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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

three times. and the crash Of the waves
against the timbers of helpless ship was
one Of the most terrible accompanlments
Of such scenes; yet that was nothing 70
the almost Supplying din that was gong
on before us-moments when the DAY ilght
was over, and the world below could no
longer be stingusbed-when we had
nothing but the clear starlight over heso,
and were truly alone with the mountain
when the varied c-,oring ofthe ground hao
disappeared in the darkness, and nothlng
could be seen but the CLEAN of the burn
ing earth through the chinks at our feet
while the white-hot glarihg ribbon OF
molten lava glided languidly down the
mountain at our side, aId before US was
the flashing Of the in-er fire upon tne
cloud of vapor ovCrhanging the abyss.
Take all these together, and the scene 10
indeed rather different FROM what you PIC
ture TO yourself as you calmly read IN
your newspaper that Nesuyius IS once
again in state of eruption.
THIS is the way French paper chronl-
clcs an accident: "On Saturday, an acci-
dent which might have been attended WIN
sad results took place in this city (Parls[;
\ bricklayer, having lost his balance, zen
from the sixth story of house to the
street Fortunately, two women VINO
were chatting on the sidewalk received
the falling man on their heads and broke
his fall The bricklayer was taken up safe
aud sound. The bystandCrs shuddered 10
think that but for lucl-- chance the acct
dent would have cost him his life. The
two women were instantly killed"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
Hours for Study.

AN important change in the system of
educating children has been inauguratcd
in Germany. There school authorities
have determined To have no afternoon
classes. They have ascertained that three
or four hours clear headed mental study,
without any mental tasks in the afternoon.
leads to better results than the old system.
1t would be well if the hours of study
were shortened in our shoots. Too much
study not only dwarlS the intellect, but
damages the ply ysical health. Let the
first half of the day be devoted 10 the &C
Qurng Of book knowledge, aud the last
half to the gaining of bodily strength and
vigor.
And, in order to do this, the lessons must
not be so long aud hard as to encroaCh
upon tho afternoon. An hour or SO after
supper ought to be sufficient to devote to
study leaving the rest of the evening for
some pleasant game or conversatiun-and,
in the case of young or weak children, for
sleep. Sensible as these views are, II is al
most impossible to make teachers conform
to them.
One word more. If German children
should thus not be ovcrworked, mu h
more is it true of American children. The
| stimulation of the brain and nervous
energy in this country is something terri
! BILE. And We must encourage the physi
cal in order to counteract this result OF
our social and political education, by every
rational means in our pOwer-RuIuL NtU
YDyka,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
BHnaIO.

PERSONS who have never seen the vast
herds of buffalo moving can have but little
conception of the almost irresistible power
of such living mass, and the difficulty of
turning of breaking the herd when once
II is in motion on a certain course. The
countless thousands press forward, over
whelming any but the strongest barrier.
Wagons have been overturned in this way,
and teamsters have saved themselves and
the stock only by flight ....r
An army officer who with strong force
crossed the Plains by the Smoky Hill
route in 1868 was forced 10 corral his
train of wagons and order bis men to fire
Volleys into a herd which threatened 10
march over his train. This Is, however
infrequent. A party may be on the Plains
or even on the Buffalo Range, for years
and never SEE II; still sueh Instances have
occurred.
have frequently been amused at the
calculations made by wise old hunters
whom one finds on the Range. They
settle within million or so the exact
number OF buffalo that are yet wandering
about. One old fellow is convinced thai
theTe Is something like seventeen millions
and that this Ia tue exact number required
70 keep up the present stock. The buffalo
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
Cunning OF the Crocodile.

FEW creatures are so sly and wary as
crOcodiles l watch them continually as
they attack the dense hocks of small birds
that throng the bushes at the waters edge
These birds are perfectly aware Of the
danger and they fly from the attack if
possible. The crocodile then quietly and
innocently lies upon the surface, as If it
had appeared quite by accident; 1t thus
attracts the attention of the birds, and it
slowly sails away to considerable dis
tance exposed to their view. The birds,
thus beguiled by their deceiver, believe
that the danger is removed, and they again
flock to the bush, and once more dip
their thirsty beaks into the stream. Thus
absorbed In shaking their thirst, they do
not observe that their enemy is no longer
on the surface.
A sudden splash, followed by huge
pair of jaws beneath the bush which en-
gulf some dozen of victims, is the signal
Unexpectedly given Of the crocodile's re-
turn, having thus slyly diVed, and has
tened under cover of water to his victims,
have seen the crocodiles repeat this ma
neuver constantly; they deceive by a
feigned retreat and attack from below.
In like manner the crocodile perceiVes,
while it is floating on the surface in mid
stream, or on the opposite side of the river,
woman filling her girba, or an animal
drinking, etc, etc. Sinking Immediately,
it swims perhaps hundred yards nearer,
and again appearing for an instant on the
surface Il assures itself by a stealthy look
once more it sinks, and reaches the exact
spot above which the person or animal
may be. Seeing distinctly through the
water, 1t generally makes its fatal rush
from Notwithstanding seizing with its
Jaw, and at other times striking the object
into the water with It's tail, after which il
is seized and carried off.-NeV Orleans
| PiedVins
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
Too Much Work.

