Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-03
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A PATIENT in the jacksonville, ILL.,, In.
sane Asylum has recently fallen heir to
$4,000.
AN oak recently cut on the Derby,
X. L., turnpike measured nine feet in di
ameter.
For finding $3.50 pocketbook, Roch-
ester, N. " boot-black received twenty
five cents.
THE Registered Letter Department
earned the Government $S5,000 net profit
the last year.
A BoRE-The man who persists in talk.
ing about himself when you wish to talk
about yourself.
A TRACT of $4,000 acres in Mcdowell
County, N. G., has been sold to an emf
grafton company.
The anchorage and unexposed parts of
the Niagara Falls suspension bridge are
as sound as when first put in
A QUILT exhibited at the Central Illi-
nois Fair, made by Miss Sarah Breckon,
OF Morgan County, contains 2S,517 pieces.
Two men at Minerville Mo-, have found,
only eight feet below the surface, a lump
of lead estimated to weigh 10000 pounds.
THE question of the advantage of dis.
posing of the dead by cremation is again
revived, and finds numerous jealous ad-
vocates.
A DETROIT (Mich) boy makes on an
average over $25 per week backing boots
and selling newspapers, and has now in
bank $1,100
The cultivation of the silk-worm is now
becoming so extensive in Mexico as to bid
fair to have an important influence upon
the silk trade.
THE hull of the British ship Confidence,
the agship in the battle of Lake Cham
plain, is being raised from the bottom of
Plattsburg Bay.
THE span Of the great rotunda of the
Exhibition building at Vienna is over 110
yards, or double the size of the dome of
st. Peters, at Rome.
No ACTOR has yet been able to counter.
felt that expression of joy which man
shows when discovering q ten-cent stamp
in his paper of tobacco.
AN historic character recently died at
Lancaster, N H., in the person of Julia
A. Miller, who was the great-great- great
grandchild of King Philip.
THE great equatorial telescope now
being constructed at Cambridge, Mass,
for the Naval Observatory, will be finish
ed the latter part of this month.
PHOTOGRAPHS of the counterfeit $500
bills have been made six times larger
than the originals and distributed to the
banks throughout the country
JAMES RICHARDSON, who has resided in
Adrian, Mich, thirty-one years, mustered
up sufficient courage to take his first ride
in the "plaguey keers" few days since.
SWEDEN has hitherto mainly depended
on England for coal, but henceforth she
is likely to derive sufficient for her needs
from her Tninns which in
of development
1T used to be the boast of Oakes Ames
that he could import iron and steel from
England, make them into shovels, and
then undersell British shovel makers in
the Birmingham market.
THE most accurate estimates state that
China possesses coal-fields to the extent of
over 100000 square miles, one province
(ShausD having no less than 81 900 square
miles with veins from 12 to 30 feet in
thickness.
AN eccentric old gentleman named
Johnston has recently taken up his abode
in the woods near Lafayette, Ind. He has
no shelter save the trees, no bedding save
cotfee-sack and an old coat, and his lar
der is a hollow-tree.
A MORMON farmer has succeeded in
playing thorough confidence game on
.tHC pOlllO Jugs. IlG d grain OI
corn in each potato hill, and as the corn
came up first the bugs thought it was
corn-feld and started for other scenes.
JOSEPH GALES FORSTER the we'll known
spiritualist, claims the Kirby reaper and
mower to be the work of some inventive
soul in spiritland, who dictated through
amedium the manner of its construction
out of such materials as this poor sphere
affords.
THE new blacksmith shop at the Rock
Island Qll.) Arsenal is one of the largest
in the United States, if not in the world.
1t is built of stone and iron, has a front
age of 210 feet on the main avenue, with
two wings, each $50 feet long and 60 feet
wide.
MUCH anxiety is felt in Sonoma Valley
Cal, from the discovery of a grape-louse
on the roots of the vines, similar to the
one that destroyed the grape crop in
France. A committee of wine growers
has been going around among the vine
yards examining.
A Boston preacher, in speaking of the
danger of permitting the Bible to be
crowded out by the newspaper, perpe-
trated the following pun: "Men nova
days." said he, "are like Zaccheus-desi-
rous of seeing Jesus, but they cannot be.
cause of the press"
A GENTLEMAN, addicted to scientific in
quiry, has discovered that thirty-three
days complete the cycle of the potato bug
generation; that roo of the critters are the
average product of one female, from
which the family grows in the second
generation to 245, 900, and in the third to
S2,700,000.
Two BABIES were shipped several hun
dred miles by express, in Oregon, recent
ly, and arrived at their destination all
right; but the express agent was almost
worn out telegraphing ahead for milk,
shingles for spanking purposes, and other
necessaries.
The Ann Arbor (Mich.) Courier talks of
the champion sunflOwer. The stalk is nine
and a half inches in circumference at the
ground, and the lineal measurement of
the stalk and stems is 151 feet. 1t has
eighty-one fruitbearing flowers, with more
in prospect.
PROFESSOR WYMAN, during his eXamin-
alton of the mounds in Florida, found
many human bones split up in the same
manner as those of animals. From this
he concludes that the aborigines were
Cannibals, and that the bones were broken
to obtain the marrow after the flesh had
been eaten.
WHEN Horace Greeley visited Yosemite
he picked up in the trail horseshoe, and
hung it on the knot of an oak tree for
whoever might choose to use it. No one
took it, and in time the knot grew over
the horseshoe, and recently the portion of
the tree containing it was cut out and
brought to San Francisco as a memento
of Mr.. Greeley's economy.
AN old bridge is being torn down in
Meriden, Conn, and Mr.. Jared Lewis, of
that place, states that when boy he was
told that the regicides of Charles l. were
sheltered under the spot where the bridge |
has so long stood, They escaped from
New Haven to Meriden in 1864, and were
compelled to take refuge under the pre-