Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

AN Omhna FARMER went out to dig
horse,radish and struck upon a kettle
containing $4,000 in gold.
THE Florida mosquito is said to unite
the goaheadativeness of the ant with the
courage of bald-headed eagle.
A SwEDE woman, of st. Paul recently
astonished the natives by carrying an oil
barrel through the streets on her head
A SMALL bird, somewhat resembling the
sparrow, is eating up the devastating
grasshopper in Texas, and the farmers are
happy.
A CAss COUNTY Qowa) schoolmarm has
bound herself not to spark at night with
any young man during her term of
school.
ISAAC RICE, of Henniker, N. H., has
been Postmaster OF that village since 1909,
having been first appointed by President
Madison.
A CLUMsILY-DRAwN ordinance makes
any man who shaves himself in Des
Moines, Iowa, on Sunday, liable to a fine
of five dollars.
A BUSINESS man in Boston recently in.
vited all the city missionaries to his house
and gave each, as they left a handsome
sum of money.
THE Detroit Chief of Police gives no.
tlce that no more lottery tickets, gift dis
tributions, or enterprises of chance will be
allowed in that city.
VERMONT man who caught the small.
pox four years ago and communicated it
to some of his neighbors, has just been
sued by them for damages.
Mrs. MARIA PARKER, of Stamford. VT.
has borne twenty-six children, ten of whom
were boys, whose united weight when they
arrived at manhood was over two thousand
pounds.
A FARMER at Geneseo, Ill, recently
found, under an old straw stack, six wolf
cubs, and about fifty pounds of meat and
half dozen chickens, provided for their
comfort by the provident mother.
CAPTAIN A. j. JENNINGS subscribed to.
ward building Methodist church in Eu
dora, Mo. He refused to pay up was sued
and was put in Jail, where he SAYS he is
serving out his time like man."
A PITTSBURGH merchant declares that
he knows of thirteen first society ladies
who steal his goods whenever they can
get chance. Washington merchants
complain of the same thing.
A GIRL not far from Holton, Kansas,
was at dance recently, and when asked
to waltz with one of our city chaps, re-
piled; II can't dance these whirl-around
figures; they always make me puke"
NIXON, the murderer, who was hung in
New York recently, made his will the day
before his execution, beginning it in the
usual way: Being impressed with the
uncertainty of life" Most men under like
circumstances would be.
THE Dixon disaster induced the Con
vention of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, while in session in Louisville
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next annual convention upon the most
practical means of averting such calami-
ties in future.
A KENTUCKY paper says: A business
man in Covington bought a postal card
yesterday, wrote few lines on the back
OF it, and putting it in stamped envelope,
mailed it to friend in Lexington. He
says they are great convenience.
A CITIZEN of Wooster, Ohio, put qui-
etus on lawsuit the other day. On being
subpenaed as a witness to attend the suit
in Orrville, he paid out of his own purse
the amount involved in the case (S3.75)
rather than sacrifice his business to visit
that village.
THE police of Milwaukee apparently
can't tell dead man from drunken one
by gaslight. The other night they carried
to the morgue what they took for fresh
laid corpse. Just as the Coroner, next
morning, brought in six men to sit down
on it, it arose and walked off.
FROM reports made to the late Mime
sofa Bee Keepers Convention, it appears
that nearly three-fourths of the bees in the
State were lost last winter, mainly from.
want of proper care and protection. Warm,
dry and properly-ventiated rooms are
necessary for their safe keeping.
NOrrN-ur d, ', 4, Avn, rU;.,,.
boasts of wild man. He was caught in
the woods near that place, has beard
nearly two feet long, hair all over his
body from one to two inches in length
lives on raw meat and barks like dog.
His captors propose to start out exhibiting
him.
THE Postoffice Department declares
that dead letters will be returned to the
writers thereof without cost to the writers,
although the law providing for it is abol-
ished by the repeal of the franking privi-
lege. The department will, it is said, use
the official postage stamp for returning the
dead letters.
A PEORIA woman lately sent II 800 old
postage stamps to friend in New York,
TO help make up the number of 1000, 900,
for which quaatity gentleman has agreed
to build an Episcopal chapel in her neigh
borhood. They are utilized in Europe in
the manufacture of special quality of
papier mache.
SOME sewing silk, in the manufacture of
which new substance had been intro
duced to give it weight and luster, took
fire spontaneously in drawer in dry
goods store in Honesdale, Pa few days
since. Within fifteen minutes the silk
had taken fire, burned through the paste
board boxes and into the front of the draw
er quarter of an inch deep.
A MAN in Philadelphia bought ticket
at theater for fifty cents All the seats
were occupied, and he demanded a seat or
the return of his money. Both were re-
fused, and, in suit to recover, the court
said that the purchaser of ticket is enti-
tied to a seat, unless he is notified before
the purchase that all the seats are sold.
A GREAT struggle is prevailing in
Shamokin, Pa, for the possession of over
ten thousand acres of land in the anthra-
cite coal regions, valued at 100000, 900.
One party has burned three houses which
the other side had erected, and retaliation
is now threatened. o. H. Wheeler of
New York, represents one side, and the
Reading Railway Company the other,
THE Lawrence (Kansas) Tribune says:
Mr. George Kimball, of this city, has
Deen SIGN anu undOle 10 no MS ldIn-WOTk
this spring. Seventeen of the Burr-oak
Changers rigged their teams on Monday
and broke up twenty seven acres of ground
and left it really for planting. There is
something practical in that kind of
Grange-work, and it has smack of
brotherly kindness in it that would make
almost any halfdecent man want to be a
farmer and Granger.
THE mailing of honey-bees having been
General, an appeal for a reversal of the de-
cision has been made to the head of the
department by General Butler, in behalf
of the Massachusetts man, his client, who
has invented for the purpose a trap made
of wood and wire netting. The objection
to receiving the contrivance is, that the
other mail matter is damaged by the honey
which nnzes frnm II and fhaf tnn innnisi