Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-12

per in the ordinary course Of its business
as publisher Of news, is not pYImd ftIcie
evidence of malice, as by the old rule.
The falsehood and malice must be proven
by the complainant.
A VERY curious railroad accident hap
pened recently near Marzapore, India.
large elephant seeing the red light and
the smoke, concluded the noisy locomo-
tive was an enemy TO be summarily de-
molfshed. He accordingly placed himself
on the track, and met the strange creature
head on, with trunk and tusks. The re-
suit was dead elephant and eleven cars
capsized. Only one man was killed.
"How DOES the Empress Eugene
dress" inquired an inquisitive female of
bachelor friend, just returned from
Paris. Like woman" was the brusque
reply. "0f course" continued the In
quirer; "but l wished to know whether
she wears costly dresses" "I understand
you, madam" was the ungsllant response !;
she dresses like mountaineering the
most costly garments she can procure"
THE authorities Of Cornell University,
New York, have inaugurated the custom
OF on having dancing at college receptions.
Inc pastors of several churches in Ithaca
were not little surprised, on attending a
reception to which they were invited 10
find this, to them, offensive recreation in.
troduced. Five OF them have united in A
letter to the President and Faculty. stating
their objections and the reasons therefor
which has been published.
New ORLEANS, unlike any other great
city in the world, is surrounded by wild
animals. Deer are shot within. five miles
| of the City Hall, and alligators abound in
neiRhboring swamps. Old residents, in
deed, remember when young alligators
were caught in the street cutters. Not
| long since an American spotted tiger
completely devoured little girl in a par
ish not far from the city. These animals,
1t is said, are increasing in that part of
Louisiana.
WHILE the Hon. Walter Brooke, of
Mississippi, was eating oysters at a saloon
in Vicksburg, one night recently, one
lodged in his windpipe excluding all air
from his lungs. A doctor was promptly
summoned, who made an incision in the
trachea, and passing his finger in pushed
the oyster out from its lodgment. Respi-
ration was then with difficulty restored,
| the breathing going on through the open
ing made in the trachea. The suffering
and excitement during the time respira.
tion was suspended were extreme and re-
suited in degree of congestion of the
lungs and brain, but especially of the lat
ter, which proved fatal next day.
"TALK about bedbugs," said Bill Jones,
who had been across the plains, "you
should have seen some of the critters |
met in Idaho last spring. I stopped one
night with some settlers, who lived in a
log cabin containing only one room and a
lott. When it came time to go to bed
they strung blanket across the middle OF
the room, and the settlers family slept on
one side of it and gave me tother. laid
down to go to sleep, and the bedbugs be.
gan to gather like lunch-eaters around a
free lay out I tried to kiver up and
keep away from 'em, but the pesky var
ments would catch hold of the bed clothes
and pull them off from me. They didn't
think nothin' of draggin' me round the
room if held on. fit 'em till about mid
night, and then looked around for some
way of escape. There was ladder reach
in up into the loft, and thought the bes
way to get away from the blood-suckers
was to climb up thar, so | did. There
wasn't any bugs in the loft, and lail
down congratulatin' myself on my escape
Pretty quick heard the ladder squeakin
as If somebody was comm up. Bimeby
saw bedbug raise himself up through
the hole in the floor and look carefully
round the loft Soon's he saw me he mo
toned to his chums below, the blood
thirsty cuss, and cried exultin'ly; Com,
up, boys, he's HERE"
A FELLOW who has been shaved IL
China says that the barber first stroppet
the razor on his leg, and then did tn,
shaving without any lather. The Gus
| tom or tod hNIf told l,o
lather was entirety useless, and had ten
dency to make the hair stiff and tough
and was therefore never used by persons
who had any knowledge of the face ant
its appendages. After the beard ha(
been taken off-and it was done in a verN
short time-the barber took long, sharp
needle.shRped spoon, and began to ex
plore his customers ears. He brought VI
from numerous little crevices bits of wal
and dirt that had been accumulating sine
his childhood. The barber suddenly
twisted his subjects neck to one side il
such a manner that it cracked as if tn
vertebre had been dislocated. "HolC
+ |" shouted the party, alarmed for tn
safety of his neck. "All right" replied
the tonsor, "me no hurt you;" and h
| continued to jerk and twist the neck until
it was timber as an old woman's dish rag
He then fell TO beating the back, breast
arms, and sides, with his fists. and pun
melled the muscles until they fsirl,
glowed with the beating they had received
He then dashed bucket of cold waite
over his man, dried the skin with towels
and declared that his work was done
Price two cents.
On the 9th of May next the railroa
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