AN insane and Unsuitable passion for ac-
emulation has seized upon the public
mind Money is literally the god of many
of our people, and the god o! their families.
For this they rise up before the sun is in
the heavens, and labor long after his going
down. For this the ponderous wheel of
business rolls round, like the wheel of day
and night, from January to December,
with no pause to cool its fiery axle. Is it
any way surprising that under an iucreas-
ing pressure of labor, a large proportion
of Americans break down early in life,
and often, when just in sight of the goal,
sink into premature graves?
1t is not, however, the hard work we
do, so much as the fretting, care and
anxiety we cherish, that exhausts our vital
energies, and puts an early period to our
lives. We fully believe that, with the ex'
ception of few Indian tribes, Americans
are the most solemn people under the sun
There is no other community on the whole
face of the earth who carry about SO
habitually their business cares, or who,
amid SO many circumstances of comfort,
have so little enjoyment in their
lives 1t is even hard for many OF us to
laugh or if we do occasionally join in
merriment, our laughter is not Of the
free and easy, obstreperous kind, which
Milton has painted as "holding both
its Sides" or like Falstatfs with
out intervallums," but rather like thai
which Tom Davis described Johnson's tC
be, "a kind of good natured growl." BY
day and by night we can think and dream
of nothing but the iron realities Of life
Anxious, perplexing thought sits on tht
business mans brow as he Tubs his eye
at daybreak the duties of the toilet arr
rushed through with a splash, wipe anC
a brush breakfast is swallowed as il {
fiery chariot were waiting at the doorstep
the place of business IL flown to on the
wings of steam the day is spent in strain
| ing TO overtake complicated details o
| business too extensive for the minds grasp
it costs race to be in time for dinner
even when 1t is postponed till night; anC
dinner is curtailed of its fair proportion o
time, that he may solve some knotty prob
lem of business that could not be solved
during the day. The hour for sleep arrives
but tired natures restorer refuses to kni
up the raveled sleeve Of care;" the over
excited and faded brain keeps up its throb
bings, and thus things go on till the pool
bond-slave of Mammon finds his constitu
tion shattered; the cOflln-maker soor
takes his dimensions in his minds eye
and he descends at last to his everlasting
rest with the glorious satisfaction, per
haps, Of having gained for all his care anC
toil--his joyless days and sl6epless night
more money in funds than any othe
man on 'Change-KDchdnge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

s certainly decreasing since 1858. They
have been pressed more than hun.
drcd miles west in Kansas and Nebraska
They no longer range up 10 the
Platte IN the great numbers thot formerly
visited that stream; and the Indians are
ever bringing forward the fact, In their
pow.wows with commissioners, that soon
the buffalo will be gone, and the red
brother must keep peace with the white
and eat his spotted buffalo ~ (ndian for
domestic cattle) lam tempted to remark
that they do eat very considerable num-
Der Of spotted cattle that are not procured
In very brothorly way; and no Indian
Il complete In his outfit until he has cow
skin chair on) bow case and arrow.quiver.
IT, as the Indian tears-grouudlessly how
ever at present-the buffalo will pass
away, am at loss to know what be
woulddo, for the buffalo feeds clothes, and
warns the nomads The flesh being used
as food, either fresh or sun-dried. The
skin is used as clothing, blankets, and with
the hair removed, becomes the best mate
rial out of which to manufacture the tents
or "tepes," and the "bOis de cache" Is rs
good fuel as the Indian asks for. In fact,
there Is scarcely manufactured article
that the aborigine uses but what one may
discover that some portion of the buffalo
has been used In the construction of il
Certainly the redskin must feel something
like CONSERVATION as he sees the buffalo
become year by wear less plenty
poRE r. DAVIS, in Hdrper'S NdgdsinG.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
AndrOO's Arithmetic

