Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-02-24
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oafAr VANANAh - tNCONOACO tHC use OA
q paralyzed arm by being thrown from a
horse.
A. coLoRErI boy In Trimble County.
Kentucky, fas Killed thirty-one eagles In
his lifetime.
J., THERE were two regularly established
siege. f
. Why Is geology considered a deep
science p Because II penetrates into the
earth. asd t0l-f
Why are black eyes called piercingY
because they can look daggers when they
like.
The best birthday gift for your wife is
a policy on your life In the Washington
Life, of New York.
A CHIME of bells in Milwaukee is in
scribed I'm memory of Minnie j.
Hodges-weight 7S4 pounds
A RESIDENT of Connecticut boasts that
for eighty-four consecutive years he has
eaten his Thanksgiving dinner in the same
house. EfffILG G#t.t
MIR. SohENcK being afraid of sea-sick-
ness, the Boston Post advises him that " he
may avoid ID by throwing up his COM
mission before he sails"
THE rates Of the Mutual Life, of Chi
cago, are as low as those of other good
companies; yetit gives its members the
advantage of Western rates of interest.
A TEXAS paper reports that, since Sep
tember last, r119,000 people, with 1864
wagons, have eInigIated from Tennessee
and Georgia into the Lone Star State.
DR.. Brown SEQuARD says that he be-
heves the time will come when physicians
will be called, not for the purpose of MAX
ing sick people well, but to teach them
how not to be sick tfA
THEY had SNOW squall In Vermont the
other day, which was accompanied by
thunder and lightning, a horse being struck
by the latter.
A RELIGIOUS society in Aberdeen, Scot
land, recently discussed the question
whether reading the almanac on Sunday is
consistent with Christian duty.
SEVERAL persons in Titusville, Penn,
have been poisoned, 1lonefatally, by drink
ing water from we'll in which small
quantity of white lead had fallen
DR.. w. II. NEVILLE, a young physician
in Philadelphia, who was recently honor
ably acquitted of, a charge of infanticide,
had lain in prison three months.
OF five little girls who broke through
the ice at aRQrtsmouth, N. H., one day
lately, four were insensible when rescued,
but all wererestered.
AN unmarried friend declared the other
day, with an expression of countenanoe
almost lugubrious, 81 never cared farth
ing about getting married, until attended
an old bachelors funeral"
A BENEFACroR of the human race has
invented, in london, "digitarium, "a
small dumb, piano, upon which pupils can
learn the whole art and mystery of piano
and organ playing, without making any
noise.
Four married. women of Podbizca, in
Bohemia, were convicted, in December
last, of having poisoned their husbands at
party which one of them had given for
that purpose. They were sentenced to
penal service for life.
A LITTLE Boston girl joyfully assured
her mother the other day that she had
found out where they made horses" she
had seen man in a shop just finishing
one of them, for he was mailing on his last
foot"
DIR. Dryden, of the India Sanitary Com
mission, has recently written his annual
report on the spread of the cholera in that
country. The report concludes with the
opinion that this plague cannot be pre-
vented, and that no human efforts can stay
its progress.
A MICHIGAN court has decided that q
physician is not warrantor or insurer of a
case, and he is not to be tried for the re-
suit of his remedies. His only contract
and duty is to treat the case with reason
able diligence and skill.
IT is estimated that five millions of dol.
lars are annually spent upon the poor in
New York city, and that one-half of il
goes to impostors. In London, thirty-five
millions are yearly expended, and the
amount is annually increasing.
On Saturday, January 2, the little daugh
ter Of Captain Ely Sperry, of Woodbury.
Conn.,, and his son, 10 years old. died o.
scarlet fever. On Thursday, February 2
his wife died suddenly of heart disease
He had one little son left, a boy of
years, but on Friday, February 8, he, too
fell a victim toaahe fever.
THE Troy IN. " Times is responsible,
for the statement that couple were mar
ried the other day, at Plainfield, Otsegt
County, partook of their wedding Dime
in Winfield, Herkimer County, took tea il
Bridgewater, Oneida County, and were al
the time under the same roof The hous
stands "across the lines"
In the case of Elizabeth R. Coffey
against the Home Life Insurance Compa
ny, which suit was brought in the Supe
rior Court of New York City ON polio,
for $4,000 on the life of the plaintiff g hus
band, and which the company refused Il
pay, on the ground of alleged suicide, tn
jury have rendered verdict for the plain
tiff for the full amount.
A pIscoNsoLATE citizen of New Orlean
put the following question to one of tn
papers published there Mr. Edytpr-
That what wish to ask you is whethe
strychnine, what the police gives to dog
won't pizen the human being after sassir
paper how this is, for if fried strychniu
is pizen, ! go agin sasspgers. Your
till pisoned.''
A RESIDENT Of Taunton, Mass, has oil
tanned his ice for summer use, for sever
winters past, in the following manner
Procuring about fifty empty flour barrel
at a cost of twenty cents each, he gradI
ally pours in water, until each contains
solid mass of ice. The barrels are the
put awaySin his cellar, and entirely covere
with sawdust. AS ice is required barr,
is tapped.
ACCORDING to the London lHeCt5cal Time
the action of cold on weak heart not III
frequently produces death. 1t caused III
death of Lord Bentnick, which occurre
suddenly ashort time since and number
of old people are said to have died durin
the recent twelve days frost in Englan,
from the effect Of cold ON an enfeeble
heart. .'H'ti
A ROMANTIC story comes from the Afr
can diamond fields. A sweet-looking X
rama girl went to young Englishman
claim and began hunting for diamond
He was too gallant TO drive away a gil
and when she picked up a beautyof ge
he promptly offered his hand in marriag
and vows he will introduce his wife
his genteel English family as an Africa
Princess.
NEVER halloo until you are out of u
woods" saith homely Western proven
Carl Brendel, a Liepsic student, had new
heard of it.; and after passing throue
seven battles and numerous skirmishes
France without scratch he was recent