Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-21
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THE BOARD OF HEALTH-A Plain diet. |
"BooTs blacked inside" is a New York |
sign.
A. T. STEWART is credited with an in |
come of 1887, 595 last year.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, issues
policies upon all approved plans.
CALIFORNIA papers report a recent mar
riage on the highest peak of Mount
Helena.
Two brothers named Smalltubs, recent
ly married in Maine, took the names of
their wives.
SEE the sack open before you buy what
is in it, for he who trades in the dark asks
to be cheated.-Spur9e0B
THE Directors of the Washington Life
are some of our best and most reliable
men in the city. THOMAS CARLTON,
Methodist Book Concern, New York.
IT is reported that William NJ. Tibbetts,
of Milton, Mass, recently killed COW,
in which he found, near the heart, q pitch
fork-tine seven inches long.
A CONNECTICUT woman was lately the
recipient of $4,000 legacy, which so
overjoyed her that she died within fort
night thereafter.
KEEP out of debt, out of quarrels, out
of damp clothes, out of reach of liquors,
out of thin clothes, and out of doors all
you can in good weather.
JASPER MORGAN, of Middletown, Con-
necticut, never called a doctor until he was
in his eighty-eighth year. Then he called
one, and is gathered to his fathers.
GAMBETTA's funeral Grafton over Kuss
late Mayor of Strasbourg, wound up:
Happy NJ. Kuss, to have the privilege of,
entering your agonized country only as a
dead man"
A New: YORK paper, on the morning
after the Connecticut election, stunned its
readers with the announcement that "at
this late hour no news arrives from the
towns yet unheard from"
A PUPIL in the high school at Pittsfeld,
Mass, who lost both of his arms by a rail
road accident when very small boy,
manages his book, uses his slate, and
writes legibly with his mouth. He can
also write with his toes.
A BALTIMORE man has patented a sort
of electric machine, which connected to
store doors and windows at night, para.
lyzes and retains the hold of any person
who TOUGHER the latch or knob.
In Rhode Island, by law recently en-
acted, all petroleum and its products must
be inspected and branded with the degree
at which they flash or are inf1amable.
Fine or imprisonment is the penalty of
putting oils not inspected into packages
previously used and branded,
A CHARLEsTowN, Mass, State Prison
convict, who has done considerable literary
work while in confinement, has written a
letter to the Warden, suggesting that the
convicts be allowed to edit and publish
magazine, giving the public an inside
view of the institution.
BARON NATHANIEL DE RoTHsCHILD
who died in Paris last year in such a
moneyless condition that his estate was
declared to be worth only $9,0O0,0OO, is
now reported to have left $25,0O0 600.
Consequently his heirs will not suffer from
poverty SO much as was anticipated.
DURING the marriage ceremony which
united Miss Nettie Chase and Mr.. William
Sprague Hoyt, when the ring was about to
be placed upon the brides finger, she her.
self removed her glove, her first bride e-maid
holding her bouquet. Henceforth all brides
may consider themselves authorized to
perform this little service for themselves.
Born French and German medical
writers on hydrophobia express the opinion,
that where the symptoms of the disease
have fairly developed themselves, the case
is absolutely hopeless. Under such cir
cumstances, they advise placing the pa
tieEt under the influence Of anesthetics till
death supervenes.
An old negress who was on exhibition
in New England, as the Oldest living
person" rather overdid her part the other
day, when asked if she had ever seen
Washington, by saying, 30 yes; he used
to come where l lived in New Hampshire
every year, to the Fourth of July celebra-
tions, and we always made heap Of him,
which was the reason he liked to come. u
A FOOLISH fellow called at the house of
a neighbor who was cutting up and salt
| ing a hog he had killed the day before.
The fellow stood with mouth open and
hands in his pockets, looking on with a
vacant stare until the job was nearly done,
when he said: Nam told me not to ask
you for any pork, but if you offered me
some to take it," He got the pork.
The Milk Inspector of Providence, R.
l.. is credited with the statement that
there is less difference in the nutritiye
qualities of milk and meat than is general
| ly supposed. He believes that a greater
use of milk would be advantageous and
economical. Milk at fifteen cents he con.
siders as economical as comed beef at sew
enteen cents, and milk at ten or twelve
| cents the cheapest food that can be used.
A DoTNG mother in Poughkeepsie ex-
pended $29 in dressing up her little baby,
of which of course she thought the world,
and sent the bill to her husband, who is
independently rich and independently
mean. He made out check for the
amount, and added these words, "This is
for child few months old. Fools still
live" To which the bank clerk added,
$50 do hogs"
THE New York E0ening Post says: 1T
is curious fact, among our hat and cap
manufacturers, that different localities use
different sizes Of hats and caps as standard
sizes. Boston and the Eastern States use
the smallest sizes; New York and the
| Middle States use the medium to largest
sizes, and Chicago and the Western States
require the largest sizes. Goods maHufac-
tured for one market cannot be sold for
the other, only in Exceptional cases. The
South usea shape peculiar to themselves,
and of large SIZE
II Is worth while to bear in mind that if
a person had swallowed poison, and no
recognized antidote is at hand, the best
thing TO do Is to give warm or cold water
as fast as possible, Tepid water is the
best, as that opens the pores of the skin,
and causes vomiting, but, if that is not at
hand, do not wait, but give cold until a
! physician arrives. While this will not