Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-22
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saultp Tne breech of the piece.
IT is asserted in favor of new lamp
that nitro-glycerine itself wouldn't ex-
plode it.
A BOY, FIVE years old, is described on
habitual drunkard."
BY the payment of annual dividends the
Mutual Life, of Chicago, supplies insur-
ance at cost Insure :here.
IT is said that experience this season has
demonstrated that the rear car Is the most
dangerous part of train.
Make friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you. Re.
member the Washington Life.
A DETROIT boy, who found pocket.
book full of money, was too proud to take
a reward of two cents, and declined it.
A CLERGYMAN was asked whether the
members of his church were united. He
replied that they were perfectly united
- frozen together.
| ], L. SMITH was recently arrested in
! New Orleans for a murder he had COM
mitted in Carrollton, Ga, fifteen years
ago.
A MODERN thinker says many people
will be astonished when they get to heaven
to find the angels laying no schemes to be
made archangels.
NINETY thousaud four hundred and six
teen persons emigrated from England, and
112,09 from Scotland and ireland, during
the year 1870.
A SUBLIME THoUGHT.-Odd Fellows
and Masons, like Masons and Hod Eel
lows ascending ladder, get up by degrees.
Commercial Bulletin.
Q01
26S. You can easily test the accuracy OF
this by getting pound and counting the
seeds.
A BARN near Dubuque, Iowa, was de-
stroyed by fire the other day. The barn
was very near the owners dwelling, and,
water being scarce, the house was saved
fby the application of great quantities OF
mikl
THE young men at the Wheeling water
ing places have discarded white vests
The young ladies use so much oil on their
hair that vest is only good for one even
ing on the piazza.
PTrTsFIELD. Mass, has developed an
other economical citizen. A young man
called at store and inquired for boot
boxes but could not find one large enough
and it came out in conversation that he
wanted it for coffin for his father.
THE FAG END OF A QUARREL.--Stern
parent: "Leave off that noise directly
, Jack. you naughty boy It's all over now
) and Bertha's left off crying these ten min
utes." Jack: B-B-Bertha began cry
ing before did, Boo hoo"
ON the 23d of May the cigar seller o.
a Quai de pEcole printed with pen
: "Closed on account of death" on shee
!, of foolscap, in order 10 preserve his shoI
from pillage and. fire. As soon as the I'M
was dry he took paste-brush and posteo
it on his door. He was about to re-entel
the shop when ball killed him.
} MIR. CHILD, of Exeter College, Oxford
: a recent writer on physiological expert
1 ments, contends that the degree OF sensl
bility to pain in mankind varies directly
with the increase of civilization; so tina
the mote highly civilized man is, th'
more he will suffer from given CAUSE
productive of pain.
: A YOUNG lady was entertaining som'
= friends the other evening, when one said
miss -, your braid is coming eli.
She clapped her hands to her head ant
:, found nothing unslinped. The gentleman
. quietly pointed to the braid of her dress
about half yard of which had been tori
off, AMI was lying on the floor. Ther
was an audible smile.
THE fruit-growers of Dorchester Coun
=, ty, Maryland, complain that they nav
y scarcely realized expenses this season
8 the chief cause being that many vsrietle
e of peaches " hich usually ripen from on
e week to ten DAYS apart, ripened at tn
/ same time this year. Other fruits, as wei
> as berries, have, howe er, realized goo
- prices.
n AN interesting case was tried before a
.e Evansville, Ind, justice few days ag'
/ A man named Dugan had oeen killed b
:, runaway horse. A subScr1puon wa
r. taken up for the benefit of the widow an
W children. John Dugan, brother OF tn
~ deceased, collectedsthe subscriptions an
II kept the money, claiming that ms orotn'
A. was indebted to him aC the time OF n
- - death. On the trial the widow obtaine
"a Judgment, and the charitable John had
as disgorge.
04 TIE fact seems well established that ce
,e tain articles, such as old wearing appare
n. we'll dried wood, ETC., are capable OF gel
of Grating sufficient heat to induce combu
es ton without the application OF ire.
in think that not a few of the numerol
We fires, supposed to be the work OF an L
he cendiary," are caused by, perhaps, RI
,k which has been used with benZlne by u
rs frugal housewife to clean coat, or by Il
he heat which is known to be generated tro
on articles of silk, cotton, etc, closed up IN
ed close room.-EpcltGnge.
wv Mrs. VAN HANNoN revived in Montar
le. the other day, the memories OF our Key
to lutionary danes. Left alone in her cabi
lir she was startled by the approach OF thr
he Cheyennes, and had barely time to bolt L
of door when the Indians flung themselV
le- against it. Sending her children into 7
ee, cellar, the heroic young woman selzed
ear revolver and gun, and confronted the
3D. dians at the open window Ihe reu sAi
ne were finally driven of, after hiring t
,de barn.
les A NEW thieving dodge is praclised
females who enter cars, and, finding g
tleman sitting alone, ask If the other 81
is occupied The gentleman at once d
tions her to be seated, when she pollt'
~, asks him if he won't allow her to sit
ga ga the window. OF course this request
'on also granted, and she becomes seat
20 a Presen ly she finds that there Is not
enough in the car, and requests the g
VI tleman to raise the window. He at ol
'nS rises to do so, and as he leans over her
of picks his pocket or removes MS WaI
ba which passes to a male confederate IN
,,vs next seat behind her.
he ACCIDENT has had considerable TO
,dv with the most important selenlnc DISC
on. cries. A gentleman in Bingham, VI
,ck. who is sinking shaft with the eXpe!
the tion of finding gold in canon, some u
IN a ago nailed a piece of sheet-iron up to k
oim the water from dripping on the men
mat work Aftsr it had thus served to k
Ia a off the water for some three weeks,
the took it down, and fous to his astoni
'rv ment, that it was covered more than
mo inch thick with gold, silver and cop
me with a little iron, which had been IN
nat water i'm solution, aud became precipita
'sist by being brought in contact with the sh
lble AN unhappy residenC of Buffalo,
,ing has been long tormented by an. ohen
lack odor about h IS premises, and against wi