Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-02-24

tne use OF drinking water, as long rs we
nave glass and china at our command.
To CLEAN A SHOT GUw.-A writer In
the Rural Neso Yorker saws; at take the
barrels of from the stock then take vine.
gar enough to fill the barrels, and heat n
boiling hot pour It into the barrels. and
let it stand until it stops foaminq over at
the muzzle, letting some run through the
tubes; then take the cleaning rod and rub
the inside Of the barrels then take water.
hot enough TO warm the barrels, and rinse
out until the water is.perfectly clear; then,
with the cleaning rod, wipe the gun out
perfectly dry, after which put a little sweet
OIL ON bit of cloth, and rub on the bar
rels, both on the inside and outside, and
your gun is clean. The vinegar removes
all stain and smut, and the water and oil
prevent 1t from rusting, or hurting the gun
in any way"
III we wish to succeed in life we must
learn to take men as they are, and not as
they ought to be; making them better II
we can, but at the same time remembering
their intirmities. We have to deal, not
with the ideal man of dreaming poets, but
with the real men of every day life, men
precisely like ourselves. This fact of com
mon aims, ambitions and infrmities ought
to create constant sympathy and forbear-
ance. While every man has his own bur
den to bear, he may at the same tine in
some way help another to bear his peculiar
burden, and he himself helped in turn.
God has nysteriously linked all men to-
gether by this curious fact of mutual de.
pendence, and this wonderful possibility
of mutual help.
THE number of bones broken in the
English Mhatic asylum has given occasion
for curious scientific inquiry, and il is
now ascertained that the ribs of crazy folk
are more brittle than the ribs of the sane.
DR.. Heardon instituted an examination of
the bones of twenty patients who died in
the Carmarthen County Asylum. In nine
of these cases "the very framework of the
chest was found to be in an abnormal and
diseased state" In two instances the
breast bone broke in removing 1t, and gen.
orally the bones were no stronger than
stout cardboard. In one case the surface
bone was so spongy and soft that it was
easily crumbled up between the fingers.
Some of the ribs were easily cut with a
common knife, there being, through the
action of the diseased brain, wasting
away of the phosphatess
IT is stated, on what is claimed to be re-
liable authority, that there is child in
Bristol, now four years of age, that is a
habitual smoker and, incredible as it may
seem, who has been addicted to the habit
for three years and nine months. When
the little fellow was only three months
old he held out his little hands and cried
for his fathers pipe. The stem of the
pipe was held to its mouth, when it took
few whhfs of the smoke and was made
sick for few minutes. The baby was, as
we learn, afflicted with asthma, which was
greatly relieved by the tobacco smoke, and
no bad effect from Ne child's smoking has
ever been observed, except in the first trial
as mentioned above, and he has smoked
almost daily ever since. He usually uses
a pipe filled with common smoking tobac.
CO, but will puff away at cigar equal to
any older inveterate smoker. Residents
of Bristol who has often seen the youthful
smoker blowing a quiet cloud," vouch
for the truth of this singular story. Oul
western contemporaries frequently print as
tonishing narratives of precocious children
but we doubt their ability to trot out any
thing that will "lay over this scion o.
antiquated Bristol. If they can we shal
be pleased to hear it.-ProUidsBce R. T.
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