Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

can clean mile of pavement a day.
- AN old chap at Oil City, likely to
die, has burned up $4,000 so that there
WILDE no quarreling over his will
AN Alabama lawyer, defending a mur-
derer, spoke nineteen consecutive hours,
and the jury convicted his client in seven
minutes.
SVNDAY-sCHooLs have been running in |
indianapolis for fifty years, and vet, saws |
local journal, eight out of ten of the |
male citizens wink when they call for |
soda.water
The most beautiful boy baby, under
two years, receives five dollars premium |
and the most beautiful girls baby, same |
age receives five dollars at the Howard |
County Qowa) Fair.
A MIsER named Anthony Berger, who |
occupied the position of night watch |
man in a bank died at Burlington. |
Iowa, recently, leaving property worth |
$150000.
AGENTLEMAN and wife recently arrived
at Albany, N. Y, en- route for Saratoga,
having driven the entire distance from
Omaha. The time consumed was some
six weeks.
AFFIRM in Dubuque has just completed
the manufacture of two iron steam yachts,
one for use on Clear Lake and the other
Tor Storm Lake. They are screw propel-
lers modelled after the Clyde clippers
The locomotive of Western express
train collided with hand-car, and
smashed the headlight. The conductor
was equal to the occasion. He just stuck
his diamond breast-pin in the cow-catcher,
and the train moved right along.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Amer.
ican Central Telegraph Company have
been filed in the office of the Iowa Secre-
tary of State. The capital stock is 81 ,O0O,-
600. The principal place of business is
Davenport.
THE total absence of bootiacks, poma-
tum pots, and other household missiles in
the remains of the Swiss lacustrine vii
lagos, leads DIR. Hartman, the distinguish
ed ethnologist to the conclusion that the
domestic cat was unknown to prehistoric
man.
The priest of St. Patrick's Church at
Memphis, on recent Sunday, not only
gave his congregation permission to eat
meat on Friday, but recommended it as
necessary to the health during the preva-
lence of cholera.
A NEW swindle has been perpetratedin
Wayne County, Mich. Under pretense of
starting free libraries in every township,
two sharpers would get the signatures of
well-to-do farmer on a blank sheet of
paper and afterward write promissory
note on the other side, using any sigma
ture, the farmers name being the indorse-
ment which enabled them to sell the note.
A New YORK Central Railway conduc-
tor seized a nobby dressed young fellow
who had dropped an insulting note
in lady's lap on his train the other day,
dragged him from his seat, and led him
by the ear through the train to the smok
ing car, where he bade him remain. The
passengers enjoyed the young reprobate's
discontinue.
A WOMAN abandoned her child while the
train on which she was travelling stopped
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the other day. The
conductor was not aware of it until afteI
the train started. He returned with his
train to the depot, but no woman could be
found who would own the child. The
beauty and innocence of the child so over
came the tender feelings of one of thu
sturdy policemen of the place, that ht
volunteered to open his heart and home t.
the little wait, and right manfully does ht
care for the little abandoned one.
A HOUND was chasing a fox, near Lau
rel Hill, North Carolina, few days since
when the latter, being tightly pressed
took refuge in hollow log, entrance int
which it effected at a knot-hole. The do!
coming up, and finding that the fox haC
gotten into the log, thrust his head int
the knothole after the fox, and got hi
head fast therein. Being unable to extri
cate himself, the dog died, and the fox
being cut off from the only avenue {
escape from the log, likewise persisted
both of them, evidently, having died {
starvation.
AS THE eccentricities of genius are eve
interesting, we are pleased to mention a
excellent gentleman of San Francisco
IyhnCp tNUn nj m
peculiar features. These are yer
gorgeous neck-tie several yards lonj
whose ends float behind him like the Sta
Spangled Banner, and large stick
brilliantly-variegated candy, resemblin
an infant barber's pole, and proiectin
from his mouth. Wherever he goes he
accompanied by these charms, and a co
sequent triumphal procession of boys
A STRANGE INCIDENTAL Pennsylvan
woman, who has for years been Athlete
with catarrh, and has been treated |
eminent physicians without obtaining 7
lief, dreamed that a stranger came to H.
house and gave her some medicines, sa
ing that they would effectually cure he
Next day, on going to the door and loo
ing out, she saw the identical man of h
dreams approaching the house. He {
fered her bottle of medicine to cure h
catarrh. She took it, followed his dire
tions, and is now--as bad as ever
THE Titusville's (Pa.) Herald says: "
young lady whose pa struck ile' fe
years ago, and who has since been
boarding.school, recently returned and
party. was given for her benefit. Upon Il
bottom of her invitatiOn-cards she caus,
to be inscribed II. S. V. p and one W
sent to an illiterate rich fellow, who h
also made his money by boring. He
not come, but sent a card with the lette
ID. S. G. c. Meeting him in the sire,
she asked him what the letters meal
Tell me first what yours meantY 90
mine was French for Respond if you ca
not except We'll, mine was English t
'Darned sorry can't Gomez
THE thriftiness of Mrs. Weller, who
first husbands garments so fortunate
fitted the elder Samivel, is equaled if L
surpassed by that of a widow of Portlar
in the canny State of Maine. Perceivi
that her adored departed's silver coff
plate was lying about generally in t
way, and desiring very much pair
handsome new gold-bowed spectaeles, S
invited passing peddler to barter
the same. Leaving the room for an
slant she was shocked on returning to fl
that lovely coffin-plate and the merch,
alike gone. Her frantic grief was sor
thing too sacred to dwell upon. The
lice, however, recovered the silver tire
ure, and her calmness, if not her hap
ness, is restored.
REGULARITY OF THE WATERS OF LA
TAHoE.-We believe it is a well-establi
ed fact that the bodies of persons drown
in Lake Tahoe have never been recover
the clear cold waters of the lake absolr
ly refusing to give up their dead Il
circumstance which at first thought
pears strange, is accounted for upon
hypothesis that the waters at the bott
of the lake are so icy cold as actually
arrest decomposition and consequent
pansion of dead body, one of the C
ditions under which it would be expec