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The Antarctic Sea.BOttOm.

The observations which have been de-
tailed leave no doubt that the antarctic
a-bottom, from q little to the south of
the fiftieth parallel as far as eighty degrees
south, is being covered by a fine deposit
of silicious mud, more or less mixed, in
some parts, with the ice-borne debris of
polar lands and with the elections of vol
canoes. The silicious particles which
constitute this mud are derived, in part,
from the diatomaceous plants and radio
larian animals which thrOng the surface,
and, in part, from the spicula of sponges
which live at the bottom. The evidence
respecting the corresponding arctic area is
less complete, but it is sufficient to justify
the conclusion that an essentially similar
silici6us cap is being formed around the
northern pole.
There is no doubt that the constituent
particles of this mud may agglomerate
into dense rock, such as that formed at
Oran, on the shores of the Mediterranean,
which is made up of similar materials.
Moreover, in the case of fresh-water de-
posts of this kind it is certain that the ac-
ton of percolating water may convert the
originally soft and friable, fine-grained
sandstone into a dense semi transparent
opaline stone, the silicious organized skel-
etons being dissolved and the silex rede-
posted in "a amUphous state. Whether
such metamorphosis as this occurs in
submarine deposits as we'll as in those
formed in fresh water does not appear
but there seems no reason to doubt that it
may. And hence it may not be hazardous
to conclude that very ordinary metamor-
phic agencies may convert these polar
caps into form of quartzite.-Prof Hun
LeH, IN Popular Science NonthLN.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30
Giants and Dwarfs.

A paragraph is going the rounds of the
daily press, rehearsing the names of
many eminent men who have shown
extraordinary energy in war and politics
as being short rather than tall, which has
suggested the subject of this brief sketch
Napoleon was quite short, only about five
feet four inches: Nelson was very small
and Wellington hardly five feet eight
inches in height Peter the Great was quite
a short man; Louis the Fourteenth was a
pigmy in body, always dressing to appear
taller than he really was; William the
Third was also far below the ordinary size :;
while his opponent, Luxembourg was u
dwarf.
In ancient records we read of some
famous though diminutive people, among
the extreme of whom was Philetas, the
poet, contemporary with Hippocrates, and
who was obliged to ballast himself to
avoid being blown away by the wind also
of a famous Egyptian dwarf named Calls
tus, who at the age of twenty-five did not
weigh more than fat partridge; and lastly
of another poet, Aristratus, Of whom it
was said that his stature was so small no
one could see him! In more modern times
there was Sir Geoffrey Hudson, who at
the age of thirty was but eighteen inches
high. Count Joseph Borowlaski at twenty
years of age measured two feet four
inches, though at thirty years he
grew to three feet three inches. Nicholas
Ferry was another celebrated dwarf,
weighing less than one pound when born.
but at twenty years had grown to the
height of twenty-five inches, and died at
twenty-three years. Prince Colobri, a
Slesvig dwarf, was under twenty-six
inches. There is Dutch "Tom
Thumb" now living about the same
height.
Giants are rarer occurrences than dwarfs,
and statistics show that they are not so
long-lived Bryne, famous Irish giant
who died in London some years since,
measured eight feet two inches. Cornelius
Magrath, also well known in England,
measured seven feet eight inches, Ed
ward Malone, another Irishman, was
seven feet seven inches, the same stature
as Daniel Cardamus, Swedish giant. A
skeleton dug up in Roman camp at St.
Albans, England, was eight feet four
inches, and must have been more in life.
Goliath of Gath, according to Biblical
writers, measured eleven feet in height,
and Maximinius, the Emperor, was fully
nine feet in height There has within a
few years been exhibited in this city a
Prussian who measured over eight feet,
and who seemed like a church -steeple at
the side of Tom Thumb and Commodore
Mutt, with whom he generally appeared
N. Y. Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30
New Houses.

