Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-30
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l-rfWHEN does a large fire look foolish p.
I When it's great fool(a grateful
THE poor man who tried to carry the
day." has been weekly ever since.
THE man that was saved from the wreck
of the steamer Cambria has become. in
sane.
| TwENTY-sEvRN corns on one foot is the
extraordinary crop of which Richmond
! gentleman boasts.
AN illiterate man is derided for that
| which in the man of education wins ap-
! plause--making his mark.
THE per centage of increase of policies
10 the Washington Life for the last three
| years, have been greater than any other
Company in the World.
HARTFORD has got up case of SOM
| nabulism, wherein young woman was
discovered hanging by her heels from a
/ fonrth-story window, and was neatly
rescued
If we were only half as lenient TO
the living as we are TO the dead, how much
happiness might we render them, and how
mich remorse might we be spared when
| the grave has closed over them. 20
A LAWYER at Janesville, Wis, refused
to proceed with a case, the other day, be
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perpetrating a fraud" -... t.s
irA SHOE STRING and watch chain vender
of Newark, N. j., supposed TO have been
penniless, has lately died and left over $780,
900 worth OF real estate to poor relatives 8
! A SUIT has been commenced by a florist,
| at Boston, to recover damages from q
dentist for the loss of his wife through the
carelessness of the latter in having per
mitted her to inhale too much nitrous
oxyde gas
| KATE WATRoUs, a girl of fifteen, with
! such an Unsuitable appetite for intoxicat-
| ing drink that she leiC a good home in or
der TO be where she could get liquor has
been sent from Hartford, Conn.,, to the
State Industrial School.
THE meanest man in Portland, Me-, is
! said to be gentleman" of fortune, who
eLtars stores, and after reading the daily
paper, coolly pockets it for the perusal of
friend, who pays him 81 year under
the impression that he himself pays a full
subscription.
THE big grapevine at Santa Barbara,
! Cal, is five feet two inches in circumfer-
ence where the main trunk branches, and
the arbor which it covers is go feet by 63.
At these limits the branches are three
inches in diameter, and are kept trimmed
to prevent its spreading over more
ground.
SOME short time since a gang of ruffians
/ were surprised while holding high carni-
val in one of the vaults of the old ceme-
terry near Troy, N. Y. They had furnish
ed the interior hung pictures, and had a
cooking stove III full blast.
"You have lost your baby hear" said
4lg.g, r .Gk
little thing! it was only five months old
We did all we could for it. We had foul
doctors, blistered its head and feet, put
mustard poultices all over it, gave it nine
calomel powders, leeched its temples, ha6
it bled, ard gave it all kinds of medicines
and vet after a week 8 illness, it died"
As an evidence of the progress ol ln'
temperance movement in Maine since
1925. the Lewiston Journal declares tina
"a man NAV travel the whole length o
the State and seek decent society withou
t meeting an intoxicated person, or smell
ing the poisoned breath of man wh'
J uses liquor"
ACCORDING to the official report from
ldhe Treasury Department, 1t is stated ina
during the year ending June 80, 1870, 2,29
vessels, having an aggregate OF 81 AGO tons
were engaged in the mackerel fishery
The same report for the year ending un
80. 1869, showed total of ia vessels, c
about 62, 700 tons.
THE omnibus and street car companie
: in New York city have found that hors
, weighing 900 or 1,100 pounds is the mo:
srryiceable, and the best food for him
I | 10 pounds OF hay day, 10 pounds cor
! meal and two or three pounds of salt IN
! month. The hay is cut, moistened,s an
, the meal mixed with it, Twenty mile
: travel day is expected of him.
/ VICE President CoLFAX has receive
/ from Mr.. r. Beardsley, United States Coz
/ sui at Jerusalem, a box containing
: Sneakers mallet of olive wood, Wit
1 heads of oak from Abraham's oak at He
!. ron. a chalice Of olive wood from II
Il Mount of Olives, and an inkstand al
; sand-box of asphalt, from the Dead Sc
e all beautifully carved and polished.
s A PBRIPArETIe Sunday School talk
N ended loug story thus And now, II
? vouhg friends, the names OF those tV
d BOYS were Thomas and Philandt
e Thomas, | have told you, was a bad DO
d Observation-Disclosures. and Phlia
a der was good boy, and went up-up'
0 up. Little children, Phihnder stands 0
g fore you" 'r
e THEY are making at Colts factory ne
s. tent lock for the U. S. mail bags. Wh'
fastened, a numbered plate of glass cove
, the key hole, and this glass has to
q broken before the bag can be unlocked
. the lock tampered with. 1t is SAID 10
:. The most complete lock ever lhVentt
le Five Thousand ofthem have been order
i ! by the postofice department.
Or WHEN man comes home and tries
c, bolt the boor with a sweet potato, pok
m the FIRE with the spout of n coffee pot,
IN tdmpts to wind up the clock with his boz
TO lack, tries to cut kindling for his morn
y fire with paper-knife, takes cold pota
ty in his hand 70 light him to bed, and p
a. furs sleeping in his hat and boots, you M
i /; reasonably infer that he has been maxi
he the acquaintance of some very frlent
r. people. n af. a.. ..-"aa. =.
Sc p ATENrs. During the year ending 81
9r, tenlber Both, 1870, there were filed IN
US Patent Office 19,411 applications for P
ents, 3,374 caveats, and 100 appllcatIt
es for the extension of patentsi l3,622
en- ents. including reissues and designs, w
h issued, II ,094 rendered, and 1859 allow
of but not issued, by reason of the non p
of nient of the final fees The receipts
gh the Office, during the fiscal year were 81
tn 630, A29 in excess of its expenditures.
al; A COW belonging to family in Om'
!, stayed intoa neighbours garden patch, Z
en- he secretly penned her up The CO.
he owners were oblighed 10 have milk, /
est hearing that their neil hbOr had q g
ars COW, bought their milk of him for I'll
e4 weeks. They then ascertained they
b. been buying what was their OVID,
In rushed to court of law for vengeance.
,be ,bb AMAN, living near Sioux City, Iowa, '
hi is rather absent minded, rode into town
,sd tended to bis business, and walked no
six Next morning he went out to feed
Irst horses, found they were not in the sta
IA and started for the city post haste, to
ire. cure the detectiona and arrest OF the Il
IN The Marshal took him 90 a livery sta
nm and showed him team that had
sleA taken up at midnight the night before,
nv no identified them as his. .....'
- 70 THE oldest stove probably in the In
States is one which warns the hall of
pen ginia's capitol, in Richmond. 1t was n