Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-13
CURRENT ITEMS.
OLD BoNps-wedding Rings.

L1eHT EMPLoYMENT-Bu Building castles
in the air.
ONE hundred years ago there were but
four newspapers in America.
The new iron bridge near Weldon, N.
O., is AGA feet long.
COMET literature for the month of Au-
gust, 1872, would make very good.sized
volume.
A MUSICAL box and hair.brush COM
bined is one of the latest Partisan novel
ties
Two DETECTIVES were recently arrest
ed in New York City for stealing 81, 900
worth. of jewelry from lady who en-
ployed them.
ATHIEF at Pulaski Mich, dropped q
watch from his pocket while stealing
watermelons, and the owner of the mel
ons found 1t.
THE mouth and tongue of trout in a
Hartford aquarium turned to bone and
the fish died.
A FISH was recently caught In Alabama,
in which was partridge egg, and in the
egg bird.
AN entire flock of sheep followed an
old ram through the show-window of
st. Louis store, the other day.
A GEORGIA snake recently swallowed
another one.third larger and from eight
to ten inches longer than itself.
CALIFORNIA wants to have the United
States Government legaliZe runaway mar.
riages on the high seas.
The Free Masons of Des Moines, Iowa,
have organized life insurance associa.
tion of their own.
THE figure of Justice on the New York
nj 1at A hnO ttu NJ taA s,,
the most approved Dolly Warden style.
A YOUNG lady lost few days since two
diamond rings, valued at 81 200, at the
bathing beach at Narraganset Pier.
A NEW YORK nurse, not getting pay
for her services, recently attached the
child she had been taking care of.
A GENTLEMAN at Cairo, Ca, has a
rather peculiar bird, cross between a
guinea fowl and turkey, with voice
like monkey.
AN act will be submitted in the next
Florida Legislature requiring apothecaries
to give bonds that they will keep their
stores open on Sunday.
A PoUeHKEEPsIE lady the other day
found a West India scorpion upon her
bedroom floor, and the question is, "how
got he there -
Mr.. w. P. WILLIAMS, of Stratford,
Conn, owns an Egyptian coin two thou
sand years old, for which large sums
of money have been offered.
IT is expected that the most elegant en-
tertainments that Washington society
will witness next winter will be given at
the French Legation.
STONE & MURRAY have been sentenced
to pay $435 for damages occasioned by
the breaking down of their circus seats at
st. Albans, VT.
The Arizona diamonds are said tolhe
merely brilliant crystals, that would
make very good material to pave garden
walks with, or line fountain basin.
In the height of prosperity expect adj
versity, and furtify yourself against its
evils by policy on your lifein the Wash.
ington.
A ROCHESTER merchant was troubled
with something in the toe of his boot.
After sundry calculations he removed the
boot-and his wife's bonnet
THE State authorities of Kentucky have
determined that the Capitol grounds
shall never hereafter be used as a place
for political or public assemblages of any
kind.
AMONG the letters that recently passed
through the Auburn On. " distributing
Office, was package containing a swarm
of bees, bound from Massachusetts to
West Groton.
PRoF. ]. D. WHITMAN has discovered
new mercurial ore in California which
is likely to be of importance in silver
mining. He calls it a metacinna6ar.
THE Chinese at Los Angeles celebrated
the first anniversary of the massacre OF
the Cinnamon at Los Angeles by gor.
geous funeral ceremonies.
A SAN FRANcIsco husband refused to
buy carriage for his wife, and the lady
tried to swear him into an insane asylum
IN consequence.
"A LADY in Elizabeth, n. j., one hun.
dred and five years old, hearing an Irish
piper play an air of her youth, came out
upon the street and danced the measure
through.
SIR CHARLES LYELL declares that the
entire continent of North America will
be washed away into the ocean in fouI
and half million of years And vet the
people take an interest in real estate.
DUNKIRK, N. Y, is boring for gas, and
the prospect is favorable, as her sister
village of Fredonia, only three miles dis.
tant, has been lit with natural gas fol
many years.
"A bAL4IAOttE ADLD' J llult DdCk6u NOWI
a twenty foot embankment,- turned 8
somersault in his descent, and, arriving
at the bottom, calmly walked up the hil
again and resumed work.
OF the forty members of the Irish band
which came from Ireland to play at the
Boston Jubilee, only eight could be in
duced to return, the others having found
employment in New York and Boston.
A CANNON contrivance for throwing
tive,ton ball is proposed by Mr.. Bessemer
the inventor OF the new process for max
ing steel.
Two PRECoCIoUs Juveniles of Somerset
county, Pennsylvania, aged SO and 81
years, raked and bound 50 dozen bundles
of wheat lately, in three hours
THE lady who did not think it respect
able to bring up her children to work
has recently heard from her two sons
one is a barkeeper on a tlatbOat, and the
other is second clerk to lime kiln.
WHEN a-life insurance agent tackles
Terre Haute man the latter strikes al
attitude and exclaims with the poet
My life is as withered tree, and no
worth insuring."
A PLAN for street paving, which con
sists of short lengths Of black locust trees
placed endwise, the interstices being filleC
with asphaltum, Is being tried in Wash
ington.
REMARKABLE discoveries of galena ol
lead ore have lately been r9ede-isI.-rJemin,
and Ferris, Colorado, in the latter plac,
the veip pelng seven feet wide and nearl,
Iys
PAfENT has recently been issued L
man n Columbus, Ohio, for marblei7
ed-slate coflln, the sides, ends, and' bot