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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

on his head But the hedgchog's wife
stayed quietly in her place. When the
hare came to the upper end the hedgehog
called out to him, HI'm here already"
But the hare, beside himself with rage,
cried "Another racel At il againn
"I'm quite willingpr answered the
hedgehog, 'just as often. asthon 1ilSest.p
So the hare ran three and seventy times,
and the hedgehog held out to the very
end with him. Every time the hare came
either below or above, the hedgehog OF
his wife said, "I'm here alreadyn
But the four and seventieth time the
hare came no more to the end. In the
middle of the field he fell to the earth and
lay dead upon the spot.
So the hedgehog took the louis d'orand
the bottle of brandy he had Won, called
his wife out of the furrow, and both went
home together; and if they have not.died
they are still living. SO happened it that
on the Buxtehude heath the hedgehogFan
the hare to death, and since that time no
hare has ever dreamed of running q race
with BuXtehude hedgehog.
But the moral of this story is, first, that
no one, however high and mighty he may
think himself, shall let it happen to him
to.make merry over an humble man, even
if he be hedgehog; and secondly, that it
is advisable, when one marries, that he
take wife out of his own condition, and
who looks just like himself He therefore
that is hedgehog must look TO 1t that his
wife is also a hog; and so forth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
The Haunted Room.

MADAME DESHoUILEREs, the celebrated
French poetess, was at one time on a
visit to the chateau of the Count and
Countess de Luneville. Upon her arrival
she was requested to make her choice of
all the bedrooms in the mansion, one
only excepted, which no one was permit
ted to enter, as report had been circu-
lated that it was a haunted apartment,
and, from the strange noises that had been
frequently heard at night in it, it was
generally believed to be the case by the
inhabitants of the chateau. Madame De-
shoulieres was no sooner made acquainted
with this circumstance than, to the sur
prise and terror of her friends, she de-
clared her intention of occupying this
dreaded room in preference to any other.
The count looked aghast as she disclosed
this determination, and, in tremulous
voice, entreated her not to be so rash,
since, however brave curiosity might, at
present. make her, it was probable that
she would pay too dearly for its gratifi-
cation.
The Countess, observing that all that
her husband said failed in intimidating
the high-spirited Madame Deshoulieres,
now added her persuasions to divert her
friend from the enterprise, from which
the bravest man might shrink appalled,.
All the arguments that could be urged
were insufficient to shake the determined
purpose of the adventurer. Her courage
was superior to these representations of
the dangers To which she was going to
expose herself because she was convinced
that they must owe their coloring to su-
perstition, acting upon weak minds; she
entertained no faith in the fieshy arm of a
departed spirit, and from an immaterial
one her life was safe, Her noble
host and hostess pleaded, pitied,
blamed, but at length yielded TO
her wish of taking possession
of the haunted chamber. Madame Des-
houlieres found it grand and spacious, the
windows dark from the thickness of the
walls, the chimney antique, and of cavern
GUS depth As soon as Madame was un-
dressed she stepped into bed and ordered
large candle TO be placed in the bracket,
which stood in stand near 1t, and, en-
joining her femme dc chdmbre to shut the
door securely, dismissed her. Having
provided herself with book, according TO
custom, she calmly read her usual time,
and then sank to repose. She was soon
reused by a noise at the door; it opened,
and the sound of footsteps succeeded.
Madame Deshoulieres Immediately decid-
ed that this must be the supposed ghost
and, therefore, addressed It with the assur
ance that, if il hoped to fhghten her from
her purpose of detecting the impostor
which had excited such foolish alarm
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
- . " 80 = 80
The Story of Last Island.

