Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-06

summer and winter, so Lord Bacon's
brains was a strange stream of thought,
which, flowing from himself outward, has
covered the civilized world with a rich
harvest of flowers and fruit"
AN indignant but eminently respectable
Iowa gentleman recently threw a stone at
his dog, who would persist In following
him into a Burlington street car. The
stone hit the dog in the side, glanced off
and struck an old lady, who was getting
out of an omnibus, in the spine, fractur.
ing It, and injuring her otherwise so
seriously that her decease was momentari.
ly expected.
MORE coffee. A patent has recently been
issued for new article of 'coffee," made
of roasted persimmon seeds. There is
not the least objection TO making persim-
mon seeds or any other kind of seeds into
table beverages, provided they are sold
under their proper names. But this mix.
ing of all manner of seeds, grinding them
up and calling the beverage "coffee" is
an insult to the genuine fragrant berry,
which should be frowned upon by those
possessing cultivated tastes
MADAME NILSSON, the Swedish Night
| ingale, in addition to her other musical
accomplishments, can whistle like
mocking-bird. A correspondent of the
Areddian says; at is really wonderful to
hear her whistle; no one ever could do il
better. There is nothing she is fonder of
than good romp with a lot of lively
children; she makes them all infatuated
with her in less than minute, and she
kicks up more noise than an eighthorse-
power school girl"
THE Miners journal (Pottsville, Pa)
proposes the following novel scheme of
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currency to thirty.fve dollars in wealth.
and make wealth the basis of issue as the
settled policy of the country in issuing
currency, expanding it as business and
wealth expands, if the business commun-
ity should call for that quantity. This
would not disturb relative values, and
would greatly tend to check the periodical
panics which must occur under the pres
ent system"
THE Spectator says: eve suspect most
wives understand their husbands, and
most fathers their children, very well in.
deed, and that the popular phrase about
the blindness of parents is merely
a popular phrase. The blindness
of parents about grown-up chill.
dren is, it is true, frequently very
markell but that is the effect of long
habit which would blind them equally
to the merits and defects of anybody else.
Most parents, we suspect see through
their children clearly enough, their fail
ures being only apparent failures, because
they see and admire or dislike qualities
invisible to the outer world"
A HINT for careful housewives is embod
led in the following story taken from the
Springfield (Mass} Republican. Some
time since lady died very suddenly al
her home near this city. The deceased
had for many years raised vegetables foI
market, and had been quite successful. A
few Gays since, some member of the be.
reaved family, prospecting among the
stock of canned fruit for a supply for the
table, found one can which, although
sealed like the others, was much lighter
1t was opened, and, to the astonished
gaze of all, there was revealed inside the
vessel the handsome some of $1,700 in
. greenbacks, the saving of the thrifty
housewife, its existence unknown to any
: but herself.
THE Leavenworth Commercial says the
most wonderful curiosity we have seen
, for these many days, came under our no
tice yesterday. 1t is Texas steer, one oI
whose horns turned back and downward
. penetrating his neck between the wind
pipe and the bone. The horn had evi
IDENTIFY received injuries when the anima
was young, and had grown in that direc
tion while the steer was running wild OF
the prairies of Texas. The point of iht
: horn protruded about three inches from
he opposite side of the neck. The ami
i NAL was the property of a man who wa
on his way to Nebraska He said that hi
+ purchased the steer from Texas drover
/ in the southern paIt of the State, abou
e three years ago, and had worked him in
: team ever since. The wound made b,
the horn was entirely healed up, and n,
], visible soreness, though during the heat
!, ed season, in July and August, it some
e times becomes irritated.