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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07

very distant in his manner TO strangers
He was very tall in person. His precision
and formality earned for him the title OF
q fuss and feathers" But notwithstand-
ing all this he was very pleasant to his ac-
ouaintances and warm hearted to his
friends. He appreciated Joke, and that
il enough TO redeem the faults of anymanl
The following incident shows his great
love of fun. On the evening before the
fight at Bad Axe, Mr.. Dixon, who was
quartermaster, did not get into camp until
after the sentry had been posted. nen DC
came in the sentry hailed him with VINO
goes therer The Major of the steer LAT l.,s
talion,' said Mr.. Dixon, promptly Inc
Major of the Steer Battalion Will march IN,
said the sentry, who was volunteer anu
did not pay much attention 10 ieu ap1. p
On the day after the fight, Mr. Dixon look
sumner with Gen. Atkinson who intro
duced him to Gen. Scott as Major Dixon.
Gen Scott inquired in his grandest man
ner if Major Dixon had any report TO
make. Yes said the newly created Ma
ior. Il have verbal report to make. one
of nv command has deserted, eight have
been killed and sixteen you see on parade,
and he pointed to the steers that were
straying around the camp. Major Dixon,
said the General, solemnly, you have de-
served we'll of your country. Iou hdCe
suffered more than Gny other officer IN my
command
"Eight years after the close of the
Black Hawk war, while Mr.. Dixon was
in Washington, he called on Gen, Scott
When he was shown the Generals room,
he raped at the door. A heavy voice
shouted Come in AS soon as he crossed
the threshold Gen. Scott called out to him
MOTOR DirOnP The scenes of the Black
Hawk war were all revived"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
The Coolest Bath.

BOYS don't always "come out ahead" in
performing college tricks. Here is good
story of Jim Bradshaw's shower-bath that
beats the Turkish" and nearly every
other kind:
When we were in Adams College, the
president, who was rigid disciplinarian,
insisted that every student should be in the
chapel on the ringing of the bell, at six
o'clock, winter and summer. 1t was not
SO hard to do in the summer, but in winter
1t was an stfiiction to rise from warm
bed and plod through the snow, as they
Often had to do to attend morning prayers.
1t occurred to Jim Bradshaw, after a
jolly evening spent with some students,
that he would freeze up the bell. For" )"
he argued, rs he muddled over the matter,
" if there's no bell therell be no ring, and
consequently-Il freeze it up"
1t was bitter cold night, and he thought
that if he could only set the bell, and fill 1t
with water, it would freeze as hard as mar
BILE before morning.
His room was near the belfry; so he
arose, and, without dressing himself seized
a bucket of water standing in his room
and started for the stairway. To raise the
bell so that it stood upright, like tumbler
and tie the rope TO baluster, was the work
OF minute, and then he ascended to the
beliry with his bucket of water TO com
plete the experiment.
The midnight air blew keenly around
him, and he shiveringly filled the bell, but
chuckled at the trick he was playing the
president. He started to come down, but
just as he got beneath the scuttle, the rope
by some means became loosed, the bel
followed with clang, and the whole o.
the intensely cold water poured dowr
upon Bradshaw, who sneaked into his
room with cooler head than when hi
went out.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
Reckless Sporting.

A CERTAIN newspaper man of this city
was presented with Henry rifle The
rifle became his idol. 1t was seldom out
of his sight, and he could not sleep unless
it rested against the head of his bed. On
Sundays he was always out on the hills
with his Henry, and in short time be-
came so eX Dert that he could decapitate
sage hen nine times out of ten. He once
saw duck disrorting itself in "a lake some
where in the eastern part of the State, and
on a bet, shot out both of his eyes. This
crack shot-this terror to everything in
the shape of game-being invited to spend
"a few days with a friend residing near
Carson City, packed up his Henry and re-
sponded in person. Next morning he was
up bright and early. and like second
Steve Vernard, stalked forth in search of
game. A short walk brought him in sight
of a pond in which was fine flock of
ducks. Creeping to cover near the shore,
he opened his battery. Duck after duck
was stretched upon the water, and still
those remaining made no attempt to fly
away. Our Nimrod was somewhat as
tOnished at the tameness of the game, but
no merciful thought arose; on the con-
trary, he became, if possible, still more
bloodthirsty. He had just stretched out
lifeless the last of flock ofabout II ducks,
when the friend, whose hospitality he was
sharing, came running toward him calling
upon him for heavens sake to desist, as
he was killing the whole of his favorite
breed of tame ducks. What did Nimrod
do but turn about and vigorously protest
that he thought the ducks were wild ones.
After this exploit he even had the cheek
to remain at the house of his friend a
whole week, feasting on ducks every day
= Kiryinia (N6O.) Enterprise.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
Double Entry.

