Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

1HE washington Life Insurance Com
pany holds the best of securities and gives
insurance at cost.
A Sioux CRY dispenser OF liquid light
ming recently took mans only pair of
boots for drink of whisky.
"ToM, who did you say our fried b.
married" "Well, he married forty thou
sand dolars-I forget her other name"
THE quantity of beer manufactured in
New Jersey last year gives two and one
half barrels to every man, woman and
child in the Commonwealth.
AN eminent physician says that good
coat of gum-arabic mucilage applied every
night to corns will, in short timo, cause
the pests to take their final departure.
THERE are 26 blind people in Colorado,
159 in New Mexico, and Wyoming
There are also 10 lunatics'in Colorado, so
in New Mexico, in Nevada, and none in
Wyoming
E. ii. DERBY, of Boston, statistician,
gives 1t as his opinion that China and
Japan will take from us 80, 600 tons, or
| 100, 600, 900 pounds of butter and cheese
per annum, whenever we shall be able to
deliver IT,
AN exchange says the new style of col
| lar for gentlemen is simply terrific. They
are an economical article, however as,
with moderately long pantaloons, they do
away with all necessity for a shirt.
! Miss ELEANOR VoNDY, a young lady in
| San Francisco, took little strychnine on
the point of pOcket.knife blade, having
heard that it would improve the complex
ion. She died after two hours of intense
agony.
DIR. WILLARD PARKER, of New York,
stated recently that one-third of all the
deaths in New York city were the result,
| directly or indirectly, of the use of alco-
| hol and in the last thirty eight years 1870,
600 persc lis in the city have died from its
| use.
AN unprecedented case of somnambu-
lism occurred few nights ago in New
Haven, the subject being a little child
about three years old, that went out in a
rain-storm twice in single evening to
meet its parents and was brought back
each time and put to bed without being
awakened.
a HARTFORD lady screamed little at
the supper-table few evenings ago, when
a mouse popped out of "doughnut''
which she was conveying to her mouth,
and scampered over her shoulders and
neck. The lady was about to eat the
mouse out of house and home, which it
had just eaten itself into.
IT has been discovered that, by care
less drafting of the law granting pen
sion to the soldiers of 1912, each man
that receives a pension is obliged to take
an oath that he will Support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and the sur.
viving widows of such officers and enlist
ed and drafted men rs took part in that
war"
In thawing out your ink-bottles this
cold weather, don't set them on the stove,
or near the stove, tightly corked. The
Iowa City Press says that the librarian of
the State Historical Society, Mr. Silas
Foster, had an explosion of an nk-bottle
under such circumstances, few days
since, scalding him, and for some time Sc
riously threatening his sight.
DIR. BURG in reviewing the statistics of
deaths from cholera, finds that out of
about 81, ,000 artisans in copper, brass and
bronze, employed in Paris and other cities
during the last outbreak of the cholera,
only sixteen deaths resulted fronfthat dis
case. Another interesting fact bearing on
this question is that the city of Mio-Tnto,
surrounded as it is by copper mines, has
never been visited by that epidemic.
How TO ROAST TURKEY.-Thc Ruyal
Home says this is the way to do II: To
roast turkey, it should first be "killed f"
at least two days in advance. Make a
! force-meat of grated bread crumbs, pep.
per, salt, sweet marjorum, minced suet,
and beaten yolk of egg. Chop the liver
| gizard and heart for the gravy. Stuff the
craw and the body and sew up the open
ings. Dredge with flour and put the bird
| into the bakc-pan, with the bottom well
/ covered with butter
/ WATER PRooF BOOT SOLEs.-An eX-
| change says "If hot taris applied to boot
soles ii Will make them water proof
Let it be quite hot, apply with
swab, and dry in before the
| fire. The operation NAV be repeated two
or three times during the winter if neccssa-
ry 1t makes the surface of the leather
quite hard, so that it wears longer, as
well as keeps the water out. 1t is good
plan to provide boots for winter during
the summer, and prepare the soles by tar
ing, as they will then become, before they
are wanted to wear, almost as firm as
horn, and wear twice as long as those un-
prepared.
UNDER the head of "novel cure for
consumption, the Indianapolis E'reniRg
JolrRG publishes the following: "A
young lady of this city, sick with dis
ease of the lungs, was told that if she
would get young puppy and raise it, the
dog would take the consumption off her
hands and she would get well. She did
so, and as the dog grew it was noticed
that the animal acquired hacking cough,
while the young lady grew rapidly better.
In the meantime, however, she had be-
come very much attached to her canine
benefactor, and did everything that could
be done for him. 1t was of no use, how
ever, consumption, the fell destroyer, had
fastened upon poor Jacks vitals, and a
few days since he passed in his checks.
The young lady is in robust health, and
firmly believes that the dog saved her
life" 4
IN trial in London the other day,
witness described himself as of "A profes-
sion or trade of the existence of which
neither his lordship nor the barristcrs in
court seemed to be aware. The witness
said, II am an early caller" "What"
"Why," replied the man, II calls differ
ent tradesmen at early hours, from one till
half-past five in the morning, and that is
how makes my living. | get up between
IL and /. goes TO bed at and / sleeps
till the afternoon" "But surely you don't
call any person as carly as 1 o'clock"
!'Yes | calls bakers between | and 2 but
amt had no bakers on my lists for the
last two months. The bakers is the earli-
est of all, !" What view of life in Lon
don What ways there are of making
money in that vast city Only think of
the trade of "early caller" and man of
about fve-and-twenty settling down to it.
LEATHER BITs-The M,iRe Farmer
says ''At the North Kennebec Fair we
saw colt exhibited, guided by bridlein
which was pair of leather bits The gen
tleman stated to us that he had used them
for some time, and would have no other
kind, especially in winter. lie was salts
fed pair would last with safety three
years, unless the animal was unusually
vicious and gave the ODiniOn of quite en-