Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-07
CURRENT ITEMS.
MAN respires, aspires and expires.


watch.
IT takes two boys to go to school now.
a-days. One to study and the other to
carry the books.
POCKET pincers for young men to feel
of their moustaches with, are a new and
valuable invention.
A CLUB has been formed in Baltimore
for the "purifcation and preservation of
the moral man."
1T is kindly said of Rochester corpse
that, although married man, he was not
addicted to profanity.
A DANBuRY man wears a ten cent sill
yer piece on his shirt bosom, and calls 1t
a dime and pin, which 1t certainly Is.
OLD LADY--'I see you recover umbrel.
las" Shopman-'.Yes, MN, lots of 'em. "
Old Lady.-'T want the one Host last Mon
day.n
A SHIP Captain, in the China trade,
reports that on his last outward passage
he saw serpents fifty feet in length dis
porting themselves about his vessel.
PEOPLE in Texas are talking about
grand celebration, when they expect
railroad train, made up in New York, to
go through to their State without break
in the connection.
The OongregatiOnalist states that q pop.
ular Boston pastor, on recent Sabbath,
wound up prayer as follows: "And
give grace, we beseech Thee, to the dea-
cons, that they may be able to set god
ly example to us common people,"
A PENsIvE man, with a basket full of
new hats, was passing the Wooster
House, Friday, when a quarter of ton
of beautiful snow slid from the roof into
his basket. Not being profane man, his
suffering was ntense.-DanburV Neeos.
CHASING mule-eared rabbits is a favor
ite sport of the Stockdale neighborhood
in Washington County, Texas. The
mule-ear and the genuine grey hound
make q beautiful race on the prairies.
Both ladies and gentlemen join in the
sport
THE Jacksonville Journal tells of
young man in that city taking the beef
steak that was given him at breakfast,
the other morning, and having his boots
half soled with it. He now declares that
the old things will wear better than ever.
In q San Francisco court, the other
day, little dialogue ran thus: Counsel
to Witness-"You say you were at his
house every night9" Eyes, sir" "Were
you his partnerS" ''No, sir" "Anv rel
ative of his?" "No." "What were YOU
doing at his house every nightP" 'I was
sparkling his wife's sister"
The Italians who have been of late
pouring into New York make excellent
navvies. They have developed unexpect-
ed energy in the labor of cleaning the
streets of that city; an importation of
them has been carried to Virginia, where
they have done well, and the contractors
having charge of large force of them
have applied to the Superintendent of
fHp lind md u I'll In, Nh1r
for work.
Planeth states that when tuning-fork
in vibration is brought near q flame. a
loud tone is suddenly perceived, which in
the case of rapidly-burning gas-hame
is quite as loud as that produced by plac-
ing the foot of the fork upon a sounding.
board. The loudest tone is produced by
bringing the flame between the prongs of
the vibrating fork.-Scri5ne''s Monthly.
A CALIFORNIAN claims that the people
of his State are better looking than those
from other parts of the Union Hear him
This fact is most remarkable with the
young people who have been born here.
Their ruddy cheeks are not scorched and
blistered by the ferocious August suns oil
the Mississippi Valley; their full round
limbs are not shriveled and shrunken by
the savage frosts of the northwestern
"AhVNASt oLN thOJ SAON up III I'LL Lut
strength and symmetry of nature un
abridged. There is probably no place OF
this continent where the proportion O.
pretty children is as large as in Califor
MIA"
In France the roasting of coffee is quite
science, the roaster being required t
study the properties of the different kinds
of berry, since each sort must be roasted
for certain period of time The opera
tion is conducted in hollow iron sphere
by the rotation of which all the berrie
are equally exposed to the heat. During
the roasting the ball is closed and thu
gases confined, but at the close of tht
operation the valve is opened and thu
gases allowed to escape. The roasted
berries are then quickly transferred tC
carefully closed vessels.
A POOR seamstress was arrested tn,
other day in Brooklyn, N. Y, on charg
of stealing garments which she had takel
home to sew. Upon her examination,
appeared that she was employed by Ger
tain Miss PIllsbury, of New York City
who paid her seventeen cents for maxim
four pairs of pantaloons, fifty cents TO
making twelve pairs of drawers, an
twenty five cents for making six shirts
She did not finish the pants as soon q
she agreed to, and the gentle Pillsbur
refused to pay her; whereupon she pawn
ed the articles to keep her family fror
starving
IT is well known that from time to tim
various cases of poisoning from the us
of vanilla ice have been noticed and pull
lished in Paris, Munich, Vienna, an
other places. The most careful invest
cations, however, have failed to discove
the cause. In few cases traces of leaC
iron and tin, from the vessels used, hav
been found in the ice, but as no poisonin
has ever resulted from fruit ices prepare
in the same vessels, it cannot be due
that. The learned M. Schrof is of th
opinion that vanilla beans are poisone
by the, natives of South America an
Mexico, who rub them with acajou oil
make them smooth and soft. This oil
not seldom contaminated with shaI
substance which acts like cantharide
He thinks it less probable that the iniur
Gus effects are due to small crystals foun
in the outer skin of the vanilla beans
benzoic acid.
A FAMILY in Sullivan, Me-, consistin
of father, mother and four children
have suddenly gone crazy. They were
steady, industrious people until a sho
time ago, when they suddenly ceased
work and declared their house haunte,
Numerous nocturnal visitors perambI
lated about their house and threw son
soporific substance into the window
causing them to fall asleep at any m
ment. Subsequently the devil entert
the house and took possession of the V
rious articles of furniture, whereupC
they destroyed nearly all the furntul
and dishes. All these assertions eaC
member of the family will make al
swear to. They armed themselves wit
revolvers, and rendered the whole vicir
ty dangerous by shooting at imaginal
witches who were in apple trees in fro
of the house. These witches they decla
to be their neighbors and relations.
A WRITER in the Rural Home say
Cows usually become addicted to kickil
S,,l,.v La;Rara from haino milkpd