Mr.. Johnson's head is about as wei!
balanced on the figures of arithmetic as
on the figures of speech. The lucidity of
his mathematical propositions is only
equaled by the clearness of his political
views. For instance, he says in his mes
sage that Government "received for its
bonds, in real money, three or four
hundred per cent. less than the obligations
which it issued in return" No man of or
dinary acquaintance with the English Ian
gusge and the Arabic numerals would
ever make such ridiculous statement.
Take an illustration. Here is bond for
81 1000 given by Government What does
Mr.. johnson mean by saying that Govern
ment received "three or four hundred per
cent. less than the $1,000 for the bond. ?
How much is three or four hundred per
cent. less than $1.000S Three hundred
per cent. Of 81 900 is $4,000. Does the
man mean that Government received
$4,000 less than 1000 for every thousand
dollar bond it issued? If that is his
meaning then the Government must have
paid $4,000 bonus to every man who &C.
cepted 81, 900 bond. But what a botch
this fellow from Tennessee makes OF
everything.-Hartford Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
Advice TO the Married.

ZCHoKKE, in one of his tales, gives the
following excellent advice.
In the first solitary hour after the cere-
mony, take the bridegroom and demand a
solemn VOW of him and give him vow
in return. Promise each other, sacredly,
never, not even in jest, to wranglo with
each other-never to handy words or to
indulge in the least ill.humor Never-l
say never Wrangling in jest, and put
ting on an air of ill.hum0r NEARLY to tease,
becomes earnest by practice. Mark that !
Next, promise each other sincerely and
solemnly, never to keep a secret from each
other, under whatever preteXt, and what
ever excuse it might be. You must con
tinually, and every moment, see clearly
into each others bosom. Even when one
of you has committed fault, wait not an
instant, but confess It. And as you keep
nothing from each other, so, on the con-
trary, preserve the privacies of your house,
marriage state, and heart, from father,
mother sister, brother, aunt, and all the
world. You two, with Gods help, build
your own quiet world. Every third oI
fourth one you draw into 1t with you will
form party and stand between you
two That should never be. Promise
this to each other, Remember the vow
at each temptation. You will find your
account in it, Your souls will grow, as il
were, to each other, and at last will become
as one. All, If many pair had, on thei
marriage day, known this secret, how
many a marriage were happier than, alas
| they arc!
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

ekslly rite to apply to the matters NV iudi.
vidooals. l approve nv the Presidents
method NV psyin debts, becoz 1t shows me
an escape from my troubles l hev
small piece Nv land onto wich my esteemed
friend Bascom holds mortgage for money
loaned ten yesrs ago. hev paid interest
onto that note promptly for ten years, wich
at ten per cent. amounts to ez much ez the
principle, Now"
"Wst In thunder are you gettin atT'
spoke up Bascom, turnin white.
"The gentleman Is cleerly out NV order
replied Josef. al hev the floor. Will the
Chair perfect me In my rites or must
perfect myself
ITO resoom. l mite in iustis demand
Nv Bascom my note, hevin paid him In In.
terest more than the principle amounts to.
But shel temper my Justis with mercy.
| forgive him for takin the interest hev
paid him all these weary years, and shell
make him this proposition; Keep the
note till the interest amounts to ez much
ez the prinsiple and then give 1t to me,
cancelled"
"But how about the msney wich let
700 hev, 700 swindlerf"
Hewitt I paid 1t to 700 in the inter
est" askt Josef
"Weu theu-how about the interest ~
yelled Bascom, very much excited.
"Why, hevint I paid 1t reglerly, and
don't perpose to keep payin itS" replied
Josef "Kin anything be farerf VOC
he'd better take my proposishen or may
possibly repoodiate altogether. The cred
itor class mustn't bear too heavy onto the
debtor class. There is limit beyond
wich we won't be drove"
wunst ther wuz excitement in the
house. Deacon Pogram swore that Bas.
com shood give up note wich he held
onto him, and Issaker Gavit, who wuz
also In debt, fell onto Bigler's neck in de-
lirium nv JOY at this happy releese from
his troubles.
"Thank the Lord" sed the Deekin,
for thts maxim my way casey"
And they all demanded NV Bascom
their notes. One, Patrick, who hedn't
paid any intrest for six yeers insistid on
hevin the amount he hedn't paid endorsed
on the nste, and becoz BascOm called him
odd fool" he went for him. They
clinched and the fite become general-the
lites were put out and the meetin broke
up in confession.
This discussion didn't interest me
becoz Debt don't bother me. hev bin
livin on an Improvement on A. Johnson's
idea all my life, viz don't pay neither
interest nor principal. kin therefore
look at the question calmly and without
prejudis. must confess that Bascom wu7
not rite. He ought to practis wat he
preeches Ef the Government shell pay
its debt with the interest, why shel moi
that suffrip saint Deekin PogramS Bu
men aint alluz willin to apply grea
principles to their own cases. Its one tN
| the weak nesses of human nacher.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p, NJ,
iWich In poetmastsrD
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01


