Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

Lo, THE pecuniarily deficient Indian,
has embraced rag.picking in San Diego
A DOG epizootic is loudly clamored for
by Louisville letter-carriers.
A NUMBER of New York capitalists
have ordered vessels built in Nova Scotia.
THE High Toned Guards is the name of
military company at Albany, N. Y.
GIvINe seventeen hundred pounds of
coal for ton is among "the weighs that
are dark"
1T took twenty men, armed with Whit
ney rifles, to kill mad bull, near Esst
Rock, Conn.
GARDENING around Paris is dangerous
on account of unexploded bombs in the
earth.
APoTHEcARELEssNEss is new word the
present generation has found 1t necessary
to invent.
THE largest dairy in California con.
tains 1 200 cows, the milk of which is
churned into butter by steam.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man has dlscov.
cred how to send messages in opposite
directions on single telegraph wire.
In Kansas ana Nebraska alone over IF.
teen thousand entries were made within
the year under the Homestead law.
A FLOATING elevator is being construct.
ed in New Orleans double the capacity of
any floating elevator in the country.
THE cornerstone of the first insane
asylum for homeopathic treatment in
America was laid last week at Middle.
town, n, Y.
YoUNG married people who have their
house built, should have 1t built round,
30 that discomfort can find no corner
in it.
THE berries OF the mountain ash are
employed in some of the forest regions in
Europe for the manufacture of alcoholic
drinks.
THE old notion that odorous flowers
are injurious to the health, seems to have
been quite overturned by some recent ex-
periments.
Six HUNDRED barrels of whisky and
200 cases of brandy, that have lain in the
bed of the Mississippi, near Memphis,
since 1861, were fished up recently.
AN Indianapolis clergyman, who dis
covered clear case of kissing during the
evening worship, recently, stopped his
sermon and offered prayer for the oscula-
tors.
A POOR but honest young lady, who
earns living by working on hoop-skirts,
in reply to an inqNiry, stated that she had
SPStV OAbN db IhO opllHSS'
A STUDENT who has been afflicted with
sermon one hour and half long, grum-
blingly says that these professors study
so much about eternity that they have no
conception of time. =
THE Washington is great public fa-
vorite-the increase of business last year
over the year previous was greater than
that OF any other cash company.
TIE Marquis Of Butte is preparing, for
the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
of 1873, a complete assortment of metals
and ores from Wales, the county of Dur
ham, and the entire basin of South Wales,
including Monmouthshire.
AN Auburn IN. Y convict having been
released after a three years service,
sought out the window of a former &C
quaintance, known before his sentence,
and paid her small sum of money he
had borrowed of her husband while the
latter and himself were at work together
in Elmira.
AN American marble cutter has tomb
stone in his marble yard, made from the
common limestone taken from the hills
north of Topeka, that is good enough for
any one. He has reduced it to as fine a
finish as any of his marble, and cut an
oak twig and acorn above the inscription
"DEER tongue" is little plant which
is now attracting considerable attention
as an article for scenting tobacco and
wrappers for cigars, the leaves having a
strong yanilla'odor. 1t grows abundantly
in the lower Southern States, and
Southern paper is confident that it will
become an important commercial product
of that section OF the country
A CITIZEN of Springfield, o., has COM
pleted a simple coatrivance to be used at
railroad crossings to signal the approach
of trains. 1t consists of two parts, one of
which is attached to an upright post
bearing flag and bell, the other is de-
signed to be fixed to the rails at any dis
tance desired from the crossing. When
the train strikes the latter, the bell rings
and the flag waves at the crossing stimuli
taneously. Fhe two parts are connected
with an iron rod.
THE NeRdiye of Egypt is probably the
richest 1a5tasin the world. His yearly in.
come is $50 900, 900, and he has twenty.
five richly furnished palaces within the
walls of Cairo. He is not only prince,
but merchaat, a capitalist, statesman
and a cultivator. He sleeps only four
hours. out of twenty -four, and at his desk
centre his railroads, steamship lines, tele-
graphs, postal service, private estates,
sugar mills, cotton culture, army, navy
and civil service.
HORSES that have not run for years,
and can't be made to run in any satisfac.
tory way, now run freely at the nose, and
the amount of hacking among the hack
horses and coughing among the hearse
horses is something without precedent.
The Dutchman complained that he felt
little horse because he had colt in his
head. Bat every other horse one meets
to-day seems to have colt in the head. -
~. 7. Star.
THE st. Louis DemOcrathas queer way
of dressing up news item. For exam,
pie: "Daniel Thatcher, of Paoli, Kan,
loved Miss Ellen Pine, and so did /. M.
Purcell. Daniel collided with Purcell
and gave him a tremendous thrashing.
Somebody 'laid' for Thatcher and blew.
off the top of his head. When the fair
Ellen was taken to the house where the
CORY remains of her dead lover were laid
out her. first remark was affecting. She
said, Mrs Shipman, have you put up any
apple butter yet?'"
SIR Tony has been spending few days
in South Jersey, and philosophically OBJ.
serves of one of his experiences Of his
visit: 81 never did have that animssity
toward the mosquito that most people feel,
but when / saw him in his glory down
here, deliberately leaning against my bed
post, his legs crossed, and his right iiipper
testing carelessly on his hip, watching
for mato:go to bed, it struck me that,
for vampire, his behavior was impert.
nent and exasperaringin tbe-extfeme."
THE Belgian industrial journals are il.
bilant overthe astonishing demands in
their country for coal, which, in oonse-
quenee-iA-the great rise in the British
prices, is now shipped in large quantities
to England, They state that the prices
given are so great that.it is impossible to
trace the course of the market The pro-
prietors of mines not only sell the coal
as fast as it isextracted, but are actually
obliged to refuse large numbers of foreign
orders on aceount .ef being unable to fill
them.-Scienhfc. American.