Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

BITs OF FRONTIER LIFE-Scalps.
RELATIVE BEAUTY-A pretty cousin
A BATH FOR EVERY BoDY-Sab- bath
THE severest test to mans credit is a
protest
CHERRY STONES grow outside of cher
ries in Australia.
A MEMPHIS planter recently sold $13,-
600 worth of tobacco in one day.
IRON is now higher than ever before in
this country since 1919.
A LARGE proportion of the dentists in
Germany are Americans.
MANY people who cannot square a Cir
Gle, can get round square meal
A DETROIT baby swallowed watch,
and is having hard ct time" " with it.
THE total loss,s by the recent earth
quake in Inyo County, California, foot up
$237 600.
THE largest aqueduct IN the world is
the Croton Aqueduct, of New York. 1t
cost $12, 500 600.
OVER 100000, 900 feet of logs were cut
on the Upper Mississippi and tributaries
last winter.
SENSIBLE doctors disapprove of alco-
hol, but believe in the cheering effects of
"good spirits on their patients.
DISSENT from an opponents incendiary
doctrines is most forcibly illustrated by
veneering his off eye.
THE preliminary tunnel under the river
at Detroit is now 400 feet under the river
from the shaft on this side.
A MEXICAN highwayman was taken
from the officers of the law the other day,
at San Benito Valley, and lynched.
The charter of tho Washington Life
secures all the profits to the insured
More than this cannot be done.
THE Upper Mississippi steamboat mer
have adopted tAe restaurant plan meals
are separate from the fare.
THE I" oldest living Free Mason" has
been dug up at Prescott, Wis-DaviC
Stiles. He also voted for Washington.
A GOOSE in Maine has produced an egg
foot in circumference, and the proprie
tor proposes to retire that goose on half
lay.
THE Maine lumbermen predict tina
five years hence, at the present rate o
destruction, the forests of that State will
be wholly cleared of timber.
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Noah Webster
and Aaron Burr all attended the samt
school in Goshen County, New York, il
the days of their boyhood
Two English ladies, the Misses Charles
worth and Sims, lately married two Soutl
Sea Islanders in Australia-the first mar
riages of the kind on record.
THE Columbus Democrat says that Geo
w. Walker, a lad fifteen years old, living
in Fountain Prairie, Wis, killed fifteel
sand-hill cranes at one shot, few day
since,
EVERY column of a newspaper contain
from ten to twenty thousand distinc
pieces of type. The displacement of
single one makes an error. Is it strang
that errors occurY-ETchan9e.
IT is said that Mr.. Motley, while Minis
ter from the United States to the Court o
St. James, paid more rent for the hous
in which he lived than his whole comper
sation from the Government amounte
to.
THE Prime Minister of the Fiji Island
has gone to Australia for the purpose c
negotiating loan. Twenty years ag
the islanders were cannibals, and most c
the Australians we're transported Grim
nails.
THE Japanese have paper which
waterproof, and of which garments
handkerchiefs, hats, umbrellas and purse
are made; and also paper warranted
wash, and of sufficient strength and pit
bility for any use.
Don PIATT says: "a distinguished
plomat, who had served some tin
in Washington, died the other da
in Europe, and among his effects the
found AZ ultimatums and 600 love lette
from beautiful girls in Washington"
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