Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

THB richest man in Denver is q MeXi-
can with an Indian wife, and she leads
the fashion.
A SNOW bank, four rods long, two rods
wide, and three feet high, remained in
Buckland, Mass, in the middle of July.
A CONNECTICUT paper speaks of the
reign of terror in that State because man
has been arrested for stealing an UNI
brella.
A CLEVELAND youth had his hand taken
off in q planing-mill lately. He was to
have given 1t away in marriage next day,
anyhow.
If Saratoga is the Bethesda of our
nation, it is probably on account of the
summer.
DURING recent storm in North Caro-
lima every telegraph pole for mile on
one of the railroad lines was shattered by
lightning
SERVANT girls in Montana get $50 gold
q month, with the use of a piano and sew.
ing,machine, besides three nights "off"
in the week.
A. DESTRUCTIVE freshet washed away
thecorn patch of Wisconsin farmer, and
laid bare an almost inexhaustible lead
mine.
A MECHANIC in Portsmouth, N. H., has
not been able to do any work in eleven
years, on account of friend crushing his
lauIId uhiiO ohuhiug 1t.
A CHILD was born in Worcester Mass,
the other day, whose mother is nineteen
years old, grandmother thirty-six, and
great grandmother sixty five.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman went before
a justice the other day and swore that a
neighbor woman had bewitched her into
having cramps and spasms
ONE day lately Mrs. DIR. Mary Walker
was arrested in Baltimore for wearing
pants, And the next day Baltimore had
her "conflagration." Judgment.
A BLUE lizard, living on a rock of
precisely the same tint, has been found
upon the Island of Capri, and is cited as
another instance of natural selection.
THE Transcript, a Georgia paper, says
that it "can't say as to the crops around
there, but Georgetown is the place to get
into fight if any one is aching for eXer-
cise."
TwENTY-EIGHT different kinds of "bit.
ters'' sold in Rhode Island for "strictly
medicinal use" are undergoing ANALYSIS
by the State chemist from an excise point
of view.
A VIRGINIAN writes to a Richmond
paper that he is opposed to the election
of an unmarried man for Governor, and
that he would not vote for his own brother
WvIo Io q bachelor.
CAZENovIA, in Madison county. New
York, is haven for perspiring humanity.
1t is said that quilts are used on the beds
all the year round. Indian corn will not
mature, nor will peaches ripen
The tarantula is malignant little
beast. One came all the way from Cuba
lately to bite Portland fruit dealer. He
made the voyage in bunch of bananas
and took the first opportunity to carry out
his fell design.
IHE young person who blows out the
gas, shuts the window and retires to his
peaceful couch, has turned up again, this
time at Dubuque, where there were two
OF them, man and wife, and both had a
narrow escape.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
have open top cars attached to each one
OF their passenger trains, for the purpose
of allowing the passengers to view the
country and beautiful mountain scenery
as they pass along.
The way types can be eccentric is
shown by an Iowa special as it appeared
IN Chicago paper, about the arrest of a
mail iobber, upon whose person was
Iiltu lSIJtrS and two IUtttC fCyS 20
Mail keys of course.
A. yERACIoUs New Hampshire agri-
culturist solemnly asseverates that after
the grasshoppers had eaten up all his
hop'vines he saw them with his own eyes
making united efforts to pull the poles
out of the ground.
Gov. WoODsoN, of Missouri, and Gen.
JAS Craig, and several other gentlemen of
st. Joseph, Mo, went across the line into
Kansas, recently, to shoot prairie chick
ems, and were arrested and fined for vic.
lation of the Kansas game law.
SPIDERS weighing three or four
pounds are among the natural attrac.
tions of Florida, if travellers tales may be
believed, though there is a suspicion that
arachnid@ and arrackpunch somehow
got mixed in the heads of the observers
THE students editors of a small Western
college paper having printed some re-
marks in ridicule of woman lecturer
have been sued by her for S20,000 which
sum, remarks the Detroit TrtJune sis an
easy thing to get out of almest any college
paper"
THE gallant editor of a Southern journal
10 in bad frame OF mind because lady
who exhibited canned fruit at an agricul
tural fair, was only awarded a blue rib
bon, while young man who, on the same
occasion, eXcelled in shooting at a mark
got $3.50.
THINK of the noble red man running q
sawmill! But this is what some of the
klamath Indians in Oregon are doing
and the mill turned out 2j0000 feet, las
year. But it is shameful to bring these
sons of the forest down from hair to mill
logs.
ONE of the austere professors of Yale
came rushing out to find the man who
hau dared to pull the college bell. Ut
was told that Yale had won every one ot
the boat races, and saying. "GO ahead
boys" he returned to his home mollifeC
and beaming.
In the digging of well at Newark, N
j., the other day, the workmen struck
ile." About two barrels of good o
were pumped the first day. The owner
proposes to bore deeper with proper appa
Tatus, in the hope of finding a more abun
dant. supply of the valuable liquid.
A GENTLEMAN who has tried it saws tho
best way to catch n rat, which has founc
its way into your room, is to lay boo
flat upon the floor, close to tile mole
board. The rat will run into the boo
leg for protection, when he is readily cap
tured.
COTTON is cultivated with success il
Nevada. A Southern man named Garter
has over twenty acres in Muddy Valley
Lincoln County. Both climate and sol
are said to be favorable to the plant, anC
the average yield is greater than on South
ern plantations, and the quality superior
If man must be robbed by highway
men, Wisconsin is the place to have /
done. A pair of these gentry who were
robbing a farmer, the other day, held al
umbrella over his head to keep the sur
off while they went through him, and of
fered him sip of good brandy wheI
they had finished the job.
A SINGULAR phenomenon in the shap,
of shower of pebbles happened thirty
three miles off the coast from Portland
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