Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-11-03
ITEMS AND PERSONALS.

europe are COlleCtlng SUBSCRIPTIONS loI
he relief OF the Chicago sufferers.
The completion of the European and
North American Railroad will secure
rail communication be-
.ween Bangor and st John.
Messrs. Blacltwood and Sons will issue
4 new work from the pen of Geo. Eliot,
in December.
A factious correspondent OF a western
paper dubs Madame Papera the over
grown child of the regiment"
Eighty-nine newspapers and periodi-
cal establishments were destroyed by |
the Chicago fire.
A barber, of statistical turn OF mind, |
asserts that there are $50 different hair
dyes in circulation.
The latest fashionable color for um-
brellas is bright green, and some people
are green enough to admire them,
The hobby of the Crown Prince of
Prussia is agriculture. His farm, near
Bradenburg, cost him every year fifty
thousand dollars but he has, at all
events, the pleasure OF telling his guests
at the dinner table that he himself
raised all the vegetables which are
placed on the table.
Samuel S. Marshall stayed in Yer
mont until he was one hundred, and be-
lieving the climate did not agree with
him he removed to Detroit, Mich,
where, with care and prudence, he
hopes to live to ripe old age
Many OF the excursioniststo st. John,
n. b., in the Presidential party, on re-
crossing the border from st. John to
Jonathan, were sharply overhauled by
Uncle Sans custom officers, and prop
erty confisoated to the amount of 81 200.
| The exoursionlsts had made few pur-
chases for home use, and did not dream
Of losing their investments, most OF
which were for personal adornment.
The new steam fog horn was used for
the first time at Boston last week. 1t
was heard on board the Cunard steamer
Samaria between seven and eight miles
distant, and so distinctly that the pilot
run her safely in during dense fog. Its
value will be better appreciated as pi-
lots become more familiar with its range
of sound and how the sound itself is af.
fected by the wind.
A Sioux City girl has $4,000 in the
bank. The rush of immigrants into the
city in the shape of single men and
widowers is said to be unparalleled.
A single establishment in Sheffield
England, uses 64l tons of sheet steel 9
year in making pens, averaging 900,
600 pens to the ton.
The Egyptians will have to pay the
Khodive about 81, 7,l93,646 this year, an,
after paying all expenses he will have
about GS74, ,497 left.
Twenty milliOnaires are fathers o
| families in Boston, and twenty time
twenty gallant Bostonese are attentiy,
to the million-heiresses,
A few days since column OF granit
six feet in diameter, sixty-two feet il
: length, and weighing about one hun
dred and sixty tons, was cut out OF
quarry in Southeast Missouri. Notin
the fact, the st. Louis Republican say
: the accomplishment shows that tn
/, skill of the present day bids fair to over
: take and surpass that OF ancient times
1t is not proposed, however, to preserv
this column of granite in its entirety
L but it is to be made available in tn
t construction of the capitol at Spring
p field, Ills.
There are no less than seven exped
tions now atwork in the froze II region
e two from Germany, under the con
= mand, respectively, of Rosenthal an
Payer, with the latter of whom Wey
, precht is associated; one from Swpede
. sent out by the Government, and COZ
!. siSting Of two war vessels; one froi
Scotland, under Mr.. Lamont; one frOI
! England. undertaken by Mr.. Leig
Smith; one from France, titced ont b
!, NJ Octave Pavy, and the American ex
o petition, under Captain Hall.
t The editor OF the Oxford (Ale.) Dem,
e crdt recently visited Elm Vale Gem,
terry, where repOse the remains of til
u late Artemus Ward On neat marbl
u slab at the head of his grave, is this il
v scription:
t Three children in st. Louis, havin
q displayed symptoms OF poisoning frol
Lemberger cheese, led to an examin;
tion. 1t was discovered that the chees
II did contain poison, but impaired b
: the wrapper in which it is always prt
pared for market. The cheese in itse
:, is innoXious, but it is envcloped in leaC
foil wrappers, which are harmless unit
G they come in contact with liqui
which will act upon them as a dissol,
. ent, in which case the liquid become
: poisonous by taking up the lead Tn
S decomposition OF this cheese had pr,
r duced very strong acid, which came i
| NpiAht'h NANiA tiiC D'iNpiipho hlABlN
: and then spread throughout the chees,
4 thus poisoning tho whole cake. I'll
:. discovery of this fact ought to produc
/ a change in themethod OF preparing tn
cheese for market
General Breckenridge was serenade
: at Nashville, Tenn, one evening las
: week, by number OF eX-Confederat
!. soldiers, to whom he was introduced q
i. first in war, first in peace, and first i
-, the hearts nf his countrymen.
i much better taste and sense were tn
3. Generals own remarks on the occasion
. which contained this excellent advic
! to his old associates 81 do not no,
make speeches, and if it We're my habi
: to do so-perhaps if were to take a
2 hour in the circumstances that SUI
rounded me personally, | could sa
nothing that would be more useful tha
to express the hope that we are all bus
and doing something-to express tn
, hope that we all feel that an idle, whiu
ing, pining man demands neither tn
respect OF gods, men nor women"