There are several house agents in Lon
don who combine the trade of letting
houses with that of making collins. The
two emplOyments do not at first seem to
have any affinity, but in new suburb
where streets are being run up by contract,
and inhabited before they are dry, such a
combination is natural enough, Indeed,
in the hands of an intelligent and enter
prising man the two employments might
be doyetailed with the happiest results. AT
least one death may be expected out OF
every large family settling down in damp
new house. II may only be the baby, but
that will I've better than none. If the fami.
ly happens 10 come from Ireland or the
west coast of Scotland, the Darwinian law
will have enabled them TO acquire some OF
the properties of india-rubber, so that they
would possibly be damp-proof, and there.
fore not desirable tenants. Such applicants
a judicious house-agent will naturally
refuse, and he may not only hope 10 profit
in his capacity Of undertaken by some
one taking a fatal cold in the damp GENE,
terry, but in his capacity of house.
agent he may at every well-con,
Quoted funeral inveigle new victims
for the handsome-looking streets still in
the hands of the builders, and perhaps in
duce his clients TO enter them while the
plaster is still wet upon the nine-iLef
walls. Doctors are, however, still more
indebted TO new houses than even house
agents or undertakers. 1t is said tha
when q young medical man Of fair ability
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30
HippOphagy.

Man, the monarch of all he surveys, is
fast becoming the eater of all he sees. Our
range of food Is immeasurably greater than
that of our ancestors, three centuries ago.
Science has lately been playing household
purveyor and cook by providing new edi-
bles and by devising improved ways of
preparing old ones so that their disagree
able qualities are smothered in gravy, dis
guised by sauce, or drowned, like Clar.
ence, in generous wine. A few months
ago an enthusiastic and omnivorous per-
son published in an English magazine the
story of his dinners. From rat to ele-
phant there was nothing he had not eaten.
Stewed snake had satisfied his inner man
and fricasseed cat had been toothsome
morsel for him. Such a connolsseur should
have been one of the sixty.five guests who
sat down at Observation-Disclosures
Horse, Mule and Donkey Banquet" at the
Grand Hotel, Paris on the 9th of April.
The first dish was horse soup, but ii
masqueraded as cOns0nne dc cheDdl dttr
crOutes ortllees. Its delicious flavor, largely
due, no doubt, to exquisite French cook
cry, converted half the company forth
with. They attacked horse-sausages bold
ly, and found them good, but ass liver
was rank and bad. Roast horse, and
horse, mule and ass tongues were declared
to be as good as deer or OK. The mule
outlets were bad, in fact painfully like the
beef steak set before the wandering Briton
in Partisan restaurants. A fricandeau of
ass was the success of the evening" The
meat was 'close- grained, tender and
juicy and the flavor was" indescribably
and eminently agreeable" Later in the
evening asses milk, butter made of it and
horse-oil were placed upon the table and
used by many of the guests, who had no
suspicion of the real nature of their rel
ishes. When the serious work of eating
was over a number of speeches were made
which rode the hobby of hippophagy to
death. Rosinante was pictured as far
more beautiful in death than in life. The
succulent qualities of Sancho Panzas don.
key were dwelt upon. The frightful loss of
good horsef1esh was pointed out. Thou
sands of pounds of it are annually given
to dogs or cats or thrown away. Many
human beings might live upon the food
thus destroyed. Yet a horse is usually
eaten after slow sickness has killed him.
Is the diseased flesh that cats and dogs de-
your fit food for men and women? The
case would be different if horses, mules
and asses were fattened expressly for the |
table This is about to be tried in Paris |
will notlong be an unknown |
art on this side of the water, for the Hip
pophagic Society of Paris has offered
medal and 500 to the first person who
opens a horse-butcher shop in London or
New York. Some enterprising Yankee
will doubtless gain the prize. Then the
owner of the donkey wot wouldn't go"
will simply drive him to the shop and sell
lim by the pound, hide, hoofs and shoes
thrown in. What will Bergh say?-Chi-
,100 TrJb1Jue
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30
Harvesting Ants.

