Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-14
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CURRENT ITEMS.
UMBRELLAS are scarcely ever seen in
Russia.
COOP company and good conversation
are the sinews of virtue.
ISLANDER is the revenge of q coward,
and dissimulation his defense.
UNIFORMLY kind, courteous, and polite
treatment of all persons is one mark of a
true woman.
EVERY member of the Washington
Life Insurance Company is interested in
its success.
THE largest raft that ever came down
the Mississippi arrived at Rock Island a
few days since. 1t contained 100000
feet of lumber and 1 100000 of laths.
THE newest Western wonder is a soda
lake on the Union Pacific Railroad, sew
eral miles in circumference, and capable
of supplying seventy thousand tons of
soda year.
SHEFFIELD, ENG, uses up over seventy
tons of ivory every year for the handles
of knives and forks, and about 1900 op-
eralives are employed in forging and
grinding the blades
be greater than that of any State or Ter
ritory, and her grazing area is only sur
passed by Texas. The mining area
extends over about 1000, 900 acres.
MOSES AND AARON Wilcox were born
the same day, married sisters, were part
ners in business at Twinsburg, Ohio,
which is called after them, died on the
same day, and are buried in one grave.
THE great Australian trees exceed in
height, though not in circumference, the
giants of California. A tree in Victoria
measured 4S0 feet; the highest yet dis
covered in California is only $50 feet.
"AH, JENNY" said sympathizing
friend to a man who was just too late for
the train, 'you did not run fast enough" !"
Eyes, l did," replied Jenny, "but
didn't start soon enough"
| A FARMER named Britson, who disap-
peared from his home in Allen County,
Ind. ), twenty years ago, recently re-
! turned, having in the meantime wandered
all over the English-speaking world as a
tramp printer.
SNooKs has found "still another link 4"
| in the chain of evidence of the affinity be-
tween man and the lower orders. He
affirms that he has actually seen a
spider trying to get up a corner on cob
webs.
| A PEKIN 1ll.) woman was asked by the
preacher if her husband feared the Lord.
| She replied: Fear him why, bless
you, he is so feared of him that he never
| goes out of the house Sundays without
taking his gun along"
If a seaman should turn back every
time he encounters head wind, he would
never make voyage. So he who per-
mits himself TO be baffied by adverse cir
! cumstances will never make headway in
the voyage of life.
&" l WILL not strike thee, bad man, "
said Quaker one day, "but | will let this
billet of wood fall on thee" and at the
! precise moment the "bad man" was floored
by the weight of a walking stick that the
Quaker was known to carry.
THE following knotty question claims
the attention of one or all of our debating
societies: IF man has tiger by the tail,
which would be the best for his personal
safety-to hold on or let go 90
In the fourth century glazed windows
were introduced into houses, and Justly
considered a great luxury; before the in
vention of glass mirrors plates of highly
polished metal were used, specimens of
which are still preserved in many families
as heirlooms.
TO lazy hOusemaid)-"NOw Mary, you
know I'm going to give a ball tomorrow
night, and | shall expect you to bestiI
yourself, and make yourself generally use.
full 'Hes MN; but l am sorry to say,
MN, | can't dance.
A YOUNG man, at wedding in Bedford
Ct, recently, while promenading with d
lady, chanced to approach the officiating
! plprUVman whO hannpninn m ha IaQf
and supposing them to be the couple hG
had come to unite, Immediately married
them in spite of their remonstrance. They
accepted the situation, and commenced
housekeeping.
IT requires five millions of men, half 6
million of horses, and eight thousand can
non, maintained at an annual expense Of
seven hundred millions of dollars, to pre-
serve the peace of Europe. This is ex
elusive of the cost of forts, arsenals, ships
wagons, tents, hospitals, etc., etc.
PROF, LIEBIG, in lecture on poisons
said that people were foolish in using
arsenic to poison their enemies, for tn,
billionth of grain can be traced in the
stomach" and :" if the person should die
it remains there forever" Arsenic is Sc
injurious when used in coloring mate
rials, that he even objects to children
using green covered school-books.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, of Bradford, N. H.
has cat which recently lost all of lit
ter of kittens but one. A few days aftel
his son found nest of three young, rec
squirrels, which he took home and CAV,
to the cat, supposing she would kill anC
eat them. On the contrary, the cat tool
a wonderful liking to them, and adopted
them as members of her family, and Seems
to be as much pleased as though they
were veritable kittens.
} THE intense hardness of the black, un
J clearable diamonds, which are used il
boring machines and for dressing mill
stones, is such that single one has beer
employed for more than year in dress
ing pair of French millstones daily, with
out perceptible wear or diminution o
cutting power, The application of tn,
diamonds to boring and drilling is du,
to Swissengineer, M. Leschot.
DIR. JOHNSON, when in the fullness o
years and knowledge, said: II never take
up newspaper without finding some
thing / would have deemed il loss no
to have seen; never without deriving fron
it instruction and amusement" Tn
newspapers in Johnson's time were mea
ger enough compared with those of to
day. Now, yearly newspaper volume
a perfect encyclopedia.
ABOUT FIVE hundred Indians held thei
annual medicine dance" near Trem
pealeau, Wis, on recent Sunday. Th
ceremonies were conducted by Chic
Short Wing, and the incoming medicine
man was inaugurated by stripping him o
all of his clothing, and marching hin
around the inclosure in nude state
while all the braves and bravesses fol
lowed, shaking gourds and beating
drum. The meeting was very orderly
The Kansas City (Mo.) Neaos says mon
ster snake, 25 feet long and as big arounc
as a mans body, has been seen in John
son County, Mo-, on the ground and higl
I'M In the trees and is seXceedinPlY shy anI