Lippinc0tt's Magazine for July tells this
realistic tale of the South YE TTfsf R'N
Nine days after a storm in the Gulf OF
Mexico, traveller, finding his way from
the saltpans of Western Louisiana, took
little fishing-craft. There was that fresh
purity in the air and the sea which fol.
lows the bursting of the elements. The
numerous bays" and keys that indentthe
shore looked fresher and brighter, and
there was that repentant beauty in nature
which aims to soothe us into forgetfulness
of its recent angry passions. The whites
winged sea-birds flew about, and tall
waterfowl stood silently over their. shad-
ows, like picture above and below. The
water sparkled with salt freshness, and the
rowing winds sat in the shoulder Of the
sail, resting and riding to port. ,vstsyy
The little bark slipped along the shores
and shadows, and in and out, by key and
inlet, seeing its shadow ON the pure White
sand that seemed so near its keel, The
last vestige of the storm was gone, and
the little Gulfworld seemed fresher and
gladder for it. Thetropical green grasses
and water-plants hung their long, linear,
hair-like sheaths in graceful curves, and
patches OF willow paid and palmetto, in
many an intricate curve and inyolution,
made labyrinth of verdure. The wild
loveliness of the numerous slips and chan
nels, where never q boat seemed to have
sailed since the Indians water-logged
canoe was tossed on the shadoWy banks,
was enhanced by the vision Of distant
ships, with their sails even with the water,
or broken by the white buildings of q
sleepy plantation in its bowersof fig and
olive and tall moss-clustered pines. 49,
Suddenly the traveller fancied he heard
cry, but the fisherman said no, it was the
scream of waterfowl or the shrill call of
an eagle far above dropping down from,
the blue zenith; and they sailed on.
Again he heard the distant cry, and was
told of the panther in the bush and wild
birds that drummed and called with
almost human intonation; and they sailed
on again. But again the mysterious
troubled cry arose from the labyrinth Of
green, and the traveller entreated them to
go in quest of it, The fishers had their
freight for the market--delay would de-
teriorate its value, but heanxious traveller
bade them but about and he would bear
the loss. t-.a ! go
1t was we'll they did. There, in the
dense coverts of the sea-swamps, amid the
brackish water-growths and grasses, they
found a man and woman, ragged torn,
starved. For nine days they had had no
food but The soft pitli' Of the palmetto.
coarse muscles, or scant poisonous berries,
their bed the damp morass, and their
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
THE NEW WORLD T

Gold closed in New York on the 10th at
115N@l15X. y Isl ~ +~-~ ~ @@
The following appointments have recently
been made in the Canadian Cabinet: Alexan-
der Campbell, Minister of the Interior; John
O'Connor, Postmaster General 7. N, Gibbs,
Minister of Inland Revenue Hugh MaeDon'
aid, Minister of Militia. Pa fcrvr n rfT ]
William j. Sharkey has been sentenced 70
be hung in New York City, August 10, for the
murder of Robert s. Dunn.
BY the injunction issued at the instance of
the Government counsel in the Credit 'Mobilier
suits on the 3D. the Union Paci6e Railway is
forbidden to pay any interest TO bondholders
whose stock was got directly or indirectly
through the Credit-Mobilier or its contracts
Payment of the July interest has accordingly
been made only TO those who were able to de-
clare that their stock came from clear hands.
The Fourth was celebrated at PhiladelPhia
by formally transferring to the Centennial
Commission the site granted it By. theACity 81
Philadelphia, and by other exercises intended
to inaugurate the preparations for the cele-
bration in 1870 of the completion Of the first
century of American Independence, A proc
lamation was made public by the PresidehtTe-
citing the Act of Congress under which the
Exposition was TO be held, and inviting The
people Of other nations to take partg II
Commodore Vanderbilt has been elected
President of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway, in place of the late Horace
F. Clark. ht ~ ra- ~ u
The Commissioners of Excise Of New York
City have resolved to strictly enforce the law
against selling Intoxicating beverages, Qggg'
included) ON Sunday, and also not to grantany
license hereafter to any place where music is
introduced.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
In frances.

