a fish out of water.
THERE is something exquisite in the
Yankees reply to the European traveller
when asked if he had just crossed the
Alps, he replied: "Waal, now you call my
attention to the fact, l guess did pass q
little risin' ground"
A YOUNG woman, in France, tumbled
her little sister down well so that the in
heritance might not be divided. Littlt
sister grabbed the root of tree as she ros(
to the surface, and held on until rescued
The other has gone to prison for ten years
A LADY teacher was announcing t
her pupils the holiday on the 22d day o.
February, and asking them why the birth
day of Washington should be celebrated
more than hers l.? A little fellow exclaimed
with great vivacity, "because he necer tOIt
a lie w
AN English paper publishes curious
list of the largest capitalists known to ex
ist in the world. The first is an American
manufacturer who has an income of tel
millions the second is Russian boyard
and the third an Englishman possessing
immense territories in the East Indies
The Rothschilds only occupy the number
eleven on the list.
THE practical joke does not always enc
so harmless as in the case of Nathanie
Appleton, who found on riding up to tht
house of his beloved that his rivals hors
was hitched at the gate Unhitching him
and giving him very smart stroke will
rawhide, he walked in and inquired
whose horse that was cantering down til,
street. 1t need not be said that he founC
the coast clear at once.
A FRENCH journalist, wishing to pok,
q little fun at the English, says that
British Captain named Harris once cam
across a sleeping whale Under the i'm
preston that it was an island, he landed
and in the name of Queen Victoria tool
possession. The whale awoke and wen
down, carrying the discoverer and hi
party, but upon all English charts tn
place is marked "Harris Island"
CuvIER, the naturalist, was in his favorit
pursuit very democratic in his tastes. III
treated all men rs his equals, and woul
, not allow others to treat him as their supC
rior One day, while discussing qucS
ton in anatomy with young naturalist
the latter constantly intcriected in his con
| versation "Monsieur lie Baron" ether
is no Baron here" replied Cuvier, ether
are two students seeking the truth, an
bowling down only to her."
COURAGE AND PATIENCE
Life is cad, because we know it,
Death, because we know 1t not;
But we will not fret nor muTmur-
Every man must bear his lot.
Coward hearts, who shrink and fly,
Are not ht TO live or diel
knowing life, we should not fear II,
Neither death, for that's unknown,
Courage, Patience-thesc are virtues
Which for Inany sins atone,
Who has these-and have not l =
lie is fit to live and die
Ina recent Washington letter. "Agatc,
tells the following story: "At an eyenin
. reception lately given to the Chinese en-
bassy ii happened to me to be assigno
by the hostess to the duty Of trying to CT
= terrain one Of the young Pekin students
a in the supper-room, He touched the bal
barian dishes but sparingly, and conyersi
: ton sprang up as to the difference betwee
Chinese and American cookery. Alta sus
: gestion of the straits to which the cmbass
would be reduced, if their Chinese coo
should die, and they should be compelle
@ to subsist ON the ordinary hotel fare, h
}. exclaimed, Oh, we should soon grow yer
: thin-in fact we should starve' Suddcnl
!. it seemed to occur 10 the young diplom,
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