Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

load Of wool, few days ago, for $500.
THE colored school population in
Washington is $3.50.
THE water in Lake Champlain is lower
than for twenty-one years before.
THE bones of mastodon have been
exhumed near Baxter's Prairie, Mich.
THE Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
was attended this year by 507, ,65S persons
THE six chief offices of the Erie Rail
way divide $4,000 salary per annum.
AT Du Quoin, ILL.,, recently, the sum of
10000 was paid out for castor-beans in
one day
THE proceeds of the taxes upon car
riages and horses in England amount to
nearly 100000 per annum.
1T is said that about 10000 Swiss an
nually go forth into the world as walters
and as ladies' maids.
The epizootic has finally reached Brit
ish Columbia. 1t will probably cross the
straits from Alaska and attack the Rus
sian equines.
FIFTY vessels laden with grain, valued
at SO, 100000 have been dispatched this
year from California for Europe, and a
dozen more are taking cargo.
THE Union Pacific Railroad is building
tives They expect it to go through
drifts twenty feet deep.
THE oldest lunatic asylum in America
is at Williamsburg, Va. 1t was opened
October 10, 1878. There is but one insti-
tuition of the kind in Europe older than
this.
The partial cleanup of flume at
Cherokee, Cal, few days ago, yielded
gold which, when run into brick,
weighed 142 pounds avoirdupois, worth
about $4,000.
UP to September "a, 800, ,2sO tons of ore
had been shipped from Escanaba, Mich,
and 6,442 tons of pig-iron. From Mar
quetee the shipments of ore amounted to
411,4 ,4S3 tons, and of pig.iron to 1923
tons.
A.YoUTH, four years old, and his young
sister, saw rat hasten into hole in the
barn floor. Said he, isis, the Bible says,
Watch and pray You pray while l
watch the hole, and I'll swat him acrost
the snoot when he comes out"
THE report of the Michigan State Salt
Inspector, for August, shows that las, 1884
barrels were manufactured during the
month, being the largest yield for one
month in the history of salt manufacture
in Michigan.
THE new Masonic Temple at Philadel-
phia was recently dedicated, with much
ceremony. The temple, which was five
years building, is the largest, cOstliest, and
most magnificent structure consecrated to
Masonry, in the world.
A MAN who was discovered asleep
among lot of tombstones in a stonecut-
ters yard, said, on being awakened, he
had come in to buy monument for him.
self, and, having picked out one, made up
his mind he would try it one night before
purchasing.
How Now?" friend said to Jones,
finding him looking unusually cheerful
and sprightly, Notwithstanding the fact
that he had been up pretty nearly all
night. "You don't seem to be affected by
the crisis" And Jones merely remarked,
"No such thing. It's boy.'
A MISS RYE has gone into the business
of furnishing English women with en-
ployment in this country. Is it possible
that she is daughter of Old Rye, who is
so well known in this country? If so, the
less the women have to do with her the
better
APPLIcATIoN.-A Connecticut boy in
sisted on knowing what was meant by the
slang phrase "a gone sucker,' and was
overheard praying soon after, on being
sent off to bed: "God bless papa and
mamma and baby, but I've been such
bad boy l rather guess I'm gone
suckerP'
CONTINUED heavy rains have damaged
eqSt%a ST1R tHens
IN this vicinity, doing much damage. The
low lands are covered with several inches
of water, stopping the work of gathering
the crop.
OF the $50 cotton manufactures in the
United States, 191 are in Massachusetts,
139 in Rhode Island, 1873 in Pennsylva-
mia, III in Connecticut, and 81 in New
York, aggregating 667, or more than two
twothirds of the entire whole. New Jer-
sey has 81, New Hampshire 36, Maine
30, Maryland %, North Carolina 90, Geor-
gia "a, and Tennessee 90.
The original document has Just been
discovered among some old files at the
Treasury Department to which Marquis
De La Fayette made over to some Balti-
more merchants his fortune in France, to
secure them for loan to organize troops
in uefense of the United States. The con-
tract is signed and in part drafted in La
Fayette's own hand, and bears date July
1, 1881.
"THE HUMAN FROG" is the name given
to a deformed inmate of the Orleans
County Poor-house, near Albion, N. Y,
who was born in the building twenty
eightyears ago, and has never been but
once moved outside its yard. His legs
and arms are contracted in such a way
that he hops around after the manner of
the animal from which he takes his
name, and his only enjoyment consists in
Lying in the sun covered with muck and
dirt"
DURING a recent balloon ascension at
st. Petersburg, the aeronaut experienced
currents of air, at different attitudes, mov-
ing in contrary directions, and by rising
or descending was enabled to keep in sight
of the city for four hours. The spectators
thought that he had solved the problem
of aerial navigation, and had some con-
trivance for steering There were three
steady currents, two flowing from the
south, and the third from the north.
THERE is one very important point in
connection with the general financial un-
easiness which does not seem to have
been fully impressed upon the public
mind. 1t is that the national banking act
contains a section by which every stock
holder is responsible at law for double the
sstIr0H.It vf 90 el- e-~Aad by him OF n0urca
this makes the stockholders of every
national bank in the country liable for as
much again as the full cash capital of
their respective institutions. If the
capital of bank is $1,000,000, its stock
holders, in body, are responsible for
that and another million in addition.
This one fact should be enough to allay
the nervousness of depositors everywhere,
A REMARKABLE and important geologi-
cal discovery has been made south of COL
den, Colorado. 1t is deposit of gray clay,
filled with trunks and limbs of trees re.
sembling cedar, but transformed into
bright, hard coal. Over it is Gaping of
conglomerate, and over that coarse sand
rock. The coal deposit is tilted at an an.
gle of thirty-flve degrees. Apparently CO.
extensive with the conglomerate are found
rude fiints, tools and arrow heads, indi-
eating that ages back, before nature had