AN article in the Popular Science Month
IN recalls these instances of escape from
burial alive: "On the 18th of October,
1842, farmer in the neighborhOod of
Ncufchatel, in the Lower Seine, climbed
into loft over his barn to sleep, as he
usually did, among the hay. Early the
next day, his customary hour of rising
being past his wife, wishing to know the
cause of his delay, went to look for him,
and found him dead. At the time of in
terment, more than twenty-four hours
after, the bearers placed the body in a
coffin, which was closed, and carried it
slowly down the ladder by which they
had gained the loft. Suddenly one of the
rounds of the ladder snapped, and the
bearers fell together with the coffin, which
burst open with the shock. The accident,
which might have been fatal to live man.
was very serviceable to the dead one, who
was reused from his lethargy by the con-
cussion, returned to life, and hastened to
get out of his shroud with the assistance
of those of the bystanders who had not
been frightened away by his sudden resur-
rection. An hour later he could recog-
nize his friends, and felt no uneasiness
except a slight confusion in his head, and
the next day was able to go to work again.
AT about the same time resident of
Nantes gave up life after long illness,
His heirs made arrangements for a grand
funeral, and while the performance of a
requiem was going on, the dead man re-
turned to life and stirred in the coffin,
that stood in the middle of the church.
When carried home, he soon regained his
health Some time afterward, the cure,
not caring TO be at the trouble of the buri-
al ceremonies for nothing, sent bill to
the ex-corpse, who declined to pay it, and
referred the cure to the heirs who had
given orders for the funeral A lawsuit
followed, with which the papers of the
day kept the public greatly amused. A
few years ago, Cardinal Donnet, in the
Senate, told his own story of the circum.
stances under which he narrowly escaped
being buried alive l.... n .
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
Adventure With a Madman.


"WeIl, Tom, you don't mean to say
you funk it % ] thought you had more
pluck than to stick at little thing like
that. Suppose the spire is hundred and
fifty feet high, why there are ladders all
the way up, and isn't it just as easy TO
mount the shundredth step as the first p"
urged my adventurous comrade, as he
Looked wisdnlly up at the tall, tapering
steeple which the workmen were then
newly painting. ..-.s.-
i i tell you what, Willie, / don't see the
use of running the risk of breaking our
necks in the attempt For you, who have
so lately recovered from the brain fever, it
would be the height of folly"
"H.so, 1om, It's folly's height itself
I'm going TO climb TO, and within ten
minutes / viii be astride of the weather
cock, Good-by, my boy; I'm sorry you
haven't the coufageto follow" and whist
linga lively tune Willie Bradney walked
toward the church porch. "a
FIhwas now ashamed to hang back; l
knew that the next day Willie's adventure
would make him the hero of the school
a position which we were ever struggling
for in Jealous rivalry; 50 ere he reached
tile Church porch / overlook him and sig
nified my intention of sharing the adven-
ture,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
Miscellaneous Reading.
CALDWELL or spR1NGFE1D
sEw snnsnY.a. .CiwO.l


new JERSEY. Q7O)
HERE'S sos .es spot Look around you. Above on the
Lay the hessans encampcd By that church on
the right
Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers And here ran a
You may dig anywhere and you'll dig up a ball.
Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run, flowers
Pretty much as they did ninety three years ago.
Nothing more did l say' Stay one moment;
OF Caldwell the parson, who once preached the
Down. at sprlugacldf. What, Nor come-thats
bad; why he had
AHthe Jerseys, S afamel And they gave him tho
OF the ''rcbcl high priest" lie stuck in their
gorge,
For he loved the Lord God-and he hated King
Georgel .-t.v.
He had cause, you might say When the Hessians
I'D. that day
Marched up with Knyphausen they stopped on
AT the ''Farms," where his wife, with child in her
Sat alone in the house. How 1t happened none
But God--and that ono Of the hireling crew
Who fred the shotl Enoughl There she lay
And CALDWELL the chaplain, her husband, awayi
Did he preach did he pray' Think of him as you
By the old church to-day; think Of him and that
band
OF militant plowboysl See the smoke and the
heat
OF that reckless advance-of that struggling re-
treati
Keep the ghost of that wife, foully slain, in your
view
And what could you-what should you, what would
you dos
Why, just what he did, They were left in the
Nlurch
For the want Of more wadding He ran to the
church,
Broke the door, stripped the pews, and dashed out
in the road
with his arms full OF hymn-books, and threw down
his load
At their feetl Then, above all the shouting and
shots,
Rang his voce-"Put Watts into 'em-Boys, give
em Watts!"
And they did. That is all. Grasses spring. flowers
blow
Pretty much as they did ninety-three years ago.
You may dig anywhere and you'll turn up a ball
But not alway a hero like this-and that's all.
-Brete Hdrte, In " Y. Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

