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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-27
A Smart Dog that Can Do Every
thing but Make Money.

A gentleman who lives just round the
corner has a dog by the name OF Mig"
called so because he is black. mig" is
probably one of the cutest animals that
has ever walked on four legs, or two, for
that matter, for it makes really little diff
ference to him how he travels. He will
sit up and hold penny on his nose by
the hour; bring his cwn tail in his mouth
TO you on the slightest bidding; opens
and shuts doors with the noiselessness of
a sneak.thief; brings up the newspaper
from the door-steps in the morning;
watches the letter carrier as he passes,
opens the gate for him, and brings in the
missives; goes out in the yard and fetches
a half scuttle of COAL himself filling the
scuttle; plays base ball in the position of
catcher against the best of them; would
beat "Shorty" Force as short stop, and
does hundred other things too numer-
Gus to mention. But there is just one
thing he won't learn, and the attempt to
get the idea into his noddle has cost the
owner many nickels and shinplasters.
A dog, as everybody knows, has won
derful scent, and as everybody likewise
knows, most people having had expert.
ence in that way, a great deal of money
is lost by accident upon the street. Now,
to go round and pick up stray stamps he'll
make my eternal fortane, and so he set
about experimenting. Whenever he and
"Nig" go out together, he will make it
point to drop shinplaster, and if his
canine sagacity does not observe the
treasure himself the master calls his at
tention to It. "Nig" then goes for it, and
in moment reduces 1t to pulp. When a
nickel is dropped, he makes short work
by swallowing it. This thing has been
going on for some time now, and the habit
acquired in an incipient stage of the
practice has become so rooted that 1t will
probably never be ersdicated But it is
ever thus our fondest hopes are dashed
to the ground. Here is good. .for-nothing,
rolllcking "Nig," who can do almost
anything under the sun, that is difficult
and Improbable, but the moment you at
tempt to turn his talent to value it
Vanishes in thin air.-ChieGgO Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-27

Sunday schools are incorporated in
California,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-27

BY vote OF the town of Middleboro,
Mass, last spring, children attending the
High School and living more than two
miles from the school-house are allowed
five cents mile for each mile travelled
toward the school house, for paying the
expenses of transportation. The chill.
dren who live on the line of the rail
road make good thing of it. From
South Middleboro, which is seven or eight
miles from Middleboro, eight attended
lost term. Each paid for a season ticket
for three months, 81 80, and those who
attended school every day of the twelve
weeks term received as mileage $14 rs,
making clear gain of $605, besides
which each ticket was good for week
over the duration Of the term
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-11-21
For the Boys.

Henry Ward Beecher says, | never
saw anybody do anything that | did
not watch him, and see how he did it,
fer there is no telling but that some
time might have to do it myself -
l was going across prairie once; my
horse began to limp. Luckily came
across blacksmith's shop, but the
smith was not at home. asked the
women of the house if she would allow
me to start a fire, and wake the shoe.
She said l might if knew how; so |
started fire and heated the shoe red
hot, and turned it to fit my horses
foot, and pared the hoof turned the
points of the nails out cunningly, as |
had seen the blacksmith do, so that in
driving into the hoof they should not
60 into the quick, and shod the horse.
AT the next place went to, | went
straight to a smith and told him to
put the shoe on properly. He looked
at the horses foot, and paid me the
greatest compliment ever received in
my life. He told me if put on that
shoe had better follow blacksmith
ing all my life. Now, I never should
have known how to do this if had
not looked on, aud seen others do it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-11-21
Some facts about the Oyster.

