Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-12-04
VARIOUS ITEMS.

GRANT is 40, and weighs 100.
UTAH has discovered spinning
spider.
A BosToN lady has had teamster fined
for cruelty. ......
MADRrD's Governor prohibits begging
on the streets.
Gov Ton, of Ohio, leaves wife, four
sons and two daughters.
A RUSSIAN draft in January will take
four in every thousand.
In France, to one person who reads a
book 100 go the theatre.
THE diamond crosses for Maximilian's s
lawyers have reached Mexico.
A CoNNEcTIcUT grocer recently dlscov-
cred a Chinese idol in chest of tea.
WATERBURY,, CT, has District School
Clerk who can neither read nor write.
THOUSANDS of Europeans believed that
President johnson, II convicted, would be
hung.
INTRoDuCNe the daily papers a. readers
in the public schools is thought Of in Phil
adelphia.
LATEST fashion DEGREES that wedding
cards be issued three weeks before the
event transpires.
WHY do many people in China travel
on t0otP Because there is only one
Cochin China. .eE H .-.
A PEDDLER was found dead, near Pitts.
| burgh, starved to death l--and near him
his dog, not quite dead.
In Boston it was just five months and
| five days from the last snow of last spring
/ to the first snow this fall.
! LoNDoNERs want street thieves lashed
at the whipping.post, thatt being the only
punishment they dread.
THE State Treasury of California con-
tains of coin, $743, 1923; legal tenders,
| $122, ,593.50. Total, 1855, 5,72278
MAINE this year produced 100000 tons
! of hay, the same number of bushels OF
corn, and 2000 900 bushels Of wheat.
PoNToToc county, Mics, boasts ofsn in
habitant % years old, 81 inches high and
45 pounds in weight. .....
THE Cuban filihusters' flag consists OF
I red and blue bars, with white ground
in one corner surmounted with Ion
star.
THE Vermont Legislature is discussing
laws compelling children to attend
school, and regulating the legal rate of in
terest.
| A PRISONER recently broke out of Nj.
agara county IN. " Jail, purchased a
bottle of whisky, and then returned TO
his cell contented.
A HAMILTON, Ont, policeman, being
told that dead body had been washed
ashore from the bay, hurried thither and
found that the body was that of a horse.
THERE is band of robbers in North.
eastern Texas who admit no recruit till he
shall have killed man in the presence OF
witnesses.
A CORRESPONDENT desires 10 know which
arm a gentleman should take when with a
| lady? Whichever he can get, and think
himself lucky at that
DURING the progress of the Cole.IIis.
cock murder trial at Albany, juror was
found who never had heard of the case
He was peremptorily challenged for in
competency.
I A SAVANNAH culprit attempted to es-
cape from an officer by shamming death,
but was brought to life by the pouring OF
water into his mouth as he lay on his back
LITTLE Sarah Colt, aged eleven, started
| the first Sunday school in Patterson, N. D.,
seventy-four years ago, and taught it forty
! years. She still lives to witness the fruits
! of her labers. ref
THE Helena (Montana) Hspdld has seen
curious specimen Of gold, from Boulder
! II is correct representation of the shell
of snail, and weighs $50. II is in III
original form, moulded in the rocks.
THE compositors of Gdli0ndRts Mes
&ager, and other Paris newspapers, are
said TO go and return from work on veloci
pedes, and several of the collecting clerks
Of the Bank Of France have begun 10 use
them.
A LITTLE boy of thirteen, having placed
a penny on the railway track at Bruins
wick, Maine, to see the locomotive crush
it, one of the train hands threw a stick OF
wood at him, and he was instantly killed
AT brilliant wedding in st. Johns
| Cathedral, in Cleveland, recently, 1t was
found chat some oHe had locked the organ
stopped the key.hole, hid the key and
lifters of the bellows, and carried off the
! key of the music case TO prevent rival
organist from officiating.
A PARIS paper gives conversation be-
tween a father and his little daughter
"What have you done with your doll ~
&c have put 1t away, to keep for my child
ren, when l grow up" But If you
shouldn't have any% All well then II
will do for my grandchildren"
| A MARRIED daughter of James Clemens,
a wealthy citizen of ST. Louis, has begun
a suit against her father for property in
New York valued at twenty thousand
dollars, which he persuaded her TO trans
fer to him while under age for a nominal
consideration.
A YOUNG lady advertised for dressing
maid One applied, and in response 70
the inquiry If she was quick, replied
"Oh, SO quick that will engage to dress
you every day in half an hour" "In
half an hour reiterated the young
lady "and what shall do the rest Of the
dayf" -naf .sr1 ~r-
THE Cincinnati Ctr0nleIs recently pub.
lished a dispatch saying that "Oo1. Gil
bert, a fsrce editor Of Valparaiso Vidstte
and Rept6gio, Is a candidate for Speaker
of the House of Representatives. What
the telegraph should have said was "Col
Gilbert A. Pierce, editor" &c.
4 IT Is said that DIR. Harris, while junior
at college, was greatly Strengthened fol
want OF money, and that, while walking
70 Bostsn, he suddenly perceived some
thing had become attached 70 the end o.
hig cane. II proved to be gold ring, Will
the motto, God speed thee, friend"
CATTLE over q year old, which have
not been marked or branded, are every
body's property In Texas. The San An
tonic BspTess says that in that city the
market u stocked with hides from the
country, taken from cattle without !