The curious provision of nature, or Of
Darwin will have his way the curious
pass to which the develormental forces
will take up the animal kingdom, in the
protection of species, may be seen in the
history of the Harvesting Ants" of
Europe. The males and females have
wings the workers (neuters) have none.
Lizards frequently attack the winged ants,
but keep clear of the workers, the latter
protecting the winged ones by surround
ing them so that the lizards only catch an
occasional straggler outside the lines.
Certain large beetles, known as tiger
beetles, often attack the workers, but only
when they can pOunce upon a straggler,
and then only when they can seize him just
behind the neck. If they get hold of him
here he is at their mercy; but if they fail
in this they let go and run, for if the ant
once grasps the legs of the beetle it never
lets go, not even after death. This genera
of ants are also supplied with proportion
of Z" soldiers'-ants that, while belonging
to the class Of workers, have large heads
and huge jaws and very small bodies
They are useful only in fighting dangerous
enemies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

and pleasing manners Wishes toTsettle
down in London, his wisest course is 10
choose some fashionable district where
snowy houses with bow windows, pillared
porticoes, and thin walls are being run up.
II the soil on which the houses are
being built is clay, so much the better
for the young doctor; If the level of
the ground Is little above that of the
Thames, his prospects are yet more brill.
liant lie may safely marry for love; for,
although the fees he will receive may not
seem Overwhelmingly large, he will be
certain of constant employment. He may
never BECOME a renowned specialist or
physician in ordinary to a member Of
the royal family, but while he Is still a
young man he will be able to set up his
carriage without borrowing money, and he
will not find it difficult to insure his life
handsomely for his children but in order to
realize this pleasing picture he must secure
for his own habitation an old and we'll
built house. When he Is tired of life will
be time enough for him to take new one.
Few people except the Wandering jew
have the constitution of the nobleman who
is said to have lived for many years al
most rent-free by constantly moving from
one new house to another His friends
thought he was suffering from some OBJ
scure disease of the brain, but the build
ers' agents found him q capital decoy
duck. AS soon as they told wavering
client that Lord So-and-so had taken
house in such terrace the houses in the
terrace were Immediately at premium,
particularly those on each side Of His Lord
ship. In fact buildRrs find it an excellent
speculation to give good house cheap to
u tenant with title, and are thankful
even for such small mercies as knights
widow. Our imaginary doctor will find
his time much taken up in prescribing for
the servants who sleep on the ground
floor of these new houses, and con-
sequently take rheumatism, and for the
babies who sleep next the states and
have bronchitis. Everybody in the
families he attends will have at least one
severe cold on entering, but the piece de
resistance will be neuralgia. 1t is sure to
be prevalent in a new district and has the
merit of being very persistent and diff
cult to cure. The Shakers who bivouacked
a few weeks ago under hedges covered
with snow suffered less from illness than
did the inhabitants of some of the streets
in our southern suburbs, where the cold |
cannot be kept out in winter nor the heat |
in summer, and where the walls are reek- |
ing with damp at every change of TEN.
perature. Bricks will hold about their |
own weight of water, and after having
been thoroughly soaked they take a long |
time to become perfectly dry. As nine.
inch walls are only the thickness of the
length of one brick they are necessarily |
not thick enough to prevent the rain which |
beats on the outside from soaking through |
to the inside. They can never be built so
as to be really rain n-proof, and inside them
every change in the weather can always
be distinctly felt.-SdttTddy ReU&e,o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30
A Curious Coin.

Some three or four years ago there was
dug up -ron deep in the earth in the cen
tral part o Illinois a small coin that has
so far bafflel the students to explain its
figures and inscriptions. On one side it
has grotesque figure of man belabor-
ing another man who is lying on his back.
The characters both resemble the Indian
more than any other race. Surrounding
these central tracings are a series of char
acters that are guessed to be letters, but OF
what language nobody can tell. On the
other side Of the coin is large figure OF
an Indian head--very indistinct No one
has been able to explain the specimen, but
il acquires renewed interest from a story
of the early life of the Spaniards in this
country. 1t seems that in bartering with
the Indians these people offered them
Spanish coins. These were to the red
men only pieces of metal with inscriptions
which were wholly meaningless to them,
or because they represented white men
were detestable. They looked upon the
coins as valueless. BY an ingenious
thought, II is said, the Spaniards then
made coins bearing Indian marks and
figures and suggesting the idea of war
and they were Immediately priced anC
passed current, Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Or. pierced. FavorIte PresorIptlon

