Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-10
CURRENT ITEMS.

REPoRT says that there are four strictly
temperate men among the crown heads of
Europe.
The Washington is as good company
ms there is in existence sor the policy
holder.-P. II. MoGRAw, Senator.
A VIGOROUS young Sexton in Opelika,
Ga, lately pulled the church bell down,
and came near ringing his own knell in
the operation.
Mrs. LOUISA SANDER, of Lancaster
County, Pa, has patched quilt contain
ing $4,000 pieces, its dimensions being
three yards square.
THE girls in Raleigh, N. c., have
nice way of eating philopenas, They
hold the almonds in their teeth while the
young fellows bite them off.
Mr.. EL1HU BURRITT has called an In
ternational Peace Congress, to be held at
the Cooper Institute, New York, on the
10th of next September.
"SALLY," said a fellow to girl who
had red hair, keep away from me, or
you'll set me on fire." "No danger of
that" replied the girl, "you are too green
to burn ~
A BAGGAGE master on the Concord IN.
H.) Railroad was rewarded with $5 bill
for finding and returning to the owner a
wallet containing $1,000.
IT is said that the experiment tried at
Liverpool, Eng, of publishing in the
daily journals list of all persons arrest
ed for intemperance, has had the effect of
largely diminishing the number of arrests,
CHEEK is worth money in New York.
a modest man advertises that fifty dollars
will be paid to any person who will in a
short time convert shy, lOw-speaking
man into an impertinent, loud talker.
THE heroine of the great diamond we'd
ding is a widow. She lives on large
sugar plantation near Matanzas, and by
the strictest economy manages to subsist
on an income of 100000 year.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas, in its
finding in the Medlicott case made the
following decision; impressions not
amounting to opinions, received from
newspaper articles or rumor, do not dis
qualify juror, and are not cause for chal-
lenge.'
BAYARD TAYLOR once called on Hum
boldt The venerable Baron met him cor
daily, saying as he did so, "You have
travelled much, Mr.. Taylor, and seen many
ruins, and now you see another" mot
ruin, replied Taylor, "but pyramid. "
A WEALTHY Connecticut man has the
audacity to boast that he made his first
ny relics
from the Holy Land" Some of these
wooden frauds, much priced by the sim
pie persons who bought them, were
grown within half a mile of their own
homes.
In Pueblo, New Mexico, a genuine
soap mine is reported to have been lately
discovered The stone is of a dun color,
about the hardness of chalk, and with
water forms an excellent lather. After
bathing with it the skin is left soft and
smooth, and it effectually removes all
stains and grease spots from clothing.
THERE was doll on exhibition at the
recent Homeopathic Fair in New York,
which is valued at $1,000 There were
three or four trunks filled with clothing
and jewelry, and her attractions were
completed by a pair of solitaire diamond
earrings, which she wore constantly, and
necklace to match.
JAMES C'NEfLL has Just been released
from the Rhode Island Prison, having
after eight years incarceration, been
proved innocent. The Providence Jour
nal thinks the State should at least com
pensate him at the rate of 1914 cents 8
day, for the great wrong which he has
suffered.
= FEW days ago, the van-a covered
vehicle with locked doOr-stafted from
Philadelphia courthouse with three oc
cupants for the prison. Upon arriving
there the door was unlocked, but no pris
oners were found inside. They had made
an opening in the floor of the concern
and had quietly dropped out and escaped
A BooKBINDER said to his wife at the
wedding: ut seems that now we are
bound together, two volumes in one, with
clasps" eyes," observed one of the
guests, zone side highly ornamented Tur
key morocco, and the other plain calf
That guest had presence of mind enough
left to avoid sudden contact with a well
aimed patent leather boot.
A FEW days since teacher in the Sun
day School of an Episcopal Church il
Chicago, said to one of her pupils
"James, what good thing-what grea
pleasure are you willing to give up as
sacrifice during the Lenten season ?" Jim
mie meditated about ten seconds and re
sponded; 81 think Pll give up going t.
Sunday School"
A FATHER and mother in Detroit latel,
went away in the evening, and left thei
little four-year-old boy alone, although
he begged piteously to be taken, becaus
he was afraid of the wolves and bears
When they returned they found that tn
child had become insane from fright, an
was likely to be moping idiot for tn
rest of his days.
THE other afternoon some gentlemen
while prospecting for coal about a mil
from Rockport, KY, came upon the con
plete skeleton of a human body, giganti
in Size 1t was found about six feet bC
low the surface of the earth. The fore
arm bone from elbow to wrist measure
forty,twO inches, and the thigh bone fror
the hip to the knee measured forty-tw
inches. The lower jaw-bone completed
covered the whole lower portion of a
ordinary. sized human face"
THE COMING TINE
When men forget their love Of gold
And love their honor more
When truth il only current coin,
And counted o er and DER;
When men love freedom for its sake
For all as well as one
And for the greatest good, their work,
From day to day is done;
When men throw self aside and live
For some just purpose high,
Then will the glorious era come
When none shall fear to die.
THE Jacksonville Qll.) Journal chron
cles the repayment of loan of six and
quarter cents, made forty years ago. TIL
"picayune" was lent by Colonel San
Mathews to Judge Samuel Woods, at
muster of volunteers for the Black Haw
war, and was expended for apples to ca
On the 22d of April, this year, the pa
ties met, and talk over old times Gale
up the memory of the long-forgotten loan
when the debtor insisted on repayin
principal and forty years interest with
one dollar greenback.
NOWADAYS people along the Connect
cut Valley are busy picking up floo(
wood. And we are sorry to say, says tn
Hartford Times, there is class who
not confine themselves to taking fiooC
wood alone. We have heard a story tol
of suffering man, living in the vicinit
of Hartford, who was going home with
wagon load of drift material and had
grindstOne aboard, who, when aske
where he got the grindstone, replied, wit
gravity, ooh, the d-d-d-darn thing cam
b.b-b-bobbing down on the f-f-f food"
60 &c et;l1 tao