THERE is nothing more puzzling to or
binary minds than book keeping 10y double
entry" aud it is advisable that no one
should ever attempt to keep his accounts
on this system unless he fully understands
it. A well-meaning public. accountant In
India has, it appears, lately come to trouble
owing to misunderstanding the nature OF
this simple process. A certain gentleman,
says Lahore paper, was recently appoint
ed to a station not thousand miles from
the Capital of the Punjaub. Aftera short
time he submitted his accounts according
to rule to the head office. The various
bills of receipts and expenditures were be-
ing rapidly passed, when clerk OF unu-
sual briliance pounced on bill in which
10000 brick were charged for twice over
The question was at once sent to the gen
tleman whether he had got altogether 40
900 bricks on such date, and II so, why
he had divided the item into twog "Oh
dear no." he said, 81 only got 20, GOO bricks
But you told me to put everything down
by double entry, and so put the bricks
down twice. All the other charges are
the same" To the horror of the whole
department it was found only too true.
The receipt side was then examined, but 1t
was consoling to find that, with an instinc-
tive acumen worthy of a higher appoint
ment, the gentleman had here limited HIM
self to single entry.-Pd@ Mat Gazette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
The Universal Safeguard.


It Is useless for State Legislatures to pass laws
for the preservation of the public health, II the
great law of self-preservation, which depends for
its enforcement upon the will Of the individual is
suffered to remain dead letter.
There is scarcely an adult member OF the CON-
munity, of either sex, In the country who has not
seen the testimony in favor of Hestetter's Stom-
ach Bitters, furnished over their own signatures
by persons Of acknowledged eminence in science,
literature art, commerce, and every department Of
business and professional life. These witnesses
have declared in the most explicit terms that the
preparation is n safeguard against epidemics, a
sovereign remedy for dyspepsia, a valuable anti
bilious medicine, promoter OF appetite, genial
and harmless stimulant, good acclimatng medi-
cine, strengthener Of the nerves, q general In
vigorant protection against the deleterious ef-
fects OF malaria and impure water, and that it i'm
parts degree of vigor and activity to the vital
forces which is not communicated by any other Of
the tonics and stomachics in use. Under these
circumstances the selfpreservative law OF nature
should teach every rational person who, either by
reason OF inherent debility or in consequences OF
exposure to unwholsome influences, is in peril OF
losing the greatest of all temporal blessings,
health, the Importance of using the Bitters de-
fensive medicine. Dyspeptics who neglect 10 give
1t trial are simply their own enemies. It'll guar
anteed to cure Indigestion in all its forms, and the
bilious and nervous'will find nothing In the whole
range Of offlcinal and proprietary medicines which
viii afford them the same relief.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
Destruction OF Weeds.

A CULTIVATED crop of any kind cannot
be successfully grown on land unless it is
perfectly free from weeds, for the latter
absorb the ingredients from the soil and
atmosphere, which are required to bring
the former to perfection. When several
cereal crops are grown on land without
the Intervention of a green crop, the weeds
that are peculiar to the cereals spring up,
ripen their seeds, and take possession of the
soil by disseminating them. The seeds of
some weeds are provided with wings, and
are carried by the wind for many miles.
The Canada thistle and dandelion are
scattered far and wide in this way. The
seeds of others are covered with burIs
which adhere to the hair or wool of ami
mails, and are distributed in this way. In
preparing for spring crops, the Importance
of banishing weeds should be bcrne in
mind after being deeply plowed the soil
should be well pulverized with the harrow
and roller. The harrow will bring up
roots and weeds to the surface where they
will be killed by exposure 10 the sun.
The compression of the soil by the roller
will cause the seeds of weeds to vegetate,
aud when the plants appear above ground
they may be easily destroyed by stirring
the ground with the harrow. Canada
thistles may be easily pulled out of grain
crops by using wedding tongs while the
ground is moist after showers. Burdock
should be extirpated from pastures, yellow
dock from grass land as well as from til
lage crops.-ESchdnge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
How Many Hours Constitute a Days
Work!

