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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30
MY LESSON.
ny GARNET h. FREEMAN.

ny GARNET h. FREEMAN.
A WEE bird sang In the branches,
Over my lattice low,
And sang In the hush OF twilight,
And sang in the mornings glow.
l, sitting inside the lattice,
Listened with eyes upturned;
And this Is the song she sang me,
And this the lesson luarned;
God careth for me;
oh, heart that complains
OF sorrows and pains,
He careth for theew
The wee bird built in the branches
A nest, where she reared her young,
And softly she brOOded above them,
And still for lullaby sung
The song she had caroled in spring time,
SO freighted with patient trust
That He who had cared for the sparrow
To His child would be tender and Just:
"qod careth for me;
oh, heart that complains
of sorrows and pains,
lie careth for theem
The vine DER the lattice was Haunting
Its banners Of crimson and god,
And the sumac famed out on the hillside
Like an army Of lancers bold.
The wind soughed Oft to the rushes,
That answered with plaiutive moan;
And the brook babbled on to the pebbles
With freIfnl and guerulous tone:
That '"The world was so drear--
Ali Its glory had fed
With the summer now dead,
And the winter was near"
listened, when, up in the branches,
My birdie began TO sing
The lullaby warbled in summer,
The song she hath sung in the spring;
Rebuking my faithless murmurs,
Rebuking my want Of trust,
For He who cared for the sparrow
To His child had been "tender and Just.
And | caught the refrain:
He careth for thee
As lie careth for metz
And rested again.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30
The Cost.

Gushing becoming Chief Justice. That was the
price Of the Pickett papers, among which the
letter TO Jeff Davis was found chicago Tribune.
Is $4,000 too nuchH At what price
could the nation afford to have the 18th,
18th, and 10th amendments and the recon-
struction acts declared unconstitutional?
Governor Andrew did not count the pos
sible value of the services of Caleb Cush-
ing when he bluntly said to him: 81 can
find no place for you in the council or the
camp" When the fatal letter came under
the eye of President Grant, he did not
stop to count the cost, but at once with.
drew the tainted name. If there are any
more rebel archives for sale at $4,000,
let them be transferred to the vaults OF
the War Department without loss of time.
Inter. Ocean,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

public expense, and that the body was al
ready beginning to decompose in the room in
habited by herself and her orphaned children,
he hastily put on his hat and led the woman
into the street, saying he would accompany
her to the place, and not only see to the fune
raj, but make some arrangements for the
comfort of the afflicted ones thus left desolate
in a cold and heartless world.
Arriving at the house, which, by the way,
was an especially forlorn and unccan establish
mcnt on the river front, the woman's action
was confused, not to say peculiar. She
seemed overcome, crazed with grief, first
knocking violently on the door, then jerking
an old mildewed bell-handle, and finally enter
ing without waiting for an answer to the sum-
mons. They went up rickety, rotten stair
case, and, on the fourth floor, entered q room
whose door consisted of blanket hung on
nails. Two dirty cadaverous children crouch
ed near the fireplace, and in rough-hewn
box of a coffin lay a swollen and discolored
corpse. Its face was unclean, and blue and
red spots about the eyes and mouth seemed
to indicate that decomposition had already set
in The gentleman was Mortified. This was
more than he could stand. A sod1en odor
of death and abject poverty sickened
him. lie thought he would go. He felt
sorry he had ever come. 1t would have
been so much better to give the woman money
without bringing himself in contact with all
this horrible misery. He took out his pocket
book, and, handing the woman its contents,
which happened to be only fourteen dollars,
told her TO call again and he would do more
for her. Then he fled.
But at the foot of the stairs he found he had
left his umbrellas handsome twenty dollar
affair, presented on Christmas by his most in
innate friend. He hated to do it-he positive
ly recoled from entering that room again-~but
it seemed unfeelng to call the woman down,
and he must return. He did so He hurried
quickly but softly up stairs, tip-toed to the
door, and saw--the corpse sitting up In the
coffin, counting his fourteen dollars very
deliberately.
He clutched the umbrella without word
and returned to his place Of business, spec
tally discontented and sheepsh-looking man.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30
Yankee Notions.

