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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Sleeping Ia Church.

DIDyou ever sleep in church? OF course
you have. If the weather is warm, if the
preaching is dull, if you have been watch
ing with q friend, If you have worked
hard through the week, or your dinner
has been uncommonly good; If anything
no matter what-then down goes the
head, away goes your oognizance of all
things existing and the mind launches out
into the world of dreams and visions. I
remember when I WAS boy, how vexa-
tious this sleeping habit was would no
sooner take my seat, then buzz went my
head the big pillars OF the old church
would begin to look wry, the great sound
ing-board over the minister's head would
cut up all sorts of didOs; peoples heads
would get 80 mixed up, that could not
for the life of me tell who was who Then
the whole church would whirl round and
turn somersets like amountebank, the min
lister himself would become gassy, and
complete chaos would enste.
But we'll remember too one horrible
occasion, which, although thirty years
have intervened, remains written ON my
thinking tablets in letters deep-cut and in
dellible. II was a warm day. IhAdspent
the forenoon in church as best could. l
had, at noon, as the custom was, filled the
proper place with very improper guam
tity of my good old grandmotheI's bread
and cheese, and had again taken my place
in the old pew According 10 invariable
usage, | soon found myself, or rather
was, without finding myself, in sound
sleep. While IN this situation some
thing startled me- opened my
peppers and found the congregation rising,
as supposed to listen to the first prayer.
/ leaped up with a bound, and scarcely
with any cOnsciousness of what was do
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09


A FEW days ago, our friend Jacques was
hurrying home from business Git was cold,
and dinner was waiting), he saw q good
old apple-woman (the very one, indeed,
from whom he buys the daily apple that
tops off his luncheon) In dreadful plight.
As we were saying, the day was cold, the
air was nipping and eager, and the Their
mometer was Just at that point where e
becomes impossible for human beings to
see their fellows in misery, and no. desire
at least to help them Good old Mrs.
Crowley had determined 20 rest herself q
little after the speculations Of the day, and
II not TO sleep, at least 10 dEeam over the
number Of people who had pounced upon
the apples with defective spots, conAdingly
trusting in theiT unspotted, polished sides
placed carefully uppermost. She had
wrapped her plaid shawl tightly round
her well-wadded shoulders, she had wrap
ped her blanket round the lower part of
her person, she mad inserted her feet snug
ly into her welllined carpet foOt-bsg, she
had prepared herself TO be thoroughly
comfortable for the next half hour, when
on giving her stool slight hitch, to make
everything Just right, the drafted leg
slipped off the curb stone, and dow. went
poor Mrs. Crowley into the miserable
gutter. She was 80 tightly swathed that
IT, was impossible to extricate herself,
hand or foot, and the feet, imprisoned in
their well-lined carpet oot.bag, flew up
simultaneously, and overset the apple
stand. Could Jacques, or any man with
the least scrap Of pity In him, see such
| sight, and not rush to the rescuef Not
he Jacques was one of, at least twenty
| five good men and true who rushed to
| Mrs. Crowley's assistance, and picked up
herself and then all the apples that had
not Immediately been gobbled by the
newsboys. Mrs. Crowly appeared to be
in great pain. Her back, gentlemen, was
| badly hurted, she was sure. And the big
gest part of her apples was stolel oh, II
oncet she ketched hold of them by yes.l
There was Jim. O'Brien, shc was sure,
and Mike Divenny, and was any thin
seen of her puss, or the fig box that the
few pennies wus intoS Oh wherever wus
one, it must have flew out of her neck,
when she went over, and picked up by
somebody And so the good woman be-
walled her imaginary losses, and tie word
| went round, and the well gentlemen
easily more than made them up to her
| without loss to themselves. Rnt as the
arrested crowd pushed on after, to their
wives and their dinners, Jacques felt a
hand slid into his arm, and Tompkins'
soothing voice exclaimed, "By George,
don't she do it well9 That's the third
time I've seen her come that game y
Ought Jacques to have regretted reward
ing the old woman for risking her neck
in acrobatic feats so late in lifeH Gould
he have excused himself if he had been
hard hearted, and refused his donation =
Clarence Cook in Pittnams Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
phIIOsOphIcal Uses Of the Beard.

