Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-01-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

n DEfo OHt anu bnlIhl AtNIE
old was recently presented for record in
Boston.
THERE are but nine families in Gosport,
N. H., and the debt of the town is So
J3431
WHY are our sidewalks in winter like
music If you do not c sharp you will
b fiat.
To produce quiet sleep, secure policy
of insurance in the Washington Life In
surance Company.
CHARLES BARKER, of Peterborough,
N. H., has raised turkey which weighed
twenty-five pounds, dressed
The average mean temperature of 1871
at Philadelphia was 1.30 degrees higher
than that of any ore of the last AZ years.
a NEwIY-INvENTED photometer proves
that light penetrates 100 fathoms below
the surface of the sea-seventy fathoms
more than hitherto supposed.
The following is an example of first
class modern reporting A Missouri mu-
sician sat down upon keg of powder
and began to smoke. One button was
left TO tell the tale.
Carl. MARTENS, of Cleveland, died re.
Gently of hichinN spirdiis' his wife and
two children were not expected to recover.
The disease was contracted from eating
sausages.
A YOuNG man named Battle is awaiting
trial for forgery in New York who fell
heir to $3.50, 900 five years ago, married,
ard in so short time, ny high living, re-
duced himself to the poverty which led
to his crime.
THE order of Knights of Pythias was
founded in the city of Washington in
1884. 1t is now flourishing in thirty-six
States and Canada dspensaiion has
been sent to Honolulu, and the order now
has 800 lodges with membership LOG, 900.
AFTER the 1st of October. 1872. it will
be unlawful for domestic animals to run
at large in Illinois This is the provision
of law passed by the Legislature, and
1t will require a vote of the county to
prevent the operations of the law.
SMITH and Jones were at the menage-
rie, and the conversation turned on Oar
wins theory Look at that monkey"
said Smith "think of it's being an unde-
veloped human - Human said Jones,
contemptuously otis no more human than
am"
The Albany journal says that "Forty
boys, now pupils IN the Free Academy
earn their own livelihood while they are
pursuing their studies. Some of them
rise at four O'Clock in the morning, to
newspapers. blItlS uTt tIlDlONe(l
on afternoon papers and in other vOca-
tiOns.'
A GRASS widow of Lafayette promised
to marry a lover if he would get her di-
vorce from her lawful and awful hus-
band. He did SO, after much feeling and
hard swearing; but he swore all the
harder when, to his utter astonishment
and disgust, his fair enslaver welded an
other man.
The greatest cOnglomeration of errors
ever made in an obituary notice was the
English notice of Daniel Webster, when
he was described at once as the great lexi
cographer, statesman, the author of a
spelling book, and the broken-hearted
brother of the murderer of Dr. Parkman
"A CORRESPONDENT says Alexis takes his
breakfast in the palace railway car in this
proportion Three miles of coffee, q
mile of milk, three miles of oyster stew
ten miles of buckwheat cakes, twelve
miles of tenderloin, nine miles of han
and eggs, and three miles of sugar mo-
lasses, and napkins"
CHILDREN invent curious etymologies
Come! comew said distracted father
who had endured the children's noise or
Christmas day, till patience ceased to be
virtue, there's no reason why you should
scream anu HOllOa so. w nv, 1atner,
said one of the little fellows, "dont yor
know this is a holIe1day?"
A YOUNG girl in the East Indies was re
Gently held for two days in the embrac,
of a serpent, which had coled itsel
around her body and would not permi
the approach of any man. During tha
time she subsisted on milk and plantains
brought by woman and n snake-charm
er finally succeeded in charming her ven
omOus lover away.
Horse AND Doc FLEsH,-A correspond
ent of the Medical and SHrgjcM ReD0Tter
who had experience during the siege o
Paris says; "Horse-hesh looks and taste
exactly like beef, and not only with diff
Guilty can be distinguished from it, but i
in fact preferable to it. 1t is better, how
ever, the same as cat-meat, to put it il
pickle for thirty-siX hours DOg-meat
when properly prepared, resembles NUT
Ton and even deer
THE statistics of the Coroner of Ney
York city, for the year just closed, shoy
that 126 infants were found dead i'm tn
stress; that Sjl deaths by accident occurre
some OF them growing out of riots; tina
129 persons were drowned; that 10S lel
the world by suicide-Paus green an
morphine being the fayorite modes c
exit; and that AZ hOmicides and infant
icides were committed.
A Mr.. WEEKS lives in house at Greer
land, n. Y, which one of his ancestors O
that name built in 1888 (233 years ago
and which has remained the family hom,
stead ever since 1t is twO-story brio
building, with wall eighteen inches thick
all the timbers used being massive Oal
A serious rent in the east wall is believe
bn a nf thn parIbpnalya nf 1~O- n
that of 1715.
- "A YOUNG gentleman from the rural di
trcts called at the Indiana Executive ID,
partment few days ago, and was recei,
cd by Governor Baker in person, no ON
else being in the Office at the time. AftC
having been showed through the room
and the several objects of interest ha
been explained to him, the young visitC
prepared to take his leave. He eXpresso
himself as much pleased with the visit an
his reception, and as he was about to pa,
out of the door astounded the GovenC
by the inquiry; whats the fee for Il
servicey'
IA GENTLEMAN engaged in furnshin
relief to the poor on the sOuthwesteI
frontier of Minnesota, during the TeceI
cold weather, found n family consistin
of widow and several small children
uVlng IN 'SOu nut, that Is, mole
the ground, ten or fifteen feet square an
about six feet deep, covered with brus
and layer of sod They were thin
clad, the children having no shoes. The
was a stove, but no fire or wood. At a
other house he found the children wit
out shoes, and two little boys out in Il
snow.in their bare feet, feeding the cattl
rtSIoUX CITY has Il iail-bird who won
he a treasure to any Sheriff His name
Dan Donnelly He is committed on su
dry charges of incendiarism, but Sher
Kingsnorth allows him the freedom of Il
inll and the CITY. The other daY u