Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-12
CURRENT ITEMS.

SETTLED TH1Ne-A cup of good
Fee.
DAN a man eating dates be said to con-
ne timer
SoNo OF THE BILLIARD HALL-"Oh,
om me backp
COUSIN of the poet N. p. Willis is a
iceman in New York city. He is 7S
hrs old.
FIVE hundred applications a week is
put the average filed in the Patent Office
+ Washington.
The policies of the Mutual Life Insur-
pc Company, of Chicago, are not loaded
In unjust restrictions.
MAN in the Bangor Jail refused to see
wife because he didn't want his "hap-
. ness broken In upon"
rHE average weight of the human heart
BIZ ounces. Its work in day is equal
raising 1874 tons one foot high.
Mr.. d. APPLETON, the New York pub.
her, has given $4,000 to the town of
,bpleton, Mo, to be used in building a
bool house.
OF the 100000 deaths recorded in
gland and Wales from 195t-60, nearly
pOO, 600 were those of children under 8
ars of age.
CALIFoRNIA is introducing one, two,
Rec and five-cent pieces for the first time
her history. Hitherto "bit" has been
smallest change.
IF you were TO die to-day would you
I've your family indedendent of charityP
sure in the Washington Life Insurance
bmpany, of New York.
In News York, recently, a woman got
10 a dispute with man. which ended in
T picking him up bodily and throwing
m out of two-story window.
The failures in the United States, dur.
g 1870, 1t is reported, amounted to 3,55t,
volving liabilities of $S8, 8,242 900, against
lures during 1869 amounting to 2,799,
volving liabilities of $75054,000.
A FUND of $4,000 has been raised in
eorgia for monument to the Confeder
e dead, the cornerstone of which is to
laid on the Fourth of July.
A MAN in New York gave woman his
pte for 5000 to marry him. She did
but he got possession of the document
Id refuses to pay. She has sued to re.
: ver, but it is doubtful if she can.
/ A CITIZEN of Montreal who refused to
III the census enumerator how old his
unmarried daughters are, has been fined
dollars and costs, with the alternative
s going to jail for thirty days.
THE latest style at dinner party is to
i've fan placed at each ladyfs plate, on
hich is printed the bill of fare, and on
70 side of which is small looking glass,
: that she is able to survey herself and
"eep cool.
This little fellow" said Martin Luther
bird nninn tn 60 hoe ol, H.
belter, and is quietly rocking himself to
eep, without care for morrow's
dging, calmly holding by his little twig,
nd leaving God alone to think of hin"
THERE is a great deal of theology in
be idea of the little girl who wished she
puld be good without obeying her grand
lother She said it was easy enough to
''fad books and pray, but pretty hard work
mind grandmother.
THERE is very ancient and venerable
blored person in Houghton, Mich, who
lever offtciated as body-servant to Gen.
asnlnSton. On Jne contrary, the local
apers inform us, George Wilson (that is
ne name Of the antique African) was too
Id and feeble to take part in the active
uties OF life, long before the father of his
.|ountry was born.
- SOoANAN loWJCl1 WIN u1SuCEtSSlulIY
defended two counterfeiters, received from
Sbem as part of his fee a counterfeit $40
3ill. To them then straightway did he
Frite thus: "You must not pass counter
pit money to counsel. | shall be obliged
4 you will SETTLE" They, being in prison,
pit obliged to decline to settle at present
MORE than two years ago vein of
4oal at Yatesville, Luzerne County, Penn
ylvania, took fire, and it has been burn
<hg ever since. Recently the fire has
eemed to be increasing in extent and in
ensity, and the volume of smoke rising
Fom it has been very large and heavy.
Two fine cows had fight in Forsyth
pounty, Ga, the other day. One was
Killed, and the other died two DAYS after.
When found, they were locked together,
l,ne having her horn through her oppo,
slent's neck. The other had stuck her
born under the jaw, proceeding upward to
: he brain. 1t took two men to eXtricate
hem.
X PRINCE PUCKLER- -MUsKAw, who re-
kently died at his superb estate in the
Province of Brandenburg, near Kottlus,
bad this passage in his will " | have very
title cash left, l think; but my heirs will
honor my memory if they will use part of
'ny money in buying all the copies of my
works which they can find, and destroy
ng them at once"
4 A CLERGYMAN of Cairo, ILL.,, expressed,
lately, his contempt of nickles in his Sun
.iay collection, and positively forbade any
pf his congregation from contributing any
thing under the denomination of five cents.
Save your cents" said he, "until you
pave hye before you putYour hands in this
Ebox. The widows mite is not here"
Two elegantly.dressed lady shop-lifters
were arrested by the Syracuse, N. Y, DO
ice the other day. On examination it
was found that each of them had two
large linen sacks suspended under her
fklrts by ropes tied around the waist In
fhese sacks were found five pieces of heavy
filk, each of which would measure about
twenty yards.
A MIDDLE-AGED man in Devonshire,
England, was fined five dollars and costs
Tor refusing to make out census paper
for himself and his child, asserting that he
Did not know either his own name or his
place of birth, and that he would not per
Dure himself by making a false entry. In
hnother case gentleman, the possessor OF
considerable property, refused to allow
Pie census OF his family to be taken.
A SINGULAR suit has been commenced
pm Cincinnati court by one Michael Lau-
'fer, who seeks TO recover $4,000 for iniu.
pies resulting from croton oil mixed with
peer and administered by his bar-keeper,
John Maley, few months ago The re,
|sult of the dose was such as to render the
plaintiff sick for ten days, disable him
from work for two months, and cause per.
Wanent partial blindness of the right eye.
The following is an instance of the
|" ruling passion strong in DEATH: Squire
W was very fastidious In his notions
of propriety. AT weddings and funerals
he was quite officious, and very particular
that everything should be done decently
and in order. In due time he was taken
jill, fatally so, and relatives and friends
were gathered around his bed, sad and
weeping One of these more Thought f,I