Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

The export trade of Boston has more
than doubled In two years.
A BAND. of wolves has taken possession
of the poorhouse at Oskaloosa, Kansas.
A MAN with one leg celebrated the
Fourth Of July by climbing to the top of
Pixies Peak.
THE guests at Mount Washington have
snow-balling for one of their amuse.
ments.
WILLIAM BUTLER, of Lenoxa, Kan,
raised 1,342 bushels of oats from twenty
acres of land.
A YOUNG gambler, aged fourteen, lately
feeced a member of the Texas Legislature
of 81 200, at "a little game"
AN Ohio woman fears to go overland to
California this summer, because she
would have to go through Cholerado
"GrvE us water or give us deatl,n cries
the Denver Tribune. Most Western men
would prefer the former alternative.
THE grasshoppers of Iowa are addicted
are making bad raid upon that crop as
it grows,
A GRAIN dealer at Davenport, Iowa, got
neatly .swindled out of $50 in money and
fifty grain sacks, by an "honest farmer
looking fellow.
A HoTEL-KEEPER in Sterling, Mass, got
up few nights ago to take some essence
of peppermint, and swallowed corrosive
sublimate instead.
THE new $40 National Bank bill is to
be issued about the list of September No
issue of other denominations is to be
made before Congress meets
A FARMER in st. Clair County, Ill, has
just harvested from twelve acres of ground
$685. bushels of wheat, being but a frac.
tion less than forty-five bushels per acre.
SOUTHWESTERN sanitarians have settled
it to their own satisfaction that "indigen-
Gus cholera" owes its origin solely to eat
ing fruit containing the "germs of cater
pillars"-"
AN old couple living near Sparland,
Ill, were recently divorced. The hus-
band has since married the hired girl and
the ex-wife taken the hired girls place.
Two Kentucky youths were invited into
the bushes to see serpent They didn't
see the snake, but saw pair of pick
pockets decamp with their money and
things.
A PIECE of glass an inch long was taken
from the head of a Rochester man, recent
ly, in whose skull it had been imbedded
for twenty years. He had complained oc-
casionally of "pane" in the head.
A FRONTIER correspondent who saw
Capt. Jack after his capture, writes that,
in his opinion, the Modoc Chiefs appear
ance would have been vastly improved if
he had been washed before he was ironed.
A LAWRENCE girl, about to sue a false
admirer for a breach of promise, COM
promises the matter for So and a new
watch. Now she can get another lover,
and let him run on tick till she wants
more money.
In recent case of assault with intent
to kill in Indiana, it was shown that the
affray came about from a father insisting
onremaining in the room with his daugh-
ter and her beau. The sympathetic jury
acquitted the young man.
THE colored citizens of Summit County,
Ohio, have presented a petition to the
State Constitutional Convention to have
the word 'negro' prohibited by constitu-
tional provision, from being used in pub
lie documents and school books.
E. RoBBs & Co. have commenced suit
against the city of Cincinnati to recover
S130,0O0 for lumber destroyed by the
great cOal-oil fire in June on the ground
city ordinance, and that they repeatedly
requested the city to enforce the law.
AT the Caledonian Club games at Scran-
ton, Pa, recently, the feature was a fat
woman's race for a new bonnet. 1t was
an oily affair. The leanest contestant
weighed $50, and three others weighed
respectively 200, 242 and Pol pounds.
AMONG the incidents of the cholera in
the South is mentioned the fact that many
mocking- birds and canaries sickened and
died, while those which frequented the
gardens instinctively fled to the woods,
and did not return until the cholera took
its departure.
FROM some of the letters which have
recently appeared in American papers it
would seem that European kings, princes,
and statesmen are just now particularly
desirous ofspouring their secrets into the
sympathetic ears of American newspaper
correspondents.
No ACTION has been taken by the New
Orleans authorities in earnest to bring
Rhett to punishment for the murder of
Judge Cooley in the late duel. Rhett
keeps shady, but yet edits the Picaytne,
and is in no danger of molestation The
reports of his having fed are sheer fabri
cations.
DIR. J. R. BRowN, living near South
Bend, Ind, killed rattlesnake with
rake few days ago, and. afterward- in
handling the rake, communicated some of
the snakes poison to an abrasion on one
of his fingers. His whole system became
imbued with the poison, which he neu.
tralized with 'spr. frumenti" in copious
doses.
A WEsTCHEsTER, Pa, paper states that
a "Melanerpes Enthrocephalus" has been
observed in the park; and then, lest this
portentous name should frighten away all
the women and children, explains that the
monster, in question is only the red-headed
wood-pecker.
THE Germans of Chattanooga have
wholly escaped the clutches of indigenous
cholera. They ascribe the fact to the use
Of lager beer instead of whisky and bran
dy, and not few say they owe safety to
onions. Such is the sober statement of
the Memphis appeal.
To makea concrete house frame is
erected as for an ordinary house, but with
or without studding, as may be desired,
and the concrete is filled in between the
timbeIs, and may be finished to show the
frameyor faced over all and pointed and
pencied to initiate stone or brick. AS
large Il house may be built this way as
any other. The cost will be about from
one-half to two-thirds that of an ordinary
building.
A YOUTHFUL couple of runaways in
Texas having obtained license, repaired
to a clergyman on Red river and desired
him to perform the ceremony. He, how
ever, declined on account of their youth,
and for fear the law might hold him re-
spOnsible. Not to be Outdone they stow
ed themselves on cottonwood log and
drifted far enough out into the stream to
be considered Out of the State, while the
Oblging minister climbed on a stump at
the waters edge, and pronounced the
words of the ceremony which made them
man and wife. e. ~ -7 30 E.-.--
PROFESSOR HAYDEN, at hast accounts,
was occupied in exploring Long Peak,
Colorado. He had already erected three
signal monuments, thirty feet high, and