Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-17

are unlJeu III lnulsSOluDle DOnuS every
week.
A NUMBER of descendants of Jacob
Corzine and Freelove Herkbud, who were
married in Holland in 1903, claim a strip
of land in New York running from Fif-
tieth to Fifty-ninth street, and from the
river six blocks back, worth about $50
600 600. They have engaged counsel to
look after their interests.
AN out-of-town couple applied 10
drug store for soda water. "What syr-
up?" propounded the clerk. Syrup
syrup" repeated the bucolic fop, with an
incredulous stare, and then leaning for
ward, he impressively added "Stranger,
money is no object to me to day-you can
put sugar in themm
GEN. SHERMAN and Lieut. Fred Grant
recently had the honor of lunching with
His Majesty at Constantinople This is
the first time in the history of Imperial
Turkey that private individuals have been
entertained in this distinguished manner
1t is to be hoped that the guests had APP
preciative appetites,
THE Savings Banks of the United
States contain deposits of 81 900, ,000,0 600
mainly the surplus earnings of mechanics
and laboring men. OF this amount, over
Sl63, 900, 600 arc deposited in the Savings
Banks of Massachusetts, 800, 900, 600 in
the rest of New England, and nearly
$500, 000,0 900 in New York.
THE rapid advance of American civili-
zation may be partly judged from the
fact that the Western Union Telegraph
Company during 1871 purchased over
$4,000 miles of telegraph wire for the ne
cessities of that year. Already 5000
miles have been purchased for 1872, and
the prospects are that over $4,000 miles
will be needed to meet the demand of the
current year.
THADDEUs STEVENS, at his death, Au.
gust II, 1868, willed his library to a
nephew, on condition that he abstained
from the use of spirituous and malt IL
quors for period of five years. In the
event of his failing to keep the pledge
his executors were required to sell the H.
brary; and it has recently been sold by
them at public auction, in Philadelphia
The total sum realized by the sale was
$3,100.
AFTER reaching jail, at the close of her
trial, Lydia Sherman, the Massachusetts
! poisoner, was visited by her friends, cried
bitterly and had a fit of Mysteries. So
sure had she been of acquittal that she
had refused to have her clothing at the
Jail washed, saying that she would attend
to it when released. The first ballot of
the Jury upon the case resulted in nine
votes for conviction and three for ac-
quittal, and the second was unanimous
for murder in the second degree.
THE most touching eulogy, and the
most comprehensive, probably, was ut
tered at the grave of Daniel Webster at
the close of the funeral rites. A plain
man, probably one of the neighbOrs OF
the deceased came forward stood at the
grave, and said with quivering lips
"Daniel Webster, the world will be lone
some without you" The quality which
won for Daniel Webster this touching
eulogy was not his great and brilliant in
tellect, but his neighborly kindness.
THE quantity of meat consumed in thu
British Islands in 1871 was 1, ,447, 1S1 tons
of which / ,266 AIS tons were supplied by
home bred animals, 81 ,57S tons by import
ed animals, and 80 1875 tons consisted o
imported provisions from Australia. Thi
was an excess over 1870 of upward of 80,
600 tons. Almost half of the increas
consisted of imported provisions, one
third was the result of improved hom
production and one-siXth was from i'm
!, ported animals.
THE Smithsonian Institute has just re
ceved curiosity of great novelty AM
value for the national museum. 1t is
battle trophy OF race of natives livin
2 near the headwaters of the Amazon River
7 and is the head of captive condense
by some unknown process to q size no
, more than three inches in diameter, tn
: original proportions of the features bein
preserved. 1t looks like the head of som
, pigmy. These trophiesI are esteeme
highly by the natives, and they are diff
cult to obtain.
q RECENTLY Bostock & Wombwelps mi
nagerie arrived at Hanley, England, fo
exhibition, and a female elephant an
, some camels were taken to the stables {
q q a neighboring inn. A number of chi
" dren gathered in the inn yard to see til
elephant, and some of them amuse
; themselves by giving her nuts. Or
child, however, appears TO have give
her a stone, and the animal, irritated b
g this, lifted boy of thirteen by her trun
} into her mouth, and only dropped hi
+ by being ordered 10 do so by the keepe
who, at the moment was unlocking Il
It stable door, leaving the elephant una
# tended. The child, on being dropped
II the animal, fell fiat on the ground an
was picked up insensible. He was take
r, to surgeon, but in spite of every attic
e ton he died. He had been internal
n crushed and injured in the head.
THE new system of promotion wtho
s. purchase is causing considerable Difficult
h in some of the so-called crack regimen
r of the British army, A short time sin
a Mr.. Tribe was gazetted to sub-lieute
}, aney in the Ninth Lancers. No soon
@ had he Joined than he was "tabooed"
n the moneyed and aristocratic men Of t
IS regiment, asked to exchange into a
other, and, on refusing, sent to "Cove
70 try" and treated by his brother officers
~ a manner which more befitted school-bo
a than middle-aged gentlemen. The /
"a was ultimately placed under arrest on
> trumped-up charge of telling an untrut
- which has recently been made the subjC
g of court of inquiry. This court ordt
- ed Mr. Tribe to be released from ARE
80 at once, and it then came out that it W
"a a preconcerted plan among the officers
;" get rid of all Cardwell's men, (Cardwel
the British War Secretary and original
Is of the abolishment of the purchase s.
d tenn gazetted to the regiment. The Co
90 mander-in- Chief has, vulgarly speakir
of played "old Harry" with the "ofllcC
IL and gentlemen" of the Ninth Lance
:. which, it is hoped by lovers of fair pl
Is in England, will put a stop to their
s, tempts to coerce young men of real al
es ity into leaving the service by practici
10 upon them disgraceful system of pei
d tyranny.
IL The Prdctical Farmer gives the
ne lowing remedy for the cutworm in col
ay "hfter the corn is dropped and cover'
eY and hefoye IL ia m annlV on the surface