TIE inhaling Of metallic psrticles to
which certain workmen are exposed is
replete with serious and lasting effects.
In autopsies Of persons who have died
from pulmonary consumption, the lungs
are frequently found filed with Shs sub
stance belonging to the peculiar business
which they have pursued during life.
Cotton, in the form of dust, metal iilings,
chemical vapors, fumes Of copper, arsenic,
etc, are but small number Of sle many
substances which enter the lungs and
finally destroy the liVes of those engaged
in such occupations. The lace weavers Of
Germany, and those occupied In the paper
staining factories, are particularly exposed
TO these pernicious effects. MGliy temDo.
rary means have been tried 10 protect the
artisans from such fatal CONSEQUENCES, but
none have been found as effectu.nl as the
wearing Of q beard and moustaohe. These
and the hair which growB In ths nostrils
are found 70 be the best protection. All
who have permitted their growth can tea
THY TO their efficacy In preventing the en-
trance Of particles Of dust, eto, and BY
proper attention 20 cleanliness they will
serve their purpose Scisnslac AH,eriedB.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Indian TraIlers = Their Astonishing
Powers.
Correspondence of the Hudson Star)
U. 3. A, Posi- HOSPITAL,
Fort RANDALL, DAcoTA TER,

Correspondence OF the Hudson starr
U. B. A, Posi- HOSPITAL,
FORT RANDALL, DACOTA TER,
Feb 10, 1869.
exhibited in this part of the country, either
by the white man or red native, is in the
practise of trailing. Here it may be ae-
counted an art as much as music, painting
or sculpture is in the East The Indian or
trspper that is shreWd trailer is a man
of close observation, quick perception and
prompt action. AS he goes along, nothing
escapes his observation, and what he sees
and hears he accounts for Immediately.
Often not another step is taken until a
mystery that may present itself in this
line is fairly solved. The Indian trailer
will stand still for hours in succession, to
account for certain traces or effects in
tracks, and sometimes give to the mat
ter unremitting attention for days and
weeks.
The trailer is not graceful man. He
carries his head much inclined, his eye is
quick and restless, always on the watch,
and he Is practising his art unconsciously,
hardly ever crossing the track of man or
animal without seeing it. When he enters
house, he brings the habits he contracted
in the practise of his art with him.
kuOW IdlcI dS bOOu rs nc 6utCIs my
room. He comes in through the door
softly, and with an air of exceeding eau
tion. Before he Ia fairly in, or at least
has sat down, he has taken note OF every
article and person, though there may be a
dozen vacant chairs in the room. He is
not used to chairs, and, like the Indian,
prefers a more humble seat When was
employed by General Harney last summer
to take charge temporarily of the Indians
that were gathered here to form a new
reservation, one dag guide and trailer
came into the Generals headquarters. /
told him to be seated. He sat down on
the hoor, bracing his back against the wall.
Inc 6eneral saw this, and in vexation
cried out My God, why don't you take
chair, when there are plenty here
not occupiedH The man arose and seated
himself In chair, but In SO awkward and
uncomfortable manner that he looked AZ
If he might slip from II at any moment
But when this uncouth person came to
transact his business with the General he
turned out to be q man of no ordinary
abilities. His description Of route al
guide and trailer for the ogallahs in bring
ing them from the Platte % this place was
minute, and to me exceedingly interesting
Every war party that for the season had
crossed his trail, he described with minute
meas as TO their number, the kind Of arms
I they had, and stated the tribes they be-
longed TO. In these strange revelations
] that he made there was neither imposition
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
FIeas-by Josh Billings.

