Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-07
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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from a pawn-shop the other day. lNI
How 1oNe docs widow mourn Tor her
hushand2 Sho mourns for a second
TuE Kansas State Fair will beyheld AZ
Leavenworth, September % 70 OCTOBER ..
A NAN in Pittsburgh recently mao ms
eye put out by q cork from hfAnei"i
water bottle. r...r-f eraW
THE sweeping and dusting OF the i5rlt-
ish House of Commons costs elgnt thou-
sand dollars year.
{ ThERt; Is not a single orgnpized Pres
byterian or Episcopal Church m sXsas, s,
and but very few commandments Oh ei'noi
church. - t f-p-faa
THE tariff for ten words, allowing five
for address, over the Atlantic caDle, viii
be fifteen dollars in gold after the first OF
September. 30
fN Yarmouth, Maine, a town OF 2,0OO
Inhabitants, there are sixty persons ABOVE
eighty years Of age, and one hundred anu
twenty.nine above seventy. -
Qun.P, who has heretofore been Uni
versalist, now believes there are two things
destined to be eternally lost-his umbrella
and the man who stole it.-BestoR.P Post.
A TEXAS man gave it as his opinion,
when importuned TO take out policy IN
life insurance company, that fellows
life was so mighty uncertain about there
it wasn't worth insuring.
A LADY in one of the wealthiest families
in Somerset, Mass, mounted moving
machine the other day which her husband
didn't know how to operate, and cut tour
acres of grass.
A MARRIAGE was solemnized In Hart
ford nearly two years ago, which has been
kept secret from the friends OF the par
ties up TO the present time. The parues
are now applying to be divorced.
In Eastern cities humane drivers protect
their horses with canvas screen, which,
resting on framework, serves as shade
from the sun, and permits at the same time
| a free circulation of air. hd
| MIR. RomNsoN thinks il conclusive evil
dence Of drunkenness when he SECS a man
"sticking postage stamp behind his LETT
ear and attempting TO get into letter-box
to go by the mail train"
"MKE, why don't you fire Ntythose
duoksS Don't you see you have got the
whole flock before your gun" 81 know l
have; but, you see, when l get good
sight at one, two or three others swim
right twixt him and me-"
THE Cincinnati Union Bethel Sunday
School claims to be the largest in the
! United States. Its attended by an axsrage
of 800 children, and conducted by corps
of sixty teachers,
MISS RACHEL CowAN, of Clinton, KY,
while holding pins in her mouth, hap;
pened to sneeze, when pin lodged in her
throat and killed her. 7a 'IHrs
AT Ogdensburg, N. Y, one day recent
| ly the thermometer went up to 132in the
sun. The Captain of the schooner Fulton,
| lying at the dock, placed an egg on the
1 In,,ty nd ~, t,,f,,t thor.
| oughly cooked. .sfe- i b, Gao
The revenue derived from the Spanish
| Government from the Havana lottery dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, accord
| ing to an official statement just published,
was ,739,2SS--about 1854 less than
that of the preceding year. 11.1 sdi
SOMEBODY has discovered way of
making toads earn their own living they
will take care of vine patches. Lay boards
between the rows to shelter them in the
day time, and they viii make carnival of
the bugs at night. uqf1
A PARIS eccentric advertised that he
was equity, of a violent temper and terri
bly, quarrelsome, but that he would settle
twenty thousand dollars year on young
and handsome wife, He received forty
six applications and is now married
AN exact calculator has made an esti-
mate based upon the salaries paid to
American ministers, and the number OF
sermons preached, and arrives at the con.
clusion that the price paid for a sermon,
to take the country through, is only three
cents apiece!
THE authorized Milk Inspector of Gin
cinnati, after n tour of inspection, fur
nishes the names of fifty-two milkmen
who had pure milk, ninety-eight who had
milk and water, of nine who had pure and
SKINNED milk, and of four who had
watered, SKINNED and pure milk. tls
A YOUNG French gentleman, five years
of age, was approached with childish en-.
dearmentsby an infant of eighteen months
"Dont you see " said the mother, I" that
the baby wants to kiss you?" eyes" re.
piled young France, Indignantly, "that's
because he takes me for his papa" e74
A DIsTINGUIsHED physician restricts The
members of his family, from May to Sep.
tember, to two ounces of animal food per
day. lie has kept record for twenty
years, and has found the deaths in the
meat eating families four times greater than
in the vegetableeating. -
TIE Government Savings Banks in
Great Britain and Ireland, in 1864 re-
ceived $24, 1856, 800 deposits, paid out &c.
242, 800, and were computed to hold as
capital $4S, ,740,635 In 1868, the receipts
were $l3, ,523,665 the drafts SIS, 131 ,O35, and
the capital $11 ,Ss4,140. E ,s = sr.'I
"HENRIETTA," said landlady to her
new girl, "when there's bad news, parti-
cularly private Affections, always let the
boarders know it before dinner. 1t NAV
seem strange to you, Henrietta, but such
things make great difference in the eat
ing in the course of year" taaaE
THE wind recently performed curious
freak by taking up four cocks of nay from
the field of Mrs Pierce, in Springfield,
Mass. They were taken up as gently as a
balloon ascends, and went over the city to
the northeast until out of sight, not YES.
tige of hay remaining where they stood.
A LITTLE daughter of Mr.. S. Jordan.
Durham, Me, swallowed piece of acorn
some time last winter, since which time
she has been troubled with very bad
cough-so bad that she was thought to be
in consumption. About three weeks ago
she caughed up the acorn, which was
found to be sprouted, and she has been
well ever since. .latsi.l-r
AN eight-hours-a-day man, on going
nome the other evening for his snppeT
found his wife sitting in her best clothes
on the front stoop, reading volume al
travels. How is this?" he exclaimed
"Where's my supperg" "I don't know
replied the wife, :" began 20 get breakfast
at 6 o'clock this morning and my eighi
hours ended at two O'clock in the after,
noon" H... ...,..,,
ONE of the most annoying and painfil
little troubles is felon. A genuine RENE.
dy is worth circulating. It's said that 4
poultiee of onions, applied morning, noon
and night, for three or four days, win cure
felon. No matter how bad the case
lancing win Se unnecessary if the pOultice
is applied. The remedy is pronounced a
sure, safe and speedy one. -