Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

CUhhENI lIEMBs
BEES have been found in trees on the
Sierras at an altitude of 5000 feet
BRIGHAM demands toll of every vehicle
passing up City Greek, Salt Lake.
A DARING youth recently swan across
the Niagara River at the foot of the falls.
THE grape crop of Santa Barbara Coun.
ty, California, will be very large and fine
this year.
A sEA.IIoN weighing over 800 pounds
has been captured off Wells Beach, Me.
A HORNED toad was lately dispatched
by mail, in sardine box, from Nevada
City, to Tif1n, Ohio.
BosToN's Model Lodgng.house Asso-
citation has proved a failure, and will
close up its affairs.
LITTLE boys and girls are fined 81
head in Chautauqua County, New York,
for boatriding on Sunday.
The peach crop, usually so abundant
about Walla Walla and the Dalles, Oregon,
IS this year almost failure from late
frosts.
UTAH is one of the best stock raising
countries in the world The cows get so
strong that their cream churns itself.
In Boston Office hangs sign with
the following inscription: "Peple are for
hidden to spite tobaker JUG on the flor"
A NEW swindle is being practiced on
several New York railways. Counterfeit
tickets are beings' sold extensively by
putative agents.
The movement recently started in Gin
cinnati, to give working-women holiday
on Saturday afternoons during the sum-
mer, bids fair to be successful.
THE President of the second branch of
Baltimore's City Council was arrested and
fined for setting off fire.crackers in the
street on the Fourth.
AN animal known as the TdtOuaV, a
kind of Armadilo, has been discovered
near the battle ground below Vancouver.
1t is about the size of a yearling bear.
Work is being commenced in Arizona
on the military telegraph, and the people
are greatly rejoiced at the prospects of
speedy communication with the outside
world.
PURCHASERS of accident policies should
be little particular about dates. A gen
tleman purchased one recently, good for
two days, but discovered subsequently that
the date on the card make it expire two
days before the purchase.
THE forty thousand live shad sent to
California and Great Salt Lake by the
United States Commissioner of Fisheries
under charge of Livington Stone, deputy
for the Pacific coast and two assistants,
have arrived at their destination in perfect
order.
THE second party of Chinese youth
about eighty in all, who are to be educated
in this country under the direction OF
Commissioner Laisun, sailed from China
June 20, and are expected to arrive in
Springfield, Mass, during the last of the
present month.
A LINN (AIass.) lady sold rags to Sa
lem buyer. A week afterward she called
at his establishment and desired to see
what she had sold After searching the
loft diligently she found her $1,000 in
currency, and savings bank book calling
for $2,400. Moral: Never hide your val
uables in rag-bags.
THE Cotfeyville Kan) Courier recon-
ommends itself after this fashion: "Tht
Courier is printed nearer the scene of the
late Bender horror than any other newspa
per. Those wishing to subscribe for good
live newspaper should make note OF
the fact"
A GIRL seventeen years old was arrested
in Buffalo the other day, charged with
three separate attempts to burn her EN-
fol some time, she at last made full con.
fession, saying that she only did it ''to
have a little fun with the folks" as
she 'knew they were badly scared"
THE prohibitory liquor law in Massa
chusetts sometimes gives rise to comic as
well as tragic incidents, as at Holyoke, the
other day, when State constable, after
an exciting chase, overhauled truckman
and seized upon the beer barrel in his
wagon only to discover that its contents
were offal instead of lager.
THE counterfeit fifty-cent notes which
are in circulation can be detected by hold
ing the notes to the light, when one car
see there are no silk fbers in the paper, bu
they are simulated by irregular scratches
on the plate, which give the surface i'm
preston. The red treasury seal is also
printed in ink which will rub and blul
over the paper if q person dampen his
finger and passes it over it.
THEY have practical way of righting
things up in Canterbury, n. H. A Man
chester man who had unfairly obtained {
farm of dying man, to the detriment o.
the widow and children, recently visited
1t to cut the hay, got his moving machine
ready for use the next morning, and re
tired. That night about twenty men anC
"OiCi tuAhCu Out, plCpolSu tllC nay ny
moonlight, sold the crop, and placed thu
money in keeping for the rightful heirs
all before daylight.
AN EXPENSIVE PET DoG.-There ap
pears to be no need of a society for tht
prevention of cruelty to animals at Con
cord, N. II. A lady residing there has
pet dog of the. black and tan variety call
ed Make" The dear little brute wa
put in box covered with stats, and start
ed, in the care of the United States s. Can
ada Express, to spend the summer at
delightful place in Vermont He gnawe
out of the box jumped off the train be
tween stations on Vermont railroad, an,
disappeared in the woods. When tiding
of his loss reached his mistress, she caus
ed men to scout through all the region @
his escapade, and after an expenditure G
over 5000, Make was found. The marke
value of such dogs is about So. The lad
says Make would never have forgiven he
If she had omitted any effort to find him.
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