Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-31
CURRENT ITEMS.
WHAT comes after checseY Mice.


ton Life to make the policies larger.
"1F all the world were blind" said an
Irish clergyman, "what melancholy
sight it would be-"
BAD cooking on the part of the wife Is
held, by Texas Judge, to be good ground
for divorce
THE late earthquake in California is
now known to have affected an area of
about 700 miles long by nearly 500 miles
A HOTEL of canvas, equipped for a six
weeks stay among the Thousand Islands.
is being made in New York.
No circus performance has ever been
given in Norway-a fact that has induced
an English manager to move thither.
The Joliet (Ill) Peuitentiary now has
1,0OS convicts, which is larger number
than is confined in any other penitentiary
in the United States.
HENRY MILLER, convict in the Mich
tgan Penitentiary, at Jackson, has been
informed of the death of his father. and
his own Inheritance of nearly million
do!lars, which he may proceed to enjoy
in August
SIR CHARLES LYEL1 calculates that the
entire continent of North America will
be washed away into the ocean in four
and half millions of years. And yet
the people take an interest in real es.
tatel
To pay off the indemnity to Germany
OF I'VE milliards of francs, France has to
give as many notes of 1000 francs each
as, placed one on top of the other, would
make pile $500 feet high, little over a
mile.
In GEoReIA, the other day, Mr.. Chas.
1oneyworth was married to Miss Anna
u, Bread. Having got his Bread, Charles
SAID he didn't want any but her, while
the bride averred that she got her money
worth, and was perfectly satisfied
HIRAM PERKINS, of Walden, Vermont,
is pulled up by the possession of a cat
that is of blue-back color, with fur
from three to six inches long, name six
inches long, and a tail as long and large
as that of fox.
FAITH, PAT, an phwat makes yez
wear that big coat sich a day as this?"
Och, an It's bad cowld | have, wild
shlecpin' widout bedquilt, which the
same me wife TUX fur her Dolly Warden. !"
On May Goth Pope Plus TX. entered
upon the eighty-frst year of his age, and
IN five weeks he will celebrate the twenty.
sixth anniversary of his Pontifcate. No
Pope has reigned so many years consecu-
lively, nor traversed so many political
ana social changes and revolutions.
A LONDON paper says that the follow
ing extract is from an old play-bill still in
existence: &c For the benefit of Mrs.
Brickler, 10th of May, 1867. At the end
of the first act Miss Brcl1ler will sing a
tavorite song from "Judith" accompan-
led by Mr., Dibden on a new instrument
called the piano.forte"
In the Criminal Court, at INDIANAPOLIS.
Ind, eight boys, all under 10 years of
age, were sentenced to the Penitcntiary
Tor terms ranging from one to three years
Tor grand larceny and burglary They
belonged to regularly organized band of
youthful depredatOrs, which has been
broken up by the arrest and conviction of
these boys.
A YoUNG man named Anderson was
killed at Augusta, Wis, recently, by one
Moseby, who was under the influence of
liquor The father of the murdered man
has now commenced a suit for damages
IN the sum OF $4,000 against the saloon
keeper who sold the whisky to the muir
derer.
PROGRESSIVE HENs.-And now we are
sold that hen is the mother of twelve
chickens from nine eggs. The owner of
ahe hen says he cannot tell a lie-she did
ut with her little hatch it. This, no doubt,
is one of the privileges of leap year.
The highest span-bridge of the United
States is said to be on the Waikiki Valley
Rallroad, New York, over the Rondout
Greek at Rondale. The height is $50 feet
There are three iron spans and two
wooden ones, the entire length of the
bridge being 9SS feet; 100 tons of iron
were used in the construction, and over
400, 600 feet of timber.
The venerable Alfred Huger, one of
she most distinguished citizens of South
Carolina, died recently IN Charleston.
lie was born in 1888, and was Postmaster
OF Charleston from 1880 to 1865, a period
OF quarter of century. 1t is a curious
fact that Charleston has had but three
Postmasters since the establishment of
the Government.
RECENTLY, Mr.. Bonner's stallion, Startle,
only five years old the 14th of MAY, driven
by Geo. Hopkins, trotted half a mile on
Fleetwood Park in 1:0415. Thsis the fast
est half mile by two seconds ever made in
harness on Fleetwood by any horse of any
age. Indeed, is the fastest half mile by
Two seconds ever made anywhere by any
horse except Dexter, who once trotted
haif mile in exactly the same time.
VANDERBILT is now master of the
streets of New York His rapid transit
bill having been signed, engineers have
begun the survey of the new under
ground road to be built from the Battery
to Harlem. Three thousand men have
been engaged, who will break ground for
the road at various points in few days,
and every effort is being made to have the
work completed in two years.
The Oldest printer in the United States
is William Lawson Barry, of Nashville,
Tenn. He has just entered his ODD year.
He commenced learning his trade in 1893,
and set up Washingtons obituary in
1893, Mr.. Barry was born in Virginia,
but has spent almost all his life in Ten
nessee and Kentucky, and has had con-
siderable acquaintance with all the
eminent men of those States. He is still
vigorous, and works at his trade occasion
ally.
OPIUM eating has become quite COM
mon In the United States, and particularly
in the West. The Legislature of Ken.
lucky, in order to check this practice, has
passed bill that, on the affidavit of two
respectable citizens, any person who,
through the excessive use of opium, ar
senlc, hasheesh, or of any drug, has be.
come incompetent to manage himself or
his estate, may be confined in an asylum
and placed under guardianship as in the
case of habitual drunkards or lunatics.
"A LAFAYETTE Qnd man advertises q
bundle which he found on the street, and
which consisted of several newspapers,
three pairs of old hose, two "'quilted F"
petticoats (nearly worn OUT, two old
slouch hats, pair of tOp-boots, a bunch
OF hay, piece of stair carpet, and cord
about three feet long. The cord passed
through the center of the bundle, which
when found had convex and concave
surface, somewhat resembling onehalf of
a. round bushel basket, and as the two
ends of the cords were tied together, he
thinks the bundle had been used as
= poultice on something.
A VERY interesting case of the success.
fYl TRANSMISSION of blood from one person
TO another recently took place in Berlin.