Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

IN Lake Mendoza, ut cost of $54,
A BAND of music was one of the attrac-
tions at an "opening" held by fashiona.
BILE milliner in New York recently.
A New HAMPSHIRE lady of advanced
years (she stands at ninety-six in the
shadel recently had the whooping- cough.
A CLERGYMAN at Paris, Ky, stopped his
prayer to lead an unruly man out by the
ear, and went on, "As | was saying, o,
Lordin
A WEST VIRGINIA pensioncr received a
check duly signed, but with the amount
left blank. The honest soldier returned it
for correction.
PEORIA has a ghost which seems to be
OF practical turn of mind. 1t was last
seen to silently steal away with scuttlc
of coal and two sticks of cord wood.
THE City Marshal of Westfield, La, hav-
ing no place to confine his prisoners, hand
cuffs them to hitching-posts over night,
providing each with an umbrella if it
rains.
MANY of the Western Union operators
are practicing on the English or continen.
tai telegraphic alphabet, which il Is pro
posed eventually to substitute for the
Morse alphabet, now in use.
THE newly arrived Italians do not take
kindly to hard labor. Five ofthem drowned
themselves recently in New York, rather
Than to work for the gas companies in
place of the men who struck.
IT is stated that one of the common
sailors on the Atlantic was woman about
20 years old, who lost her life trying to
save lives. Her sex was not known till
she was being prepared for burial.
A POLICE JUDGE in Cincinnati fined
professional street beggar $25, and gave
the public bit of valuable information in
passing sentence, to the effect that such
characters can always pay their fines.
IT seems to be authenticated that a
woman in Benton County, Ind, is the
mother of four daughters, all alive and
well, and all born at the same time. The
little quartet of sisters attracts vast
amount of attention.
The pastor of church in Newark,
N. D., refused to proceed with the services
at a funeral until the Odd Fellows regalia
was removed from the coffin. The lodges,
feeling insulted, took away the regalia
and retired from the church,
THE Southern papers keep banging
away at the planters, who don't raise corn
instead of cotton. The Columbus San
quotes the exclamation of an old negro
"Fore God, | haint seen a corn-cob since
de war"
THE pocketbook of Nelson Curtis, a
well-known builder of Boston, was stolen
recently from pile of lumber, where he
had momentarily laid it while examining
some papers. 1t contained $3,S00 in bank.
bills and $4,000 in notes of hand.
A NEW York farmer, on his wav to a
new farm in Gibbon County, Neb, stopped
to view Omaha. He found what proved
OF greatest interest land principaD in Ca
NADIA BilPs game of three cards. He lost
$1,SO0, and accepted 5000 in return to
leave town and not prosecute.
A BUFFALO girl, pretty and eighteen,
has sold over five hundred sewing-ma-
chimes in the last two years. She travels
with horse and wagon, smiling when
she leaves a machine and shedding tears
if anybody afterwards refuses to Keep it.
That does the business.
PARIS, KY. the county seat of old Bour-
bon, and the place where the best whisky
in the world is made has so many total
abstinence people that it is proposed to
prohibit the sale of liquor within its limits.
This is not the only case where the
prophet has lacked reward in his own
country.
THE practice of shying spitballs at each
others heads is not digniied proceeding
for legislators at best, but in the New
jersey Legislature it has come to be such
a crying evil that member from Mercer
has been obliged to speak on the subject,
and secure the passage of a motion prohib-
iting it.
THE owner of "haunted" house in
Atlanta, Ga, offers it rent free to any ten.
ant three months. He says he can't keep
any one in it over five days, and that 'fre
quently," when occupants have paid the
rent month in advance, they have given
up the house after two days occupancy
and forfeited their money.
Two good little boys of Mckenzie
Tenn, found broken rail on the Nash
vile Il Northwestern Road, and, instead
of posting themselves at a convenient
distance to watch the fun when the train
came along ran off to the station to notify
the keeper. The Superintendent pre-
sented them with permanent passes and
$40 apiece
IT is generally believed now by meteor
ologists, says the New York Times, thai
we are to have cycle of very hot sum
mers. An eminent sanitaran in the
Health Department, Dr. Stephen Smith
has already issued a report suggesting
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects of the
expected heat
THE Nashua Qowa) Post trots out two
champion yokes of heavy weight cattle
They are owned by Frank Hollenbeck o
Chickasaw County. One pair weighs ,22t
pounds, and looks like yoke of ele
phants; the other pair weighs 1870 pounds
These mammoth oxen are from the JOhI
Lewis stock farm in Richland township
Chickasaw County
THE clans of New England have stooC
without a rival But New England mus
look to her laurels in the clam field Th
Portland (Oregon) Bulletin says that clam
weighing from one pound to one and one
half pounds each have been found in Pu
get Sound, and it is claimed that they ar
superior to any clans found on the Allan
tic coast This thing should be LOOKED
Unto.
PROF AGAssIz has been lecturing OF
eggs, and he asserts that "all living beings
whatever their diversity of form, hav
grown up from eggs which are at first al
precisely similar. DeviatiOns take plac
little understood that eventually chang
these beings into widely differing ami
mails" This explains where everythin!
comes from except eggs.
THE Lafayette Qnd) Journal SAYS
"There is a black and tan dog attached t,
one of the saloons in this city which ha
become a confirmed drunkard In tn
absence of water the animal contracted tn
habit of drinking out of the pans place.
under faucets to catch the waste beer, unit
it can now swill down a pint at a time
The brute has frequently been so drunl
that it was unable to walk"
THE Natchez Democrat saws: "The loca
editor of the Vidalia Herald took passag
on the ferryboat one day last week 70
Natchez. He wandered back into th
aftercabn and lay down on a bench ant
fell asleep. He owed the ferry compan,
just thirteen dollars and seventy cent
when he awoke, computed at the rate o
ten cents Il trip. Dickens fat boy ha
lost the charm of precedence. Shades o
thn cnUan slpnnprci what a nan