Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-19

ot cruelty treating his daughter. lie had
discovered that the girl, who was fire.. |
quently left in charge of the gate, used to
allow her sweetheart, a young butcher, to
drive his cart through free. She never |
tolled her love.
A SARATOGA tombstone bears this In |
Ecription: emma, dsu'r of Abraham
and Matilda Cox, and wife of Theodore
5challehn, died August 10, 1868, aged 20
years, leaving five children-married too
young, against her fathers will. Single
women take warning"
A GENTLEMAN in conversation with DR. |
Johnson, having, to some of the usual ar |
for drinking, added this, "You
know, sir, drinking drives away care, and
makes US forget whatever is disagreeable
Would you not allow man to drink for |
that reason3 ?" eyes, sir, if he sat next |
you," replied DR.. johnson.
AT LIE Roy, Mimi, one hot day, switch |
had been opened for the purpose of letting
in a freight train, and when it became
necessary to change the switch back to the
main track the rails had expanded so
much by the action of the suns rays that
it could not be done. Cold water was
poured upon several sections of the track,
cooling off the iron and allowing the
switch to be shut.
A CLERGYMAN in Washington county,
Me-, driving along lonely road, overlook
q countryman on foot, whom he invited
to ride. After the crops had been dis
cussed, the clerical gentleman asked bis
"If he was prepared to die?"
whereupon the countryman leaped from
the wagon and fed to place of safety,
doubtless considering this question
synonymous with Your money or your
life?"
MEDICAL statisticians of England and
France have discovered that laborers in
copper works almost always escape chol.
era and dierrhea, only one out of 1870
being attacked during the epidemic in
1865 in France, while among workers
in iron and steel one out of every 300 was
attacked, and of those engaged in other
metals than copper and iron one out of
17S.
A ROCHESTER, paper tells romantic
story of young dressmaker who became
infatuated with young man without his
knowledge. To make herself worthy of
him she took to study, and, after severe
course of French, Italian, and piano, dur
ing which she worked at her occupation,
and only slept three hours out of the
twenty-four, the young man married
another girl. The blow was too much
for the young lady's reason, and she is
now sL inmate of an insane asylum.
THE Dubuque Times says that George
AIDE, of that city, was the owner of dog
that had actually saved four human be-
ings from drowning, in consideration cf
which distinguished service the Mayors
proclamation during the deg days, warn
ing all ours, of high or low degree, to
wear muzzles on pain Of instant death,
never applied to him, and he was granted
the freedom of the city," notwithstand-
ing which, he was shot by somebody who
could not resist the temptation to make
fifty cents.
THE Keokuk Gate City says: zone of
our well known grocers bought nice lot
of honey and had it in his store for sale.
He noticed all day Saturday that the bees
were flying in and out rather lively, and
making free with his honey. He shoe
fled them in mild way with brush.
That was all. He left the honey there
over Sunday. He went down Monday to
find every drop of that honey gone, and a
small swarm there trying to carry off the
wax. There is some beeswax for sale
cheap at that store"
A CoLoRED man recently applied to a
avenue, New York, for letter of recon-
dation, by means of which he hoped to
obtain situation. The man, being well
known to the gentleman in question, the
testimonial was readily given. 1t was
even more complimentary than Scipio
himself had expected, and that worthy, on
recovering from his astonishment, ex-
claimed "Ssy, Mr.. -, won't you give
me something to do yourself on that rec
ommendation
A FIFTH Avenue Hotel waiter was dis.
charged the other day, and vented his
spite by advertising in the New York pa.
pers for 500 Irishmen to go to France
application to be made at Room SO, Fifth
Avenue Hotel Result, the halls and cor
ridors of the hotel were filed, by 10
o'clock, with hundreds of apphcants-so
crowding the guests and visitors of the
house, that there was a necessity of clear
ing the intruders out; and it was not un-
til they were put out, that the proprietors
knew TO what circumstance they were in
debted for such visitation.
AN eccentric Partisan recently died,
who had travelled all over the world and
spent fifty years to secure materials fer a
work ON humpbacks, which he left in
2,00o sheets, with numerous drawingsand
curious observations. He discovered that
humpbacks are most numerous in the
temperate zone in Europe, and that the
bumps have some connection with the
formation of the country where they are
found, those in the Pyrenees showing the
angular, jagged shape of the mountains
while those on the sea coast have a gentle
descent on one side.
AN old man, of very respectable appear
ance, has of late been swindling the store
keepers of New York city in move
manner. 1t Is his custom to ask to be &C
commodated with a IS bill for that amoun
in currency, as he wishes bill to send IL
letter to his son, who is at school in the
country. He has The letter already direct
| ed and stamp on 1t. In counting thu
currency it is usually short ten cents. Th'
old man is very sorry, but as he passes
the store almost every day, he will han(
it in, which he never does, and thus make
ten, fifteen, or twenty-five cents as tn,
case may be, out of each storekeeper wh(
may be generous enough to give him thu
So bill.
AT tea party in Washington, wher,
General Butler was guest, the hostess
glancing oyer the table, perceived nj
1 cup unfurnished with an important i'm
|
preciate the value. Why, General But
ier," she exclaimed, in little womanisl
fiutter of CONSERVATION, Haven't you
spoon ?" "No, indeed, madame !" quickl.
responded the General, springing from hi
seat with wellacted earnestnes'
and slapping his pockets, one afte
the other, "upon my word, mad
anne; if you don't believe me, mad
anne, you may search me" The ar
plause which greeted this spontaneou
sally "msy be more easily imagined thai
described"
THE Gettysburg, Pa, Star tells the 70,
lowing story: "One day last week littl
son of Daniel Musselman, near Fairfield
aged about eight years, was out pickin
blackberries large black snake, unsee
by him, coiled itself around his legs, as h
was picking berries through a fenc'
The liItle fellow, finding himself a pri
oner, and no help near, showed fight
caught his snakeship by the necS, an
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