DR.. Pterce,a Favorite prescription
is very strongly recommended by the Medi'
cal Faculty and is largely prescribed among
their Female Patients, 1t is worthy Of all con-
fdence, as may be seen from the following
testimonials:
Dr. g. B. CHAPMAN, Plattsmouth, Ncb.,
writes: l have under treatment lady who,
for the past seven years, has been afflicted,
and, after trying several physicians without
receiving benefit, Is gdi,liRg rapidly on your
FdVoriie Prescription.
ATLANTA, Ill.
Dr. II. V. PlERoE, Buffalo, N. Y;
Dear Sir-I have not words to express my
gratitude to you for your advice and assist
ance In my case. There is not one who has
used your medicine since they have been
brought here but that can say with
me they have been greatly benefited. Since |
have been so helped by its use six or seven
around me left of all doctors and other medi-
cines and now use 1t in their families, after
being cured OF the same disease as mine You
do not know what n wonder IL created IN our
city by Its restoring my sister / wrote you
about, for she had been underth care or three
Of our best doctors but could noi SIT up but
for a few minutes at one time. ! begged OF
her to try your medicines, and before she had
used half the bottles she could go all around
the yard, and has now just come home from
visit five miles away.
MRS THOMAS MCFARLAND.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is sold
bv dealers In medicines generally.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

PATENT MEDIoNEs.-That there are
some good patent medicines nointelligent
man dare for moment deny; and pre-
eminent is the great California hero medi-
cine, VINEGAR BITTBRs, discovered by
DrJ. WALKER, a prominent physician of
San Francisco. This medicine, although
called Bitters, is not to be classed among
the vile fancy drinks" recommended and
sold over the bar by rum-tenders, but is a
combination of pure herbalistic extracts
known to possess sterling medicinal DUAL.
tiles, and is compounded without the use
in any shape of spirits. Its action upon
the internal system is not stimulating 70
the extent that alcoholic poison is, but it
at once attacks 'blood.impurities, and by
removing the original cause destroys the
germs of disease and invites returning
health It's action upon the stomach and
liver renders it an almost certain specific
in the most stubborn cases of dyspepsia,
and in truth imparts new life and vigor
to the whole system. 1t is one of the
best medicines ever invented. SO
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A Natural Mathematician.

Mr.. Edward H. Coursey, of Piney
Neck, was born in 1894, and is now, con.
sequently, eighty-one years Of age. Mr.
Coursey is a remarkable man. Figures
are mere playthings for him. He car
solve the most difficult problem, and ha:
yet to find sum he cannot get the correc
answer to. His talent for figures is entire
ly natural, never having attended school
as much as year in his life. He does
his sums not by any arithmetical rules
but by rules of his own, but always gets
the answer correct. He has made, too
somewhat of reputation, and receives
sums through mail from almost every
State in the Union, which he works and
answers by mail. He is quite notorious
also, for the difficult sums he puts tc
others, and particularly the schoOlmasters
whom he especially delights to puzzle
His latest is as follows: "a farmer hav.
ing twelve bitches to cut, of different
lengths, employs four men to do the work
To the first he agrees to pay 81 per rod
to the second, S1.25 per rod; to the third
$1.75 per rod, and to the fourth, So 1881
per rod. When they finish the bitches
and come TO be paid off, each man receives
the same amount of money for each ditch
How many rods did each man cut in each
ditch; how much money did each man re-
ceive for each ditch; how long was each
ditch, and how much did it cost per rod tC
have the bitches cut g'-CenteTyfNe (Hd.
Observer
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ovsr he brake is man iq9ecp thought.
Dsiroi' f'~ -

