Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-11-18

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two roos ten who were fiehtinp, came nea-
losing his eyes. The roosters turned on
him and tore some pieces of flesh from his
face, and II was with difficulty that they
could be driven away.
Ar the recent session Of the Unitarian
Conference in New York, Mrs Julia Ward
Howe asked why reference was constantly
made to the brethren"--never to the
sisters The Rev. Robert Laird Collier
replied that he would answer as a Metho-
dist parson did to a similar question; 1.-THE
reason Is because the gentlemen embrace
the ladies'"
In eight States Of the Union, according
70 the census of 1860, the female popula-
ton was in excess of the male. These
States were New York, New Jersey, Mary
land, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Connecticut and Rhode
Island. OF these States, Rhode Island
showed the greatest proportional excess in
female population, it containing S8,355 fe-
males to S2,294 males.
A WOMAN at Cleveland, who had given
information which led to the arrest of thir-
teen respectable (S) gamblers---her own
husband among the number-applied to
the Common Council of that city the
other night for one-third of the costs as
sessed in the several cases. She declared
that her husband had lost from $1,000 to
| 81 400 in gambling, and that she stood in
need of prompt assistance. The request
was referred to the City Attorney.
THE indianapolis Journal tells this story
of one of the local politicians During
revival at one of our Methodist churches
a young man in Cottrell's employ proiessed
to be deeply convicted of sin, and ex-
pressed great anxiety for salvation He
was at one time on the point of uniting
with the church, but finally exclaimed in
despair: 1t is no use can never be
Christian as long as l sell sheet-iron for
Tom Cottrell'"
HENRY RICHARDSON has been put under
bonds in New York to answer charge
that he was a manufacturer of headless
fowls, and guilty of cruelty to
rooster, by cutting off its bill, or beak,
piercing out and destroying both eyes, TAX
ing portion of the brain out, pulling the
feathers from its head and neck, and then
skinning the same, after which the skin
was so drawn up as to make the said
rooster appear headless. According to
the testimony, Richardson was in the COM
mon practice of performing this operation
upon roosters which were sold for the pur-
pose of public exhibitions, and the unfor-
tunate fowls, after undergoing the opera
ton, lived in great pain and torture for
periods ranging from one week to two
months.
THE Prussian army mail transports let
ters free of charge to soldiers in the field.
The letters are allowed to be very heavy,
and sometimes weigh considerable, as the
relatives take advantage of it and send
them all sorts of trinkets, chocolate, &C.,
thof fhapo ta1op fho,
letters. A young girl appeared the other
day at the Berlin post-office with bulky
package, which she had addressed to her
betrothed in the army. The package was
too heavy, and to her great distress she
was informed that it could not be sent
She reflected for a moment, and then
; opened the package, in which the practi-
cal maiden had packed warm pair of
drawers for her intended With great
presence of mind, and entirely unmindful
of the litter of the bystanders, she ripped
the drawers in two halves and packed them
into two separate packages, which were
lady had not forgotten to add needles and
thread to one of the packages, and all she
seemed to be afraid of was that one of the
packages might get lost, which would
leave her present in singular condition.
LEARNING A Fool WIsDoM-Among
the advertisements lavishly scattered
through the columns of the New York
, papers is one that agrees to forward by
express or otherwise, as may be preferred,
ian elegant music-box, composed entirely
of metal, that plays with exquisite beauty,
} six different fashionable airs that are just
' now extremely popular" and all for the
trifling consideration of two dollars. An
acquaintance of ours, thinking such q
present might prove acceptable to his lit
: tie boy, concluded to make the investment
t forwarded the requisite amount, and re-
= ceived from the Express Company, with
their charge. of transportation added, Of
course, tiny mouth harmonicon, such as
can be bought at any toy shop in the city
4 for % cents. OF course it would play six
: tunes, or six dozen for that matter, after a
fashion, if the owner had learned to play
upon it-rather a difficult feat by the
way, for any one to accomplish. Our
) friend gazed upon his investment with
mingled feelings of sadness and indigna.
, ton, fully resolved never to make a SINH
lar purchase if he knew it. AS all the
+ fools are not dead yet, the chances are that
similar bargains i'll frequently occur be-
fore the winter season is over. New
Workers can beat everybody at that little
game.-SdDdnndh Ne,oS.