Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-11-04
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PUNCHINELL0 insists tnat muIneu ultlIns
are dead beats
A TEXT Book for SHoEMAKERs-Locke
on the Understanding
PHILADELPHIA has 4S6 licensed street
railway cars, which pay into the treasury
$4,000 per annum-
AN elaborate statement of the amount of
free matter passing through the mails is
being prepared at Washington.
A MAN who stole and sold COW in
Madison, Wis, in 1862, has recently been
identified and is now under arrest.
A MAN in Cairo, H., few days ago,
seized an uruly steer by the horns, and then
gouged out its eye with pocket knife.
In San Francisco, recently, on apothe-
cary was mobbed by a crowd of indignant
Cinnamon for selling them molasses for
opium.
Mr. o. S. WILLIAMS, of Durham, Me,
recently found several beautiful pearls in
the shells of fresh water CLAIMS taken from
brook in that town.
THE New York World says; " The Rev.
Mrs. Van Colt is about TO fight the devil
in Chicago. Her motto is, Attack the en-
emy in his capital
A LOUISVILLE merchant has sworn off.
The other day he decanted the hast of
barrel of whisky, and found in the bottom
two plugs of tobacco and six rats
SOME forty-five persons are constantly
employed throughout the year in carrying
on the Boston Public Library. About half
the assistants are young women
THE largest window glass in New Eng
land was set the other day in the new Char
ter Oak building in Hartford, each pane be-
| ing 16 by feet wide and weighing 400
pounds. -.-......... 20. =
ROBERT JACKSON, Of Philadelphia
wanted TO commit suicide, SO he broke up
his gold watch chain, loaded his revolver
with the fragments, fired the precious metal
| into his head, and the desired end was
! gained. s-s----------------.----r-a-
TIE assets. of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Chicago, are securelyinvested
! in bonds and mortgages, first liens upon
real estate, and in United States bonds and
securities, in accordance with the laws of
| Illinois.
"A BOY in Boston found pint of brandy,
which his mother had hid aw'ay. The boy
| drank the liquor, and the effects were near
! ly fatal The Boston HeRuLd eaHssthis " a
warning to boys" We should gsay it
should operate more as a warning to
parents.
IT is stated that Gustave Schureman, an
Indianapolis millionaire, recently deceased,
and whose will was contested before his
remains were inferred, had kept the dead
body of his mistress in spirits of wine, in a
private vault, and that it was his habit to
visit the vault every two Iweeks-the
spirits of wine being renewed once every
three months.
"Boss, l want twenty five cents" said a
jour printer recently to-his employer
SsTwenttr tiveE eentsi how soon, do you
| want II, William y " Next Tuesday week.
" AS soon as that ? You can't have it
I've told you often that when you were
in want of any large SUM 0f money yol
must give me at least four weeks notice
for you ought TO know that nobody pay
the printer" ~, s.'''
At an infant Sunday School the teaehe
gave the story ofthe Prpdigal Son" Whel
: he came to the place where the poo
ragged son reached his former home, an,
his father saw him "a great way off," h
ihdlifed what his father probably did. On
ofthB smallest boys, with his fist clenchet
said, 81 dunno; l dessay he set the dog o
him" ~ 'tV'. +l' tf.
A FEW days ago, man and wife arrive
/ | at Mooresyille, Ind, having walked all tn
way from Nashville, and having only ha
!. three meals during the entire journe.
! tThe nan lcsf HIS paeksthopl wante
TO turn back, But through the, superior ei
; ergy OF the Wit, the journey was continue
.nl and accomplished. i. A. ,s',., .sr,
o THE Newburyport HerdId thus describ'
If the aurora which has attracted so much
,e tentiopt throughoutth the country : Last eve
= ing, as soon as Titbonus had retired for Il
p night, and Mas enjoying his first snpo2
his spouse, the rosy-fngered Aurol
Ia daughter of the morning, snatehed the 81
n, fron-eolored coyerlet from his bed, al