Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-01
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mother.
WHAT are you doing ?" said father
to his son, who was tinkering on old
watch, Improving my time, sir"
DEATH is the great persuader, and
works more successfully than all the other |
agents of the Washington Life.
A HARTFORD skating park proprietor
advertises different rates of admission for
grown" people and "adults."
RECENTLY, published statistics show
1887 liquor saloons in Chicago, 600 of |
which had no license. OF this number
the West Division possessed Lore.
A JURY was recently impaneled in
Reading, Pa, the ages of whose members
were as follows 49, 80, 76, 81, 81, II, 72, |
rs, 70, %, SO, 49, The average age was so |
years.
COMMISSIONER DELANo has decided
that farmer selling his produce from his
own wagon, without any regular business
stand, is not liable to pay tax as pro
duce dealer.
A LADY at Bronson, Mich, has been
soaking her hair with Porters Cough
Medicine for the last ten months, mistak-
ing it for somebody's Hair Restorative.
1t served the purpose just as well.
"WHY, Sarah, you look good enough
to eat" said loving husband to his wife
one morning at breakfast. "Well, I am
eating as fast as l can, amt II" was the
ready reply.
ALEXIS has in his possession quaint
old dagger with. this inscription in Finn
ish: ''Whoever finds anything before it
is lost, or buys anything before it is for
sale, shall die before he is sick"
EXPERIMENTS often repeated have
shown that plant may be raised in
fiower.pot from a seed, and receive no
nourishment but pure water, yet shall far
exceed in weight all the soil in which it
grew.
A WELSH farmer, residing near Utica,
while being run away with by pair of
frightened horses, shouted: 81 leave my
wife 0,OO0; no time to make q will"
He is still alive, but badly bruised.
GREAs1Na Houses FEET.--A Canada
correspondent says the effect of greas-
ing the hoofs of horses to make them
shine, is to cause them to almost cease
growing, and become hard and brittle. He
condemns the practice.
Mr.. JOHN MCPHILLIPs, q blacksmith of
Montgomery, Miss, committed suicide
the other day by placing the stock of
loaded gun in the fire, taking the muzzle
in his mouth and blowing the fire with
the bellows until the gun went off
IHE ObIdWd llOWu) JOuIitF says "A
post mOrtem examination proved that the
heart of the late ex-senator Grimes was
one mass of disease, which, if it had
been detected by his physicians, had been
for months beyond the reach of human
skill"
AN eccentric German shoemaker at In
dianapolis, who subscribed for all the
papers published In his city and the
leading journals of New York and Gin
cinnati, and who scarcely ovor loft lie
wvrk-Dencn, died few days ago, having
accumulated fortune of $50, 900.
EXPERIMENTS in Germany have deter.
mined the weight of roots per acre of
several of the farm crops. Ordinary stub
BILE, with the roots in the first ten inches of
soil, were separated from the earth and
dried. The pounds of red clover.roots
per acre were $3.50, rye 3,400 and wheat,
2, 400 pounds. This of course remains in
the soil as fertilizer,
A PRIVATE letter from Fort Benton
Montana, states that during the latter
part of December the Thermometer
marked fifty-nine degrees. below zero;
that buffalo, antelope, cattle and horses
were frozen to death in large numbers.
On January 18th, when the letter was
written, the weather had moderated to
twenty degrees above zero.
THE Country Gentleman says: "On
windy plains, an advantage is found from
thick planting in the shelter afforded by
the denser mass of growth. But in more
sheltered localities where the owner has
plenty of room, and desiring to raise
other crops between the trees, thirty-fve
or forty feet between them may be adopt
ed with propriety."
"TEN gallons of kerosene three pounds
of potash, one ounce OF strychnine,
mixed with soft water" 1t was accord
ing to this cheerful, not to say convivial
formula, that quantity of whisky"
seized last week in Newton, Mass, was
compounded, the recipe also having been
found in the possession of the unfortu-
nate dealer. If you want "gin," add
quantum sNficit of oil of juniper! The
mystery is that me- who drink this dia-
bolical fluid do not drop down stone dead
at opce.-NetO York Tribune.
IT is generally thought that American
orators can make longer speeches than
anybody else but it would seem that our
English cousins can do something in this
way, when they take a notion to. Sir
John Duke Coleridge, Attorney-General,
who defends the Tichborne suit, occupied
four and half hours a day for thirteen
days in presenting the case to the Jury,
and had not concluded then. Sir Johns
speech is said TO have been as good as it
is long-a tribute that cannot be paid to
all lengthy orations.
In these days of sensation writing how
much of what is published can newspa-
per readers believe Last week the New
York World published vivid and thrill
ing account of the execution of beauti-
full girl in Newfoundland. The story was
well told and with remarkable attention
to details. 1t now turns out that the girl
has not even been tried, and, of course
the Worlds glowing description of her
conduct on the gallows was gross fabri-
cation. We must confess, however, that
the Worlds correspondent told big lie
while he was about it, and told it well.--
Buffalo Com. Adce1tiser.
TREATMENT OF FELoNs.-C. NJ. II,
Fabius, IN N. Y. in Germantown Tetegfuph,
says A felon is easily known by sharp
pain near the bone. Fill pint tin cup
one-fourth full of wood ashes, then fiji
the cup up with warm water and place it
on the stove. Hold the finger or the
affected part in the cup until the pain is
removed, The contents of the cup must
be kept as hot as the hand can bear. If
the pain returns repeat the process. In
the more advanced stages a poultice
made of slippery elm, fiaxseed, or even
bread and milk, is good but the best
thing to draw felon to head is to APP
ply salve made of the yollI of an egg
thickened with wheat -four
THE Rev. Nathaniel Mike, minister of
Crossmichael 1739-81), talked to his peo-
pie from the pulpit with amusing famili-
arity. Expounding a passage in Exodus,
he proceeded thus: "'And the Lord said
unto Moses-sneck that door. I'm think
ing if ye had to sit beside that door your
sell we wadna be sac ready leaving it
open! 1t was just beside that door that
Yedam Tamson, the bellman, got his
death o. cauld and I'm sure, honest man,