THE smallest animal of the brute crea-
ton, and the most pesky, il the fleas.
They are about the bigness Nv an onion
seed, and shine like bran new shot.
They spring from low places, and can
spring further and faster than emmy of the
bug brutes.
They bite wus than the muskeetoze, for
they bite on run, one flea will go aul
over mans suburbs in minutes, and
leave him as frekled as the meazles.
1t is impossible to do anything with 3
flea on you except sware, and fleas amt
afraid of that the only way is to quit biz
ness ov aul kinds and hunt for the flea,
and when you have found him he amt
there. This is one of the flea mysteries,
the fRkulty they have of being entirely
lost Jast as you have found them.
don't suppose there is eveg killed, on
an average, during emmy one year, more
than 16 fieas in the whole ov the United
States ov America, unless there Is q casu-
atty of some kind-once in o while thare
is dog gifts drowned sudden, and then
thare may be few feas lost.
They are about az hard 10 kill az fax
seed IL, and If you don't mash them as fine
as ground pepper they will start bizness on
smaller kapital jist as pestiverous as
ever. tftI
There IL lots ov people who have never
seen flea, and it takes pretty smart
man to see one ennyhow; they don't stay
long in place,
If you eyer ketch flea, kill him before
you du ennything else; for If you put 1t
off minutes 1t may be too late. r.
Menny flea has passed away forever
in less than two minutes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
The DrOver's Story.

Ny name is Anthony Hunt / am a
drover, and live miles and miles away
upon the Western prairie. There wasn't
home within sight when we moved there,
my wife and /, and now~we haven't many
neighbors, though those we have are good
ones.
One day about ten years ago, went
away frem home to sell some fifty head of
cattle-fine creatures as ever saw. was
to buy some groceries and dry goods be-
fore | came back, and above all, doll for
our youngest Dolly; she had never had
q store doll OF her own, only the rag-ba-
bies her mother had made her.
Dolly could talk of nothing else, and
went down to the very gate to call after
me to "buy big one" Nobody but 9
parent can understand how full my mind
was of that toy, and how, when the cattle
were sold, the first thing, hurried off to
buy DOlly's doll. / found large one,
with eyes that would open and shut when
you pulled wire, and had it wrapped up
In paper and tucked it under my arm,
while l had the parcels Of calico and de.
laine and tea and sugar put up. Then, late
as it was, l started for home. 1t might
have been more prudent to stay until
morning, but felt anxious to get back,
and eager to hear Dolly's prattle about
her toy.
l was mounted on a steady going old
horse of mine, and pretty well loaded.
Night set in before / was a mile from
town, and settled down dark as pitch while
| was in the middle Of the widest bit of
road ! know Of could have felt my way,
though, L remembered it so well, and il
was almost dark when the storm that had
been brewing broke, and pelted the rain
in torrents, five miles or, may be, six, from
home yet, too.
rode on as fast as could, but all of a
sudden l heard little cry like child's
voice stopped short and listened-I
heard IL again. called and it answered
me. couldn't see thing; all was dark
as pitch. l got down and felt about in the
grass-called again and agaiRwas answer
ed. Then L began to wonder. I'm not
timid, but / was known to be droYer and
to have money about me. 1t might be a
trap 10 catch me unawares and rob and
murder me.
am not superstitous-- very, but
how could real child be out on the prai-
rie in such night, at such an hour. IL
might be more than human.
The bit Of a coward that hides itselG in
most men showed itself in me then, and
was half inclined TO run away, but once
more heard that cry, and said l
IF any mans child is hereabout5, An.
thNny Hunt is not the man to let it die"
searched again. At last bethought
me of hollow under the hill. and crop
ing that way, sure enough, l found little
dripping thing that moaned and sobbed as
l took 1t In my arms. called my horse,
and the beast came to me, and mounted,
and tucked the little soaked thing under
my coat as well as could, promising to
take 1t home 70 nanny, IL seemed tired
TO death, and pretty soon cried itself to
sleep against my bosom.
IL had slept there over an hour when
saw my own windows. There were lights
in them, and | supposed my wife had lit
hem for my sake, but when got into the
t,oor yard saw something was the mat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
The Marriage OF a Royal Prince to q
Merchants Daughter.
TuR New York Tribnne saws

