Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-18
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A GOOD gauge by which to measure a
mans character is his language.
THE guns captured from the Paris in
surgents foot up 403,691 cannon, 2,101
THE Quoquinnapssake House
Is the name under which New Hamp-
shire tavern struggles.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany Is increasing more than two thou
sand dollars per day, above all losses and
expenses
A MASSACHUSETTS boy cut off his
young sisters golden curls while she
slept. to get money with which to go to
the races.
ID. q. CRoLY, managing editor of the
New York World, says; "My wife is the
ablest associate ever had in journalism"
How strange that my wife and mother
should oppose life insurance. Death
comesl A husband and father falls |
then poverty comes. Insure in the
Mutual life, of Chicago.
ANTHONY MOORE, of Collinsville, Conn,
is the father OF nine stalwart boys, whom
he wants to match in base ball contest
with any picked nine of brothers in the
State.
ONE of the White Mountains has been
named Hoffman, in compliment to the
Governor of New York State. 1t is
situated between Mount Madison and
Mount Clay.
at New Ipswick, N. H.. was married in
1899, and slept on the same bedstead from
the night of her marriage to the day of
her death.
A MEMPHIS man would never take
Uh a hal oh al 10, raH IA i'm
to marry her, he made her his wife inside
of twenty minutes. In twenty days they
were happily divorced.
PROF. HITHCocK and his exploring
party came upon hitherto unknown lake
in the White Mountains the other day,
which Is as pure as crystal, and has an
altitude of 3,7S7 feet above the level of the
sea.
A YOUNG woman in Connecticut recent
ly, when sick, mortgaged her body to her
physician for dissection in case ofdeath, as
compensation for professional attendance
upon her. And then maliciously she got
well.
The house in Auburn, Me-, in which
two old ladies were brutally murdered a
few years ago, by a negro, rents, with five
acres of land, for $40 year, and it Is
difficult to get tenant at that low rate.
THE following advertisement appears in
the London Times: "To clergymen-
For sale in one lot, 300 MSS, and 100
litho. sermons. most of them preached by
the author at Streatley, between 1889 and
1860. Price only e5. Address," etc.
DIR. WIN. G. BREcK has recovered $40.
900 damages from the Connecticut River
Railroad Company for injuries received
/ nv q collision Of h., ~, ,,tpn IN I,,ra
1870. The Doctor brought suit for $40
900.
In Washington City, during a storm, a
young lady was struck by lightning and
rendered speechless. Several physicians
have called, but they have failed to relieve
her to any extent. She writes that she
suffers no pain whatever, but cannot speak
word.
DURING the year ending June 30, 1871,
the Post Office Department established
24O7 new offices, and discontinued S54
offices, making net increase in num-
Der OF offices created during the year of
| 1853 On the Both of June last there
were 3O,045 offices in the United States.
THE Hon. H. L. Goodwin, of Connect
cut, is phenomenon of legislative hon
esty, whose example is too refreshing to
pass unnoticed. He was elected to the
| Connecticut Legislature, but did not take
his seat till late, and when pay. day came
he refused to take compensation for the
time he was absent
REV. PETER CARTWRIGHT is eighty
seven years of age, and has been an timer
ant minister in the Methodist Episcopal
Church for sixty-seven years. He now
writes that he is too feeble to answer his
letters, or to lecture, or dedicate churches
during the hot weather.
Mr.. SEWARD said at Constantinople, at
an entertainment given him by the Sultan,
that he had completed nearly two thirds
OF voyage around the globe, and he had
not as yet found people who were not
friends of the United States; and he had
yet to find in the rest of his journey the
people or government which is hostile, if
there be one"
THE New York Sun says: q" II has been
generally supposed that Peter B. Sweeney
was unmarried. 1t appears, however, that
he was married several years ago, and that
he is a man of family. 1t has been known
among his intimate friends; but the fact
only came publicly to light upon a deed
being placed on record signed by him and
his wife"
A COUPLE of children at Delhi, Iowa,
were lost the other evening" and there was
much hunting done by the community.
Late at night kind hearted neighbor
stepped in to comfort the distracted moth.
er, and suggested that the bedroom of the
children be looked into. To that apart
ment they went, and there were the chill
dren in their little bed, fast asleep The
church bell was wrung to call the hunters
home.
THE Davenport, Iowa, printers seized
a circus and menagerie the other day for
not paying its bills, and now each editor
is the happy owner of Swineouphalus,
or Giasticutus, or a Hippopotatiemise, or
an Alaskan Sea Lion. When subscribers
rage and man comes in and wants to
know who wrote that article" the editor
unchains his menagerie, and the insulted
fellow has sudden call to "see a man +"
elsewhere.
TT is an interesting fact that Tad +"
Llncoln-whose recent death at the early
age of eighteen caused universal regret
among his large circle of friends-when
but eight years old, of his own accord,
signed a pledge of total abs inence from
all intoxicating liquors and tobacco. To
this pledge he unfinchingly adhered, re-
tusing all proffers of wine, even at public
dinners, answering politely but firmly, Il
am pledged to total abstinence"
A SYRACUSE man chopped down a giant
hickory tree, over seventy-five high, and
bearing the ring marks of sixty years.
His surprise may be imagined on finding
under this tree an old brick cstern, IN
perfect shape and In a splendid state of
preservation. Indeed, SO strongly were
the brick and mortar cemented, that picks
and crowbars had TO be used to dig them
out How long ago and by whom was
this cistern builtY Who made the brick,
and where were they made.
A CARGO OF ten elephants fresh from
their native juugles in Ceylon, recently
landed in New York city. During the
long passage of about four months they
got along well, after the first seasickness