THE TRIUMPH OF LovE.-0n Sunday
last a couple that had eloped from one of
the schools at Paris, came to preacher
on the Red River, in this county, duly
equipped with license, and desired him
to marry them. Seeing that the young
lady could not be above thirteen years of
age, and the young gentleman not more
than seventeen, the minister objected to
tie the knot connubial. The hopeful pair,
not to be disconnected in this their third)
attempt to commit matrimony, proposed
to cross over the river and marry on the
other side, after the Indian fashion; but
as there was no boat to be had this propO-
sition was about to come to naught, when
a novel idea struck the party. A large
cottonwood log was rolled down the
bank and into the water, being moored to
the bank by long rope, and on this log
the resolute pair took shipping, and after
they had drifted far enough out into the
stream to be considered out of Texas, the
parson mounted large stump in the
edge of the water, and said the ceremony
-Bonhdna (I'erds) Enterprise
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

READING, Pa, has recently been the
scene of an incident which gilds with a
tinge of romance shadow of the darkest
crime. A young lady enters Bishops
Bank in that city, presents her fathers
bank book, with check for the balance
at his credit, and receives the money. He
having occasion, shortly afterward, to use
it, misses his bank book, and goes imme-s
diately to the bank to make known his
loss. "Your book is not lost" says the
when she drew out the money" 'Drew
out what money!" retorts the astonished
father; when the truth is incontinently
forced upon him that he has been robbed
by his own daughter, and that she is a
forger of the cleverest kind. Subsequent
disclosures reveal the fact that she has
eloped with distinguished foreigner, and
left for parts unknown.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

A STRANGE CORRESPONDENCE -Regu-
larly every two weeks, for the past six
years, letter has been received at the
Post-office in Manchester, N. H., address
ed TO DR.. -, evidently by the same
hand. The caligraphy is good, and is
evidently that of lady. The name is
entered on the list, time after time, and
no one has ever claimed one of them.
After lying at the Office the time specified
by law, the letters are sent, one after the
other, to the Dead-Letter Office, at Wash
ington. On one occasion one of the let
ters was returned from the Dead-Letter
Office, because it contained some trifle of
lace, which the department was desirous
should be returned to the writer. The
letter gave no clue as to who or what the
writer was. and was signed simply "Eme-
line" This name was entered on the list,
but no one ever claimed the letter or the
bits of lace. Another strange feature of
this case is that the "oldest inhabitant"
has never heard of any man of the name
the letters bear, and so the whole matter
remains mystery, year after year.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

As Mr.. VIM. Stockdale was returning
from visiting the circus at Peterboro',
Canada, he and the young lady who ac-
companied him met, says the Bobcaygeon
Independent, with rather singular acci-
dent. He was driving in a one-horse bug
gy and going at a good smart pace when,
from some unexplained cause, he did not
see four-year-old steer that was lying in
the road, and before he was aware of it
drove over the animal. The steer rose up
for few yards horse buggy, lovers, and
steer went together harmoniously at full
rot, but the steer diverging destroyed the
equilibrium, and buggy, steer, young lady,
horse, and VIM, Stockdale retired into The
ditch. Happily no bones were broken,
though some bruises were received, some
fright occasioned, and a parasol injured
beyond all possibility of cure.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

Professor Lowe, the well-known aero
naut of military balloon observation in
the Army of the Potomac fame, has intro
duced into the South new branch of in
dustry-the manufacture of ice by arti-
fetal means. He has established several
ice factories in that section, the main ones
being in Atlanta, Charleston, and New
Orleans.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18
-Protection Apainst Motbs-Paeide

Protection Against Moths.-Pfieider
German inspector of passenger cars
states that single stem of hemp, with
the leaves and blossoms, mixed with the
stuffing of car seat, will protect it from
moths for years, and that hemp for this
purpose should be gathered just when in
blossom, dried rapidly in the shade, and
kept in covered wooden vessels in a dry
place.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