The New York Tribune says
One of those events which occasionally
transpire to assert, in the most emphatic
manner, the leveling spirit Of the age, oc.
CURED on Saturday In this city. This was
no less than the marriage of Prince of
the ancient and conservative house of
Bourbon TO the daughter of Cuban
merchant, The story-a most romantic
onc--is as follows; Some three or four
years ago Mrs. Hamil the wife of we'll
known merchant in Havana, left that city
to place her daughter in a school In Paris.
They stopped for some time In this city,
having rooms at Delmonico's, and made
many warm friends wherever they were
known.
The daughter, possessed of more than
ordinary accomplishments and personal
charms, attracted much attention among
the best society of the gay French capital.
She was received in the most exclusive
| circles, and it is said was a frequent guest
at the Imperial Court Among the many
| distinguished gentlemen who paid her
their court was Prince Louis de Bourbon,
son of Louis, Count d'Aquills, one of the
chief members of the Bourbon family.
The Prince proposed to her and was &C
cepted, under the mothers sanction, but
when Count dAquilla learned the inten.
tion of his son, his pride revolted at wba,
he and others of royal blood considered 8
messlliance, and he not only forbade th'
match, but used his influence with the
Emperor to induce the latter to discounte
nance 1t should the Prince seek his sup
port The lovers, in company with the
lady's mother, then determined to go tC
England and there fulfill the marriage, but
the father interfered, and succeeded In
preventing them from carrying 1t out.
After more than one disappointment
from the refusal of the Catholic clergy to
perform the ceremony, the prosecuted one'
determined to proceed to the United
States, where they hoped to find no diff
Guilty in fulfilling their contract; but ever
in this free country the influence of con
servatism prevailed so far that the Catho
lie clergy still declined to have anything
to do in the matter. However, marriage
according to the civil rights of the coun
try was consummated on Saturday evening
last, and thus all opposition and persecu
ton was overcome. This marriage, al
though perhaps it would not be acknowl
edged amongth the crowned heads of Europe
is perfectly legal in the United States an(
all Protestant countries, and as such |
will never be disputed The Prince, it i
understood, should his family prove obdu
rate, is prepared to renounce his rights q
one of the royal house of Bourbon, ant
will content himself with the possession o
his beautiful wife.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


LOUISVILLE has q velocipede military
company.
ERIE boasts of being the most moral
city of its size in the Union.
A LOCK of hair from a young woman's
head is often key to young mans
heart
ALADY of New Orleans, whose husband
was defaulter, sold all her Jewels and
other private property to save him from
exposure.
THE cashier of bank in San Fran
cisco with an income of thousand
dollars day, was formerly the clerk of a
steamboat plying between KeoIuk and st.
Louis.
MYTHOLOGY tells us that To died because
OF her intense love for Jupiter but the
charm of the romantic story has lately
been destroyed by chemist discovering
Iodide Of potassium.
A GENTLE swain, enamored of Miss
Bread, perpetrates the following;
While bellies their lovely graces spread,
And fops around them hutter,
I'll be content with Anna Bread,
And won't have any but her.
A GENTLEMAN being asked by clergy
man why he could not attend the evening
bdiu NO CDulu uOJ leave
the children. What, have you no SER
wants ?" eyes," he replied, eve have two
servants, who keep the house, and board
us, but we are allowed few privileges"
A MRS. WELT, of st. George, Me-, while
riding home in the stage from Rockland,
recently, on cold day, thought that her
infant, which she held in her arms, was
strangely silent and, on examination,
found that the poor little thing was frozen
TO death.
CHAM represents an anxious mother
pleading with the director Of gymnasium
to give her son one of the prizes "Your
son, madame, persists in doing nothing, /"
says the director. "Then,p replies the
mamma, by no means disconserted, "you
should give him the prize for persever-
ance." Z M
A LITTLE girl was very fond Of preach
ing 10 her dolls. Her mother one day
heard her reproVing one of them for be-
ing so wicked. "0h, you naughty, sinful
child" she said, shaking the waxen limbs,
you'll 60 10 the lake Of birthstone, and
you won't burn up-you'n just sizzle."
ONE day, when Napoleon was ON visit
TO female school he had founded at Rau.
en-, he playfully asked a bright young
girl, How many needlefuls of thread
does IL take TO make a shirt 2" "One, Sire,
If II were sufficiently long, Napoleon
was 80 pleased with the reply that he gave
the young lady a gold chain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09

