Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-27
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THE meanest pickpocket in the world |
stole $424 from blind soldier in Dayton,
Ohio.
AN indianapolis parent has been fined |
50 for giving his minor son glass of |
lager beer
RECORDER HAcKETT, of New York, SEN
fenced man to State Prison for picking
up and spending ten cents
Lucy QuIN, Of Philadelphia, sold her
new bonnet so that her lover might pur-
chase ball ticket. That's true love.
A YOUTH In a Hampton (Conn) school
has been working on the alphabet eight
years, and hasn't mastered it yet.
A TfiIRTY.PoUND salmon is worth but
htty cents in Portland, Oregon. In San
Francisco 1t would sell for three dollars
A coUNTRRMAN at Dyersburg, Tenn,
was noticed the other day gravely setting
his watch by painted sign in front of a
jewelers..
HARTFORD, Conn., is TO ornament its
PARK with an eightfoot marble figure of
General Israel Putnam, the man who rode
perpendicular.
1HE Holly Springs South says that at no
time in the history of North Mississippi
has the caterpillar been 80 numerous, at
no Time so destructive.
The Aldermen of Boston have refused
to furnish Professor Wise $4,000 to make
and start his balloon from the Common
on its Atlantic voyage.
The skeleton of a boa constructor he
longing to the Transatlantic Circus, which
died at Davenport, Iowa, is at the State
feet.
A PARTY of American boarding-school
glrls started for Europe the other day, un-
DER the Charge of competent instructress.
es, Tor atitteen months tour of observa
ton.
THE babe born aboard the Polaris open.
ed his eyes one hundred and sixty miles
nearer the pole than ever babe did before
And still it is not Pole but an Esuui.
mauX.
FLORIDA proposes to supply the United
states with oranges in a few wears, Over
million of sweet grange seedlings are
under cultivation on the St. Johns River
alone.
NORTHWESTERN Iowa exchanges notice
the presence of untold millions of grass
hoppers in their localities. AS yet, h1vc.
ever, little harm seems to have keeh done
by them.
A MOST remarkable cure of the desire
TOR tobacco is Lat Of an Indis nanolIs nj.
derman. Ge was thrown from his buggy
some Tine ago, and since then has loatRed
the weed.
a WELLPosTED fruit grower in Della.
ware estimates that the peach crop of the
present season will aggregate about 3,57O,
OOO baskets, exceeding by 100000 baskets
that OF last year.
The Mayor of Nashville publishes 6
proclamation asking druggists to furnish
all persons unable to purchase cholers
medicines with the same, and to charge
them to the city.
AMONG the Kickapoo warriors slair
during General Mackenzie's recent raiC
into Mexico was one of gigantic size
measuring seven feet in height, and stou
in proportion.
IHE heaviest larceny that has lately
come to light is the carrying off of a small
safe in Westcott, Ind. The thieves tool
it away in a wagon, that it might b,
opened at their leisure.
AN old lady passenger was so much i'm
pressed by the polite attention she received
from railroad conductor, in Connecticut
that she recently left him twenty-five hun
dred dollars by her will.
A scHooLMAsTER of Bennington, VT
was lately worsted in single combat b,
one OF his pupils for presuming to intel
fere with the latter's courtship of femal
class-mate during school hours.
THE town of Pomeroy, O., is LITERAL
cracking to pieces. A Slip of the earth d.
stroyed alarge Touring mill, the other day
and subsequent cracks threatened seriou
damage to other valuable property
AN engineer has invented a machin
which will cut off the general reporte
from many an item. 1t is a hot-wate
pump with which to squirt hot water O
deaf persons who walk on the track
A WONDERFUL mine has been discovere
by Colonel j. W. McElrath, in the Sout
Mountains, Va, says the Hickory Pres
1t contains mica, silver, and assafetid
with some indications of petroleum o
gas.
THE editor of the Fredericksburg (Va
Neoos was asked by stranger, "if it w&
possible that that little town kept up for
newspapers" and the reply was, mo,
takes four newspapers to keep up til
town"
THE latest gold diggings are locate
well toward the North Pole in LaplanC
Russians and Norwegians are diggin
out the precious metal from beneath tt
frozen soil, and there is not an America
in the territory.
IT is better to hesitate sometimes befol
being courteous to strangers. A La Cros
man promptly answered the questions
stranger, and the man, dying soon afte
left him the care of eight fatherless CHI
dren and no money.
A COUNTRY maiden lately drove an o
team into indianapolis, hauling load
wood. She said she cut the wood, al
with the wood she bought highly tril
med hat, and with the hat she'll cut
country swell.
CAMBRIDGE, VT, is proud of fami
which has moved thirty times in elev
years, has been in sixteen States, al
moved seven times in one year. The Ion
est time they stayed in any one place W
eighteen months.
THE Chinese companies expend abo
$50 each for bringing Chinese laborers
California, and they are paid some 81
in return. In other words, the compani
make nearly $3.50 on each laborer tn
import to California.
FIVE girls, neither of them over TWEEN
years of age, have entered 800 acres
land in Kansas, and intend to make
dairy farm of it, All but two of the gil
are graduates of Eastern schools and t,
of them are proficient in agricultul
chemistry.
NEwBURYPoRT, Mass, produces
"smart woman who don't like to be call
old at nearly seventy years. who last Nj
day did the weekly washing for her fam
of five persons, cooked for them, a
cleaned the paint and papered t
rooms"
THE miseries of worthy paterfamil
whose family has been abroad for sol
years while he has been working hard
earn the money to support them at ho
are thus touchingly set forth by an
change. He met them in Paris recent
and his children speaking French on
he was obliged to go to school to acqu
the language in order TO converse with