Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-31
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CONFINEMENT is natural wealth; luxury
artificial poverty, Hi. ..t'
| AN oyster ship will run between Amer
lea and England this winter.
THE average receipts of the Chicago
billiard saloons reach 5000 day.
A HnPoPoTAMus which escaped from
menagerie is sporting in the Savannah
River.
Coal has recently been discovered neal
/ Golden, COL 1t is hard and bright in
color.
EXPERIMENTS show that corn loses one
fifth and wheat one-fourteenth of its
weight by drying.
A MEMBER of base ball club in Balti
more ran 100 yards recently against trot
ting-horse and won wager
No SARATOGA hotel except Congress
Hall paid expenses this last season. Stew.
arts grand house lost $4,000.
A NEW uniform for our entire standing
army of 10000 men is now being made Al
Frankfort Arsenal, Philadelphia.
JERusHA PECK, a maiden mser, of Riv.
erside, Conn, died recently, leaving gold
WHICH she had boarded for thirty years.
THERE is one schooldistrict in Mara
thon County, Wis, which has 364 more
square miles than the entire State of
Rhode Island.
Mrs. JANE G.. SwIssHELM claims the
credit of suggesting the system of red
light signals now in use on all railroads
in this country.
NEARLY $200,0 rent are annually paid
by the National Government for private
buildings, which are used for offices in
Washington.
In CEYLoN, the marriage ceremony is
performed by tying the couple together by
the thumbs. In this country they are
usually put together by the ears.
AT st. Louis the courts are now occu-
pied with litigation between two street
beggars, father and daughter, over
$15000 the proceeds of several years col
lectiOns on the streets.
AN unstamped letter was deposited in
a Western post-office last week, and under
meath the address was the Endorsements
"Let her slide, p. M; she's all hunk; in
side air one of them post hole keerds."
AN important order of Catholics in
Iowa is the Monks of st. Troppe, Du-
buque County, who have one of the larg-
est and best farms in the State, compris
ing over 5000 acres, and an immense
monastery.
THE rails are all laid on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana Railroad as far north
as Little Traverse Bay, Mich, and although
q few days will be required to complete
the balasting, the road may be regarded
as finished
HAzING is not so popular at Yale Col
lege this season, as was once the case. A
freshman, measuring fifty four inches
round the breast, and standing six feet
five, showed the boys where the laugh
came in, and they couldn't find any sport
in it.
ADDITIONAL reports from Minnesota,
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kan
sas and Ohio confirm the estimated fall
ing off in the Irish potato crop in those
States, which in 1870 produced over
bushels. The loss at the given
rate would aggregate over 100000
bushels.
ALTHOUGH Dukes County, Mass, has
probably been in existence for two hun
dred years, ii never sent convict to the
State prison until recently. 1t wants it
understood, however, that the
two men "sent up" on that day were out
casts from the abandoned and profligate
State of Vermont.
COMPLETE reports received of the dis
asters by the storm Of August "a show
that the total number of vessels destroyed
along the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia
was ,122, and the number of lives 600,
three by the cyclone on the
land. The records also show that about
300 buildings were injured or totally de-
strOyed.
THE international money-order system
between this country and England and
Germany is aYailed of to much larger
extent than was expected. The American
PostOfflce has to remit to Great Britain
about 81, 800 year, so much more money
is sent thither than hither. Successful
sending home their wages is
the explanation.
Two PERSONS who have chosen each
other out of all the species, with the de-
sign to be each others mutual comfort
and entertainment have, in that action,
bound themselves to be good-humored,
affable, discreet. forgiving, patient and
joyful, with respect to each others frail-
ties and perfections, to the end of their
lives addison.
EASTERN PAPERS are talking about the
magnetic powers of boy down |
in Bangor, Me. 1t is said that by simply |
with the tips of his fingers the |
back of chair on which person is seat
ed, the sitter will be thrown quite across |
he room. The stoutest man will be
brown from his seat as suddenly as if by |
A young earthquake.
THE Warsaw Indianidn says Mr.. Sam |
while trimming his grape vines |
asst spring, slipped small potato over |
he end of one to keep it from "bleeding," |
IS it is termed. The potato sprouted and |
md grew all summer, and the shoots it |
tent forth can scarcely be called either |
grape or potato, but have a peculiar look |
md formation of their own.
OWNERS of threshing machines which
10 not have the tumbling rod boxed, can
lot sue for threshing done by such ma
,hine, and are liable for all injuries done
)y such exposed tumbling rods. Eighty
hree persons in Illinois have this year
,een killed or manned for life by neg |
ect of the act of March 81, 1869. A few
more suits would make this class of acci-
lents less frequent.
In Aroostook County, Me-, a Swedish
woman named Mime. Ochestrane, manu-
actured a bunch of shingles with her own |
lands She felled the tree, sawed, split, |
haved, and punched the shingles, carried |
hem on her back three and half miles,
md sold them for flour for the support of
Ter family, her husband being sick and |
lot able to work. The shingles have been
ent to the State House TO be placed in the |
museum.
A NOVELTY IN THE DARY-Butter
made from milk two years old is certainly |
curiosity, but is not likely to remain so
much longer. A few weeks ago, at the
Exhibition, in London, but
er of good quality was made from some
milk condensed and preserved by Hook
RS process two years ago, having been
,ept in the meantime, uncovered and ex-
,osed to the air.
In Kansas they seem disposed to en-
courage the vanquishment of the ennis
aries of the adversary by the preachers.
Recently at a camp meeting near Par
Ons, the officiating minister, an elderly
nan descendpd from the nlatform and |