l. NA TT II ~ 81 ~ ~ - -"
ter. and stood still with dread teaE ~
heart, five minutes before Icould lit the
latch. at last I did It, and saw the room
full Of neighbors, and my vile amidst
them weeping. ------a.ss.ss----
When she saw me she bid her acc:
"Ob don't tell him. she said, " twill kiu
him."
"What Is Il neighbors" cried.
And one said, Nothing new, 4 hope
what's that in your arms ~ ,..sas
"a poor, lost child, said !, found
lt on the road. Take it, will you, I've
turned faint" and I liffed the sleeping
thing and saw the face Of my own child,
my little Dolly.
VT was my darling, and none other, that
| had picked up upon the drehclied road.
MY little child had wandered out to
meet daddy " and the doll, while her
mother was at work, andswhom they were
iamenting asone dead. ] thanked Heaven
on my knees before them all II II not
much of story, neighbors, but I think OF
Il often In the nights, and wonder how 1
could bear 10 live now i'll had not topped
when / heard the cry for help upon the
road, the little baby cry, hardly louder
than squirrels chirp. 9 . iss1 ~
That's Dolly yonder with her mother In
the meadow, a girl worth saving--I think
(but then, I'm her father, and partial,
may bo)-the prettiest and sweetest thing
this side Of the Mississippi
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
From six take nine,
From nine take ten,
From forty take fifty,
And six will remain"
From-SIX, TX, XII,
Take - TX, X, L,
-
RemaiD- g X

Remaln-- X.
IT is said that the twenty three re-
naming veterans of the war of 1912, re-
siding in New York, the youngest of whom
is seventy-two years old, live in garr cts,
alms-houses, and one in the cabin of an
old canal boat, id abject want.
Two Lancaster (Mass.) ladies started
petitions, the one asking the Legislature
to grant woman suffrage, and the other
praying for the continuance of the pres
ent order. The latter got twenty-six sig
natures to her petition and the former
one only.
AT a recent sale of autographs, in New
York, among the prices realized were
John Hancock, So; General Joseph War
rem, $1225; George Washington, $9 80
Mad" Anthony Wayne, SO; William
Penn, SO; General Burgoyne, $3.50; and
Fred the Great, $3.50.
THERE are seVenty-fiVe last manufac-
tories in the United States, turning out an
nually from 100000 to 100000 lasts.
One pair of lasts will, on an average,
make sixty pairs of boots or shoes. The
best wood for making them is persimmon
the next best, rock maple.
ONE hundred and ffty-fiVo thousand
four hundred and ninety barrels of beer
were sold in the city of Buffalo in the year
1S68-and the whole amount was manu-
factured in that city. The amount of rev.
enue paid the Government on this beer
was $147,162s7.
KANSAS has a population of about 400,-
600. 1t has six hundred miles of railroad
in active operation. There are published
in the State ten daily and fifty weekly
newspapers. The State has debt of ST.
000, 0,00c, and under the constitution this
debt cannot be increased beyond that
amount without direct vote Of the peo-
pie. ttIrI s.
A CITY physician of Providence asserts
that 10 per cent of the 5,475,0 900 quarts OF
milk used in that city during the year is
merely water. He thinks that the lives OF
a considerable number of children are
sacrificed every year by the use of adul.
terated milk, they being actually starved 10
death, because the milk they use has so
much water in 1t that 1t will not nourish
them, nor even support life.
| Our OF sixty-six senators whose occupa-
lions are stated In the Congressional direc.
tory, forty-1Ve are lawyers, five are mer.
chants, five editors, four farmers or plant
ers, three bankers, two teachers, one a
manufacturer and one a railroad owner.
In the House there are of lawyers enc
hundred and nineteen, merchants nineteen,
editors sixteen, farmers seven, mAnufac.
turers six, railroad men five, bankers five,
ministers two, doctors two, painter one.
AT a fair in Syracuse there was lot
terry. In the lottery there was a willow
basket of large proportions, and the lady
who drew IL was 10 take It's contents az
we'll as the basket itself When the ar.
rangement was drawn, out popped the
head of sweet boon In the shape. of a
great, ugly man. The fair creature who
drew the prize did not make her appear.
ance, however, and the sweet boom is still
single and disconsolate,