Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-28
CURRENT ITEMS,


A pENKNIFE was found in the heart of
o tree lately felled in New Haven.
WOULD you expect to find sweet.eyed
girl among the daughters of Missouri
FoUR-FIFTHs of the widows in Canada
remain widows less than thirty months.
WHEN persons are sea-sick, what do
they most desire? To feel sea cure, of
course.
Policies become self-sustaining in the
Washington Life Insurance Company, of
New York.
A CALIFORNIA clergyman is said to be
the only living white man who is master
OF the Choctaw language.
A TERRE HAUTE Qnd.) woman, aged
seventy, has been to every circus that has
visited the place in sixty five years.
THE Prussian Government has prohib-
tied the sale of woman's-rights publica-
tions issued in the United States.
AN item in defense of lazy men calls
particular attention to the fact that they
never organize baseball clubs.
A LOT of land was recently sold in Lon
don, size 25x60 feet, at the rate of $4,000
per foot, or 100000 for the lot.
The Brooklyn Directory contains 5, 536
more names than last year, indicating an
increase in population of about 10000.
A RICH New Yorker wants his body
burnt after death, and the ashes sealed
up in an urn which he has just ordered
from Italy for the purpose.
A GENTLEMAN of Springfield inquired
of another whether certain doctor had
any practice. ooh, yes" was the reply,
II assisted in laying out one of his pa
tients the other day."
THE Racine (Wis AdDocdte says that if
time is money, there are a great many
men in that town in very easy circum-
stances. They seem to have great deal
of time on their hands that they don't
know what to do with.
THE residence of Widow Browning, in
Phoenix, III was burned a few weeks
ago, with no insurance. The neighbors
took note of the fact and took up u sub
scription, and the widow is about to
move into a new house as the result
az NEVER saw such a cold woman as
Mrs. u.s." said an envious beauty of
another the other evening. 81 feel quite
confident that she must give her husband
a cold in the head whenever she kisses
him."
THE code of morals in the Quaker
City is getting to be very eXacting one
Only the other day man was arrested for
stealing pin, and is in fair way for a
moderate term in the penitentiary. The
pin had diamond attached to it, how
ever.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Cen
Heman has found that sowed corn, when
fed alone or almost exclusively and con-
tinually to cows, is not so valuable as it
has been generally consdered; but grass
and sowed corn fed together are all that
could be desired.
ONE ounce carbolic acid mixed with
three quarts of strong soap-suds makes
an excellent wash for the base of trees to
keep the borers away. Apply with a
brush. Shading the trunk by wrapping a
piece of sack about it will also keep them
away.
81 CAME for the saw, sir" "What
saucer9" "Why, the saw, sir, that you
borrowed. 81 borrowed no saucer"
"Sure you did, sir; you borrowed a saw,
Sir" 81 never saw your saucer" "But
you did; there's the saw now, sir" ooh,
you want the saw; why didn't you say
so?"
A GENTLEMAN desiring of purchasing
an estate in Switzerland, which he had
not sufficient money to buy, advertises in
the Swiss Times for partner possessing
money enough TO enable him to make up
the required sum. The partner is to be a
lady, and one of the conditions is that
she shall marry the advertiser.
THEY tell of a sharp Yankee down on
Cape Cod, who, being told by the post
master that his letter weighed trif1e over
half ounce, and therefore required an
other stamp, with his pen-knife cut of
the corners of tho letter. and thus reduc
ed its weight to single-stamp standard.
A TELEGRAM from Los Angeles Cal,
in the San Francisco papers, reports that
an artesian well at Campton, $50 feet deep
elects live fish resembling speckled trout
from half to two inches long The
same phenomenon appears at an artesiar
well on aranch arby, seeming to indicate
the existence of subterranean lake.
Tonic WASH FOR THE HAIR.-Wher
the hair is falling off the following tonic
wash is recommended: Take half flui(
ounce of tincture of quinine, one drachn
of bicarbonate of ammonia, and five an(
half ounces of rose water; first dissolv,
the ammonia in water, then add the tine
ture. Apply it gently to the roots of tn,
hair twice a week, or oftener, if found t,
be beneficial.
AT funeral, lately, there stood in tn
house of the deceased an old-fashioneC
clock, which, when it finished the an
nouncement of the meridian hour, wa
made to play tune The Officiating
minister was in the midst of his sermon
when, noon having arrived, the clock CON
menced striking twelve. In very solemn
tone he impressed on his hearers the in
evitable flight of time; but the eXhorta
tion was evidently ineffective, as the clocl
instantly followed with the CHEEKY oil
notes of "Take your time, Miss Lucy"
WHooPING- CoUGH RENfEDY.-Tea mad
of the leaves of the common sweet chest
nut tree, sweetened with honey or whit
sugar, and drank of frequently and quit
freely, during the day, will effect cur
in a few days. Every housekeeper shoul
gather chestnut leaves every year, an
save them, Just as much as they woul
any medicinal herb, because they are goo
for any cough. In many places tn
chestnut does not grow, consequently il
leaves cannot be ga hered; but the con
mon red clover blossoms, prepared in til
same way, are very good substitute
Western Rural.
A CASE has Just been decided in Me-
York by which will thirty-three yeal
old has been declared void. TheodoI
Tallmadge died in 1871, leaving h
property to his daughter. Just at tn
time one Philip Burrows produced
testament bearing date of 1889, by virtu
of which he took possession of Tai
madge's property, and sold it. In 1St
the daughter came of age, and commence
a suit for the ejectment of the presel
occupants of the property, alleging IL
invalidity of Burrows will. After yea
of litigation the suit has been decided
her favor.
THE Troy Wh@ tells the followir
story zone of our prominent phys
clans, making his daily rounds to see h
patients, had occasion to call at a houi
where there were no facilities to taste
his horse. He left it in the care of a sma
boy, whom he happened to see in IL
street. On coming out of the house
naturally enough expected to find h
trusty servant treating himself to ride