LOOKING at the matter solely from a
selfish aud pecuniary point of view, says
the american BuiLder, it appears that the
requirement of the greatest number of
hours is sometimes equally to the disad-
vantage of employ er and employed. There
are classes of work of which more can be
performed in eight hours than in ten, es.
pecially work requiring great physical ex
ertiOn. An instance of this was lately af-
forded in the construction of railroad
bridge in Missouri. There the manager of
the work, wishing to compare the merits
of the eight and ten hour systems, adopt
ed each in succession, and it was found
that by the first plan much more work was
performed. The character of the labor
was physically eXhausting in the extreme,
and when the men were required TO work
ten hours day, they moved slowly and
sluggishly, the rest of night not sutficlng
to recover from the long. continued exer-
tion but when only eight hours were ex-
acted they had ample lime to rest, and
worked earnestly, being fully equal to the
quick, heavy labor required of them. On
the contrary, in many kinds of work of a
less exhausting nature, there is no doubt
that the hours of labor would be no more
than could be perfomedw with ease by either
sex.
No general rule can therefore be given
TO determine the hours which may be said
TO constitute a working day, but coulC
some limit be fixed, varying with the diff
ferent conditions under which work Ii
performed and intended to be guide rath
er than law, something would doubtless
be achieved toward solving a problem
which is now puzzling alike to employer
and employed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
HeligOland.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Pal Mall
Gazette writes: l see that the Heligoland
question has turned up again, and a few
words Of description may not be without
interest to your readers, for there is no
place like it on the face of the earth. 1t
is tall, red hill, rising straight out
of the waters, with a sand bank on one
side. On the sand, and part of the way
up the hill, is the town, or rather village.
1t was inhabited in former times by pilots
and wTeckers, but now they have degen-
Grated into lodging house keepers. He'll
goland is the Margate of Hamburg.
Thitner stream the citizens of that rich
city to gamble at rouge-et-noir (at least,
they did when l was there) and to enjoy
sea bathing. There is a regular season in
the summer months, and sometimes many
passengers that are brought in the
steamer are obliged to sleep on board, and
to go back again, the island being full
Every house probably takes in dodgers,
but then there are not very many houses.
The bathers resort to neighboring sand
bank, a sister island, which the Governor,
it will be remembered, some time ago
stocked with rabbits, which began eating
up the grass that held the sand bank to
gether, so that the Helgolanders became
furious, and talked of shaking off the
English yoke. However, the rabbits were
all shot, and the islanders pacifed, and
nothing more was said of their old
Frisian constitution. Their language is
German, but they detest that nation more
even than they do ourselves. They are
not English, though they are English sub
jects; they are not German, though they
speak German. They are HeligolanderS,
the noblest of created beings; all for
eigners are skit, which, in their homely
dialect, means dirt. The top of the island
hill is fiat, and, as well asI can remember,
about the size of the Green Park. There
is a well known story of man from the
far WesJ-and therefore accustomed to see
land only on large scale-who paid a
visit to England. When asked how he
enjoyed himself he replied very much,
only never went out at night for fear OF
falling off. In Heligoland there is really
a danger of such an accident happening
to any one who, from the force of habit,
should continue to walk too long in any
one direction.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
A New York Tenement House and It's
Inmates.

WALKING slowlyup Roosevelt street one
bright morning, with the throng of bust
ness men, neatly dressed ladies and chill
dren who had just landed from the ferry
boat, the reporter entered, without selec.
ton, one of the finest tenement houses
that presented itself The building was
not large one, but had evidently been
constructed at the smallest possible ex-
pense as a lodging house, for the most OF
the space was occupied by apartments,
thus making the entry low and narrow,
and so little room had been allowed for
the stairs that they were ladder-like in
uprightness. Literally climbing up three
pairs of these, the upper story of the build
ing was reached, and, cropping along
dark passage, the reporter knocked at one
of the several doors. The room into which
he entered was situated under the caves of
the house, and SO low.studded that near
the door was the only place that person
could stand upright. 1t was lighted by
two small windows, and almost completely
filled by bed, a stove, table and chair.
Seated ON the bed vainly endeavoIing to
still the cries of sickly-loOking infant,
was woman of about forty. Begging
her pardon for the intrusion, and stating
that he had come to inquire about her cir
solitary chair, and commenced questioning
her about her circumstances. She did not
know who owned the house as she paid
her rent to woman on the floor below.
There were about twenty families living
in the building, most of them had but
one room, and there was one but
very little larger than hers in
which three families lived. She had
four children living, the eldest of whom
was seven. At present she could make but
$3 a week by washing, and more than half
of this had to be paid for her room. Then,
too, at the first OF May, the rent was to be
raised to SIS month, and she did not know
what she should do. Last week she had
saved fifteen cents and bought with it
three pounds of veal, which was the first
meat the children had had for month
generally they lived on bread and coffee
coffee was better to drink than tea, be-
cause they did not need to have sugar with
it. Ali the while that the woman was
speaking the sick child kept up an inces-
SAINT wall it was very sick, the mother
said, and would not live long, and being q
girl, it was better that it should die, as
she had three girls already. This com
pleted her story; the past was dark, and
the future had every prospect of being
| equally so. Bidding her good morning
the reporter crept cautiously along the
dark passage and down the stairs, almost
nauseated by the putrid odors that per
vaded the house, and which he had beer
breathing for more than twenty minutes
SO that the eXhalements from the filthy
garbage in the streets seemed by com
parison like the balms of Arabia The
house ne had just left, as viewed from the
outside, looked as though it might com
fortably accommodate eight or ten per
sons; yet, instead, packed in its noisomC
hooks and crannies to swelter through the
hot months of the coming summer, this
must be the home ofmore than 100 human
beings.-Nelo York Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
A Score of ImpOlite Things.