INCITED thereto by certain domestic
annoyances, classed here under the
generic title of Servant galism," the in
ventive faculties of our American kins.
men have developed many curious and
useful household implements. The
Scientific american recently gave de-
scription and engraving of "combina-
ton corn shelter, bootjack, hammer, hook
claw, tack drawer, pot litter, and wrench"
which, it is suggested in another trans
atlantic journal, is open to improvement,
so as to serve also as a toothpick, cork
screw, pocket pistol, baby rattle and
hypOdermic syringe. This, however, and
every other similar specimen of Yankee
ingenuity, except perhaps, that wonder
full pig killing machine into which the
unclean animals were driven in herds and
taken out at the other end as bacon and
sausages, are eclipsed by baby washer,
just patented, and thus described by its
inventor; "You simply insert the be-
grimed and molasses- coated infant in an
orifice which can be made any required
size by turning for ten minutes a cog
wheel with electric attachments. The
child glides gently down highly polish
ed inclined plane; his lips are met
at its terminance by an india rubber
draw lacteal nourishment of the
purest and most invigorating character,
secured for the special purpose, at great
expense, from choice breed of Alderney
kline, raised on the estate of her Majesty
Queen Victoria, in the Isle of Wight
While in this compartment, which is lined
with plate glass mirrors, the perturbed
spirits of the infant are soothed by its
frantic efforts to demolish its own image,
reflected in the glass, with nickel-plated
cohbined tooth cutter, nail knife, rattle
and tack hammer, which . thrust into the
baby's hand by an autOmaton monkey,
Fatigued by its destructive efforts the in
fant falls to sleep, while the organ at
tachment plays softly the ravishing melo-
dy of Put me in my little bed.' Then it
slips into the third compartment Here
the baby is washed. Another small tube
administers a dose of soothing syrup, and
the infant glides from the machine, its
nails pared, its hair combed, if 1t has
any, ready for the .habiliments rendered
necessary by the fall of our first parents" ("
Truly, there can be no better labor.savers
than Yankee inventors.-IrOn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30
THE SIAMESE TWINS.
Particulars of their Death-One Out
lives the Other Only Two Hours.

Particulars of their Death-One Out
lives the Other Only Two Hours.
New YORK, January 20.
A special from Richmond, Va, makes the
announcement of the sudden death of the
celebrated Siamese Twins on Saturday morn
ing, the nth inst, at their residence at Mount
Airy, Surrey County, N. G. Chang was par
TALLY parayzed last fall, since which time he
has been fretful, very much debilltated, and
strongly addicted to drinking liquor, as
means of alleviating his sufferings. He had
been quite feeble for several days, so much so
as to confne the brothers to their bed. On
Friday night Chang became worse, and ex-
pired suddenly about four o'clock on Satur-
day morning. Eng became SO terribly shock
ed that he raved wildly for while. This at
tack was followed by what seemed to be a
deadly stupor, and in two hours, it is sup
posed, from the death of Chang, Eng breathed
his last, The wives and families OF the twins
are in the deepest grief, and the children,
many of whom are deaf mutes, express their
sorrow in the most pitiful manner.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

THE PORES OF THE SKIN.-It is curl.
GUS fact, illustrating the necessity of
cleanliness, and of keeping the pores of
the skin open, that if coat of varnish or
other substance impervious to moisture be
applied to the exterior of the body death
will ensue in about six hours. The ex-
pertinent was once tried ON child at
Florence. On the occasion of Pope Leo
the Tenth's accession to the Papal chair
it was desired to have living figure to
represent the Golden Age, and so'a child
was selected and gilded all over with var
nish and gold leaf The child died in a
few hours.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

WHEN any substance gets lodged in the
nose, close the mouth and the opposite
nostril, and then blow hard through the
obslructed side. If this is not successful,
press the thumb against the nose above
the obstruction, and then make hook of
piece of wire or knittingneedle, and,
pressing 1t up over the substance, pull 1t
down.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

PICK up match In the dark and at
tempt to strike it, and ten to one you have
got the wrong end take a loose match
out of your pocket to pick your teeth
with, and twenty to one you get the sui
phur end in your mouth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

=" If this jury convicts my client"
said Western lawyer, rolling up his
sleeves and displaying his ponderous
fists, ~ shall feel compelled to meet each
one and hammer justice into his soul
through his head" Verdict of not guilty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

