Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-16
weighed 90 stone avoirdupois. He was q
native of Ireland.

Thou must be true thyself.
II thou tho truth woudst teach,
Thy sou must overflow, II thou
Another soul wonldet reach;
1t nseds the oveIhOwing heart
To give tue lipe fall speech.
Thir ktruly, and thy thought
Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly, AID thy word
Shall be a fruitful reed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and nob.e creed.
WHILE the great FIRE is still smoking,
the public are contrasting the snowy build.
ings burned with such tire.proof edieces
az the Tribune Block and the beautiful
building on La Sale street owned by the
Republic Life Insurance Co. The man.
ayers of these two institutions have wisely
secured homes for their business safe
against the destroyer, which ftly repre-
sent their own permanence and stability
the Tribune in furnishing intelligence,
and the Republic Life protection for the
families of the West. Let the business
men follow their example, Chicago ITib-
u1e, Sept.e.
A YOUNG lady, writing from Saratoga
to the New York Express, says: The
heated term actually doubled our laundry
bills. None of my white dresses have
less than eighty yards of ru1flng, and my
laundress charges 81 each for doing them
up. My laundry bill last week was ex-
actly $103, and that was moderate COM
pared with some of the ladies in the hotel,
who are oAy-dressy, and always look as
if they were quite smothered in rutfles
and pinking."
DURING the trial of case in Louis
vile recently, witness persisted in testi-
fying to what his wife told him To this
of course, the attorney objected, and it
was ruled out by the Judge. He would
proceed again to tell "shust how it vas" )"
when the attorney would sing out How
do you know that ?" "My wife told me"
was the answer This was repeated sew
eral times. Presently, the Judge, becom-
ing unable to contain himself longer, said,
"Suppose your wife were to tell you the
heavens had fallen, what would you
Think" "Vell, den, I dinks dey vos
down."
A JURY in Rockland county, N. Y,
rendered the following verdict recently
ave find that the said Walter - was
drowned August 1, 1870. in the river at
Tompkins' Cove, in the town of Stony
Point, by recklessly jumping into the
river, while under the maddening infu-
ence of intoxicating liquor, obtained at
the stores of John Connor and John Con-
mel, licensed by the Board of Excise, in
the face of q remonstrance against license,
signed by two hundred and fourteen
names; and we do say that Board oi
Excise that would grant such license,
against such a remonstrance as was pre-
sented in the case, are not, in our optn.
ion, worthy the confidence or suffrage oi
Christian or moral people"
THERE is a man living in Calhoun
county, Miss, who is supposed to be the
strongest man in the State, if not in the
entire South. He is thirty-five years of
age, and weighs 225 pounds. He has been
known to carry three bars OF railroad
iron, when it takes from three to five or,
binary men to carry one. He can take a
cask containing forty gallons OF whisky
or water, and raise 1t from the ground ano
| drink ont of the bunghole with as much
| ease as another could out of a common
| pitcher; and he has frequently taken 6
barrel of flour under each arm, and bal
| ancipg a sack of salt On his head, carried
them for several hundred yards, with ap
psrently but little effort. He offers to be-
that he can lift thirteen hundred pounds
A YOUNG sport, gifted with melodioui
voice, became acquainted with lovely
female in a country town, and the
/
went TO her residence, where hi
voice was aired in serenading the
house, for the lady CHANGED to be absent
| He sang until he wss hoarse, patiently
awaiting the long looked for face at th'
window. Disheartened, he went home
but returned the next, and renewed th'
serenade, commencing with the song "T1
Years Since Last We Met" He had jus
uttered these words when a window wa
raised and gruff voice shouted, "Holi
on, young man / think there's some mis-
take. 1t isn't long since last we met
for you were here last night. Now git |
and the ole man hasteDed the serenader'
departure bya shower of old boots snt
crockery. The young man has not sine
attempted to utter his musical notes Il
that neighborhood.
| THE following is from the Franco
Anericain "When, in 1892, William
Prussia entered Frankfort, he saw
French grenadier who fought alone o.
the bridge of the city against large nun
Der of Prussian soldiers. A number
corpses atteste1 the vigOr of his defense
but, covered with wounds, he was on tn
point of falling, when the King ordere
him to be taken alive. The Prussian
obsyed with great difficulty, and took hiI
before their master. What is you
name p asked the King. What matter
, a name? am Frenchman' You al
heroi have saved your life; and no
} give you your liberty unconditional,
J only regret that a man like you shoul
serve such bad cause Citizen William
{ thank you, but let US not talk pelitic
we would not agree So saying, the SO
dier gave the military salute, turned c
t; his heels, ard, covered with blood, WEI
back to his regiment singing the Marse
laise."
TIE Newark (N.J.) Courier says:
| man named Hotchkiss over in New Ma
4 ket, the other night, thought he wou
2 have some fun soaring his wife by dro
: ping loose brick down the chimney in
! the fire place in her room. So he ere
!. softly out of bed, and, with nothing
but his night-shirt, sneaked up stairs al
q got out on the roof Mr.. Hotchkiss dro
4 ped nineteen bricks down the Gimme
n each one with vigorous slam; but /
e wife never screamed a solitary time.
r then Mr.. Hotchkiss gave it up, a
v thought he would go down stairs; but
found that Mrs. Hotchkiss had had
,. head out of the trap door watching h
: all the time, and when he had finished S
a | AdQ bIluJ luO tihp hOOA oht AeaosehSN ~
;, - the inside. 1t may be as well to state IL
q Mr.. Hotchkiss spent the balance of I
- night sitting on the sharp peak of t
D roof, with his trailing garments of
night futtering in the evening bree
l, singing, I'm lonely tonight NJ
y Hotchkiss intimated to her confident
Of friends that she thought she had him"
. ARTEMus WARD, in one of his lette
~ 20 thus gave his idea of Reorganization
J. 81 never attempted to re-organize
wife but once. shall never attempt
again. I'd bin to public dinner, and /
W allowed myself to be betrayed into dril
n in several peoples healths; and wish
ls to make 'em as robust as possible, l c.
tinued drinkin' their health until my o
y was affected. Consekens was, presen
a myself at Betsy's bedside late at mite W
oI considerable hcker concealed about
person. had somehow got possession
be q hoss whip on my way home, and
:" memberin' some cranky obserVashuI
TO Mrs. Wards in the mornin', snapt
e. whip putty lively, and in a very Il