Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
vIRrOUs ITEMS.

late censyfs, is S5,2SS.
BosroN annually expends $4,000 Cor
church music. M
TEE way 70 treat wife is TO treat her
70 aew dress.
oueEN IsABELbA's reign lasted exactly
thlrty-hve years. Il
TnkopoRR PARKER's works have been
translated into Swedish.
PARIsrAN ladies wear small gilt cham.
pagne bottles for earrings.
APARfsrAN belle performs her ablutlons
in q $4,000 silver tub. #tH
FRANCE has 100000 men ready for ser.
vice, and Prussia 100000. rfE
HoRAcR 0REELEY receives $1,000 per
annum as leading editor Of the New York
Tribune. a
II may be fair question whether man
can be said to be welded TO celibacy.
THE Sun tavern, near Faneull Hall,
erected in 1909, is the Oldest building In
Boston.
RUSSIA advises people not emigrate to
that country, as food Is scarce and business
dull. -.nfrr1 no .fIF
A MAN in New York State was recently
fined twenty-five dollars for shooting a
bird on Sunday.
THE twelve hat factories at Bethel,
Conn, employ $40 hands, and turn out
36l dozen of hats daily.
A FAMILY of Ave persons on Staten Is
land has been poisoned by eating preserves
cooked in copper.
A LADI with Grecian bend looks 10 n
country youth like crookod-nocked
squash struck by lightning. r.
From all accounts the tobacco crop in
~ L.. nWsA
the damage by frost is very slight.
Rev. NEWMAN HALL and his wife write
90 near alike that II Is difficult TO distin-
guish the chirography OF one from the
other.
GREAT BRTA1N's silver coinage would
form column over eighty-seven miles
long. Were they all new they would ex-
tend 1161f miles,
A NEW road locomotive has lately been
tried at Edinburg, Scotland, that threat
ems to reyolutionize public traffic, both for
speed and power,
QUAKERs are SO scarce in Canada that n
Toronto paper chronicles the arrival and
departure OF two, and notes the sensation
their appearance created.
A BEsPEcTABLE (S) lady was sent TO
prison the other day, In New York, on
complaint of her daughters, for being a
confirmed drunkard.
LAST year 1,190 lives were lost by accl-
dent in the coal mines of Great Britain
alonel The loss has averaged about 1000
year for twelve years,
THERE are living in Essex, Conn, eight
men who were In the same class at school,
whose aggregate ages amount TO six hun
dred an eighty years.
A WAC at hotel recently ordered elev-
en- beds for his own exclusive use, because
he had been eleven nights without decent
sleep, and wanted 20 make up the loss.
EXPERIMENTS show that sounds upon
the earth are distinctly heard at much
greater distance by people in balloons than
by those who are also upon the earth
A MANmade money at New England
fair, by letting people raise him up by the
ears at twenty y-tive cents premium for sue
cess and ten cents fine for failure.
To DO the thing properly in New York
at q wedding, the bride must have eight
bridesmaids, and hundred dollar poodle
besides the one she marries. ......s.
WHEN you see a man on moonlight
night trying to convince his shadow that
1t is improper to follow a gentleman, you
may be sure 1t is high time for him TO Join
the temperance society. lgw nEf
A New York domestic, being dissatis-
fed with the lonely situation of her en-
ployer's house, twice fred the premises to
compel the family to remove TO more
populous district,
THE other evening, an unknown Ger
man called at a hotel in Fosters Meadow,
MY, became interested In a game of cards,
lost $40, and hanged himself in swamp
in the rear of the hotel, during the night
a mo 30 "a
or member =" / can give five dollars for
this object and not feel 1t" "Then," said
his companion, "give tenIand feel IT, Did
not our Saviour feel what he did for
your"
THE following announcement lately ap-
peared in paper Edward Eden, paint
er, is requested to communicate with his
brother, when he will hear something to
his advantage-his wife is dead"
THE wife Of cross husband in Hart
ford, Conn, provided him with whisky
enough to make him hopelessly drunk,
and then took him in hand and admins
tered a fearful thrashing. HN
Two sovEREIGNs have Just entered on
the twentieth year of their reign-namely,
the Emperor Of Austria, and the King of
Italy, who assembled their respective
thrones within few months of e6ch
other.
THERE were in the british Kingdom,
3,933,924 acres under wheat in 1868, against
3,629,7 7S4 in 1857 The number of acres
devoted to the cultivation of potatoes in
1S6S was 1,6i9,190 against l 1,403,T02 in
1867.
A FEW evenings since, lady, while sit
ting in her residence, In Bowenville, Mass.
was struck on the head by stone hurled
violently through the window, but hel
chignon broke the force of the blow.
TIE Missouri standard for a hushel n
oats is thirtv.five Rounds. thai Of Iuinoi
is thirty.two hounds 10 the busheI Tn,
Roard ~ TraSe of 81 I.onis have reoentl,
adopted the Illinois standard. thus making