Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-08
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AN AIR OF INTPoRTANcE-One's first
breath
PROVIDE for your old age with policy
in the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, of New York
A HEN without wings resides in Port.
land, Me. She is said TO be an accom-
plished jumper, however.
THE Mutual Life Insurance Company,
of Chicago, is prudently managed, and its
claims are promptly met. Insure there.
HoNEYMooEs are so short in Chicago
that bridal cars are proposed for the horse
railways, tour out of town being too pro-
tracted.
In the Swiss canton of Vaud, on the
submits of the Alps, snow fell July 10,
and the Tours dAi were covered with
snow July 13
A PELICAN, shot oDIthe Carson River, in
| California, a few days since, measured
eight feet and eight inches from tip TO tip
of his extended wings.
JOSEPH RAMETTI took his seat as flute
| player in the orchestra of the Boston
Museum when it first opened, and has
never missed playing at every performance
afternoon and evening, from that day to
this, twenty eight years all told He is q
very regular blower.
MIR. SAKE borrowed a candle of a beau
tiful young lady. The next morning she
found under the door these beautiful lines
"you gave me candle, gave you my thanks,
| And add as a compliment justly your due
| There is not girl In these feminine ranks
Who could, II she would, hold candle to you"
MAUcH CHUNK, Penn, boasts of a one
armed left-handed printer, Henry Eberle,
who is as correct and rapid typesetter
as any typographer in the place. He also
does the rolling and press work for a
local paper, on Ramage hand-press, in
excellent style.
THEY have maiden Assurance Com
panies" in Denmark A father may deposit
any sum at the birth of daughter, and the
child receives during her minority four
per cent. annually; at eighteen she comes
into higher income, which is increased
at stated periods through life.
J. B. HOPKINS, of Lockport, N. Y, who
went to the South African diamond region
a few months ago, lately found a mag
niIicent 551s carat diamond, octahedroD, /,
flawless and speckless, of that peculiar
straw color that is so fashionable in Eng
land, and worth in the United States at
least $75, 900.
THE Boston Transcript, being of an OBJ
servant turn, has seen something which
! may be of interest to investors in mining
stocks. 1t says: ave often notice that a
shipment from the Pacific coast of bars of
silver proceeds the placing upon the mar
ket of shares in certain mining stocks
but no more silver comes afterward."
THE English postalt cards sometimes
form the basis of libel suits. A man re-
ceived one from his wife's brother, ON which
it was written: "Your unmanly conduct
TO my sister is known to me. 1t shall be
known to the world at large, if you do moi
reform, you coward" The receiver of the
epistle sued for slander, and got &39 dam
ages.
THE Rothschilds are said to be such firm
believers in luck that they never employ
any one in any capacity who has beer
unfortunate. They always ask man who
humble: Have you ever had any baC
luck?' and if the reply be in the affirma
tive he is rejected without further delay
On the .22d of July Miss Walker, an
English lady, together with her father
who is sixty-five years old, and another
gentlemen, ascended Mont Cervin, peak
of the Alps in the Swiss canton of Wallis
1850 feet above the level of the sea.
few years ago she assembled Monte Rosa
which is l4,272 feet above the level of tn,
sea.
A DUBTQUE man, who is passionatelN
fond of the weed, put lighted pipe in hi
coat pocket in the house, and went off L
church with his family. When he return
ed home there was no home to cheer hin
nothing but heap of ruins, and tina
was not cheering by any means. Th,
lighted pipe set fire to the coat, the de
vouring element communicated with the
, building which, with its contents, was en-
tirely consumed. The man has quit smok
ing.
A COUPLE of boys about twelve or four
teen years old, recently placed some oh
structions on the track of the Erie Rail
road, for the sake of seeing how fa1 tn
, locomotive would jump" Fortunately
f freight train preceded the passenger train
and the obstruction was discovered Il
season to prevent another fearful acci
J dent. A young girl in New Haven I'd
Q been charged with attempting to harm
/ carriage factory and a dwelling house
q merely from "a desire to see tie building
burn" Youths who incline to pastime
of this nature need some special training
CALIFoRNIA's latest curiosity is rooi
Ter with two sets of legs, one on his bacl
e When he is weary Of standing in his natr
/, raj position, it is gravely asserted, he turn
| auu MdlhS bh uDSiil
: down, and When he takes drink he in
mediately turns over so as to swallow
the more easily. But it is in free figl
II that he shows to greater advantage. FC
: he is terrible fighter, and when thus d
' verting himself, looks like revolvin
wheel, turning somersaults incessantl
II and kicking in every direction.
MIR WELToN MALoTT, a farmer, resi-
20 ing a few miles north of Marion, Ind, b,
n a turkey -gobbler that is quite curiosit
07 some time since his mate laid a nest tu
12 of eggs, and left them, refusing to set {
~ them, whereupon the gobbler assumed th
iS responsibility, and Matched out brood
70 five young turkeys, which he has fed ev
W since. They are now about four mont
on old, but he still takes them under h
vi wings at night. In the meantime the hI
45 has Matched another brood, and is ru
10 ming separate establishment.
80 WHEN the Hon. Mrs. Norton was q
w piled to, on Hoods death, for a contrib
nc nc ton to the fund then raised for his des
m. tute widow, and headed by Sir Robe
)6, Peel with the muniticent donation of G;
lu she promptly sent liberal subsCriptiC
,o with the following lines:
~, ~ "To cheer the Widows heart in her oistress,
Ill To make provision for the fatheress,
,t Is but Christians duty, and none should
Ut Resist the heart-a appeal of Widow Hood"
Poetry, punning and piety, all of I
n genuine sort, are not often thus happi
10 united.
er Poisonous CARDs.-A letter from /
he varia to the American Journal Of PbaTn
As on, mentions the introduction into the G,
man states of a visiting card, which,
OK cause of It's resemblance to smother,
as pearl" has been greatly admired. Aft
na being tested by medical professor, it /
os been found soluble salt of lead, o ve
- - poisonous substance. The public not bel
or acquainted with the poisonous propert
he of these cards, will not be ON their qua
on in preventing their being chewed or eat
of by small children, to whom the sweet TAI
of loI lhe Nau SaiV anu 'le olyssaiiizeu a. .I-