Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-04
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i I'm ulNOiCC hNcIdBo III OiuOihhpei iosb
year was just one day-366 DEGREES hav-
ing been granted in all.
THE census returns of Great Britain
show that the surplus Of female popula-
tion In on the increase
A. f. WmLMARTH, Vice President Of
the Home, of New York, is policy
holder, stock holder and director of the
Washington Life.
IF you know anything that will make a
brothers. heart glad, run quick and tell 1t;
but if IL is something that will cause
sigh, bottle 1t up.
No man with dependent family is free
from reproach if he fails to insure.-LoRD
LINDHURsT. Insure in the Mutual Life,
of Chicago. te.
LOCOMOTIVE No. 8, of the New Jersey
Railroad Company, is said to he the fastest
locomotive in the United States, having
made eighty miles in one hour.
SUMNER FASHIONS checks are
in demand for summer toilets. A check
for $1,000, presented 10 Miss Gunnybags
by her father, has been much admired
A "CARDiFF pigmy, three feet long,
was dug up in Ottumws, Iowa, the other
day Medical men have pronounced 1t
petrified human body--headless, armless,
and ltgless.
THREE hundred and seventy eight
Roms1 coins and urns have recently been
dug up in Luxemburg. They belong to
| the reigns of Vespasian, Domitian, Nero,
Trsjan, and their successors.
JOSEPH CALDWELL, of Columbus, o.,
mysteriously disappeared ayear ago, and 1t
is Just ascertained that he died in an insane
asylum at New Orleans, and was buried
rs pauper. He left an estate valued at
$150,0CO. -t .r,s79 ~, vsH
AN official report, published at st. Pc
| tersburg, gives the number OF horses IN
Russia as 19,226,667 or about one to each
three inhabitants. In 357 towns and vii
lagos in the country, 1911 horse fairs are
held each year, at which over 3OOWO
horses are sold at an average price OF ~
each.
AN Eastern paper with an appetite for
| figures estimates that American tourists
spend more than hundred millions
| year in excursions TO Europe AS immi-
grants bring only about twenty millions
| here, there would be at this rate y very
heavy balance of trade against US.
A Down EASTER lately came to, New
York, and took lodgings at one of the
high houses. Telling the waiter he wished
TO be called in the morning for theb boat,
| both of them proceeded on their winding
way upward, till, having arrived at the
eighth flight of stairs, Jonathan caught
the arm of his guide, aud accosted him
thus, Look here stranger, if you intend
to call me at six o'clock in the morning,
you might as well do it now, as twill be
that time afore can get down again"
THE Burlington Free Press says that
| Woodstock, Vt, elected, at its last March
meeting, Highway Surveyor, who can
l naifhar rood xxyrfn Whom no QskQ a
| man for his taxes he presents the tax book,
aud requests him to find his name and the
| amounts and, if the man pays his tax, he
crosses it out himself, and, when receipt
| is desired by the party paying, the Sur
veyor has to get some. one to write 1t, and
on this he makes "his Y mark" and has
it witnessed.
A CURIOUS accident happened in San
Francisco the other day. A young man
was in the act of getting on train, when
his left arm, which he outstretched to help
himself up on the platform, fell power
less to his side. On examination it was
found that his arm was really broken with
out any inordinate strein, and without ex-
ternal violence. His arm had not been
broken before, and the accident may be
put down as one of the curiosities of
science, as no explainable reason can be
given for it.
CARpETs. DUST AND DIsEAsE.=Honle
and Heath says: An atmosphere impreg-
mated with the dust which has been gath
cred in carpets and remained there for
considerable length of time, is positively
unhealthy. The dust after being stagnsnt
for some time, especially in warm wealth
er, presents myriads of animalcuI@. To
prevent the evil, the carpets should be
cleaned often. The dust should be thor
oughly removed every month. The trou-
Bile of taking up, shaking and replacing
| will be amply repaid, first, in the matter
of health. and, secondly, in preserving the
carpet We advise the good housewives
there are many Ito make anoIe OF this.
THE Hartford lawyers are puzzled over
singular legal case which has just arisen
there A man who died lately, leaving a
handsome property and childless widow,
| but with prospect for the future, left also
| u will, duly exc cuted, in which it was pro-
vided that if the expected child should
prove 10 be boy, two'thirds of the prop
erty should go to him and onet third to the
widowed mother. If, however, the child
proved to be a girl, only one third Of the
estate was to go TO her, and the two thirds
| to the mother But the widow has become
the mother of twins, and, what greatly
heightens the perplexity of the case, the
twins are boy and a girl, and the law
yers are in quandary to know what they
shall do about it.
| In 1870, it is stated, there were 10000
| 600 dozen corsets, or 100 000,000 pair, i'm
| ported into the United States-a quantity,
| it is calculated, sufficient to supply three
pair to every adult female in the country
| In addition, the annual domestic product
of sewed corsets amounted to 100000
pairs, manufactured by about twelve es-
Iablishments. Near Strasburg, city in
Germany, there are 1900 hand. looms en-
ployed in weaving corsets for the con-
sumption of the United States. One man
as weaver. and two women as tinishers,
are required for each loom, which produces
three corsets daily. The sale of corsets,
it is estimated, increases per cent. every
year CoTsets for males are also made,
and about 2, dozen of this article of mas
culine apparel are imported intothe United
States every year. t.T
F. G. VARLEY, the famous electrician of
the Atlantic Gable Company, revives the
old theory of earthquakes being due TO
the subteIranean lightning He supports
this theory by observations before, and
few minutes after the earthquake of the
18th of March, when he noted powerful
positive electrical currents rushing toward
England through the two Anglo American
telegraph cables, which were broken near
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland The French
Atlantic cable was disturbed at the same
time, and so were many of the English
land lines, but the only observations as TO
the direction of the current were those
made by Mr.. Varley in the broken Anglo
American telegraph cables, He thinks
, that as the center of the earth is ap-
! preached layer of hot dried rock may be
found which is an insulator, while the
red hot mass lower down is a conductor.
/, If this conjecture be true, and there is
plausibility in il, then the world itself is
an enormous Leyden jar, which only re-
. quires charging TO very moderate degree