1. Loud and boisterous laughter.
2. Reading when others are talking.
3. Reading aloud in company without
being asked.
4. Talking when others are reading.
8. Sitting about the house smoking or
chewing
6. Cutting finger nails in company.
Z. Leaving church before public wor-
ship is closed.
s. Whispering or laughing in the house
of God.
8. Gazing rudely at strangers.
10. Leaving stranger without seat.
H. A want of respect and reverence for
seniors.
12 Correcting older persons than your
self, especially parents.
13. Receiving present without an ex-
preston of gratitude.
H. Making yourself the hero of your
own story.
15 Laughing at the mistakes of others
16. Joking of Others in company.
II. Commencing talking before others
have finished speaking.
l8. Answering questions that have been
put to others.
10. Commencing to eat as soon as y ou
get to the table.
20. In not listening to what one is say
ing in company, unless you desire to show
open contempt for the speaker.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
COOping.

THE Canadian Poultry Chronicle speaks
as follows of the advantages and disad-
vantages of cooping hens and chickens:
"Cooping, which is so frequently EN-.
ployed to restrain the wandering of hens
with chickens, has Objectionable points as
well as good ones. The advantages gained
are said to be the preventing of hens from
roaming so far that the chickens become
tagged, and oftentimes are left behind by
the hen and lost. This is, no doubt, true ;
but let it be borne in mind that q cooped
hen has no power of scratching for insects
and worms, which are the best of all posi-
BILE food for young chicks, and that, unless
supplied artifcially, they will not thrive
nearly so we'll as those which are free 10
roam. Indeed, no artificial food is equal
to that obtained by the hen when allowed
her liberty, unless that of a properly CON
structed Veraiaere. Fresh air, fresh grass,
and fresh ground for the hens to scratch
in, far more than counteTbalance the ad-
vantages of expensive diet and superior
lodging.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
Clover In Autumn.

The Country Gentleman in answering
question as TO sowing clover in autumn
says: In the Northern States, and especi-
ally on heavy soils, clover would have but
little chance to escape the effects ofwinter,
if sown at the time of wheat sowing. If
sown late in August on rich land, before a
long growing autumn, it might escape,
Much however would depend ON the char
acter of the following winter. If there
should be but little snow, and the surface
be subjected TO many alterations of ireez-
ing and thawing, on a rather wet surface,
the young clover plants would be destroy
ed With continued light SHOWS, and dry
soil, they would be more likely to escape.
Our correspondent will perceive ;therefore,
that II would be an experiment at best
which we may try on small scale-the
results of which would vary much with
the season. Glover sown with wheat in
spring, and plastered as soon as the wheat
is cut, will often make growth of a foot
or more the same autumn, and give a
heavy crop next year, Or If sown on we'll
prepared ground early in spring, with no
other crop, and plastered when fairly up,
ii will give good crop the same summer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-07
No FOrbearance.

HE had been whaler for twenty years,
and when he gave up the sea and settled
down upon his earnings, all his friends
said they hoped that Joshua Weeks would
marry some nice woman and enjoy the
comforts of happy home. He himself
seemed to think It would be nice thing
to do, and he made an effort in that direc-
ton. But they all said that the reason
why he did not win the heart and hand of
the widow Burritt was this: 1t seems that
Mr.. Weeks used to go around there court
ing and so on, in the evenings, and while
the widow sat patching the trowsers of he r
son, and waiting for manifestations of
Weeks love, old Weeks would sit over on
the settee, and get sleepier and sleepier and
quieter and quieter every minute. And
every now and then he would nod into
the land of dreams, and get TO wandering
off and imagining himself on whaling
voyage. And just as likely as not, he
would wake up suddenly all bewildered,
and would seize his cane and jab it into
the widow before he could collect his
senses sufficiently to realize that 1t was moi
a harpoon and she whale. They do say
that Mrs. Burritt INDUCED these eccen'
tricities for time with the firm conviction
that she would reconstruct that whalei
Wnen sne maTrleu nlln' DuG WIS "o'
never to be; for one evening MIR. Weeks
sat doing or that settee with a kind Of
dim, dreamy consciousness of things, In
which the room and the settee were con
| fused and mixed with the raging main anc
the whaling boat. The widow had colo
in her head, and she was just in the act o
making vigorous use of her handkerchie
when the dream of Weeks reached crisis
and he yelled out. "The-r-r-e she blows =
and he heaved his harpoon at her will
such force that he broke her back coml
into vulger fractions, and knocked her OF
the chair. Loves young dream was entire
ly dissipated, and Mr. Weeks went hom
with two handfuls of hair missing. He ]
single yet, because he says women hav
no sympathy and forbearance.