Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-16

Book canvassers may not be aware Of
the fact that five cent revenue stamp Is
required to be attached to every signature
In their books the agreement to purchase
being considered contract.
ONE Of the most accommodating of
men lives in Noble county, Ohio The
other day he walked over thirty-two miles,
through the rain, for the sole purpose OF
paying a neighbours tax. The tax was 1S
cents, and, with the delinquency amount
ed to A cents.
AT New York wedding the groom for
got the ring. The traditional curtain ring
was unavailable, and matters were at a
stand still till an ingenious lady cut off an
end of one of the brides curls and framed
out of this ring, with which the marriage
was consummated.
THE artesian salt we'll of Lincoln, Neb.'
throws stream of brine six inches in
diameter to a height of over fifty feet. This
stream has sufficient volume and velocity
to run a mill wheel. Its waste channel is
like rapid, roaring mountain brook.
AT Providence, r. l., on Thanksgiving
Day, the newsboys and bootblacks were
treated to mammoth dinner, the promi-
nent feature of which was mammoth
pudding, three feet long, two feet wide,
and one foot deep, and containing, among
other ingredients, fifty pounds OF raisins
and ten cans of milk.
THE Muncie, Ind, Times says: "Volney
Wilson says he played strategy on the po.-
tato-bugs this season. He says he planted
grain of corn in every hill of potatoes.
The corn beat the potatoes up, and the
bugs, thinking it corn field, never went
near the potatoes till it was too late to do
them any damage, and he raised over 4OO
bushels of nice potatoes"
ONE of the first cases under the fifteenth
Amendment has occurred in Lawrence
county, Ohio, where Lewis Carter has
| been convicted of using intimidation to
prevent two colored men from voting
! Carter was sentenced to one months inn
prisonment. and fine of five dollars, with
costs, the minimum penalty prescribed by
the law.
GEORGE S. CoUTANT, of Rosendale, N.
| Y, who had been robbed of 81 400 about
| fourteen years ago, while asleep, was late
| ly notified, by an anonymous letter. that
| he would lind the amount in package at
the Kingston express office. He went
there on the following day and received
it, It was directed in such way that it
would be impossible to trace out the thief
through it.
THE Darlington, Wis., Democrat tells
the following dog story: While Mr.. j.
Langford and his family were away from
home last week, they left dog to watch
the premises Mr.. Walton lives near, and
also has dog. Mr.. WIS people laid out
some food, and said it must go over for
Langford's dog Walton's dog at once
took it and carried it over to his neighbor,
returning home for his own, evidently
much pleased that his friend had his
dinner"
DURING the first ten months of 1870,
there arrived at New York 1S9,801 immi-
grants, of whom 62904 were Germans.
During the first ten months of 1869, there
arrived 231 ,965, of whom 80, ,345 were Ger
mans. The decrease this year has, there
fore, been 40 164 persons, of whom 26,44t
were Germans During last October,
there arrived in New York 1896 immi-
grants, of whom 8, ,11S were Germans. OF
the Germans, 1,173 had embarked at Bre
men, and 456 at Hamburg. The number
arriving in New York during October,
1869, was 81 ,013, of whom 7,641 were Ger
mans The decrease in the month Of Oc-
tober, this year, was, therefore, 7,347, of
whom 523 were Germans.
A STORY is told of citizen of Danbury
who was broken of the wretched habit Of
swearing in novel manner He was an
inveterate cursor and grumbler. At every
meal he neglected blessing, and swore at
everything from the gravy to the teapot
His oaths discolored the napkins, soured
the bread and curdled the milk. His wife,
woman who evidently believed the hair
of the dog would cure the bite, stood this
unseemly conduct until torbearance
ceased to be virtue" One morning he
was unusually cross and profane, and was
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else, when his wife suddenly broke out
with a series of damns that made the old
, gentleman get up and leave the chair as
though some one had introduced pin be-
tween the canes. AS soon as she ceased,
} he breathlessly remarked, "Well, swear
J if it has got so you can swear, it is time
quit" And he did.
AN English paper tells the following
story dprOpOS of the new postal cards ;
"'The Germans have their post cards as
well as we, and abuse the new institution
in about the same manner. At Dresden a
gentleman received a card some weeks ago,
conveying the following message: lost
my purse yesterday at the Elbe baths, with
three napoleons in it. l dropped 1t close
to the water-mark, where it must lie still,
As you are a good diver, pray go bath
ing with me this evening at g. The gen
tleman kept the appointment, and was sur
prised to see two or three postmen go into
the baths just before him. Having undress
: ed he went out to the platform, and there
his astonishment increased; for, in spite OF
the unusual hour, there were numbers OF
men there; some of whom it needed mo-
$ the sight of the Post Office uniform in the
5 undressing rooms to proclaim Post Othc(
Clerks, for they were well known faces
, from the receiving counters. They all KEEP
r near the water-marl, a place generally very
little frequented, and took uncommon Ions
dives. The writer of the card was sitting
at little distance, evidently enjoying the
sight. As the disappointed clerks returned
Q from their aquatic search they found an in
+ scription in chalk on the floor: Strict Sc
crecy observed with regard to all posta
;, communications 1t was only then tina
t they perceived that they had been mad'
the butt of Joke"