Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

THEY have sixty three pound water
melons near Colusa, Cal. .tt
A KNIGHT ERRANT -Beauing the girls
home from singing school.
A SUN FISH, weighing 300 pounds, was
recently captured at New Bedford, Mass.
DID you hear my last speechp asked
a political wind-bag Il hope So" replied
his friend. r
FoRETHoueHT and prudence both say,
insure your life. Take their advice and in
sure in the Washington.
THE coroner of San Francisco made in
quest on 066 dead bodies during the year
ending June 80.
MAKE friends with life insurance, that
when you are old II may comfort you. In
sure with the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
A GENTLEMAN of Slatersville, Il. l.,
states that an old lady, a farmers widow,
recently sent him ten cents" saying 1t
was overpay taken for produce thirty-nine
years ago.
ERGcK ERIcKsoN came down 10 Sioux
City from Dakota Territory. He met a
Swedish maid he had never seen before,
and before night was on his way home
with his new wife in his ox-cart.
A Boston physician says that four
young girls, full of intelligence and prom
ise, have been killed outright by the sever
ity of the tasks imposed upon them in a
high school in that vicinity.
A RUBBER company of Bristol, Mass,
recently manufactured to order, for parties
in Philadelphia, rubber belt 1913 feet in
length, feet in width, and one half inch
in thickness, weighing 1850 pounds.
Two imposters, pretending to be Catho
lie priests, recently swindled Hartford
| ~ civ Trie 20 ,Nf
eral hundred dollars, on the pretence of
collecting for a Worcester orphan asylum.
A BITTER quarrel has been caused in q
) church in Maine by the practice of some OF
t the members taking their dogs to church
with them. The choir have refused to sing If
he dogs are not excluded from the sane
. tuary.
r a GENTLEMAN, on getting soda, was re.
2 firing trOm the store without the Usual lit.
. tie ceremony which follows that operation.
|. "Recollect, sir, said the polite proprietor,
) "if you lose your pOcket-book, you
b didn't pull it out here"
e A CHARCOAL man and his wife, who be-
c longed 10 the Commune, tscap the vigi
g lance of he police by the Lappy device OF
IS Il thorough washing. The disguise was
l, too perfect unluckily, for they have been
II looking for each other ever since.
If THE capital of the Bank of Montreal il
t. to be raised to 1900 600, which will
e make the bank the third largest in the
1t world, coming after the Bank OF France
and the Bank of L gland; 100000 i.
81 the largest capital of any American bank
! Miss WoLcoTT, a young lady who wal
= injured in recent railroad accident il
10 Charlestown, N. II had most marvellous
a escape When the train struck the car
! riage she was hurled above the top of tn,
Is telegraph pole, her fall being broken by
. the wires.
y In 1860 we exported but one and hal
a. million gallons of petroleum. In 1868 /
had reached ninety millions, and last yea
~ il was one hundred and forty -one millions
e The increase in the flow of oil in Pennsyl
n vania since 1867 has been nearly fifty pc
NJ cent.
d. A LITTLE vagrant boy, brought up in
re London Police Court, in reply to ques
a. tions, said: II don't live Rowheres.
Y. amt got no friends | sleep at night un
e. der the showbosrd agin the Lyceum The
at ayter Sometimes gets under othe
t. boards"
he A YOUNG man at Pantypridd, England
becoming weary of the world some tim
le ago, drowned himself in the reservoi
Ii whence the surrounding Inhabitants dt
ne rive their supply of drinking water. Iii
Il body was not discovered until recenu,
IL. when in an advanced state of decompos
ton.
az KNOW what your beans pretty whit
horses name is" said a little Greentiel
boy to his sister, Monday morning; ait
el D1mye" Hush, Eddie, that's a naught
lie word" "Well, l dom care if It's; that
sir his name; cos, last night, | was standin
be outside the fence when he stopped in froI
at of the gate, and heard him say, Who
w damye"
IT, Coal oil is said to be certain cure fC
snake-bite. Abner G)Odall cOmmun
re Gates to the Ringgold Qowa) Record th
~. fact that one OF his COWS was bitten on IL
no hip and was so swollen that the tOngu
ur protruded from the mouth; that he al
u5 piled the oil freely to the swollen par
nu several times during the night ana that
~ the morning the COW was up chewing hi
'ei cud a usual.
,e The pavements all kissing hot the sky abo
AUS Is braze1,
ng And every heads as good as dead the sun can s
o- The lean, iank.looking skeletons go stalk pa
ieI AM gloomy;
3h The fat like red-hot frying PAN send hotter ia
nU nO wake from creams of polar ice on which I
oh been a slider,
do Like fishes dI canning Of the sea, and waking In 4
", spider.
It," a GENTLEMAN who had taken the hor
Dut cars for rhe Worcester Depot ia Bosto
lch incumbered with manifold bags and pa
D a GELS, reached the bell rope with an effo
I'D. when he wished to get of, and gave Vi
ull orous pull, the result being a sharp ri
or from both bells. "What are you ringii
the both ends fort' was the discourteous al
lch surly inquiry of the conductor. "B
est cause wish the car 10 stop at both end:
of was the quiet reply that left convuls
de- car load and discounted conductor.
-es, READY MADE clothing dealers in Was
de. ingtOn appeal to the dishonesty of tn,
eh, customers to get rid of shopworn and ol
one ST. lie coats. They put lat pocket-bO,
ass in an inner pocket, tell the purchaser II
the the "coat was made for Mr.. Brown, b
aid, was too tight across the back, and he ]
ght lurl ed it, The buyer feels the wall
oily supposes Mr.. Brown lett it, says pothi
re- and pays two prices for the coat h
ain, dulges in profanity when he tinds that t
) to contents of the pocket-bock are newsT
~" per scraps.
es A GENTLEMAN in Swan Hill Mass, h
sets recently imported hom Europe sci,
for ton OF poultry noted not only for tn,
serviceable and game qualities, but al
ex- for their remarkable intelligence. At I
He sound of a bell they skin up a ladder, a
Ii while awaiting their meal on the seco
see, floor, preserve the utmost decoru
= OF standing in file, awaiting further orde
he The meal being placed before them one
'aJs IA time, is considered inviOlate until all
served, and even then they remain alb;
vel nent until second sound of the bell giJ
owe the signal During the meal there is
ugh interference with each others porto
the the utmost prOpriety is observed and,
all. each finishes his repast, he stands ouie
, he awaiting tine bell which announces Ii
ark the meal is over, when, in military sty
ugh the fowls proceed in single file down I
II is ladder to disport themselves as II
a !