Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-27
GOSSIP.

The rural portions OF Rhode Island com
plain that Providence has too much power
in their Legislature. 1t is complaint sell
dom made in any other State in the Union.
Three Yale sophOmores were brought be-
fore the police court on Saturday last, and
fined $40 and costs for "haEiug." This is the
first time such punishment has been inflicted
in New Haven.
Coolies are constantly employed on the
japanese Railroad between Yokohama and
Yeddo. The first locomotive run over the
road attracted great attention. The road
from Osoka 10 Kobe progresses rapidly, and
anew line OF sixty miles, to cost s., ,000, 900,
running through Kiota to Tsurgs, is coz
templated.
People should be careful in the applica-
tion Of acids. A young lady with golden
tresses tainted the other night, and an alarm
ed friend bathed her forehead with vinegar,
aud in the most expeditions manner bathed
all the golden color ont of her friends front
hair,
Two prominent gentlemen OF Knoxville,
Tenn, have been playing series OF one hun
dred games Of chess. There was but one
draw game in the hundred. At no time was
either one three games ahead, The hun
dredth game was tie, but on the hundred
and first the railroad man pulled out one
ahead.
Mr.. Seward was welcomed at his home in
| Auburn by q large number Of his personal
friends and neighbors. In response to a
speech he remarked that during his Journey
ings abroad he had found no nation go dis
tant and no race so low that the character OF
an American citizen did not secure to him
self not merely safety, but also respect, con-
sideration and affection.
The city OF Louisville is still suffering
greatly from the threatened scarcity and con-
sequent high price Of coal. The large distil-
leries In that vicinity are not running to their
full capacity, and it is said that the farmers
are losing, by the present coal monopoly,
the sale OF nearly two thousand bushels OF
corn day.
The Troy Times says that sewing machines
worked BY steam are no new thing therea-
bouts. All the leading linen collar manu-
facturers there use steam, and have used 1t
for yesrs past in running sewing machines,
for the reason that by its use more work is
done, and the effec: on the health Of the op-
orators Is not as deleterious as in the old
treadle mode.
In the year 1T52, people went to bed as
usual on the second OF September, but they
did not get out OF 1t until the fourteenth OF
the same month. How was that? This
statement is often given out to young folks
as puzzle. The answer is, that at that time
an act OF Parliament was passed to correct
the calendar, which was then known to be
about eleven days wrong. sheet almanac,
now preserved in the Winchester Museum.
records these eleven days by their absence
from its list.
A singular accident recently occurred in
the streets Of London. A huge steam roller
was left standing in the streets, while the
careless engineer went to dinner. Some
mischievous boys got upon II, and by some
means managed to start it The damage
done was considerable, the machine demol-
ished large show window, and otherwise
injured the building into which it ran.
A gentleman Of Philadelphia has discoy
cred that jet of air, steam or water, mixed
with some such material as sand, can drill a
hole In, or eat away the face Of any SUBJ
stance, no matter how hard, In an amazingly
short space OF time. With sand and a steam
jet OF 800 pounds pressure to the square inch,
he made hole in block OF Corundum-a
material as hard as diamond-an inch and a
half deep, in less than twenty five minutes.
The French expedition to the North Pole
Will not be abandoned on account OF the
death Of Its commander, Captain Lambert
and 1t is among the possibilities that the
Americans and French may meet and fly
their bunting together from the long sought
polar polntl
The British Consul at Rome is credited
with stating, In report recently laid before
the English Parliament by the foreign office
that the very tne qualities OF Roman voices
Is attributed 70 the mothers swaddlinR their
babies. When mother is employed out OF
doors the baby is suspended from its back to
nail In the wall, and allowed to cry Cor sew
eral hours together, (which con ntinued act
OF crying exercises and forms the vocal
organs IN an extraordinary way" What
nextS
An Indiana girl tearfully consented 10