Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-02
CURRENT ITEMS,
BosoM FR1ENps babies.

Bosom FRIENDS Twin babies.
THE WOMAN QUESTION lis he married.
THE "DRY bones" OF HIsToRY-
Mummies
PRIvATE-EARINe-Listening at a key.
hole.
INSURE your life in the Washington to
the amount y our farm is mortgaged for.
In Massachusetts, 83,961 females pay
taxes on total valuation of $131, ,6S8, ,893.-
29.
THE Mutual Life, Of Chicago, is one OF
the safest and most successful companies
In the country.
A CONCLUSIVE argument against suicides
is, that it is the hight of impoliteness to
60 anywhere until you are sent for.
A YOUNG man who was caught strain
| ing his sweetheart to his bosom the other
night iustifes himself on the ground that
he has tight to strain his own honey.
| WE read of girl who was lately
choked TO death by her lovers encircling
arms This is warning to ladies to keep
their alabaster necks out of (h)arms way.
THE whites Of ten eggs saved The life of
Jesse Crary, of Mystic, Conn, after the
foolish boy he'd eaten slice of buttered
cake spread with arsenic, which his mother
had prepared for black ants.
T. B. ALICE, who is now in Pittsburgh
(Penn.,) Jail, is reported to have circulated
more counterfeit money than almost any
other man of his nefarious trade in the
entire country. He usually managed to
"shove" on an average, about $4,000 a
month.
A LETTER addressed; ITO Eny Prom.
inent Buisaniss Man Handelling Butchers
Stock Quincy ILL.," and containing the
following marginal direction: "Post
master will pleas hand this to some fat
cattle man." was received at the post Office
in Quincy few days ago.
A HAPPY home is the one SPOT in all
this beautiful world where the most per.
feet rest is found, and the most undivided
confidence given. Its joys are like the
flowers of paradise, perpetual in their
fragrance aud most delicate in their
beauty.
AT Fitchburg, Massachusetts,, the other
evening, widow lady named Smith had
occasion to reprove her son, about seven
teen years of age, for some misconduct
pocket and shot himself through the
heart.
MOTHS IN CARpETs.-Wr coarse
!
ly ON the carpet; iron it dry with a good
hot iron repeat the operation on oil parts
of the carpet suspected Of being infested
with moths. No need to press hard, and
neither the pile nor the color of the car
pet will be injured, and the moths will bt
destroyed by the heat and steam.
ACCORDING to the law of England a'
interpreted by the Court of Chancery in {
recent case, dead father has more luris
: diction over a childs education than
, living mother A widowed mother hai
no rights that the relatives of deceased
, husband are bound to respect Her duty
: is to bring up her child according to thu
) faith which the father professed when h,
was alive, even though she utterly disap
: proves of il" says the court.
: THE latest revised figures of the censu
of New York State shows proportion o
foreign born population less than in 1855
In all the cities and towns except New
! York, there were, in 1856, Gil $50 foreign
born; in 1870, the number was us sos
The native born citiz-ns have increase
/, from 2,2J9,4 to 2,7l6,472. The foreign
: born, in 1855, constituted 2415 per cent
of the population of the State, outside o
New York city. Now the per centage i
9 less than 81.
THE little mining town of Auburn
4 = California, has tantalizing mystery
During the last eighteen months variou
' Cinnamon have brought into the villag
: and sold chunks of pure gold, varying i
> value from $26 to $500, which sc ms +
have been roughly chopped off from
solid mass. Where they come rom nc
body knows; but their character indicate
u that the Cinnamon have found somewher
pretty considerable mass of pure materia
: from which they work of chunks Ilk
these from time to time.
. UNCLE SAM-a down East farmer
- known far and wide by his patriotic It'll
had neighbor who was in the habit {
= working on Sundays, but after a Will
: this Sabbath breaker joined the churcl
;, One day our friend mt the minister t
. whose church he belonged, "Weli, Uncl
!, Sam," said he, do you see any differenc
' in Mr.. P since he joined the church
= "Oh, Yes" said Uncle Sam, "a great di
. ference. Before, wien he went out I
- mend his fences on Sunday he carried hi
. . ak on his shoulder, but now he carries
. under his coat"
4 A FEW weeks ago, dispatch was n
q ceived at San Francisco from the heaC
a quarters Of the weather signal corps {
q Washington, stating that storm might
RI | 6ADtCIcu III SdlllOIuld llldJ udJ' Il
n storm had already begun, and was prett
70 general throughout the State, being {
peclally severe in portions of the Sacr
irr mento Valley, where it was accompanie
o. by terrific thunder and lightning. TT
e San Francisco BuHetia says this is ii
10 second time the present season that stor
n. predictions flom Washington, where o
n. serVations from all parts of the UniC
NJ are received and compared, have be,
,g promptly realized.
III A PLANT ia Ceylon has singular pr
vision for the distribution of its seed
N These are contained in q circular ne,
lie which is composed of spine-like division
re that radiate in all directions, making
,e diameter Of eight or nine inches VIII,
es the seeds are ripe for distribution the
spherical heads with their elastic spine
10 are blown away by the winds and II
ry swiftly over the level shore for mil,
ed dropping seeds as they go. If they cor
of to water they float easily, and their spin
as serve as sails, so that they can cross est
in aries. A plant valuable for taking root
IS. the sand, and protecting the shores fIC
m. erosion, is thus widely distributed, as
ut could not be in any other way in barre
ne birdless region.
ch AN Irish woman who came to Il
country about year ago, and settled
lg. PennsS lvania recently, grew so honest
xt. that she became insane and attempted
,st staTve herself, taking no food for TWEEN
cit two days. AT the end Of that time S
tn was helpless, and was promised if s
Of would cat she would be taken back to
at, land. She made her friends set the til
wv at two weeks in which she was to sta
til and as they were not ready at the ex,
nd day she took to her old tricks again. s.
N, ing it was useless to put her off they co
lis menced the journty, when she began
ng recover reason and health at once, and
Ill probably now as we'll and happy as a
", one.
N, A WRITER in the St. Paul Press te
n the following huge strawberry story.