Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-29
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after Shakespeare.
A FRENCHMAN has invented n process
Tor making paper out of starch.
A NEW HAMPsHrRE farmer has worn a
pair of boots for twelve years.
A CALIFORNIA dog revealed q murder
by bringing home human arm.
THE Baltimore fire was caused by a
man throwing away cigar stub.
A PROVIDENCE fireman has been con-
victed of stealing $500 shawl at a recent
fire.
A CANADIAN Justice of the Peace fined
n man three dollars for saying "thunder-
ation."
AN old colored woman shouted herself
to death ut Columbia, s. c., the other day,
at prayer-meeting.
A FAMILY of three persons were recently
discovered in the suburbs of New York
living in sugar hogshead.
ENGLISH advertisements are commend
ing 'the American stove" as "remedy
for the high price of Goals"
BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa, has a cat that
has received regular course of training
In the art of squirrelcatching
a Lone ISLAND gentleman cultivates an
elghty.seven acre tlower.bed as we'll as
'~'Ns "i ploOihlHS uduSnlcTSi
A CLERICAL gentleman in the South.
west calls a political enemy "a vulgar
fraction reduced to its lowest terms"
THE Louisville Ledger says it does not
look exactly the thing to see minister fan.
ming himself while offering prayer
A LITTLE girl at Bowling Green, Ky,
fell into forty-fve foot well with fifteen
feet OF water in it, and was rescued unhurt.
A SCHOOL for walters, designed to teach
them the "elegancies of their profession, ~
is shortly to be opened in New York.
THE Graphic thinks clergyman tray.
cling in the East may expectorate on the
pyramid, and still expectorate as gentle.
man.
CATTLE-GRowING snd beefmaking nav
well in Nebraska; and hog raising in con.
nection with it is exceedingly remuner.
ative.
JOSEPH DELLMAN, of Camden, o., was
driving nail, when it rebounded, striking
him in the eye, and completely destroying
the sight.
A SENSIBLE Newfoundland dog at
Rochester, having the rabies, leaped off a
cliff head-foremost, and rendered himself
harmless.
ANN JONES, of Providence, r. l., fell
to the floor dead on seeing the underta.
ker's hearse drive up for the burial of her
infant child.
The latest mode de Paris is to have ones
iurs trimmed with lace, which is some.
thlng like having hot plum-pudding with
lce-cream sauce
A WISCONSIN stroke of lightning ran
OIL tree and killed thirty-two out OF
1orty-seven sheep, and did not leave a
mark on any of them.
1T has been discovered that the Colora.
do potato-bug eats weeds, thistles, mead.
0w grass, and, in short, anything vegeta.
bic that comes in his way
THE Bloomington Qll) Pantaqraph ac
knowledges the corn. 1t was planted MAY
-, and in just two months reached a
height of 13 feet inches
A Troy man tried moral suasion to
keep the boys from stealing his cherries
but while he was tenderly talking to one
the other four stole his dog.
THE owner of half q dozen dwelling
houses in Detroit begs from door to door,
inspired by desire to pay his taxes and
furnish the parlor in satin rep.
The trousseau of young Austrian
prlde was seized by the New York Custom
House officials, a few days since, and con,
S"ON' iOl hOH-ldyIll OF duty.
A GEORGIA cracker" was offered s4
per day to labor, when he exclaimed
,.olr, aye s'pose I'd work when I've ies
discovered fresh coon trackp'
ONE of the Siamese twins was recently
summoned to serve on jury in NORTH
OaroIlha; Chang would not go, and Eng
was nned $50 for nOn-attendance.
The last mystery is phantom train. Il
makes It's regular appearance on one OF
those Pennsylvania railroads which are
mainly devoted to killing people.
PHILADELPHIA is strong on brotherlv
rove, out an average of thirty-three mar
riages day for the past wear indicate.
something more than brotherly love.
ONE of the complaints filed bv Mrs
Patterson, of Ohio, in her suit for di
vorce, is that her husband made her eat .
quantity of potatO-parings and apple
cores. FF-0
So great is the demand for Paris creer
and arsenic, used to kill caternillars and
cotton worms in the South, that both ar
price. -
The proposition of Brigham Younc f.
compromise with No. II, who wanted
more wages or more husband, has been
defeated by the interference of her at
torneys. ~
PROFESSOR WISE declines to take any
female with him. She would want to taxi
fourteen satchels and trunk, and would
DE growing all the time about her los
band-boXes. -''
TIE smallest baby exhibited at the
san Francisco baby show weighed two
pounds and half 1t is nearly twS
months old, and is to be exhibited througl
the United States.
a REMARKABLE bull-frog, which wa,
IN the habit of seizing and hoppino of
WIN the young chickens of a Mrs. OH,
Holmes of Taunton, Mass, was lately de
tected and killed by that lady.
The California mines are queer nlacoe
a Golden State reporter heard " the grow
OF bear, the howl of wolf the voice
OF prayer, the cry of a child, and tbC
clash OF bowie knives from one gulch.
The women of Wyoming are in arms
not socially but politically. They pro
pose TO nominate one or two ladies' os
candidates for the Legislature, and sun
port the party which ratifies the nomine
ton. "
A DOCTOR of Portsmouth, n. H., want,
the custom of tolling the bells for fInerais
discontinued. 1t has a depressing efTect
upon the sick, and cannot pTove .
ed. '--' " 'iio ueParV
AN old lady named Hancock, at Chico
pee rails, Mass, who is suffering with
wafer around her heart, has lain on one
sue Ior five years, the physicians saving
that any chan ostlon would cause
uealh &c ofD
To PUT on pair of tight boots: Place
your boots near by you, and lie down ON
the floor; hold your feet straight up i'm
the air until the blood runs out of them,
and then, with all practical dispatch, puli
on the boots. This process diminisbes
the size and weight of the foot by several
ounces, and, if the experiment be prop.
erly conducted, it will slip into the boot
as quick as man slides into a gutter on
a dark nipht