Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-14
VARIOUS ITEMS.

millionaire
CmcAoo consumes Is, 100000 gallons of
water daily.
STuFFING plugs of tobacco with sheet |
lead is the latest swiudle.
SIN RonERr NArIER's title will be Baron
Napier Of Magdala
An upright trunk, which resembles a |
bureau has been invented.
RusKIN spends the income of his three
millions on charity.
MRs CHARLES SUMNER is boarding with |
n private family at LcnON, Mass
THE electric fluid recently killed fifteen |
sheep in Oxford, N. H., at one "strikc,'
A TON of collar paper, it is stated, is !
made daily at one mill in Pittslleld, Mass.
The Kansas State Fair will he held at
Leavenworth, September 90 to October :.
FRANCE has fined an omnibus driver
for calling Imperial troops "papcr sol
dicrs"
BosToN owns St5,oOO,OOO worth of
parks, which amount is greater than the
city debt.
OVER thirteen hundred steamship voy-
| ages year are made between England
and America.
ALI the parties arrested in Ireland uu-
der the suspension of the hajCH corpus
| have been released.
The tank of a soda bottling establish.
mcpt at St. Paul exploded recently and
killed two men.
MORE than II thousand spirit and to-
bacco smugglors were convicted in Great
Britain last years.
WHITE gloves are prescribed in polite
European society; pearl and orange color
gloves are prescribed
ELIZA BROWNING, a Cincinnati servant
girl, has fallen heir to 1000 by the death
of Liverpool uncle.
THE Prime Minister of King Theodore
asserts that the Abyssinian monarch had
an elder son, who is yet alive.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is said to be
the handsomcst of the American poets
He is fifty, and does not look more than
thirty.
Mr.. EDWARD CuuRCuLL, aged one
| hundred years, walked two miles TO
church, IN Eric county, Pa, Sunday, July
| 26th.
WATERING place visitors notice that
pipe smoking is increasing us cigars de-
crease in quality and grow in price,
SINCE the beginning of summer there
|
and the suburban cities-about eight u
week.
| LITTLE DAIsY's mother was trying to
explain to her the meaning of smile.
ooh, yes, know" said the child, ait is
| the whisper of laugh"
| AMONG the latest inventions is a rubber
bath.tub, about three feet in diameter when
spread out which can easily be slowed
away in ladys satchel.
| QUEEN EMMA, OF the Sandwich Islands,
is quite active in soliciting and distributing
relief to the sufferers by the late volcanic
eruptions in that country.
IT has been discovered that coal eX-
posed to the weather loses, in nine
months, fifty per cent. of its value as fuel,
and nearly as much gas making material
TWELVE hundred bales of hay were
purchased in New York, recently, for Liv-
erpool. This is new article of export
The drouth in England is the cause Of tho
movement.
Mrs. MARY SCHUINDLER, of Rochester
N. Y, was lately arrested on charge OF
roasting the hands of her adopted daugh
ter, for The offence of stealing pocket
book
TIE Milan Gazette announces the ap-
preaching marriage of Menotti Garibaldi
with young lady named Italia Bcdes-
cbini, born Mt Smyrna, but now residing
at Padua.
A LETTER directed to "Miss Bessie T.,
Waterbury, CT don't know her name,
but she is the pretticst little girl in the
city" is bothering the worthy postmaster
at that place.
THE Lowell Courier says one of the
thirteen professional boot blacks of that
city has accepted u challenge from a
Boston "shiner" to compete for the
championship of the State and prize OF
500
A CHILD was recently born in NORTH
Colebrook, Mass, which had but one
finger, all told The child was otherwise
perfectly formed, but one hand had only a
single finger, and the other none at all.
THE editor of the Auburn Advertiser
boasts of having been presented with "thC
veritable hatchet with which George
Washington chopped the cherry tree and
didn't tell a lie to his papa about"
AN Engllshman, describing wonderful
parrot hanging in cage from the window
of house which he often passed, said
at cries stop thief so naturally tina
T every time hear it always stop"
. A COMPANY has been chartered, unde
the title of the "American Hard Rubbe
9 Company" who propose to build roat
= wagons, and other vehicles, of rubber a
: about one-half the price paid for woodei
ones.
COLONEL EDMUND RICE has invented
/ what lie calls new bayonet but what il
, in fact a trowel, intended to enable infan
] try to intrench itself rapidly. Two hun
dred tentative trowels are in course ofcon
struction at Springfield.
EMpERoR FRANCIS JOSEPH stipulates il
the contract respecting the property o
Carlotta, made with the King of Belgium
that if the unfortunate princess ever re
covers the complete use of her menta
faculties she shall not visit Vienna.
PROVIDENCE has n colored boy, ageC
, thirteen years, who for few cents will
take m0uthful of glass, chew 1t up flint
; and swallow it. He says he has FOLLOWED
, the business since he was nine years OLE
! and can keep fat on it, He ought to havt
> a pane in his stomach by this time.
AT Cornish Flat, N. Y, recently,
streak of lightning ran down tree anC
e went into the earth, tearing open hol
l from which a stream of crystal water ha
s continually bubbled since. The strean
8 runs from place hitherto dry and nea
which no water was supposed 10 exist.
= AocoRDING TO the statement of Dl
|, Letheby, the daily consumption in LondO
is about 200 tons of fish, $500 sheep, 20
oxen, 30 cows, 1000 pigs, 5000 chickens
: 100000 of oysters, and about 100, 10000
!. of loaYes Of bread weighing one poun
= each.
: NEWLY set trees may be protecte
4 from the heat of summer by covering thei
. trunks with ropes made of freshly cut gras
r or clover II is good plan to moisten Ill
3 wrapping occasionally if the weather
t very dry,
n CHINESE printers are employed at I'll
" compOsitOr's cases of the two Englis
o papers published in Hong Kong, and a
f" tain wonderful rapidity and accuracy
y their work. setting botll reprint and man