Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

the Hudson in a small yacht. M
PoLLARD's PEAK, New, is to be the site
of the great national observatory.
A CITIZEN of Maine has been fined 800
for selling two gallons of cider.
GYRDLINe fruit trees and shearing
horses tails is favorite form of ven
geance In Boylston, Mass.
Mock TURTLE. kissing before COM
pany and fighting afterward.
No MOOSE is good news, as the man
said when he was reprieved.
A COUPLE Of jour. printers lately travel
ed from Chicago to New Orleans in a
skifr
FIFTY Italians, of the fiddling, organ
grinding, and apple.peddling professions,
occupy one small two-story house in New
York.
4 IFoRETHouaHT and prudence both say
insure your life. Take their advice and
insure In the Washington.
WHILE hunting on Mary's Peak, Ore.
gon, A. M. Osburn killed cougar nine
feet in length.
THERE is a ruie Of society" common
TO the European Continent, which forbids
unmarried fades wearing jewelry.
THE school teachers in Massachusetts
have organized an association for mutual
copsultation and Improvement.
A NUMBER of the Saginaw Mich salt
boilers will soon suspend business for the
season, on account Of the scarcity Of
fuel
"THE present age Is simpudent enough"
said George Claiming, "but l foresee that
the next will be one Of irony and rail.
cry |"
THERE is a gread demand in San Fran
cisco, from Chicago and other Eastern
cities, for Chinese domestic servants.
THE efforts made to cultivate the tea
plant in Calistoga, Cal, have entire failed
Nearly all Of the plants, it is stated, are
dead.
CIDER can be bought in Western Massa-
chusetts for $1.50 a barrel-and if the
purchaser thinks the price too high they'll
throw in tubful or two.
THEY are building a new hotel on the
summit of Mount Washington, and it is
said: "They have to hold it down with
chains attached half way up the sides Of
the building, and fastened to the rocks
EUREKA JONES, widow the late jailer of
Hudson County, N. Y, has been elected
to fill the unexpired official term of her
departed spouse.
BY the accidental flooding OF n coal
mine, near Wrexham, Wales, five hun
dred miners have been thrown out of en-
ployment.
A LETTER, bearing the following ad-
dress, was lately received at the st. Louis
post-office: This letter is to be deliver
ed to the policeman Of the Fourth Ward.
| | do not know the man or his name. City
of St. Louis, beg pardon"
"MY SON." said a fond papa, who was
looking over the lesson his son had recit.
ed that day, 'how did you manage when
your teacher asked you to spell metempsy-
chosisg" ooh, father" said the boy, 81
| L NE Western Rural gives the following
as the prices of common wool in New
| York City since and including 1861: 1851,
32 cents; 1862 42c.; 1863, roc; 1864, zoe
1868, 65c.; 1866, 65c.; 1867, 4Sc 1868,
45c: 1869, 45c.; 1870, 44c. 1871, 4Sc.
| 1872, zoe.
orange, the I ifle silk worms on Usage
of Agriculture says full expefiflEmlssioner
been made in rearing the silk worm of
the leaves of the Usage orange. Tho
worms fed greedily, and were perfectly
healthy, and spun la=ge-sized cocoons OF
very fair silk.
The remote Western States have new
holiday. 1t is called Arbor Day. Every
man is expected on that day to do some
service to future generations by planting
trees. The idea is an excellent one, and
should be adopted in all the great, grow
ing Territories of the Northwest, where
pasture is plenty and wood scarce.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
Henldn argues in favor of raising early
spring chickens as the most profitable
branch of poultry culture. The birds
always find ready market and good
| price. With clean, warm coops, he says,
the hens will begin laying by the first OF
January, and in a month will be ready to
! sit.
IT is stated that thirty of the best Euro.
pean engravers are employed in New York
in manufacturing counterfeit plates OF
| European bank-notes. Fifty persons
| travel between New York and Europe,
| carrying over the counterfeit bills to the
| Old World, and as many more act as
agents in the larger cities of Europe for
the circulation of spurious currency.
| IT is said that recently merchant went
to Chicago to purchase a bill of goods.
| The last that was heard of him he was in
his room, surrounded by seventeen drum
mers, who had crawled through the tran.
som, while an energetic reporter was be-
low stairs pumping the clerk for the age
OF the unfortunate man, and the probable
circumstances of his family.
A HUNTING boat, weighing only 1415
| pounds, has been constructed by Mr. ]. M.
Orcutt, of Cato, Mich, for his personal
use. 1t is made of ducking, with ribs of ash
int IN 10
! fold ii up and carry it on his back with
his gun and provisions In case a storm
overtakes him on the water, he can run
his boat ashore, take it apart, and put it
up as tent.
THE only persons left at the Tip-Top
house on Mount Washington are three
signal officers, who are equipped with a
| large stock of coal four barrels of onions,
about forty hams, twenty bushels of po-
tatoes, good supply of canned goods,
and all manner of groceries in profusion,
a violin, harmonicon, a gOod-sized library
and quantities of newspapers, and expect
to spend a pleasant winter.
At party where questions were asked,
and facetious if not felicitous answers
expected, a coal dealer asked what legal
authority was the favorite with his trade
One answered Cooke" "Right," said
the coal dealer. Another suggested
Blackstone" "Good, too" said the
questioner. Then little hard-faced man
in the corner piped out Littleton,"
whereupon the coal dealer sat down with
out saying u word.
THE fieshy owner of a crow-bait span
was complaining to some bystanders that
he did not know what was the matter
with his horses He had tried everything
he could think of-condtion powders
and all other speci6cs-but to no pur-
pose. They would not improve the flesh.
A stable-boy of Irish persuasion, whose
sympathies were aroused by the story,
cOmprehended the situation, and modest.
ly asked, "Did yees liver try corn?'
SLIGHTLY INQUIsITIvE.-" here,
squire, where was yeou bornY" said a per
sistent Yankee to a five minutes acquain-
tance. 81 was boIn," said the victim,
sin Boston, fremont street, No. "A, left
hand side, on the first day of August,
1910, at five o'clock in the afternoon; ply
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