Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE internal revenue receipts during
July and August were $l,500,000 larger ..
than for the corresponding months last
year. .,t.. ...-
A HOG in Dubuque slipped upstairs
into house where a party was being
held, and got into room where the eat
ables were stored, which he proceeded
to devour The Telegraph says the hog
was chased until he was captured.
WHAT are we to think of this evidence
of conceit struck in from the Washington
Chronicle: eff thievery in journalism
were punishable with death we should
be the sole surviving Journalist of this
unhappy countryT
THE theory of a subterranean river
connecting the waters of Lake Superior
and Lake Ontario is revived It is re-
garded as absolutely necessary to ac-
count for the presence of salmcn and
herring in the lakes above Niagara Falls.
THE mammoth relics of animals SO
frequently found in the West are now as
serted to be grasshopper skeletons in an
advanced state of growth, who by trying
| to swallow mountains got mixed up in
the dirt and stones and killed themselves
ages ago. -.-"
ORDERS for engraving and printing
bank-n notes and postage-stamps are now
being executed in the United States for
Japan, Spain, Italy, Greece and several
other governments. This is accounted
for by the superiority and cheapness of
| this work as executed in this country.
A SOMEWHAT unusual but interesting
spectacle was recently witnessed in War
rem, Mass, when an aged lady, now in
her ninety-second year, rode up and down
one of the streets on horseback, with all
the confidence and agility of young girl
only complaining that the young horse
would not move faster.
LoosENEss of the bowels, or cholera
morbus, may he cured in this way: Mix
| two tablespoonfuls of wheat flour with
Just water enough to moisten the flour;
drink it, If the first dose does not check
pain, or the purging repeat the dose in
| half an hour. Severe cases sometimes
require a third dose.-N. Y. Weekly.
AS very pretty girl asked a young
man on the Maine Railroad the other
morning if the vacant seat by his side
was engaged, after saying: mo, miss"
| he, highly approaching her beauty, un-
consciously said Are your" She so
pleasantly and promptly replied: No,
sir" that the agreeable conversation
which followed for ten miles leads him
to hope for better acquaintance before
| his season tlCkel eAplIes'
A PIcKPoCKET running to escape a
Keokuk Iowa) officer jumped into the
river and swan mile down stream. The
officer pursued the fugitive with skill
and captured him, but when the pick
| pocket was taken aboard 1t was found
| that he had, while swimming, divested
himself of all his clothing, and had to be
furnished with new suit before he could
be taken back to the city. He was sent
to Jail for his pains.
AN engine on the New Jersey Midland
Road has been fitted with smoke-burn-
ing arrangement in the fire-boX. On one
of the early trips of the engine, as the
fireman opened the furnace door tothrow
in shovelful of coal, the gas burst out
with such volume and force as to throw
him entirely off the engine. In falling
he struck on his head in culvert and
was killed Another fireman was put on
in the dead mans place, and in short
time he had his face terribly burned.
A DISABLED soldier recently passed
through the villages on the Stonlngton
Road, Rhode Island, in search of hismoth
err from whom he ran away while living
in Providence thirty-three years ago. lie
had been punished severely by his moth
er, and, being sent to the store with u
So gold piece to buy pound of tea, he
left with the money and soon Joined the
regular army Since then he has been
through almost every experience of
rough soldiers life, and has several
wounds, but he now seeks his mother to
!, ask her forgiveness and give her the
! pound of tea and the change for the 20
, gold piece.
THREE tramps found their match and
something to spare the other day IN the
> | a IInnf liNiun fhrpn
/, miles west of Buchanan, Mich. The tel-
= lows stopped at the house and demanded
q something to eat which was kindly fur
nished them. They then ordered more,
Z and upon being refused, noticing that the
woman was alone, they became demon
| strative and made threats of violence.
!. They soon discovered that this sort OF
q thing didn't take worth cent and about
a the time Mrs. Hoof got out the double
q barreled shotgun they departed in haste
a She fired two shots at them on the wing,
f but whether either took effect is not
), known.
i A ROBBERY, accompanied with cruelty
f. and gross maltreatment, was recently
c perpetrated upon farmer named oar
q. row Ley, who, with his two young sons
.. lives near CLAYTON Station, Mich. Three
n men entered the house, and, finding the
AZ old man awake, beat him with their hse
:. and then bucked and gagged him and hi
is two boys, while they proceeded to ransacl
n- the house. The whole of their plunde
n. only amounted to 81, so in money silve
se watch, and a suit of broadcloth clothes
ne After remaining tied three hours one
re the boys extricated himself and then re
es leased the others. Mr.. Ley had beei
n. gagged so brutally as to lacerate III
,s, mouth on both sides.