over he bfeka |II.. tmaniq deep thought.
Defroit fits ftys. - :.
"A Kentuchy Ybhl ROr sweet con.
and nothing stood h their way but the
| obduracy 0f va and unpleasant old
| grandfather Of Die lady. He observed
/ that he W1Nll|ht have 1t, and was deaf TO
IWctnlnts md wailings. One morning the
malignant grandpapa woke very late to
find a strong smell of chloroform in his
room and total absence of the young
lady from his house. She had fed; she
was married, and the old gentleman has
been duly called upon for the usual for.
giveness. The sweet and innocent maiden
had called science to her aid and thus Sc.
cured husband,
The young hero of the following mar
rative musthave a mercurial temperament.
The Gilroy (Cal.) Adpocdte says; A few
days ago Mrs. Anna Babb's little boy
drank pound of quicksilver The child
is less than three years old, and even in
California Is considered rather young to
indulge in so strong beverage. He
found the mercury bottle in some rubbish
in an old trunk while playing, and drank
the whole, leaving but few drops. The
physician was sent for, who administered
some light remedy. The child gave no
other indication of having taken the mer-
curry than drowsiness. The metal did not
all leave the stomach for ten days, but he
was about all the time and is now bright
as ever.n
The following ingenious arrangement
of a sentence is taken from the Carolina
Seattnel, April 7, 1918, 1t may be read in
over 1000 ways without altering the oigi-
nal words, by beginning at the letter r,
which will be found in the center of the
diamond.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

Mrs. NJ II. Burnham's notion of a
spring hat; at won't make much differ
ence this weather whether one has nice
spring hat OF poor one. A little flannel
hood lined with camphor and trimmed
about the ears with roasted onions for the
earache, and rigged with American mus
tard- leaves for face trimming, will suit our
neuralgia condition best"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

PRUssING's celebrated White Wine Vinegar
has been before the public twenty.seven wears
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

PRUss1NG's White Wine Vinegar, purest
and cheapest, warranted to preserve pickles
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

The mule is certainly hard animal
to kill, especially if he makes up his mind
that he will not die On the mountain
side, burdened with heavy pack, his
foothold is as finn and sure as the earth on
which it rests but when the earth gives
way, as it sometimes does, pack and mule
go rolling over and over down the steep hill
or precipice; the animal may he killed.
apparently, two or three times before he
gets to the bottom, but he has generally
lives enough left to secure him good old
age and natural death. / have seen a
wheel mule fall and become buried under
a heavily-loaded wagon so completely that
not hint of the animal was visible. Yet
when the wagon and load were removed
the mule got up and grazed as though
nothing had happened, and seemed to be
the only party there that was not surprised
did hear of one mule in the West which
died from violence. He fell into quartz
mill and was stamped to a jelly; then
passed into the furnace and was roasted to
a white heat, which made him perspire
freely On coming out of the furnace a
foolish man declared he was dead But it
is said that when Il curious skeptic
pounded up some Of the furnace quartz
with pestle shortly after the bray of the
mule in the mortar was distinctly heard. -
S. j. BdrT0,os, IN atlantic for Nay.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

THERE could scarcely be better evi
denoe of the extraordinary excellence
of the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs
than the fact that they are so largely
exported to Europe, where they are sc
highly appreciated as to find large sales
in competition with instruments made
there by labor which does not cost hall
as much. These are the only American
organs largely exported.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

Pomeroy & Co., make the best Elastic Truss
ever invented. Address IA Broadway, N. Y
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

OPPRESSION after eating, headache, nervous
debility, are the effects OF indigestion. One,
or two at most, Of Parsons' FtIrgativs PHI
will give immediate relief.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

JoHNsON's AHOdyne LiHime,tt may be ad-
ministered TO children with perfect success In
cases of Group, whooping- cough, influenza,
and almost any of the diseases TO which they
ara liable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30

If married men will attend the spell
ing-matches they had better leave theiI
wives at home. 1t isn't comfortable tc
walk home with her and have the deal
creature muttering at every step; "I'm
ashamed of your ignorance" and If you
can't spell 'agitate' I'll teach you when
you get home" No; it's disheartening
MiliodiIkee Nelps.