The oyster when spawning dos not
cast its eggs like other fish, but dis
solves, as it were. part Of its own
body, which passes off in long, slender
threads, as fine as a spiders web, upon
which are congregated millions Of lit
tie eggs, not visible to the naked eye /;
but which when put under powerful
magnifying glass asonishes the behold
er by their number. 1t is estimated
that about seventy per cent Of the
spawn is destroyed by fish, and about
ten per cent. from other causes, leaving
twenty per cent. to find their way into
market. These little "seed,' clinging
to whatever they touch, generally to
old oysters, and the many little shells
one often sees clinging to large oysters,
are but the growth of these seed.
When oysters have spawned in clear
place and free from their fish enemies,
their growth is very rapid until they
attain the size Of quarter Of dollar,
and it is at this period of their exist
ence that the oystermen take them for
transplanting. The shells are very
thin and the inside meat scarcely larger
than a shirt button, and having the
rest of the shell filled with II milky
fluid, which in time forms the body Of
the fish. Oysters, after they are trans
planted, are, with few exceptions, not
fit to eat under three years. 1t might
be supposed that the oyster, with its
hard shell, was free from all danger, but
such is not the case. He has two dead
ly enemies-the starfsh and the borer.
The former will fasten on the mouth
of an oyster and in short ime suck
the life out of him. The latter, with
his little saw aud gimlet bill, bores
through his shell, and, once through,
the oyster is soon destroyed.
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NORTHERN RAILROAD.

1871. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT 1871
0n and after June 26, 1871, Passen
" ger Train will run as follows:
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord at 1885
A. M and Accommodation Train at 1910
A.M.*for White River junction, connecting
with train for Well River, st. Johnsbury,
Barton, Newport, Wiioughby and Magog
Lakes, Stanstcad, Quebec, Bath, Littleton,
Lancaster, and theWhitc and Franconl
Mountains. Also, with,rains for Mont
pelier, Mansfield Mountain, Burlington, st.
Albans, Rouse's Point. Montreal, Ogdens
burgh, and the West.
ACCOMMODATIONS TRAIN leaves Concord Mt
81 P. M for White River Junction & Bristol.
EVENING EMPRESS TRAIN leaves Concord
at $40 p. NJ. for White River junction, con-
Meeting with trains for Montpelier, Burling-
ton, st. Adams, ROusc's Point, Montreal,
Ogdensburgh, anG the West.
tOr on arrival OF trains from Boston, Wor-
cestcr, Portsmouth, Portland, &c.
DOWNWARD TRAINS
INFORMING EMPRESS TRAINleaves White
River Junction for Concord ut l.50 A. NJ, or on
arrival OF trains from OgdcnSburgh and Mon
treal. This train is run to Boston on Sunday.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves White X.
Junction for Concord at 6.4j Am.
tBRIsToL TRAIN leaves Bristol for Concord
at $50 A. NJ. and Franklin 1T 9.05 A. NJ.
mail TRAIN leaves White River junction
for Concord at 1920 ?. Nj, or on arrival OF
trains over the Vermont Central, Passumpsic,
and White Mountains Railroads.
DAY EXPRESS TRAIN leaves White River
function at $40 P. NJ, or on arrival of trains
from Montreal and Ogdensburgh Brattle.
boro, Kcene, Bellows Falls, Windsor, Nc,
connecting at Concord with train for Man,
chester, Nashua, Lowell aad Boston.
+Thesc trains connect ut Concord with
trains for Manchester, Lawrence, Ports
mouth, Portland, Nashua, Worcester, New
York, Lowell, ard Boston.
GEO. L. TODD, Supt.
Concord, N. H., June 26th, 1871.
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Forgiveness.

FORGIVENESS holds the golden scale
On which our final judgment rests;
Wouldst thou at last with God prevail,
And sing among the pure and blest2
Forgive, and from thy inmost heart,
Whatever injuries you feel;-
Forgive, regardless of the smart:
For others's peace thy wounds conceal.
For human nature can but err,
Whatever Education claims;
The balm of heaven let us prefer;
Forgiveness wins deathless name,
With whomsoe'er your part you act
With Christian, Heather, Jew or Turk,
This perfect love repels attack
Give Love divine her perfect work.
Revenge brutal heart betrays,-
The nearest "totally depraved;"
A soul unblest in all its ways;-
And bids us ask "Who can be savedS'
Forgiveness is a priceless gem;
Forever safe from moth or rust;
The Christians crown and diadem;
A Joy which never fails the just!
The heart which feels for others woes
viii find each selfish sorrow less;
The brest that happiness bestows
Reflected happiness shall bless.
Father in heaven as we forgive,
So let thy kind forgiveness how;- \
Nearer to Thee we thus can live,
And more the great redemption know.
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Shall | see them no More.
by ROBERT JossELYN.