-"All little boys are not Indifferent TO
the needs of their little sisters. There is
an ingenious lad on Pine street, who
snow-balls these pedestrians with view
to making them dodge. The strain they
are thus subjected to breaks off more or
less of their buttons, which he industri-
ously gathers after the victims departure,
and gives TO his sister to put ON a string
DdnbuTY NelOS.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

The Detroit letter-carriers delivered
last year A, 196,175 letters, and collected
1926 $50; postal cards delivered 300, ,149,
collected 131 ,409; papers delivered 1,416,-
525, collected III, ,151. The increase over
1879 in letters delivered was 570,903, and
in papers delivered 257 1887
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

The arsenal at Rock Island, ILL.,,
when complete, will have capacity
equal TO the manufacture of munitions Of
war sufficient to equip 1,OOO,O 900 men ev.
cry six months,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30

The bonded and floating debt of Chi
cago has been increased since 1869 by 6S
per cent, or from $S, 1S0,371 TO $780,
332. The expenditures for four years
have amounted 10 $25,600,000.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Skin Grating.

DIR. Bells method of skin grating, as
performed in numerous cases at the
Royal Infrmary, Edinburgh, has
proved very successful. In procuring
portions of skin for this purpose he
takes them from some sound portion of
the patients BODY, preferably from the
arra. A piece of skin is pinched up by
a pair of coEnmon catch-forceps, and
cut off to the required size with pair
of scissors. This piece is divided into
smaller pieces about the size of grain
of rice, and is planted among the gran
ulations of the ulcer by means of a
probe, one small piece being sufficient
for about square inch of surface.
Over each of the gratis is laid gutta-
percha tissue, half square inch in size,
previously dipped in some antiseptic
solution. The ulcer is then covered by
two layers of similar pieces of gutta-
percha tissue, placed on each other in
an intoxicated manner, and over these
dressing of antiseptic gauze and a
bandage this dressing is not removed
for two or three days, when it is re-
placed as at first. To insure success,
before grating the ulcers should be
free from fetor, and the dressing
changed under spray.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Come, AND LET Us REASON TOGETHER.

Come, AND LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
To the afflicted in body, we say few
words of plain, practical reasoning. No
matter under what form of sickness you
labor there is one great truth you
should ever keep in mind, viz: All dis
ease originates in an impure condition
of the blood. Purify that, and the dis
ease must depart, for it has nothing to
feed on; but you cannot purify the
blood by the use of poisonous drugs
and exhaustive stimulants the relief
which these afford is temporary and de-
ceptive, leaving you worse off at every
interval. The best Blood Purifier ever
discovered is DIR. WALKERS FAMOUS
VINEGAR BrrTERs, compounded of simple
herbs. No matter how hopeless your
case may seem, try the VINEGAR BIT
TIERS, and few draughts will convince
you of the virtue. DR.. Walker, the dis
coverer of this priceless remedy, had
been given up to die by the physicians,
and is now a sound and healthy man
from their use. SO
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Diseases of the Blood,

1.-THE Blood is the Life" When this source
is corrupted, the painful and sorrow-produc-
ing effects are visible in many shapes. The
multifarious forms in which it manifests itself,
would form subjects upon which l might write
volumes. But all the varied forms of dis
ease which depend upon bad blood are cured,
or best treated, by such medicines as take up
from this fluid and excrete from the system
the noxious elements. it is not of practical inn
portance that l should describe each. For in
stance medical authors describe about fifty
varieties of skin disease, but they all re-
quire for their cure very similar treatment it
is of no practical utility to know just what
name TO apply to certain form of skin dis
ease, so you know how best to cure it. Then
again l might 60 on and describe various kinds
of scrofulous sores, fever sores. white swell
lings, enlarged glands, and ulcers of varying
appearance might describe how virulent poi
son may show itself i'll various forms of erup-
tons, ulcers. sore throat, bony tumors, ETC.;
but as all these various appearing manifesto
tons of bad blood are cured by uniform
means, l deem such a course unneces sary.
Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the
great fountain of life. and good digestion, a
fair skin. buoyant spirits vital strength, and
soundness of constitution. Will all return to
us. For this purpose DR.. Pierces Golden
Medical discovery and Purgative Pellets are
pre-eminently the articles needed. They are
warranted to cure letter Salt Rheum, Scaid
Head, st. Anthony's Fire, Rose Rash. or Fry
sipelas. Ring-worms, Pimples, Blotches,
Spots, Eruptions, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles,
Sore Eyes, Rough Skin. Scurf, Scrofulous
Sores aud Swellings, Fever Sores, White Swell
lings, Tumors, Old Sores or Swellings, Afec-
tons of the Skin, Throat, and Bones, and
Ulcers of the Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, and
Lungs.-tCom.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Royal Incomes.

