Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE young lady whoee feelings were
call worked up" has ordered fresh sup
ply.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid In cash In the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Chicago.
AT Claremont, N. a., recently the
lightning scattered box of matches over
the floor, without setting any OF them on
Gre.
A GEORGIA newspaper, much annoyed
by political contributions, proposes to
charge hereafter nine dollars per line for
all original poetry published in its col
umne.
A CERTAIN caravan orator at fair, after
long yarn descriptive of what is to be
seen inside, generally winds up by say ing,
"Step in, gentleman, step in. Take my
word for it, you will be highly delighted
when you get out"
1T takes three or four men to watch
Wilson, the Connecticut murderer, who is
continually on the lookout for a chance
to cheat the gsllows. They compel him
to eat against his will, and leave him no
possible material or means for suicide
In is said that the simplest and cheapest
way to cool room is to wet q cloth of
any size, the larger the better and sus-
pend it in the place you want cooled. Let
the room be well ventilated, and the tenn
perature will sink from ten TO twenty de-
grees in less than an hour.
THE citizen Of Montreal who refused
TO tell the census enumerator how old his
unmarried daughters are, has been fined
six dollars and costs, with the alternative
of going to Jail for thirty days. The girls
advise the father to go to Jail like noble
parent.
Ex. SENATOR LATHAM, of California,
has made little present to his wife Mary,
ain consideration of natural love and
affection" as the deed of conveyance re.
cites it, 1t consists of house and grounds
in the choiscest part of San Francisco,
and is valued at $500, 900 in gold.
THE old traditions about the Car OF
Juggernaut are apparently about to be ex
tinguished An eyewitness of the cere'
monisl says that the old stories are grossly
exaggerated, that no victims are crushed
and that there is no more orgy than may
be witnessed at an English country fair.
AN enterprising chap in Van Burer
County, Iowa, has discovered something
for young people to do while counting
beside holding one another's hands
During his little term of courtship he
utlpSu INC young ldIy W sOW IOSOOhOi
enough rags to make sixty yards o.
carpet.
WHY are women like churches
Firstly, because there is no living without
one; secondly, because there is many
a spire TO them; thirdly, because they are
objects Of alteration; and, lastly, though
by no means leastly, because they have {
loud clspper in their upper story.
THE Berlin Correspondent, in an &C
count of the German navy, says: Every
ship in the German service, even the
smallest gunboat, is provided with detailed
| drawings and sections of every foreign
war ship. Its weak points are specially
stated and details given as to the spots tC
be aimed at with most likelihood of dis
abling the machinery"
Mr.. MATTHEW GRINNELL, living neal
New Haven, Nelson County, KY, on the
approach of his SD birthday, conceived
the idea of having a grand barbecue in
honor of the event, and bringing together
his descendants in social intercourse. So
a few days ago, 1856 children and grand
children, with 800 invited guests, Assem-
bled at the family mansion to celebrate the
day, and all went as happy as dinner bell
SPEAKING OF thunder, James Russell
Lowell has good story on that head. HI
tells of a high and mighty Englishman
walking up and down the piazza of hote
In Western village, with that great con
descension in his manner which foreigI
snobs think is The thing when travelling il
the United States. THAT was a heavl
clap of thunder you had here last night,
says the Briton to a prairie chap tina
native, who took in the others style at
glance, Eve did think it pretty well, con
sidering the number of inhabitants"
A WEALTHY septaugenarian of Cogny
Switzerland, while going to his vineyart
recently, met pretty girl Of eighteen AM
kissed her, upon which her father, VIII,
witnessed the liberty, beat him till he ha,
but little life left, and then sued him 70
damages. In the trial it appeared tina
the genial burgher had an irresistible pre-
penslty to kiss all the pretty women h
met with in the district. The girl the
testified that she didn't mind being kisse
if she could be handsomely paid for il
and the Court thought that $500, in add
ton to the dTubbing, would be fair pric
for the defendant to pay for his sweetness
PRoF. DUBOIS, whose curious exper
ence in trying to eat corn from the sma
end when he first saw it on a table ha
! been recorded, writes from Providence, +
l., that this was not the last of his blur
ders. On one occasion, after paying hi
bill at hotel, the landlord told him b
was square. 81 told him. says the Pro
fessor, "I never knew 1 was square b.
fore" "Good by" said he. you'll b
round SOON" "I thought you said l ws
square ?" "Ohl yes" said he; "but
mean you'll soon be round-you won't
longT "Of COURSE" replied. if al
square, will neither be long nor round
: The Professor has made SO many of theS
comical mistakes that he has entered ii
lecture field, taking "Blunders," for h
subject.
A MAN and his wife who had not see
each other for forty years met the oth'
day in Jasper County, Iowa In 1881, tn
couple, then having eight children, an
, living in an Atlantic State, made arrang
ments to come West. The wife started o
with her children, and the husband r
NAMED behind to settle up some busines
intending to join his family in fortnigh
but for some reason he never followt
them. The woman reached her destinatiC
almost penniless, but with coura geol
heart she went to work, and with the he
of her Oldest boys, provided for her famil
So she reared her children, giving the
all good education. Several years az
she came TO Jasper County with well-t
do son, and hither, recently, came the hu
band Of her youth. The correspondent
the Newton Free Press, who tells this hi
tory, doesn't say whether the meeting vi
, happy one or not
CuLTIvATINe WBEAr.-The results
} sowing wheat in drills at such a distan'
, apart that the crop could receive GUILTY.
tion with horse shoe, has been very
3 vorable. Sowed at the rate of three peel
. per acre, in drills twenty inches apal
: through which, in spring, garden harro
+. was run, the crop amounted to twent
: nine bushels, while the remainder Of Il
5 field, sowed in nine inch drills, not cul
/ waited, yielded only nine bushels per acr
) Numerous other experiments, both he
; and In England, have had similar result
/ proving that cultivation tends to increa
Q the crop, and pays many times over I
! the extra labor performed. In EnglaI
l ! o.NandaIiu mhara labor WAS chaan anOui