Shall see them no more2 Must die far away
From all I 80 loved in lifes earlier day?
The parents who taught me the lessons of
truth,
The brothers who shared all the joys of my
youth,
The one gentle sister whose smile could
destroy
All the fancful grlefs of the passionate boy,
The schoomaster, my playmatos, when study
was DER,
Shall | see them no more, shall see them no
Shall l see them no morei the Green Noun
tains that rose
Through the warm summer sky to the region
of SHOWS;
The valley where often pensvely strayed,
The brook where fsled, and the woods where
played,
The cottage that stood by the side of the hill,
And the cool spring hard by with its murmur-
ing rill.
The apple and cherry trees close by the door,
Shall see them no more shall see them no
more?
o bright are the skies that hang over me now.
And soft il the breeze to my feverish brow
fly to the lovely and mrth moving throng,
join in the laughter, the dance, and the song,
But, gazing on visions of beauty and grace,
The shadow of sadness steals over my face;
[ sigh fer the lost ones Time cannot restore
Shall see them no more, shall see them no
more?
o God let me die where drew my first breath
With my friends and my kindred around me in
death,
Let not the rude hand of the stranger be laid
On the cold, silent, image of clay thou hast
made,
When my spirit is gone, let my body leposc
In its old mountain home where the evergreen
grows;
There they, who still love me, my loss will
deplore
Shall see them no more, shall | see no more'
HOLLY SPRINGS, Mss. May /, 1874.
The above beautiful poem by Rob,
.Iosselyn, Esq, native Of Bridge
water, VT, now of Austin, Texas, was
published in this paper many years
ago, but having lost our file contain
ing it, we take the liberty to re-publish,
knowing that many will he glad to
to see it again.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-11-21
M0nOmania.

An extraordinary case Of monomania
is related in French exchange. A
well-dressed, educated gentleman re-
Gently appeared before a magistrate
and gave the following account Of him
self: ''My name is In. ! am a
teacher in college of the department
of Gers, and have come to pass the
vacation in my native town. ] come
to ask You to be good enough to pnt
me in some asylum until can over
come a dangerous monomania which
possesses me. am not mad, but am
simply sliced with and irresistible desire
to strangle a child. During the long
nights, as lay sleeplessly in the dor
mitory of our college, listening to the
breathing of the scholars confded' to
my care, | have felt the most eXtraOr-
binary sensations. Often have | got
up and gone toward the bed of one of
the boys, with the full intention of
strangling him to deaths but at the
moment when was about to seize him
by the neck, | have succeeded, by APP
pealing to my reason and all til resourc-
es of my nature, in avoiding the com
initial of crime. | happily managed
to ward off the dreadful impulse until
vacation came. But to-day feel that
| can no longer resist. Even in COM
ing here to you | carefully avoided
meeting any child; for, had | done so,
l must have killed it," AT this moment
boy Of IA years happened to be
brought before the magistrate to ans
were some change against him. At the
sight Of the boy a mad glare seemed
to kart from the eyes of themonoman-
lac, as he rushed forward to sieze him,
and was only prevented by the officers
of the law. The magistrate immediate
ly sent the unfortunate man to unatic
asylum.
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Lifr'S Brightest Hour.

