Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-24
CURRENT ITEMS.


WHEN is butter like Irish childrenY
When 1t is made into little pats.
= DIVIDENDS are applied to keep the pol
icy in force In the Washington Life, OF
New York.
SHE who marries man as "good
match" must not be surprised II he turns
out to be Lucifer
> CALIFORNIA boasts of an orchard of
four hundred and twenty-six acres, and
over seventy-five thousand trees.
ORDINARY laborers in Dublin receive
sixty cents per day and skilled laborers
one dollar and q half.
THERE are one hundred and seventeen
steamboats, at the bottom of Arkansas
River 1t is believed that they only carry
dead-heads as passengers.
AN industrious nosologst has estimated
that there are about twentyfour hundred
disorders incident to the human frame.
IT is asserted that in Boston, no house
valued at $4,000 has been totally destroy
ed by fire for forty-eight years.
THP Masonic Lodge at Edenton, N. c.,
claims to possess the chair which George
Washington occupied when he was Wor-
shipful Master.
AFTER all, out of his annual income of
$4,0OO,000, Senor BaTas, the richest
planter in Cuba only manages to get his
board and clothing.
TIE steamer Scandinavian, on her re-
cent trip from Liverpool to Quebec, was
q regular lying-in hospital, thirteen chill
dren having been born during the trip
THE Pi-Ute Indians have killed their
Medicine Man. The more he sang, and
danced, and drummed, the more they had
the measles; so they quietly shot HIM.
On the 11th of May, at New York, Mr..
Bonner's four-year- colt, Startle, trot-
ted mile in 2:1924 the fastest time over
made by stallion, or by horse of that
age.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT writes from
Mexico that the births in that country are
in the proportion of three girls to one
boy, according to the statistics.
An absentminded physician of Oswego,
New York. has discounted Hahneman by
prescribing draught for patient, lone
teaspoonful to be taken every three years.
A MAN in Missouri, recently, by mis-.
take ran away with his own wife. She
was disguised in a fancy ballroom cos
tune, and he did not recognize her for
some time.
An English law compels married
woman, If she has money or the means of
making it, and her lord has none, to sup.
port him, be he ever so worthless, that the
expense Of his keeping may not come up
on the parish.
In consequence of two successive bad
seasons the number OF sheep has very
much decreased in England. The loss in
value is estimated at forty million of dol
lars. The price of mutton had advanced
to twenty cents per pound.
A LARGER proportion of white flowers
are fragrant than those of any other color,
yellow comes next, then red and lastly
blue; after which, and in the same order,
may be reckoned violet, green, orange,
brown and black.
The members of three of the leading
baseball clubs-the Haymakers, Boston
Red Stockings and Clevelands-are paid
an average each Of 81 300 for the season;
the other prominent clubs get 81 200, ex-
cept the Atlantics, who depend upon the
gate receipts for their remuneration.
eSAIEN, n. c., is remarkable place.
But one house has been destroyed there
by fire in the past ninety years. There is
not whisky shop nor bar-room in the
place 1t has but one lawyer, and he re-
Gently moved there.
THE nine-hours system has gone into
elect on every part of the Grand Trunk
railway. This does not mean a delay of
nine hours on every trip; but that nine
hours will be considered days labor,
and employees who work over that time
willreceive over pay.
A sHEET-IRoN CHURCH, for two hundred
people, is in successful Operation" in
London. 1t was an experiment, and for
eign missionaries will in future take
one along with their carpet bags and
things.
"A CASE of great destitution was discov-
cred in Jersey City recently. In family
of six persons, the father was dying Of
consumption, three children were lying
I'll with the smallpox, and fourth was
lying dead with the same disease. The
mother was unable to procure food or
sufficient money for the burial of her dead
child.
SARAH, the only daughter and heiress
of Winnemucca, the Chief of the Pi-Utes,
recently married a young lieutenant at
Salt Lake. A Jenkins of that region says
She was attired On a blanket decot2ete, with
oyster shell necklace, and partook heartily
of the parental wedding feast of fricassed
prairie-dpg and picked crickets.
OK Rolling Prairie, Ind, mserly old
man by the name of John Robb has lately
died, He was an old bachelor, and al
ways complained bitterly of poverty. In
his miserable dwelling were found $1,000
in gold. and several thousands in silver
and L. S. bonds and other securities, the
whole amounting to $4,000.
OF every seven native.born Vermont.
ers, three have emigrated to other States.
The last census shows that the whole
number of Vermont emigrants is 1S0, 600;
of which 10000 have taken up residence
in New York; IA 900 in Illinois; 10000 in
Wisconsin,; $4,000 in Michigan; $4,000 in
Iowa, and 200 in California.
"a MAN was choked to death in New
York the other day while trying to swal-
low piece of Bologna sausage. So they
say, but the probability is that he was
choked by some foreign substance. The
makers of Bologna sausage can't be too
particular, while chopping up the meat,
in removing the collar of the dog.
SOME of the magnetism cements used in
India are remarkably firm and durable
They begin setting in two or three hours
and become hard in a few days, continu-
ing to harden for many years When
used for plasteIing, they have been found
within fortnight "to be harder than any
stone, except granite, marble, and stones
of the first degree of hardness"
liz one of our large cities, short time
ago, a Western editor was met by a
friend, who, taking him by the hand, ex
claimed: 81 am delighted to see you
How long are you going to stayG" "Why
Think" said the editor, 81 shall stay
while my money lasts" "How disap
pointed am, " said the friend; 81 hoped
you were going to stay day or two"
"A French eronaut has suggested new
plan for the exploration of the polar
regions. His scheme is to take balloon
to tho mosbnorthern headland of Green
land and make an ascension the first day
a steady wind blows from the west; he is
certain this would land him in Siberia
The French Geographical Society are
E considering whether it should not give the
scheme its support.
THE Davenport iowa Gazette says: "Ont
of the largest RATS that ever floated dowI