Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

will exchange one of his newly-arrived |
twin boys for girl
Mn. TURNER, of Manchester, Tenn,
celebrated the wedding of his daughter |
by thrashing his wife
A wIDowER in Manistee, Mich, who |
has forty-eight children living has just |
married his fourth wife.
A WOMAN named Berks exhibited pat |
ent churn of her own manufacture at
Kansas fair and secured premium.
THE e" Biggest Grumbler" in Montana
has struck quartz that nets 5000 per ton,
and he growls because it don't go $3.50.
A NAvARRE (O.) youth severely horse
whipped his uDindulgent father. He
wanted to see "who bossed that ranch"
CLAY similar to that used in Germany
in the manufacture of so-called meer-
schaum pipes has been discovered at Mid
dletown, Pa.
MONTGOMERY Co., Kan, raises stalks of
cotton two feet three inches long, three
fourths of an inch in diameter, with bolls
on each joint.
THE projected tunnel under the Detroit
river has been abandoned in consequence
of information derived from the small ex-
perimental tunnel.
AN Omaha woman committed suicide
lnG Obu6T udy DcCuuSe ntT nuSDduu IClllOh-
strated in profane terms when he found a
dead horsefly in wheatcake.
A DETROIT lady died of hydrophobia,
and the dog that bit her still lives, in
health and spirits, waggiug mournful
reproach at her vivid imagination.
CHARLESTON, s. c. claims to be one of
the healthiest cities on the continent, bas-
ing its assertion upon the fact that only
fifteen deaths occurred there in one week
recently.
In Rich Valley, Dakota, VIM. Strath-
ern owns four-legged chicken in
good health. The extra legs are more or
namental than useful-do not seem to be
of any service.
WE shall hereafter know what a pug
nose is worth, Mrs. Kitty Lake, of Phila-
delphia, having fallen and broken her
nose and sued the city for $4,000 worth
of satisfaction.
THE people of California have a theory
that the real pearl oyster is to be found in
their waters, and are determined, if posi-
BILE, to add pearl-fishing to the number of
their industries.
Miss JENNIE BURNHAM, who was
drowned recently in Grand Bay, N H.,
had been preceded to watery grave in
the same waters by an uncle, grandfather,
anu great-grandtather.
PEORIA has very htman dogs or the
newspapers are not to be believed. One
has died of delirium tremens, two of small
pox, one of cerebro-spinal-etc. and one
has committed suicide.
A JEALOUS Saratoga woman recently
prevented her husbands attendance at a
ball by carrying away every article of
clothing he owned, and hiding them in a
barn three miles away.
EATING an Indian turnip two years
ago has produced a moustache and side
whiskers on three-year- old boy in Salem
Ind. The youths of the town are now
living on little else than these vegetables
A sANGUINE Virginian is writing 6
pamphlet to prove that the Dismal Swamp
is capable of being reclaimed by drain
age, and he predicts that it will at some
future day be the richest district in the
South.
A GREEN BAY man called a young lady
his precious darling little honey dew ol
a blooming rosebud" and then stood {
breach -ofpromise suit before he would
marry her
THE State Geologist of Texas has hat
reported to him the discovery, near the frs
station from Devils River, of a cave, the
interior of which contains very remarka
BILE painting and sculpture, apparently o
Aztec origin.
A GEORGIA bride is described in one o
the local papers as docking very lily
Graded in the golden glimmer of somr
evening lake-a foam-f1eck, snowy, ye
sun-tiushed, crowning the ripplings o
some soft southern sea-"
A COUPLE of Washington clerks havin!
disagreed about young lady, undertook
to carve one another to pieces with arm,
sabers. Those implements not being o
a very deadly character, nothing to com
pare with manure forks, they did no
severely hurt each other.
THERE is no justification for suicide
but we are prepared, on short notice, t.
shed tears for the man or woman who cal
find it in his or her heart to censure MI
Wade, of Huston, for shuffling off, whel
it is known that of his fifty children, tn
yellow fever left to Mr.. w. but forty y-onC
A MAN in Fayette County, Pa, Will
gathering blackberries, heard rattle
snakes peculiar note of warning, AM
looked around on all sides before discoy
ering that he was standing with both fee
on the reptile, but so close to its head tina
it could not bite him. He changed pos
tion Immediately, but killed the snake.
A SAN Francisco milliner has invente
hat which will probably sell we'll i
cases where blushing is not so spontanC
Gus as it might be, or used to be. Whe
the wearer bows or lowers her head al
ruptly, tiny pair of steel clamps con
press the arteries on each side of tn
temples, sending the blood at once to tn
cheeks.
A COUPLE of nice young ladies j
Quincy, ILL.,, settled dispute with pin
boards and fnger-nails. The one wit
the finger nails came out ahead, lacera
ing her antagonist numerically. Th
affair wound up in the police-court, wheI
they were both fined. The local papt
which describes the affair mercifull
withholds the ladies' names for the reaso
that they are both engaged.
ANOTHER attempt is to be made to sc
tie the peninsula of Lower Californi
Mr.. w. G. Scho6eld, relative of Gener,
Schofield, is in charge of the enterprise
He has contracted for the planting of or
hundred acres of hops and thirty acres
tobacco, with which to test the soil abol
Las VallicitOs, and, if successful, the e.
pertinent will be extended next year ovt
large scope of country. Mr.. Schofiel
asserts that the peninsula is rich in gol
and silver.
WE love to commend successful indu
try in young people, especially when the
are faithful to their poor old parent
There is girl in Oakland, Cal, who, |
patient industry, quick eye and mir
BILE hand, has not only supported her age
mother, but accumulated nice lit
property Of $1,000 or so, consisting mos
ly of jewelry and other small valuable
that could be handily carried off from Il
different places in which she had bee
employed as domestic.-Erchange,
EMOTIONAL insanity has developed in
somewhat remarkable way in Massach
sets. An infant was found in nice
wrapped package, at the Fitchburg DepC
in Boston, the other night and on it was
slip of paper stating that the baby /