Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-03-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

AT church fair in Brooklyn, N. Y, a
man paid'$11s for pen wiper.
THE seven paupers on the Marshall
County, Iowa, poor farm last year cost
the county 1851.
A LITTLE girl at Dubuque amended the
Lords prayer by asking for her daily gin
gerbread.
A MAN named Faust has sued the city
of Cleveland for S., 900 for catching the
smallpox.
A FLOCK of 200 quails were found frozen
to death in Delaware county, Iowa, just
after heavy snow storm.
A YOUNG Irish girl at Jacksonville, Ill,
has hair that reaches to the floor, and has
refused $100 for it.
GRANDPA.Childers, of Cass County,
Iowa, aged 63, recently married a sweet
lump of girl of only fifteen summers.
THE Governor of Iowa has appointed
Mrs. E. M. Wright, of Des Moines, mat
ron of the Soldiers Orphan Home at
Cedar Falls.
A. NJ. SIMPSON picked up piece of
gold in Wyman's Ravine, Butte County,
Cal, weighing 30 ounces.
GLENwooD, Iowa, has a sensation in
the shape of a human skeleton found by
a wood-chopper on cutting down hollow
tree.
THE trustees of Vassar College have in
terdicted the wearing of collars and cuffs
by the fair convicts confined in that vol
untary penitentiary.
An INVOICE of Wisconsin tobacco of
the crop of 1872 sold in New York City
recently for twelve cents per pound,
which shows it to be of a superior quail
ity.
A PETITION has been sent to Congress
asking that body to offer $4,000 reward
to the person who finds a sure cure for
smallpox.
A PHILADELPHIA boy has shown the
world the value of picking up small things.
He has stolen over 300 door-mats since
November.
THE recent accident on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad has called forth general
condemnation of the practice of mixing
passenger coaches with oil cars.
MIscHIEvoUs boys in Fredericktown,
MO-, daub the frontdoor knobs with tar
on Sunday evenings for the benefit of the
beaux calling upon their sisters.
REV. SnAs WHITE, of Page county,
Iowa, was arrested for using obscene Ian
guage in prayer at revival meeting,
and was fined S. and costs.
BAsswooD shoes, followed and fash
ioned from the primitive tree, are much
worn by Eastern mechanics at their shop
work. They are imported from Michi-
gan.
NINETY SIX of the doctors of Montreal
signed paper designed to ''undeceive the
public mind of the mischievous error that
alcoholic liquors are beneficial.
THE Boston Adcertiser says there are
2,76S places in Boston where intoxicating
liquors are sold in defiance of the pro-
hibitory laws of that State.
THE Iowa Press excursion this year
will be to Niagara Falls, by way of Chi
cago and Detroit. The Association meets
at Cedar Rapids on the 10th of June.
THE people of New York will vote,
next November, whether Judges shall
hereafter be appointed by the Governor,
or elected according to the present system.
FISHING upon Green Bay is said to
have been better the past winter than for
many winters previous. The catch was
very large, and the quality of fish caught
very fine.
A BOY at Jackson, Mich, named Clan
cey, who is only 13 years of age, recently
dead-headed it to California and back
again. That boy will be newspaper
man some day.
Mrs. JANE BOLTON, of Rowe, Mass, 90
last May, braids seven palm-leaf hats for
her usual days work, besides doing some
chores about the house. She learned the
art when about 10 years old.
AN inmate of the Hartford Comm In
sane Asylum has Just been discovered to
be a woman. after having passed her
self off as a man for many years before
she became afflicted with mania.
THE Louisville C0st1Ier-,JournaI says:
"An English naturalist tells US there are
"a distinct species of fleas. The last
time we slept in a Cincinnati hotel we
could have sworn there were "a jO00."
PETITIONS are circulating in California,
asking Congress to appoint commission
to examine and report on the practica.
bility of turning the Colorado River into
the Colorado desert
THE Boston Herald says that Boston
has more bar-rooms than Chicago, a fact
which attests the efficiency of the pro.
hibitory liquor law and the industry and
incorruptibility Of the State constabu-
larry.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, has hog that
hibernated for thirty.six days beneath
five feet of snow, and came out all right
with the exception of being frozen lit
tie about the hams and somewhat thin in
flesh.
ALBANY is excited over the discovery
of skeleton in the garret above the post
office. The room has not been opened
for seventeen years, and how the skeleton
got there is mystery which no one can
solve.
Rio JANEIRo mail advices say the raw.
ages of the yellow fever are carrying of
hundred persons daily. Very few
Americans are taken with the disease,
it being confined mostly to the Portuguese
ana Italians.
The newspapers down East have dis
covered family In Oldtown, Maine, in
which there are fourteen children, all boys,
the Oldest of whom are but seven years
of age. There are four sets Of twins and
two of triplets.
TINS is the way they keep up the bal
ance of power in Kentucky: "TO the
wife of James Bradley, of Fayette Coun-
ty, q son-Jef. Davis. To the wife of
Robert Richie, of Fayette County, son
u. s. Grant"
AMONG the curiosities of Paris pawn
shop is an umbrella which has been in
pledge for forty.seven years, the original
mortgagor or his descendants having
regularly paid the interest on the loan
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