OMAHA has enacted an ordinance against
lottery enterprises,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-22

emp They're Just like Mrs. Jones when
she wants to cross the field where the cows
are. She'll stand on the fence and .shoo,
and swing her worksbag, and flap her
parasol, and cry, Get out, there? when
the critters are so busy eatin' grass that
they never notice her no way, and she
might cross dozen times if she'd a mind
to-" t'. g. ka fH4a l.
"And me to; yes, ! think so" observed
Miss Becky, counting her stitches.
'.But then don't say some folks haven't
as good right to vote as anybody, and
more too, TOR all know, if they be wom-
en- pursued Miss Polly, frisking around
to the other side Of her tub and surveying
the suds from that point. Puts me clear
out Of patience to hear all this talk about
it's spilin' women,-'sif we was a lot of
eggs that must be kept cool and not shook
up much,-and calm us 'ministerin' an
gels all the time Do | look much like
an angel. Becky Murray? ?"
The resemblance was not very striking
as she stood there with her sleeves rolled
up, her bare arms akimbo, a wet check
apron pinned about her, and her nose dec
Grated with a streak OF blueing. Con-
scientious Miss Beck surveyed the stout
form rather doubtfully
'.Well-to be sure That is, you're as
good as the most, Polly-better'n most,
Polly; but then, there's the wings and
things; they'd make-well, l must say
fort considerable difference, do s'pose.'
she admitted, hesitatingly.
''Guess you'll get wings some time,
Aunt Polly. Wish l had some now" re-
hected Billy, with FLASHING of his hands
in the water that at once recalled Miss
Polly to matters terrestrial
Mercy! what is the young one up 10
now? Got my spice box for boat, and
punched hole through the bottom of it,
to stick mast in, as sure as | am alive
well, Maggie wouldn't tell me stor-
ies, an my tops broke, an didn't know
nothin' else TO do affirmed Billy, defen-
sively. -
=. "Nothin' else? Well, it's lucky you
tlidR't, for it would like as anyway have
There, there, child !" with a softening
splashin' in the world can't make an ocean
tried it. Run out in the yard and play,
there's good boy"
The June sunshine fell soft ;,nd bright
uROu tA1C 4usstuts AOuiciy olu -itiueu, anu
Billy was quite reconciled 10 his Danish
ment the moment he caught he rustic o
the lilac leaves, and met the familiar
nodding of the tall, good-natured sunflow
ers. He seated himself on the grass, dus
his bare toes into the warm earth of
poppy bed, and leaning his small elbow
upon the patched knees of his small trous
ers, settled his round chin between hi
palms. and dropped into a fit of childisl
meditation. With no past TO remember
no cares to make anxious, and small know
ledge of possibilities to curb him, hi
dreams had wild free range and he hat
quite decided where he would 60 when he
came in possession of his coveted wings
besides selecting particularly soft, tieecy
cloud, in the far-of blue, TO serve for his
bed at night, ''after it got too dark TO fly
when voice interrupted him.
ICONCLUDED TOMORROW.
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Send for the Guide TO Hcdih. Price 10 cents.
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1O4 Duane ST., New York.
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The Wheat Field Of America
Ilsalthiul Climate, Free Homes, Good Markets.


THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD offers for sale its Lands in Central and
" estern Minnesota, embracing: ! The best
of Wheat Land. ?. Excellent Timber for the Mill
the Farm and the Fire; B. Rich Prairie Pasturage
and Natural Meadow, watered by clear Lakes and
running streams-in Healthful Climate, tchere Fe.
Ter and Ague IS unknoteD,
Grain can be shippedhence by lake to market $
cheaply as fl om Eastern Iowa or Central Illinois.
Cars now run through these Lands from Lake Su.
peror TO Dakota. Price of land close to track 100
to 81 90 per acre; further away 81 so to s400 Sew
en- Years Credit: WarraDtee Deeds; Northern
Pacific 1880 Bonds, now selling at par, received
for land at 81 10. No other unoccupied Lands pre-
sent such advantages to settlers.
SOLDIERS under the New Law March, 1922
get 100 acres FREE, near the railroad, by one and
Wo years. residence.
TRANSPORTATION AT REDUCED
RATES furnished from all principal points East
to purchasers of Railroad Lands and to Settlers on
Government Homesteads. Purchasers, their wives
and children carried free over the Northern Paof
C Road. Now is the time for Settlers and Colonies
TO get Railroad Lands and Government Homesteads
close to the track.
Send for Pamphlet containing full information,
map and copy of New Homestead Law. Address ::
LAND DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD, ST. PAUL, MINI,
Or 23 FIFTH AVENUE, Cor 9th ST., New YORK
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