Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-14

WEDDING CARDS In Denver consist Of a
Jack of diatn6ndsf and theD ddeen Of
hearts, with the contracting parties
names thereon. If the BRIDES mother is
living the ten of clubs is enclosed.
A NEGRO In Coffee County, Ga, who |
bet g. rs that he could ride a roam mule |
with pine burr under the saddle, lost |
the money. He was followed to the tomb |
by large and enthusiastic audience.
LOUISVILLE has o new Chief of Police,
and be has awkwardly arrested several
leading citizens whom he found In gam
bling rooms, II will take him some
weeks TO get Acquainted ~ Chicago paper.
Work on the North Pacific Coast Rail-
road, to run from Saucelito northward
near the ocean shore, will soon be com
menced by 1000 men, and the company
expect to reach che Russian River this
year.
BOARDING. Ne.HoUsE chicken soup can be
made, 1t is safd by hanging upia hen in
the sun so that her shadow shall fall into
a pot Of salt water. The only trouble is,
that on a cloudy day the soup is liable TO-
be weak. i llEEg NLIlELdC j y
THE champion hunters Of Oregon are
]. j. Crawford and David Thomson, Of
Douglas, who In nine days killed four
panthers, three bears and two lynxes. In
the year they killed sixty.one animals Of
these species.
A LADY called on q witty friend, who
was not at home, and finding the piano
dusty, wrote upon it "slattern." The
next day they met, and the lady said, "I
called on you Yesterday" Yes, l saw
your card on thepiano." AH #t +
THERE Is rumor out that the Agricul.
tural Colleges which do not conform in
their courses Of study to the law of Con-
gress which calls them into life, will get
zaandamuses served on them from the
United States Supreme Court. q
SOME questions very naturally suggest
themselves to an inquiring mind. An
amateur farmer wonders "why, on all
this fair earth, the ground is bottom side
up, so that it must be turned over with a
plow before corn can be raisedY"
OVER 100000 in bonds, mortgages,
etc, stolen from the banking house of
Clarkson & Co., Lancaster, Pa, on the
| 18th January. have since been found un-
der stairway leading to the basement Of
st. Pauls Reformed Church in that city.
Two men who stole ride on a'Texas
| freight train were locked in and switched
off the track at q way station, and had to
remain in their close quarters for ninety
six hours without food or water, and at
the end OF that time were imprisoned as
vagrants.
A CHUNK Of gold, weighing over 240
pounds, and worth about $4,000, was
found in the claims of 70 Yen & Co., at
Moore's Flat (Col.) These claims are
owned by Chinese company to whom
they were sold cheap, having, as was sup,
posed, been exhausted.
A WEDDING was broken up at Columbus
City, Iowa, in the following manner
The preacher asked II any one had any
objections; the young lady said: Eyes;
| don't want to marry him" The ex.
pectant bridegroom folded his broadcloth
and silently stole away.
THE St. Paul Pioneer says John
Kegan, of Plainview, 76 years of age
bivouacked in a snow bank for forty-nint
hours during the late storm. He was
fearfully bruised by pounding himself "a
keep from freezing, but beyond that he
suffered no serious injury.
THE Cleveland Herald understand.
from reliable source that very extensive
stock yards are to be built on the line OF
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad, between that city and Paines
vile, to accommodate the largely increas
ing stock business of the road.
A STEAMBOAT landed at Marion Bend
KY, recently, and put two negroes ashor,
who were sick with the smallpox. TIL,
citizens were afraid to go near them
They were without shelter, food, o
medicine, and of course died neglected
and alone. The hogs devoured thei
bodies.
DETRoIT's chief of police had tele
gram from an interior town saying: Al
rest man with red hair for running
away with my wife" Upon walking fou
blocks the chief met no less than Is red
I haired men walking with ladies, and
concluded that the eloping couple could
pass through the city in safety.
,, SPENCE PETTIs, convicted at Bostor
I of forgery, thinks that the old detective
OF Boston were hard to trade with; Me-
York officers were satisfied with hal
j but, in one bargain with the Boston of
GERS, seven or eight years ago, he had I
pay them 66 per cent, which he calls tai
/; ing mean advantage.
WHILE the workmen were engaged
sinking vertical shaft at the Black Di
n mond Coal Company's mine in MouI
Diablo, Cal, they came upon frog at
depth of 172 feet. 1t was imbedded
solid sand stone, so that the impressiO
e of its form was perfect upon the roc
= around it; but, nevertheless, it was aliv
l. and lived for twelve hours after its extr
}, cation.
d A BROoKFIELD man writes for the be
6 way TO manage bull. If our Brookfie
friend has got bull on his premises, ar
the bull is well, he don't want to manal
it. All he has got do is to get fe
things hastily together. mortgage h
IS place and steer straight for the west. T
might as well try to ward off streak
n lightning with fifty cent paint brush
) to manage bull -SpriHgtieEd Repu61tca
:, FReLICsoME columns of sand, ten fe
Il through and ten hundred feet high, a
waltZlng about Nevada in a manner tn
is, to say the least, quite may. TT
6 twenty-five mile desert is their danciI
l. floor. For the most part, they obser'
the most platonic demeanor towards ol
II another, and trip it singly, like spi
d ming Shaker spinster.
A CURIOUS suit has been begun in h
e, Superior Court at Hartford, Conn, by
7, man named Conway, to recover $50
for the death of child who died in IS
e from the effects of cold, taken while
70 one of the boats of the Hartford and Ne
York Steamboat Company. Conwt
n claims that there were no accommod
n tions in the cabin or elsewhere, and tn
r. the consequent exposure was the cause
the death of the child.