Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

CrlDB.
The rates of the Washington Life are
the same as other good companies.
AUERBACH is not embarrassed with
richness. We would like to know who is.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid in cash, in the Mutual Life, of Chi
cago.
WHEN pickpocket pulls at your watch,
tell him plainly that you have no time to
spare.
A LADY advertises herself in morning
paper as teacher for "persons of newly
acquired wealth and deficient education"
A BARBER, who was sued by a young
man for cutting off his moustache, put in
the plea that he didn't see it.
IT will take sixty years to restore to
France the forests ruthlessly wasted in
the military operations of the late war.
The latest invention in advertising is
that of Hartford patent medicine man,
who has sheared his dog, and painted on
the animal the name of the universal cure.
THERE are 5000 900 cotton spindles now
in operation in the United States, of which
over 100000 are running on cloths for
printing, and produce 450,000,O0O yards
per annum.
THE Rural New Yorker estimates the
number of sheep in California at 100000
and the number at the close of 1871 at
5000, 900. The wool clip for the present
year is estimated at 25,000,000 pounds.
A BosroN frog eater recently brought
home bag full of tree toads under the
supposition that they we're frogs, and was
greatly disguised on discov ering the fact
after he had disposed of dozen or so.
PROMPT AND PRACTIcAL.-Revered
stranger" My good man, can you tell me
the nearest way to the cathedral?" Scotch
cabby-" Jist inside the cab here, sir.
Punch.
A LOCAL REPORT OF THE PERIOD
Mr.. Collins of Hartford, bought fero-
cious watchdog. Mr.. Collins came home
late that night. His wife says that his
trowsers can't be mended. The dogs skin
is for sale cheap Mr.. Collins hopes to be
able to sit down in a few weeks"
A MONTH before he died, Charles Dick
ems destroyed all the letters that had been
written him during mis- life, believing, he
said, that they had been written for him
privately, not for public inspection, and
that after his death he could not be certain
of their privacy being respected.
As Mr.. Edward Merrill, of East Lynn,
MASS, WHS Quietly eu1ONluR u DOIh-SUeW,
at his own table, his teeth encountered
some intangible object therein. The oh.
iect was elected and examined. 1t proved
to be small diamond, oval-shaped and
handsome supposed to have got into the
salt somehow or other.
A MONTREAL young man has written to
the papers that he thinks It should be pro-
vided that an action for breach of promise
of marriage should not lie unless the be-
trothal had been formally acknowledged
by the passing of gift between the two
parties, in the presence of two or more
witnesses.
A LADY requests the Washington Chron-
icle to advertise for $50 young men of all
shapes and sizes, from the tall dandy, with
hair enough on his upper lip to stuff bar
ber's cushion, down to the little bow
legged, freckled faced, carrot-headed up
start, TO form gaping crowd to stand at
the doorways when evening assemblies are
dismissed, to stare at the ladies and make
remarks about their person and dress"
THE ROAD TO SUcCEss.-Fortune, sue
cess, fame, position, are never gained but
by determinedly, -bravely sticking and liv-
ing to thing till it is fairly accomplished.
In short, you must carry thing through,
if you want to be anybody or anything.
No matter if it does cost you the pleasure,
the society, the thousand yearly gratitca-
tions of life No matter for these. Stick
to the thing and carry it through. Be-
lieve you were made for the matter, and
that no one else can do it. Put forth your
whole energies. Be awake, electrify your
self. and go forth to the task. Only once
learn to carry thing through in all its
completeness and proportion, and you will
become hero. You will think better Of
yourself; others will think better of you.
The world, in its very heart, admires the
stern, determined doer. II sees in him its
best sight, its brightest object, its richest
treasure. Drive right along, then, in
whatever you undertake. Consider your
self amply sufficient for the deed. You'll
be successful.
THE LSberal Christian has the follow
ing anecdote from gentleman who was
an eve witness of the circumstances mar
rated: The thermometer often stands for
DAYS at from 109 to III degrees in the Red
Sea, and when the vessel is with the wind
and travelling at about the speed of the air,
the lack of any breeze or ventilation
makes life on the steamer almost insup-
portable. On this occasion four men and
two women among the passengers were SO
overcome with the heat that the ships
doctor reported that they must die if the
ships course was not changed, and breeze
created by travelling against the wind.
The captain very reluc antly, and in dire
fear of the company's order, yielded to the
cry of humanity, and steamed one hundred
miles back on his course He thus re-
duced the oppressive temperature twenty
degrees, ventilated his ship, and saved the
Iy,r INal lxrN Of pfx
government fined the company (who ex'
cused the captain, although not without
a warning not to do it AGAIN. thousand
pounds for going out of the prescribed
route with Her Majesty's mails.
THE bonded warehouse of Charles Nc.
Michen, New York, is said to be the only
store of that kind in the city which has q
burglar alarm, and the gong attached
thereto can be heard distance Of about
two block on a still night. On recent
Sunday evening this gong was heard by
the policeman on that post, ringing furi
ouslY, and the officer, assuming that burg
lars we're on the premises, sounded thG
alarm, caused the building to be sur
rounded TO prevent the escape of the sup
posed burglars, and then hastened TO the
barge office at Whitehall for a key witt
which TO open the warehouse door. Nc
key could be procured, but authority was
given to break open the door, and at It the
officers went with crowbars and sledg'
hammers. After some moments labor Tho
Custom House paddock was broken of
and the door opened, when 1t was ascer
tanned, to the supreme disgust Of all con
cerned, that the alPrm had been sounded
by cat, which had effected an entrance
and in the course Of her perambulations
had come in contact with one of the wires
which set the gong ringing. The ware