Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| Saratoga during the college regatta.
BETWEEN Laramie and Cheyenne the
country is covered with grasshoppers.
| EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
| for the State Fair at Leavenworth, Kan.
THE Vermont farmers are taking sum.
mer boarders for seven dollars per week.
THE editor of the Kerwin (Kan) Chic
| can look out of his window and see buf
| falo grazing. t-t...I
THE Grand Lodge of Colored Masons
| finished its session at Lawrence, Kan,
few days since.
VINO is the LATEST man9 The furni
ture dealer; he keeps chairs and lounges
about all the time.
THE district damaged by the grasshop-
| pers in Minnesota covers about one-tenth
of the area of the State.
NUMBERS of tourists are encamping on
the shores of the lovely Okoboji Lake,
in Cherokee County, Iowa.
THE potato-bug has made its appear
ance in some portions of Illinois and Is
depredating on the new crop.
Hon. J. ID. WARD one of the Congress
sional committee to investigate Arkan-
sas affairs, is in Little Rock.
THERE were no less than twenty-five
bridal parties at the Clifton House,
ANiu5aid ans III OhC Nhg
MISS JULIA, daughter of the late Col.
James Montgomery, the famous jay
hawker, has been adjudged insane.
THE cotton factories of Columbus, Ca,
have taken 6,442 bales of cotton thus
far, an increase of 1,742 over last year.
HE has left void that cannot easily
be filed" as the bank director touching
ly remarked of the absconding cashier.
Tup ;o 60 I o,,9a
papers to predict that the new bridge will
last 200 years, and then say "wait and
see."
TIE ieweler who hasn't a set of ex-
pensive jewelry that belonged to Eugene
or Isabella is sadly wanting in enter
prise.
THE Fourth avenue tunnel, in New
York, caved in recently, killing one Ia
borer and probably fatally injuring two
others.
A MAN in Boston, in his hurry to assist
fainting lady, got bottle of mucilage
instead of campbor and bathed her face
with it.
A NORWEGIAN living near Carl, Iowa,
was bitten on the hand few days since
by rattlesnake. He died the same
evening.
A WICKED man having chopped his lit
tie boy TO pieces, a wicked punster re-
marked he only parted his heir in the
middle"
AN elderly lady in New Hampshire
moved to another town this spring, carry
ing among her household treasures four
teen cats.
AN attempt recently made in Madras
by Capt. Caulfield, the Government tiger
slayer, to destroy tigers by cobra poison
has failed
"How LONG will my chop be, waiter?"
angrily asked hungry man in a restau-
rant. "About five inches, sir" was the
accurate reply.
So FAR, the number of visitors to
Northern resorts from the Southern
States is larger than during any season
since the war
THE Newburyport Herald knows a
bacnelor who says he always looks to the
hymeneal department of that paper for
the news of the weak.
A wIDowER compares marriage to a
besieged fortress. Those who are outside
would like to be within; those who are
inside would like to be without.
A LECTURER aptly demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion by
pointing to boy who accidentally sat
down on piece of lighted punk.
A NEW coal vein, eight feet five inches
thick, has been discovered four miles
southwest of Oscaloosa, Iowa, at depth
of forty eight feet from the surface.
On the 4th of July, at Osceola, Clarke
County, Iowa, four men were killed and
twelve wounded by the explosion of
pile of cartridges intended for cannon.
DURING terrific hail-storm in Clayton
County, Iowa, recently, one Maidstone a
foot in circumference came crashing
through the roof of house. The crops
were entirely ruined.
THERE were no fireworks in Reading,
Pa, on the Fourth of July. On Monday
the boys paraded in masks and grotesque
suits, bearing a banner inscribed mo
Fireworks-No Free Glory"
A MASSACHUSETTS man and his sweet
heart had themselves married under an
old elm because a number of witches
had been hanged from it in the early
days. of the Commonwealth.
A GERMAN physicist proposes to make
poplar trees do the work of lightning
rods. If by this means he can succeed
in doing away with lightning-rod ped
dlers this should be a poplar method.
AT Reno, Cal, in fight with robbers,
Elliott, the proprietor of the Capital
Hotel, was wounded in the head, but
shot one of his assailants. Another was
shot by an officer, and all four were cap
tured.
THE first number of the San Francisco
China Neaos printed in the Chinese Ian
guage, under the patronage of six Chi
nese companies, devoted to the interest
of the Chinese on the Pacific coast, is pub
| lished.
A NEVADA paper says: "There was
no regular trial in the case of John
Flanders yesterday. He had an inter
view in the woods with few friends,
however, and it is perfectly certain that
John won't burgle any more"
NAUGHTY young Indianapolitans are
immersed in water-barrels by their fond
mammas until they promise not to go
| fishing with Bill Jones again. This is
called moral suasion, and doesn't break
childs spirit like whipping.
MAGGIE SMITH, of Charlestown, Mass,
was shot and instantly killed by her son,
aged nine years, the other evening. They
were in an auction room in Roxbury,
where the boy had found an old pistol,
and in playing with it it was discharged,
JAS. DAYTON, boy of fourteen, at
| Washington, hung himself accidentally,
while trying to initiate the trapezist he
had seen at circus His mother found
him dead with a leather strap round his
neck-hanging to large nail on the
kitchen wall.
MARSHAL SoULT, once showing the pic
lures he stole in Spain, stopped before
one, and remarked: a value that pic
ture very much; it saved the life of two
estimable persons" An aide -de-camp
whispered in the listeners ear: He
threatened TO have them both shot inn
mediately unless they gave them up"
A DESCRIPTION of two Massachusetts
statesmen: George F. Hoar, crisp,
crotchety and little uncertain is never
theless above the average Congressman,
exclusive, is honest, able and a good
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