Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-05-21
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

THE Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says the
Seminoles of South Florida still hold
slaves.
A BOY in New York has been sentenced
to one years imprisonment for stealing
two cents.
A. BROKER says: Give me the bonds
of government aud l care not who
breaks its laws"
"DEBT is the worst kind of poverty"
Except the poverty which prevents a
man from gettihginto debt.
The economical man makes that great
stream the mother of rivers, and spells
1t Mrsippi.-Bost0n AdUertiser.
TAME says; Four varieties in soci-
ETY.: Lovers, the ambitious, observers and
fools. The fools are the happiest."
AMERICAN catsup tickles the palates of
the Japanese. They have tried to make
something like it of cats, but failed.
Mrs. GAsKrNs, of Carteret County, N.
c., weighs $40 pounds, and one of her
stockings holds bushel of shelled corn"
THEY complain of lack of horses in
France, but they keep on eating 'em.
They can't expect the cake and the penny
both.
The observations of the total eclipse
of the sun in Egypt April were pre-
vented by the prevalence of heavy
clouds.
ABOUT this time small boys accumu-
late rags, old copper boilers, broken
bottles and scrap iron with q view to
Fourth of July funds.
DANIEL BAUGHER, of Hydetown, Craw-
ford County, Pa, while out hunting the
other day, caught young woodchuck
which had three perfectly-formed heads
ON one body.
OF q thousand dead horses taken to
the New York offal dock during the past
winter, $50 had died from rot and other
diseases of the hoof caused by travelling
in salted slosh.
A KANSAS man killed two birds with
one stone. While he was buying lot
in the cemetery and hiring his wife's
grave dug he proposed marriage to a
widow who was having her husbands
grave sodded.
A NORFOLK (Va) man who had lost
several sheep by dogs put strychnine in
large quantities upon one of the carcass
es the other day, and next morning found
thirty-one dead dogs in the field, the
farthest one being less than 100 yards
from the dead sheep.
AN almost ridiculous use of steam is
found on Duck River, Tenn, on which
placid stream steamboat, drawing only
twelve inches of water, and having a
grist-mill ON board, wanders up and
down, stopping wherever she is wanted
to grind bushel or two of corn for the
farmers of the territory.
A HARVARD student, the other day,
concentrated all his force in one mighty
kick at football. Then there came q
| nv hn n fe
collar-bone needed splints on it, Another
evidence of the severe strain to which
the poor youth of the age are committed
by the modern educational system.
THE teachers in the public schools a
San Francisco have been using the roc
upon their pupils with so great severity
that the press have taken up the matter
and insist upon reform. One little CIR
was so severely beaten recently, for {
trivial ohense, that she went into hyster
les and was i'll for week following.
WHEN horse breaks its leg it is ne
longer necessary to shoot it lin order tC
save its life," as the Irishman did will
his pig that was hurt by the cars.
veterinary surgeon of Utrecht, Lonl
Island, recently set the broken hind-lel
of horse so successfully that the ami
r NAL is sound as ever. 1t took about siI
, weeks to effect the cure.
J AT Greenbrier, West Va, a few day
: ago, child was born which wa
most singularly deformed. The left arm
: was entirely wanting, there being at tn,
, shoulder not even rudimentary appear
ance or development. Upon the righ
$ side there was an arm which extended
? ouly TO the elbow, hand being attached
r at right angles to the extremity.
THE fruit crop of Delaware and Ney
Jersey, from which States the New Yorl
market is supplied, gives prospect of
: full yield. The late cold weather
j though delaying the season somewhat
, has not materially affected the frui
germ, as the vitality of the embryo bu
has not progressed to such an extent a
to be affected by the low temperature.
THE Athens Georgian says: "Mr. Joe
M. Dean, of this county, informs us tina
7 upon his plantation and that of T. G
= Macon there are at this time at least 90
u beavers. These aquatic industrials are
as usual, working like beavers an
D have built quite number of dams upo
= the streams running through their plaI
. tations, cutting down trees for their 81
!, perstructures measuring at least frol
u eight to ten inches In diameter"
= RECENTLY cat played the followin
= prank upon Syracuse gentleman: I'll
- person had retired to bed and had lai
= there some time, when his wife, in I'll
- next room, heard singular noise, Sh
J.. inferred from the sound that her hu
a band was sleeping soundly; but the nois
~ grew more intense, and she concluded I
a. find out what it might be. She wei
- into the sleeping apartment, and foun
. tl,a 60. skav s,,l
> her husbands mouth, and its paws tigh
NJ ly clasped about his throat. 1t require
:, considerable exertion to remove the an
NAL, as 1t clung tightly to its position
= The gentleman was nearly suifocate,
q ana but for the timely interference {
nf his wife would have been killed.
10 A sEA-sERPENT story that gets litt
he ahead of the ordinary run of such yarI
d. comes from Portland. Capt. Oliver,
N the Bath schooner Winslow Morse, I
ia lates that recently, when of Cape EliZ
a, beth, about fifteen miles southeas
81 while he was at the wheel and anoth
Ds man stood on deck, great snake ro
q out Of the water about four feet abo'
m the rail, and the body appeared about
lie large round as hogshead. The man {
e, deck picked up a long pole with pix
In head on the end lying near by and thru
es it into the monsters body The serpe
in Immediately dived and came up on Il
other side Of the vessel little distan
I'd off and glided away, making but smi
y. ripple on the water. 1t appeared abo
ne 100 feet long. The Captain exhibits Il
or pike covered with the blood and sineN
In of the monster--or some other animal,
m A SUIT involving the disposition of
he large fortune was recently decided
n Wilminrton, Del Under the laws
S that State the property OF wife WI
be dies without issue descends not to h
no husband but TO those of her own bloc
do Ten years ago Harry Stout, wealth
Dover lawyer, died, leaving his proper
i'd TO his three children. Five years a
= his only daughter married Rev. III.
in Hall, Of Lewes, and year later 5
Id died in giving birth to her first Chi
ld The latter, IL was claimed by the faith
lived for O few minutes after being bol
IA. | hut thia Mra Hallia hrOtharia daniad