MR.. NAsBY AND HIS FRIENDS DIsCUss THE
MEssAGE-THE FINANCIAL POLICY OF
THE PRESIDENT PARTICULARLY Is AP-
PROVED AT THE BEGINNING, BUT
PosT OFFS, COHPEDRIr ROADS,
(Wich is in the State Nv kentucky
December l3, 1868.
The message wuz reserved by us at the
Corners, ez mite hev bin expected, with
rapcher. Its astoneshin how persistent A.
johnson isl How delitefully and regerly
he does throw them old ideas Nv hissen at
Congress, and how shsmefully they hev got
into habit Nv treetin Nv EN-! Why, they
refoosed to hear his message What a
pity it is that one who hez so much faith
in hisself can't git any one else to hev any
faith in him When red uvthe inhuman
treatment Congress gave him, l, ez Fed
raj offs holder, shed tears. A. johnson
hezen't yoozed me well-he hez put me
into place wher ther is skasely nOthin Ia
steel-but so long ez hold a cOmmishn
shell drop the offishl tear at insults piled
upon him. Poor johnson Me and Sec
retary Welles are the only two who do
stand by him, onless we mcleod John
Quincy Adams, Jr, wich don't count
much ez he is only one-eighth Adams any
how.
The ilRnshel policy Nv the President
struck as the most favorable Nv any part
NV it. Troo, we don't none Nv us pay
taxes, but Bascom, Pennibacker and
McPelter, who hev distilleries, and who
in addition hold the posishens Nv Asses
sor, Collector and whisky Inspector, know
that under the butcher Grant, which is
comm, therell be u new deal, and that
they'll hev to pay. We're we'll pleased al
the lice; and the balance Nv US liked il
becoz ef the Nashnel debt aint to be paid
the tax on whisky kin be put at a still
lower figger.
Indeed, 80 we'll pleased were we that
we felt it rite and proper TO call meetin
to endorse it, wich wuz held at the church
ez yoosual presidin.
Bascom interdoosed a resolooshen com
mendin the finanshel policy Nv the Presi
dent, wich we wuz goin to pass when tc
our disgust Joe Bigler riz. Ell the cholera
wood be quite sure to take that cuss,
believe the Corners wood be willin TO take
its chances NV it. But nothing will kill
Josef. He spoke ez follows:
Il approve nv this resolooshen, AND
hope it may pass yoonsnimusly. Debt
my fellow citizens is q Boa constriktel
wich crushes all who find themselves with
in its folds. Debt hez blited the under
sined-Debt hez bin my rock ahead thrC
life, and debt is KILN me now. 1t ain
Debt exactly, neither, wich hurts us-itI
the payin NV Debts. Now A. Johnson'I
policy scots me- He takes the debt wicl
bears interest, and in the most simple man
ner possible, makes the interest pay thu
| principle. He takes this BQa-constrikteE
| outs its tail ia its mouth, and makes 1t ca
itself up. Sich nnanshel skill hez biz
exalted by few and surpassed by none.
move the passage NV the resolooshen, anC
three cheers for A. johnson"
The resolooshen Wuz passed and tn,
cheers given with q will, when Josef ri
sgin.
"I hey one more remark 10 make" SCI
The, swat is rite In nashnel matters /
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
How the Artist EulOtt Reformed.