The following is the list of royal IN
comes given in the German Dohheim
Katender for 1874 The Emperor of
Russia, $3.50, 900 thalers; the Sultan
of Turkey 5000, 900 thalers the En-
peror of Austria, 5, 500, 900; the Emperor
of Germany, Gas King of Prussia) 4,5OO,-
600; the King of Italy, $500, 900 tina
lers the Queen of England, $500, 900
thalers. In proportion to the national
income of these countries, the Queen of
England receives the lowest civil list
namely, 7-10ths per cent; the Sultan
receives the highest, II per cent. The
second chamber of Saxony has fixed
$50, 600 thalers the civil list of King Al
bert. A thaler is equal to about seven
ty cents of United States money.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09

The Organ as household instrument
has been rapidly growing in favor, and the
yearly sales are now enormous. A good
organ remains in tune, is easily kept in
order, and blends naturally with the quail
ity Of the voice. The advertisement of the
Smith American Organ Co., in another
column, is referred to the reconsideration of
our readers. This house has an enviable
reputation for good work and fair dealing.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
DIR. W1LHoFr's ANTI PERIODIC OR

DIR. WLHoFT's ANTI PERIODIC OR FE-
YER AND AGUE Tonic l-Wilhoftis Tonic has es-
tabshed itself as the real infa1lible chill cure.
1t is universally admitted to be the only relia-
BILE and harmless chill medicine now in use.
Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of GER
tificates of the very best people from all parts
of the country. 1t cures malarious diseases
of every type, from the shaking agues of the
lakes and valleys to the raging fevers of the
torrid zone. Try it 1t has never been known
to fail. WHEELoCK, FINLAY Il Co., proprie-
tors New Orleans
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
ONE MORE DRESS.
BY OLLIE OPTIC.

S'To think of We airing the same dress
to church Sunday after Sunday" ex-
claimed Mrs. Bradley, young married
lady. to Mrs. Green, her mother.
Why not, Sarah %
-'Folks will think it is the only one I
have which is hit to wear to meetings."
sit Is, isn't it 2"
81 know it, but / don't care about all
the world knowing it.
You would not make all the world
believe that which is not true, would
you? %
81 don't care I mean to have new
silk immediately"
but. Sarah, your husband cannot
afford it,
Eyes, he can ; at least we can curtail
our expenses in something else
"What?''
"Well. 1 don't know we could make
our provision bill less"
Mrs. Green shook her head.
81 don't think there is any need of
our having beefsteaks and mutton-chops
evcry morning for breakfast We never
lad such things at home, you know. L
would not give a straw to have so much
meat"
But James depends upon it.
/ know it !; vet for the sake of let
ting NE appear little better on Sun
aay, he would willingly dispense with
it"
"Would you be wiling to ask him
the question 2" said Mrs. Green.
"Yes why not?"
"You would ask him to go without
L. {las
have an extra silk dress q
SEQ without his breakfast, mother !
/ never once thought of such a thing"
said Mrs. Bradley, with disturbed
look.
''But You know it amounts to the
same thing to him. He was brought up
In the country where he had meat for
breakfast, and he does not think he
could make meal without it.
eve Will not say anything more
about that them" replied the young
wife. who, l beg the reader to believe,
would not willingly have deprived her
husband of any real comfort. "How
do you suppose Mrs. Farmer gets SO
many dresses ?"
Il don't know"
''She seems to come out with new
one almost every Sunday. She must
have at least half dozen silks and
berages."
sslhope her husband can afford them,
replied Mrs. Green, shaking her hea6
significantly.
.'Heis not any better off than James
They have the same salary, and in the
same concern"
A Thousand dollars in these har'
times Will not go a great way with
man who has a family to support, es
pecially If his wife he's a great man,
silk dresses"
But James saves two or three hun
dred of his salary every year.
Every young man ought to saw
something"
do you suppose John farme
does 2"
81 think not, at the rate his wifi
dresses"
''But it is too hard to wear the sam
dress every Sunday. If had one more
/ could get along very well"
"You would want another STILL"
ssNo, shouldn't, mother"
ssThere is no end to it when you ur
.dertake to follow all these absurdities
When was girl, had only one dres
to wear to meeting, and that was only
calico"
s'The times have changed"
Changed for the worse. 1 am SUI
no such vanity as faunting out in di
ferent dress every Sunday ever entere
a girls head, especially girls who's
fathers were not Independently rich"
Nobody thinks of wearing the san
dress all the time. Only one more"
-"One is enough, Sarah. If you Il
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
THE DEACoN,s CONVERSION.
BIZ WILL NJ. CARLETON.

