Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

OF NEVADA saloon.
WHAT ought Away 10 be up 10 the
marki A bullet.
THE navy of Brazil is said to have
never y ct lost vessel.
OYSTERS carried from the Atlantic
coast are being planted in Oregon.
The track of the Hudson River Rail
road is now laid with steel rails.
CONFINEMENT To sit in the house
and see other people stuck in the mud.
A MAN in London was lately fined et00
and costs for keeping a betting office.
RATS ran of with e27 in sovereigns
and half sovereigns in Manchester eng
land) store.
The waste of gas in London from de-
fective burners is estimated at $500 000a
year.
A MASSACHUSETTS paper asserts that
the Goldfish catch this year is unusually
small.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, is con-
Quoted in the interest Of its policy-holders
NOT to enrich stockholders.
John" was the entire name of col
ored candidate for District Clerk at Corsi
can, Texas, at a recent election.
A FRENCH astronomer has invented
balloon compass which will show both
the course and rate of speed of a balloon.
A MISS HARRIS, of Columbus, Ohio,
fell dead the other day while bowling TO a
young man on the street. This is another
fearful warning.
THE Washington is a great public favo-
rite; the increase of business last year
over the year previous was greater than
that of any other cash company.
IN st. Louis, since;the 1st of January,
1925 building permits have been issued,
the estimated value of the houses being
$3,771 ,242.
SOME people love others so much better
than themselves that they are vastly more
concerned about their neighbors' affairs
than about their own.
A HARTFORD man keeps box in which
he regularly deposits his car fare when he
walks to and from his place of business, as
he now almost always does. The other
day, at the close of a year, he opened it,
and found he had $109 20.
A CHEERFUL 8dOant has discovered that
mosquitoes are q providential guard against
disease, upon the supposition that in sum-
mer the human system is peculiarly liable
to fever, and the insects, by depicting the
quantity of blood, get up counter-lrrits-
| ton.
AT college examination the students
were asked the meaning of the word "hy-
pothesis." One candidate answered that
it was "a machine for raing water. "An-
ether said that it was something that
happened to man after death"
A BOY five years old recently fell from
the window of car in the Union Pacific
passenger train just after it had left Chey-
enne, and while it was going about thirty
miles an hour The train was stopped
aY,1 hax fo,,nl trya ho MI s,o;,,
sustained being few bruises and a thor.
ough frightening.
THE number of passports issued to per-
sons going abroad this year is far in excess
of any previous one, but applications are
beginning to fall off considerably. Large
numbers of our German residents have
| left the country this summer to pay brief
visit to the Fatherlnnd."
IT has probably fallen to the lot of few
in this world to do as much good as Miss
Maria s. Rye. She has now crossed the
Atlantic twelve times, and succeeded in
| finding respectable homes and occupation
for five hundred girls, the majority of
whom would otherwise, in all probability,
have been paupers on the street.
CURE FOR LBPRosY.-It is said that q
cure has been discovered for leprosy. A
surgeon in Khundwa, India, reports the
case of wretched old man who came to
him from Bombay, having been abandon.
ed by his friends because of this terrible
disease. He was treated with soap and
water, and then with carbolic acid and oil,
and was completely cured.
A NOVEL wedding took place few days
ago in shoe mandatory in Cleveland.
Two Of the employees were placed on an
elevator, and were married by the Rev. d.
| @. Osborne. This over a spring was
touched, and the couple ascended to the
fourth story Returning in a few mo-
ments, Mr.. Osborne congratulated them
on their happy bridal tour. Cake was
then served on large sole leather plates.
STOPPING HEN FROM SITTMe.-J. E.
Smith, of Durham, N. H., writes to the
.Anaerican A0r1culturist: "I was quite
amused some days since by an old sitting
hen. Having tried all the usual ways to
induce her to leave her nest, concluded
to use moral suasion.' l placed two
Jumps of ice in the nest after taking her
off The old critter,' as usual in such
cases, soon returned and took seat, which
seemed to disagree with her, and after
few hours Mrs. Hen concluded to asso-
ciate with her fellows"
AN enormous woman, one Carolina
Heenan, is now on exhibition in London.
Her age is said to be twenty-five years,
and weight $50 pounds She measures
seven feet around the body, twenty six
inches around the arm, and three feet six
inches across the shoulders. 1t is added
that, unlike most fat people, this large
lady is able to sustain great physical exer-
ton, is handsome and pleasing" and
"highly intelligent" not in the least
"drowsy," nor is her face STAT and greasy"
A NORTH CAROLINA paper, as an in
a. l,a,, - fD- ttnrhN
by the war, states that "a widow lady
from the country was in town Tuesday,
hunting cook place in some nice family.
Many years ago her grandfather owned
150 slaves and six plantations, and at the
cl Sc of the war her father had bushel of
gold. Her husband was poor man, and
died in the war, and now ttis independent
and worthy widow woman prefers to cook
in some nice family rather than live de.
pendent on other folks"
A RECENT letter to the Missouri Re
publicdn, from Coats Store, Rockingham
County, Va, says "0n the 2Sth of ] July,
a tornado, accompanied by rain and hail,
swept through portion of this county,
tearing up trees and destroying every
thing IN its way. Many fields of corn
were entirely destroyed. The hail in
many places fell and drifted from five to
seven feet Deep Linville Creek was so
banked up with hail that the fish became
frozen, and were picked up along the bank
in great quantities; but the strangest of
all is, that apple trees in orchards were
stripped of all their fruit and leaves, and
: now have a new foliage heavier than be-
! 70 G, and the trees are perfectly white
with bloom. One large apple tree was
only partially stripped, and now 1t is full
of bloom, intermixed with large and near
z ly ripe fruit and trees that had not borne
at all, neither had bloomed, are now full
= = of bloom. am now visiting this portion
> | of N;rr;nia op1 HnOvu tho ahOUa IN ha