THE curse of the late portr,it painter
Elliott was drink and friend thus tells
in Harper how he took "the pledge "
one day last spring,
found him down in the saloon. He
had been drinking more than usual. But
his head was clear and his heart over
flowing with the richest and most gener-
Gus humanity He was alone. He listened
for few moments, and then putting his
hand on my shoulder, said with deep
and tender voice, my dear -, don't
want to talk art today want to speak
of something great deal bigger than that
| must stop drinking. have thought II
all over You know ali about this bust.
ness. want to take the pledge. Can't
YOU give Il to me as q friends II will be
better so"
"I can, my dear fellow"
"Well, then, come up TO the Ibar, and
write 1t out here while l take my last
drink. Mind, L., write il strong"
Iwrote It. He came TO the table, and
slowly taking the pen and holding II
awhile, as he turned on me his deep, earn
est gaze, said;
"Friend l., this is q big thing
Think of my giving this up at my time o
life Now, in my old agel And yet i
must be done"
He deliberately signed his name.
Now" he continued, "you witnessi it.
put your name there, right under mine
Now make q duplicate of this;' whicl
we both signed.
Putting his copy carefully In his memo
randum book, and buttoning up his coat
he drew deep breath, and, as large, gen
erous tears rolled one by one down ON hi
breast, he said;
"Its done. Now, L., stand: byi me
and it will all be WE'LL
And so he began his new life. After
brief visit to his home at Albany he re
sumed his painting, and with most in
credible rapidty dismissed from his ease
that series of his last priceless portraits
working hard till his work was done.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
gottra.
THE SILENT CITY AT GREEN
.....F ..n.. WOOD.
ny J. D. SHERWOOD.

BY ). D. SHERWOOD.
THERE'S city vast yet volceless, growing ever
street ON street.
Whittier friends with friend. e'er meeting. ever
meeting never greet;
And where rivals fierce and vengeful calm and
silent mutely meet:
Never greeting ever meet
There are traders without traffic, merchants with
- out books or gains
Tender brides in newmsde chambers, where the
Where the guests forget to come, and strange,
listening silence reigns:
Listening silence ever reigus.
Ships sai past this silcut city, but their owners
And no signals hy from toptreo 'gainst the glow
ing, crimson sky,
Telling the negiectiul owner that his we'll built
Argosy
For ho.Floece lie sailing by.
h'rs the belle forgsts the fashions, mindless Of
ltrk aHd tres
None here fatt 81 face or figure. none come fondlx
to carossi
Tresses flow, and none caress.
Hus ned are all these many mansions, barred and
- bolted door and gate;
Morrow all the walls and earthly, aud the roonrecs
PADom for alll--the high and lswly. Rich and
poor here equal mate:
Equal dwell and equal mate.
Flowers are blooming near these mansions, kissed
by loving dews at night,
Breathing sOtJly round their porChes, flowing
through the cooling light;
Pealing from their bells sweet music, pealing
od0rs pure and white:
Pealipg only to the night.
Here each keeps his well-ceiled dwelling, fsarl'a AZ
naught OF quarter.day:
Here no landlord duns the tenant, and no tie ~. q,
moves away;
Dwelling ever unevicted, dwelling on frc N Nav
TO May;
Paying never quar- .er-day.
Beekons ever this mute city to its cor Irade living
gay; '''Ab
To its, comrade laughing loudly, sitting on the
pulsing bay N Wv
Drawing from its masqueraders nels ,Yb,,o .roo
tres day by day; NV
Spectres no n, men yesterday.
Thus two cities grow forev ", parted by a narrow
tide, -
This the shadow, that tie substance, growing by
each others side: -
sliding one into the other snd for evermore shall
glide:
fa. Growing ever side by side.
-Hd'per's Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

CY President Johnsons advocacy of
practical repudiation is perfectly logical.
His own repudiation has convinced him
that the American people have sure way
of disposing Of what they deem intoler.
ably odiouS, Complacently deeming him.
self less detestable than heavy national
debt, he mistakenly supposes that as the
people have repudiated the one they will
be willing 70 repudiate the other. But he
foTgsts that Sss thsyS are are degrees q ,, sy A
verdict Of the people that 1t is by no means
" such miserable cuss as he is--Al6dny
EpsaiA9 Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

A FEW nights ago, a watchmsn In
Columbus, o., discovered a lady in her
night-clothes crouching behind fence,
She explained that she had been walking
in her sleep; had wskened suddenly, and
was so bewildered that she could not tell
which direction to go to reach home. The
officer asked her to name some locality
near her residence, which she did He
walked toward the place named, she fol.
lowed at some distance. AS they reached
a well.known grocery establishment, she
said, al know my way now, sir, thank
you, and good night" and ran quickly up
cross street TO her home. 1t seems she
had travelled some distance in her sleep,
and before waking had arrived In a part
of the city entirely strange to her.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

RABBITS are 50 numerous in Australia
that they are killed as Vermin. One farm,
er calculates that II will cost him el0,.
900 10 expel them from his grounds.