Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
BRIDES call it Nee-ag-ry.
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coat and babyY One Is what you wear
and the other is what you was.
A CLEVELAND tobacconist has pla-
carded a live turtle and placed it in
fountain in one of the public squares of
that city as an advertisement.
A BosToN lady in California says that
the big strawberries on the Pacific coast
have but little flavor being cross be-
tween turnip and a dried apple.
GRAssHoPPERs are making sad havoc
with the hay harvest in Montana. 1t is
estimated that ranches yielding 100 tons
last year will not yield ten tons this.
IT would be a great convenience if
farmers generally would have their names
printed upon the gates in front of their
residences. Strangers often have much
difficulty in finding the residence of per-
sons of whom they are in search, which
would be obviated by this course.
THE present year being generally ac-
cepted as the 400th anniversary of the
introduction of printing into England,
the Printers Pension Corporation have it
in contemplation TO celebrate the event
by holding public exhibition of an
tiquities and curiosities connected with
the art.
THIS is how it Happened down in South
west Missouri:
He found rope, and picked itRp,
And with IL walked away.
1t happened that to tother end
horse was hitched, they say.
They found tree, and tied the rope
Unto a swinging limb.
1t happened that the other end
Was somehow hitched TO him.
In Sweden a strong cloth Is manufac-
tured from hop stalks. The stalks are
gathered in autumn and soaked in water
during the whole winter. The material
is then dried in an oven and woven as
flax. The buds of hops can be used as
an esculent, and when boiled will do as
substitute for asparagus The tendrils,
when young, may be used in the same
way,
Such an item as this, from the Detroit
Free Press, is enough to make Berghs of
the most stony hearted among us: Yes
terday, as an ash-man was driving his crazy
old wagon and skeleton horse on Mul-
lett street, the vehicle got stuck in n rut.
After pulling and pushing around for
awhile the man put the whip to the
horse, and the equine made one grand
effort and fell down and died"
IT has been ascertained by DR.. w II.
Stone that the extreme height of n column
of water which can be supported by the
muscular act of expiration, transmitted
by the lips, is about six feet. He has
also found that with the majority of wind
instruments the pressure required for the
high notes is considerably greater than
that required for the low notes, each in
strument having pressure ratio of its
own. The clarionet is an exception to the
rule.
A WRITER in the London Builder thinks
q, hn -, !,
tendency to catch fire in those buildings
which are not in their nature actually
non-inhammable or intended to be so !;
and, in illustration, says that whenever
timbers are exposed it will be found ex-
tremely useful to cover them with a coat
of common whitewash which acts doubly
as preservative, both by excluding air
from the timber and from its non-cOnduct-
ing power.
1T is very difficult to entirely remove
ink stains. The following is quite eff
| fective: Use salt of lemons, diluted
muriatic acid, oxalic acid or tartaric acid
and hot water. If the ink is made from
| logwood red marks will remain, which
can be removed with chloride of lime.
| To make salt of lemons" take one
ounce of oXalic acid in fine powder, mix
with four ounces of cream tartar and box
tightly wet the finger, dip it in the
powder and rub it gently upon the stain.
These salts are pOisOnous.-Cincinndtl
Times
| ONE of the most ingenious and success
full resorts of engineering skill is re
ported in foreign paper. During the
construction of the bridge at Kullenborg
Holland, one of the principal traverses,
some AGO feet in length, was placed
about one inch too far on the piles. Al
that locality the difference between the
temperature by day and night was TWEEN
ty-five degrees Fair. In the morning the
too-far-advanced end of the traverse was
securely bolted down, when, during the
day, the heat of the sun expanded the
metal so that the free extremity advanced
very nearly an inch. Then at night the
latter end was fastened, and the con
traction caused like movement of tho
opposite free extremity This simple
operation, twice repeated, accomplished
the object perfectly by bringing the
traverse into its proper position
Mr. w. T. CRozIER, of Sioux Rapids
Iowa, in brief letter to the ScieHtif
american, suggests a simple and sensibl,
method for protecting the regions of thI
lower Mississippi from the dlsastrou
floods to which they are now exposed
This plan is "to build the levees on al
average mile back from the banks o
the river on each side" thus giving tn
river an opportunity to discharge the wa
ters of the vast valley which it drain
into the gulf, leading them along the lin
of natural outflow. "This line" say
the writer, "a mile back from the river
should not follow the meanderings of tn
stream, but should average mile o.
each side. In places where there ar
high banks on one side, as at Vicksburg
the river should be permitted to overflow
the low ground on the opposite side fo
two miles; and If, for any other reason
as at New Orleans, it would be imposs
BILE to permit the river to overflow o
both sides, a similar space on the oppC
site side should be left for the river I
spread itself"
THE mania for meerschaum pipe
though perhaps not so prevalent now q
formerly has produced not few pipe
: maniacs the world over. A New Yor
; gentleman, for instance, has collectio
of some 400 meershaums, all beautiful
colored This is rather an eXpensiy
taste, however, for besides the first COZ
of the pipes he has to keep two men col
: tinually employed whose sole duty is
smoke and keep the 400 pipes in orde
One of the greatest pipefanciers in IL
world, Nal. Gen Raffalovich, of the Ru
! sian army, Is now in this country. II
! has collection of more than 900 pipe
/ Since he has been in this country he hi
I purchased number Of meerschaum