Deacon Hodge must walk tonight;
He has no time to wait daily;
He is expected early and bright,
BY the widow across the valley.
Old enough, say people, is he,
Long ago to have left such folly;
But as wise as sage is she,
And a maiden bright and jolly;
Gay and beaunng, good and kind,
Laden with forty winters only.
She is a light to his gloomy mind,
Making his downward steps less lonely.
Each in the same opinions clad,
Eachthe same good future seeing,
They in the main have seldom had
Even the sport of disagreeing.
But as the Deacon weD.'s his way,
Under the sky's fast dlrk'ning azure,
He is bordering Of the day
When he incurred her first displeasure.
Talking concerning life and death,
And the Importance Of conversion,
She WIS telling of her great faith
In the ordinance of immersion.
And. as men in an evil hour
Oft will do, he feebly doubted
But her argumentative power
Soon beheld him completely routed.
Till he asserted, if folks desire
Such baptism, they might receive it;
But for it's ever being required,
Tie wasn't fool enough to believe it.
Then the widow had bridled, and said.
Till he had known such saving leayen,
She wouldn't take it upon her head
To marry the best man out of heaven
SO the Deacon, as he walks on,
Grieves that such ideas have got her;
For he has, in the long years gone,
Kept his head above the water;
And he feels that the rich reward
OF this widow and her caressing,
For sacrifice TO the Lord,
Hardly would merit heavenly blessing.
But. most stubborn of all, his will
Mems most troublesome attendant
Bids him cling to his old creed still,
Lest the widow get the ascendant.
SO he sums his conclusion of it,
After the whole affair rehearsing:
Widow or not, Iii ne'er submit
To her doctrines nor her immersing."
Now from bridge, where lazily flows
Water full six feet below him,
Gone is plank, and down he goes,
And for a moment the waves Der flow him.
But 10 the widow UPON the shore,
Reaches good stout stick unto him
And he. in minutes time or more,
Lands, with the cold chills creeping through hin
Quick she led his unto her house,
Dried him by every good exertion,
And then remarked to him, sly mouse,
That he was a convert to immersion.
Vain his ohjections-vain each doubt;
Vainly ne argued, mixed and changed il;
No odds how il came about,
She insisted. the Lord arranged it.
And full many a marital draught,
Bitter and sweet, the Deacon drank up,
Ere he discovered that, creature of craft,
She was the one who pulled the plank up.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09

MORE than so years have elapsed since
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment was first invent
ed, during which time hundreds of thousands
have been benefited by it's use. Probably no
article ever became so universally popular
with all classes as JohnSon's Anodyne Lini-
nent-TCom.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09

SMALLPOX was shorn of its terrors
by Jenner, but the nineteenth century can
boast of the greatest improvement for the re-
lief of Deformity and suffering from Paralysis,
Diseased Joints, etc. The National Surgical
Institute of Indianapolis, Indiana, stands
without rival in the treatment of such sases;
also Catarrh, Chronic Diseases. Piles, and
Fistula They publish a most striking and in
teresting journal. Send for it.-[Com.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Buy RATHBO

Buy RATHBoNE's STOVES, the best made.
FEARLESS. most perfect made wood or coal.
ACORN Cook, rivals all wood stoves.
PRAIRIE: cheap first-class coal-and-wood cook.
COOP Stoves of Rathbone, Sard IL Co, as
cheap as inferior ones. Sold everywhere.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09

AGENTS desiring to canvass for popu-
lar, quick-selling,, standard Works, as
cart of Money Making" by Mills, ETC.,
see card of A. Broomhall, Muscatine, La.