Not long since, | met a gentleman
who is assessed for more than a mill
ion. Silver was his hair, care upon
his brow, and he stopped beneath his
burden Of wealth. We were speaking
of that period of life when we had
realized the most perfect enjoyment,
or, rather, when we had found the
happiness nearest to be unalloyed.
"I'll tell you" said the millionaire,
"what was the happiest hour Of my
life. At the age Of one and twenty
| had saved up $500. | was earning
$500 year, and my father did not
take it from me, only requiring that |
should pay for my board, At the age
Of twenty-five | secured a pretty cot
tage, just outside Of the city. was
able to pay two,thirds of the value
down, and also to furnish it respect
ably. | was married on Sunday-a
Sunday in JUne--at my fathers house.
My wife had come to me poor in purse
but rich in the wealth Of her woman
hood The Sabbath and the Sabbath
night was passed beneath my fathers
roof, and on Monday morning went
to my work. leaving my mother and
sister to help in preparing my home.
On Monday evening, when the labors
of the day were done, | went, not to
the patemal shelter, as in the past, but
to my own home-my own house.
The holy atmosphere of that hour
seems to surround me even now in my
memory. | opened the door of my
cottage, and entered | laid my hat
upon the little stand in the hall, and
passed on to the kithchen-our kitch-
en- and dining-room were all one then.
| pushed open the kitchen door, and
was in heaven! The table was set
against the wall; the evening meal
was ready, prepared by the hands Of
her who had come to be my help-meet
in deed as well as in name; and by the
table, with a throbbing expectant look
upon her lovely and loving face, stood
my wife, | tried to speak and could
not. could only clasp the waiting
angel to my bosom, thus showing to
her the ccstatic burden of my heart
The years have passcd-long, long
years and worldly wealth has flowed
in upon me, and | am honored and
envied; but, as true as heaven, | would
give it all, every dollar, for the joy of
the hour of that June evening in the
long, long ago."-NcU YORK. Ledger.
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DR.. Wells Extract Of Jurubchn

retains all the medical virtues peculiar to the
plant and must he taken as permanent
curative agent.
Is there want OF action in your Liver and
81 leen Unless relieved ut once, the blood
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Have you DySpeptic Stomach Unless
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poverty of the Blood Drrpsical Tendency
General Weakness or Las>tuGc.
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You are in danger OF Chronic DiNlrhoca OF
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Take it TO allay irritation and ward of
tendency to inl0mmationS.
Have you weakness Of the Utemde or Urin-
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lief or you are liable to suffering worse than
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Take it to strengthen organic weakness or
life becomes Il burden.
Finally it should be freque?tly taken to
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For Moth Patches, FreckIcs.

For Moth Patches, Freckics.
AND TAN, USE PERRY'S MOTH AND
FRECKLE LOTION. Tha we'll known re-
liable and harmless remedy for Brown Dis
colorations of the face. Prepared only by DR.
b. G. Perry, Dernatologist, 40 Bond St., New
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Skin Diseases.

PERRY's IMPROVED COMFDONE AND
PIMPLE REMEDY.-The SKIN Medicine of
the Age. Is warranted to cure Flesh Worms,
Pimples, eruptions and Blotched designations
OF the face. Sold by all Druggists. Depot AZ
Bond St. New York.
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T'lIE PAlN-KlLLER
Is cqrally applicable and eni,asious to
young CT old.
'HNIIE PAIN-KILLER
Is both an Internal and External Rem
edy,
'NIIE PAIN-KILLER
Will cure Fever AMI Aguc when other
remedies have failed.
NHE PAIN-KILLER
Should be used at the first manifesto
tions Of Cold or Cough.
'NHE PAIN-KILLER
Is the Great Family Medicine Of the
Age.
'FIlE PAIN-KILLER
viii cure Painters Colic.
ENHE PAIN-KILLER
Is good Tor Scalds and Barns,
ENHE PAIN-KILLER
IL Has the Verdict of the People in its
THE PAIN KILLER
n Gives Universal Satisfaction.
vFlIE PAIN-KILLER
M Beware of limitations and Co,ulterfeits.
rNHE PAIN-KILLER
n Is an almost certain cure for CIIOL.
ERA, and has, without doubt. been more
successful in curing this terrible disease than
any other known remedy, or even the most
nn,;nn,t md SEilliui Physicians I'm Ind ia
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Composed of Dock Root Sarsaparilla, Rock Rose,
Winicrgrccn, Dandclion, Wild Cherry, Thorough.
wort, Prickly Ash, Poplar Bark, Rhubarb, etc.
For Weakness, Loss OF Appetite, Jnun-
dice, Headache, Sour Stomach, Piles Of
long standing Humors, and all Diseases Which
arise from an unhealthy state Of the Stomach,
B0'celS, and BLOND, for which valuable Roots and
Herbs, and the knowledge of their great service to
suffering humanity, man cannot feel too thankful
to Him who wisely provided US with all things