Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-23
A Rich Scene in Smoking Car.


An amusing incident occurred recently
in the smoking car of c., c., G. & |. r.
r. train between Shelby and this city. A
woman with a poodle dog entered the car
just prior to the departure of the train
from the former point, and after deposit
ing her dog on one seat, turned over the
back of another one, so that each seat
faced the other. Together she and her
canine companion thus monopolized two
entire seats.
Appearances seemed to indicate that the
car was one exclusively for tha conve-
nience of those addicted to the use of the
"weed;" but of this fact she was soon
appraised by the conductor, who ad-
vised her to obtain seat in another car,
informing her at the same time that the
accommodations in the way of seats in
the ether coaches were superior to those
to where she was then. However, she in.
sisted on remaining, urging that her
presence would deter the occupants of the
car from smoking and she would conse-
quently experience no discomfort from to-
bacco fumes. Long before the train
REACHED this city, however gentleman
sitting directly in front of her produced
his case, and taking therefrom a cigar,
began putting away at IL i'm a manner
which seemed peculiarly calculated to ag.
gravate the sstrong-minded" woman i'm
mediately back of him. In an instant, by
strategic movement, she wrested the
obnoxious cigar from his mouth and
threw II out of the window, exclairning,
" II there is anything do hate, it is to-
bacco SmOken .. .
The passengers who had Witnessed the
affair were conyulsed with laughter, but
the offending smoker suppressed whatever
emotions may have been struggling for
expression in words or action and main
tained throughout the same imperturbable
gravity which had characterized him from
the first. Calmly rising from his seat, he
opened the window nearest him, fastened
il up, and reaching over the seat back of
him, took that woInan's poodle dog and
threw him out of the window as far be.
yond as possible, at the same time saying,
IT there Is anything do hate, IT'S apoo-
die d0gp ~ yrT -rrr -1CT-,f ,1
The scene which followed beggars de
scription. The car resounded with peal
after peal of laughter, and as the eXtreme
ludicrousness Of the affair became appar.
ent to the principal actors in it, they too
Joined with the rest. Despite the regret
Incident to the loss of her dog, the woman
could not suppress her inclination to laugh
at theunexPected finale of,the affair."
CteoeLdRd Times ll4 NJ s.ttLA
NEW YORK papers are sounding notes
Of alarm over the threatened diversion of
commerce from that city, The immediate
occasion OF this is the opening Of the
Hoosae tunnel, now near at hand anevent
of the first importance in engineering and
railroad affairs, and which will take rank
as such among the great successes of the
eentury nor Is i Impossible that il may,
as Is feared, really mark the beginning Of
a detection of those currents of trade
which have hitherto made New York the
shipping focus of the continent b IN
A PARTY of "young ladies" was recent.
y dispersed by the police al Springfield,
Mass fOr disturhin,r a oa,,,l,s ,,,,r,.; al