Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-28

said 10 "tell your innocent thoughts, and
astonish, as well as amuse, all who consult
It,"
AN American Spiritualist advertising a
sednce at Goslar, Europe, and offering TO
establish a communication between per-
sons in the place and their dead relatives,
has been sent to jail for three days, and
ordered to leave the city after the expira-
tion of his sentence.
THE New York 7Ef6unes correspondent
says while the yacht feet was at New
London, Conn, Lawrence Jerome, of Wall
street, clad in a red shirt, blue pants, and
felt hat, was pointed out to the old salts of
that town as Garabaldi. They believed the
hoax, and stared at him at every turn.
| The latest pedestrian feat in England
was novel one. On wager of $50 a
man accomplished five miles in one hour.
One of these was run, one was walked, a
third he wheeled q barrow, the fourth
trundled hoop, and the fifth was hoped
on one leg. He had two minutes to spare
CAPT. PARKER Snow, in letter to the
| London Star, says 1t is mistake to sup
pose that mosquitoes belong to hot eli
mates alone; they abound also In the
Arctic regions, even among the icebergs
and glaziers where their sting Is "truly
fearful" He thinks them to be propa-
gated equally by gloom or by heat and
moisture.
| A WATCH known as the Douwagper
watch, from the name of the inventor, Is
manufactured in Switzerland. It is par
TALLY. wound up every time the cover is
raised and closed. Each operation effects
a winding for four hours, or six for the
twenty-four. Should the number of open.
lngs and closings exceed six In the twenty
four hours, any excess does not affect the
watch,
AN estimable clergyman in Providence,
H. J., married a couple who came to his
house the other day, and after the cere-
mony had been performed, the bridegroom
declared himself short of money, but
promised to remit the fee Immediately.
He then borrowed an umbrella and de-
parted with his bride. Neither fee nor
umbrella have since been seen by that
clergyman.
A SARATOGA letter to the Boston Post
says that the STOPPING habit that prevailed
among the fashionable women-chiefly
girls-twenty years ago, which was enti.
tied the Grecian bend" has come again,
and is really painful to behold. Nick calls
1t, with singular felicity, the "cholic
stoop" "Why don't they try pepper
mint lozenges" inquiries Nick compass
sionately, 1t might help the poor things"
THE celebrated Prof Book, of Leipzig
one of the greatest German physicians,
wages an inexorable and highly successful
war against all sorts of patent medicines
and nostrums. Whenever a new panacea
of this description makes its appearance
in the market, DR.. Book examines it, and
then publishes the ingredients of which it
is composed, and what it costs the manu-
facturers to get it up. In this manner the
sale of German patent medicines has lately
much decreased.
AN instance of terrible cruelty at sea
has lately come up in New York A sea.
man on Liverpool packet was kicked,
beaten with Delaying pin, and shocking
ly mangled, and when in his misery he
sought to cut his throat, was plastered up
told by the mate to jump overheard, and
by the same amiable individual further
mangled by blows from large billet OF
wood. His head and face were smashed
out of human semblance, his nose broken
and his eyes destroyed God in his mercy
relieved him finally by death.
THE Independence Beige, deprecating
the impertinent curiosity which has been
manifested in regard to the private life OF
the ex-Empress of Mexico, and stigma
tizing as pure falsehoods most of the
stories current on the subject, announces
in general terms that the condition of the
unfortunate Princess has undergone little
variation since she set foot on her native
soil. Her physical strength is perfectly
restored; her intelligence even is often
lucid and complete but every now and
then inexplicable eccentricities show that
the state OF her mind is yet far from salts.
factory.
A CORRESPONDENT writes "To sec
Niagara you buy eleven silk dresses fol
your wife and six shirts for yourself You
then get all the ready money. you have
borrow all your friends have, and make
arrangements for unlimited credit at two
or three solvent banks. You then. take
six trunks, some more money, nurse q
colored servant, some more money, anG
then, after getting some more money, and
extending your credit at one or two more
strong banks, you set out. 1t is better, il
possible, just before you leave, to mort
gage your homestead and get some more
money"
HERE is Connecticut bug story: "a
singular sight attracted the attention Of
some of the people of Danbury, last Sun
day On three posts to an iron fence in
front OF Main street residence, was con
gregated host of strange-looking bugs
not quarter Of an inch in length, carry
ing each pair of feelers three times this
length. In two seperate corps they main
tanned aceaseless march around the caps OF
their respective posts while quite party
of them were located on the peaks, eyeinp
the proceedings with solid enjoyment
Occasionally, and this was more singular
than all, a member of the moving mass
would withdraw to the shade, and there
turn over and die"