Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-09
CURRENT ITEMS.
GooD LITTLE BUoYs-Corks.

GOOD LITTLE BUoYs-Corks
FORTUNE TELLERs-Bank clerks.
In the height of prosperity prepare for
adversely by insuring in the Mutual Life
of Chicago.
FORESIGHT is the right eye of Provi-
dence, aud Providence dictates Life In
surance. Insure in the Washington.
A cHAMBERMAID advertises in the New
York Times tor a situation in first
class family" and adds None but first
class families need apply"
A MAN has succeeded in cheating a
Niagara Falls cabman, and there is talk of
erecting monument in admiration of his
genius ana courage.
A SINGULAR case has come up in Lon
don court. A solicitor, one Mr.. Leopold
Lewis, was elected from theatre for
requesting a mumbling actor to speak
up" and now brings a suit against the
management for damages.
The Connecticut papers are telling of a
Sunday School boy who, being being
asked who made the beautiful hills about
there, replied that he did not know, as his
parents only moved into town the Friday
before
The girls of town in Oswego County,
N. T., have formally declared that they
will not accept the company of any young
man who uses tobacco In any form, unless
the night is very dark and the road muddy,
for the space of sixty days from date.
JAMES I. FIELDS says, in the Atlantic
Monthly, that on the first night of Charles
Dickens arrival in Boston, in 1912, he
took run about town and pulled bell
handles with such vigor that one actual
ly came off in his hand"
IN reference to the item that writing
desk of Benjamin Franklin was lately
sold in Newport for ten cents, the lHercltru
says: This hoax has had its run. The
desk referred to has been in the Mercurv
office many years, and was formerly used
in Judge JOslin's school, and Benjamin
Franklin never used it or saw it. We had
no further use for it, and it was sold at
auction for all it was worth. 1t is now
used for peanut stand"
IT is alleged that Rulloff confessed to
his counsel that he drowned his two asso-
ciates in the crime for which he was
hanged, and that he also proposed to his
counsel the murder of Burroughs, the sur
Vlving clerk, who was to be the chief wit.
ness against him, and even mentioned the
name OF Desperate in New York city
who, he said, would do the job for rea-
oOudUle price.
A BosToN surgeon has lately removed
from Lawrence mans neck a ragged
piece of the blade of a dirk, which he has
carried there eversince Thanksgiving eve,
1860. 1t was left there in fight in which
he became engaged in saloon at that
lime, and as 1t projected inside the Jaw
bone, has been quite an annoyance TO him
Four separate attempts to remove it here.
tnfnrp h4u fai nd bao
taken out through the orifice of the ear
VINO dare spit tobacco juice on the
noor OF this car savagtly exclaimed a
large and powerfully built passenger, as he
rose from his seat and stalked down the
aisle, trowning defiantly upon the other
passengers. Z" daTe!" said a burly look
log fellow, as he deliberately squirted
quantity of the noxious saliva upon the
iioor Of the aisle. "All right, my friend"
said the first speaker, slapping the other
In a friendly manner upon the shoulder,
give us chew of tobacco.
The great telegraphic feat of direct
communication between England and In
dla, without any retransmissiOn, has lust
been accomplished. For the first time,
such communication was established by
me transmission ofa message from KurTa-
chee TO London, which was really the first
message from India to England instanta.
neously. Subsequentlym communication
was opened to Bombay. London and
Bombay interchanged signals perfectly,
and commercial message was sent from
London to Bombay direct and answered
The distance by the IndO.
European line is 5000 miles, and this is
the greatest telegraphic feat on record.
GETTING EvEN-A farmer cut down
true which stood so near the boundary
line of his farm that it was doubted
whether it belonged to him or his neigh.
bor The neighbor, however, claimed the
tree and prosecuted for damages the man
who cut it. The case was sent from court
to court. Time was wasted, temper soured,
and friendship lost; but the case was
tlnally gained by the prosecution. The
last we heard of the transaction was that
the man who gained the cause went to the
lawyers office to execute deed of his
whole farm which he had been compelled
TO sell to pay his COSTS Then, houseless
and homeless, he thrust his hands into his
pockets and trlumphantly exclaimed,
" I've beat himp
A VIRGINIA lady returned home rather
late, one evening recently, after a short
absence, and, hearing a noise ia the room
which she and her husband occupied.
looked through the keyhole and saw the
Iotund figure of woman upon whose
shoulders her lord was adjusting a shawl
Enraged by jealousy she seized a shot
eun and, forcing open the door, shot the
obtruder in the back. Her husband
screamed and she tainted, but when com.
Ing to her senses found that she had
desperately wounded dummy which her
husband, dry goods merchant, had
home for repairs.
The meanest man has got back to New
hampshire once more. He is physician |
and is man of wealth. Some time since he |
was called to visit his mother professional. |
y, an old lady of nearly four score years
ma ten, and he charged her the usual fees.
10 obtain the money she laboriouslv
knitted socks, and when she had earned
he amount he took it. Finally, the old
ady died, and she was buried bv another