Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The EUentng Post says that house rent
has fallen thirty per cent. in Chicago
since the panic.
NEAR the Oreana mine, Nevada, are
three small lakes, in one of which no
bottom has been found.
AN Indiana lady held burglar by the
whiskers until her husband came home.
| Burglars should shave often. .f,...
A DUBUQUE couple met on the horse
cars, he paid her fare; she smiled, and
they were married after dinner.
A MAN in Emporia Kan, was lately
| bitten by a tarantula at noon, and died in
great agony before eight o'clock.
In Detroit, one.armed man and a one
armed woman have rushed into each
others arm and been united for life.
NEW ORLEANS is preparing to cele-
brate the next MardiGras festival mock
cry with more than usual magnifcence
THE oil wells at San Fernando Cal,
vided with refining machinery immedi-
ately.
| A CLERGYMAN at Oak Grove, Alabama,
publicly upholds dueling as the only way
one gentleman can get satisfaction of an
other.
IT is considered matter important
enough to chronicle, that nearly all the
Aldermen of Houston, Texas, can read
and write. ....
A FLORIDA colored boy, in the act of
eating sugar, was stung in the mouth by
bee, and died from the effects of the
sting. @ ne
A NASHVILLE, Tenn, belle, whose beau
could not spare the time from his bust
ness, went and got the marriage license
| herself.
| -.l.-..~s, - l.. ID IN, -. oc c4o.,-, NJ. So
Gently hung herself, and was smart
enough and honest enough to attribute the
act to dyspepsia.
IDA GREGG, Buffalo girl sold button
bole bouquets until she had cleared two
dollars to send to Memphis. This was
the best of floral offerings.
MIKE leo, the pugilist, was so insult
ing to Justice of the Peace at Red
| Wing, Mimi, that the magistrate knocked
him down with chair.
! A KENTUCKY editor is reported to be
| laboring under severe illness, caused by
falling into pond and accidentally swal-
! lowing some water.
A CONNECTICUT clergyman having quar-
relied with his organist and choir, takes
tuning fork with him into the pulpit and
leads the singing himself.
OUT of fourteen men sitting in a Gin
cinnati hotel office not one could explain
what 'antidote" means. One thought it
was a person who dotted on his aunt.
| A PENNSYLVANIA farmer who had
boarded $4,000 in greenbacks in various
places about his house, recently found
that $4,000 had nodded so as TO prevent
| Identification.
DUBUQUE housewives made up a meet
| ing, and resolved to reduce the wages of
| I,nsa NJ frfrl do fhotn
washing now, and are not perfectly de-
| lighted any more.
| ANTWERP CITY, mushroom village in
the oil regions of Pennsylvania, has
passed away. The inhabitants put their
houses on wheels and removed them to
more lively localities
The Second Adventists of Terry Island
have disbanded and gone home instead of
going up as they expected, but still cling
to the belief that the end of the world
will come before the end of the year.
DANIEL ANDREWS, rich old resident of
Delaware, died the other day, and in his
will cut his brother off with six cents, be-
cause the aforesaid brother once pulled
away a chair, and let Daniel have the
| floor.
| A MEMPHIS reporter who Photographed
the prevailing weather without even once
| dlluullS W tuC DCdulllul ouOWt wac
| promptly elected from the ourth-story
window, as unworthy of a position on a
| first-class journal
CARRIES artificial ice machine, valua-
BILE invention which has for some time
been extensively and successfully en-
played in this country, is now free to all,
according to a decision by the Commits
sioner of Patents.
SEVERAL geese recently died in Nor
mon Island, Cal, and upon dissection
gold dust in fatal quantities was discover
ed in their gizzards. The geese, however,
had not previously been in the habit of
laying golden eggs. --
A YOUNG married man of Brattleboro,
Vt, concluding that rum has killed thou
sands, poured twelve gallons of prime
brandy into the river, and, with lawyer
as witness, and with uprolled eyeballs,
swore off forever.
A WEALTHY South Carolinian has
offered to contribute 10000 feet of lumber
for the Centennial building, beneath
whose roof he hopes to see the people of
the whole country assembled in peace,
concord and brotherly love.
THE man who wants to be hung has
turned up in Georgia. But he wants fif-
teen thousand dollars for it, for which
amount he advertises he will appear on
the scatfold in the part of any convicted
murderer who will raise the money.
MAP.MAKING in New Hampshire does
not appear to be one of the exact sciences,
as the recent triangulation of the State
shows that the position of some of the
largest towns on the map varied nearly
ten miles from their true place.
THE valuable COW known as the First
Duchess of Oneida, bought by the Right
| 4 r.I G1yn1,, al cnr OF
the celebrated sale of the New York
Mills herd in Utica, in September last, has
reached Liverpool in safety The First
Duchess of Oneida has COW calf at her
side.
A FLORIST of Hudson, N. Y, has pro-
duced pure variegated rose, which he
has named for his daughter, "Cora Macy
rose" The form and fragrance of the
parent rose are fully preserved, while the
leaves are all beautifully variegated in red
and white, blending in the most perfect
manner.
Few editors can receive with their
evening mail an envelope containing a
dried human ear inclosed in paper cen
tanning the following fearful warning
"Viper! Beware This is all that is left
of one man who traduced me in the pa
persr' the Albany Post man did the
other day.
JOHNSON, who is now confined in the
New Haven Jail for numbering his board
ing mistress, doesn't seem to be very
rugged. He writes his counsel that he
has rheumatism, heart disease, dyspep-
sia, frequent fits in my sleep, my head
troubles me, too, and sometimes l really
don't know what l am about"
A YOUNG man, named Heber More
house, living about mile from Port
land, Mich, was knocked insensible the
other day by kick in the face from
horse He did not recover his senses un-
til the succeeding day., No bones were
broken or teeth knocked out, and the
Young man is now able to be about.