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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
Stature Of the Primeval Man.

THE Popular Science Monthly says the
indications are that the primeval man of
Europe and his descendants were of
short stature. The popular notion that
the present generation is physically
weaker and smaller than the primitive
or ancient is not only utterly unfounded,
but there is abundant evidence that the
reverse is true. Most of us would be
amazed if not shocked at the true and
life-sized portrait of the real Eve,
" Mother of all the living" We often
hear, indeed, of giants bones here AAd
there dug up, but intelligent examination
invariably proves them to have belonged
to the mammoth or some other animal.
A singular blunder of the kind shows the
real value of such reputed discoveries.
Years ago skeleton was dug from the
calcareous shale at Oeningen, which the
veteran savant Scheuchzer confidently
christened "H0m0 dtluUi6 teStiS"-the
man who saw the flood. Casts of it were
made for various museums, and, in full
faith in the legitimacy of the name, one
Deacon Muller was moved to write some
pious and edifying lines about it. I'm
fortunately, the first competent study of
the skeleton proved it to be that-not of
an ancient sinner, but of a large
salamander, closely resembling the giant
salamander of Japan. Yet to this day
every casually unearthed petrifaction,
found no matter where, or what rela-
tions, is to many memorial of the
Noachian deluge. Thus theories which
science has long ago refuted and dis
missed from further consideration are
persistently held fast and reaffirmed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

MacDermott understand that his brother
had come back, and was rich, and willing
to help him but when IL did dawn on his
feeble mind his sorrow and his gratitude
were touching TO behold, "Take me
away, Ownie-take me away from Baly-
bane. / can never hold up my head
among the neighbors again. Sure I'm q
poor broken-down ould creature but /
have q small taste of the spirit of the
MacDermotts left yet, in spite of all my
troubles. Take me an Julia away,
Owen.n
There was now demonstrated beauti-
full instance of magnanimity Owen
took his brother and his niece to New
York; but Martin did not long live to
enjoy the splendid home of Owen. Six
months after they landed he died with
out any visible cause - simply of q
broken heart Julia took her place as
mistress of her uncle's establishment and
before very long married the son of his
partner and had fine house of her own I;
and when Darby's term of transporta.
tion expired his uncle took him to live
with him. The young man had learned
a severe lesson but he profited by it and
is now one of the most prosperous and
esteemed merchants in New York His
children climb on the knees of a white
haired, gentle old man they call Uncle
Owen; and he Sometimes says to Darby
as he strokes his Oldest boys golden
curls: "Your Owen is like me, nephew;
can see that. Pm happy old man. !
could not have been so had / committed
any horrid act of vengeance. In doing
good for evil l feel that l am truly
blest." t."-OhdmberS' Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

excluded from the air when in transit,
stone crooks should not be used for car
rying long distances.
In packing butter, sprinkle little salt
on the bottom of the package and then
place layer upon layer, pressing one firm
ly upon another and against the sides so
that all air is perfectly excluded. II you
have not enough at one packing to fill
the package, fill up with brine, to be
poured off and the whole to be wiped
dry before more is put in. So proceed
until within n quarter or half an inch of
the top. Head up tight, and tlll COM
pletely full, through the cork-hole in the
head, with brine, and stop all close,
Keep the packages in a cool, dry eel.
lar or, better, in an ice-house until
wanted for sale. Before shipping pour
off the brine, and having, previous to
packing the butter, weighed and marked
the package, now weigh the whole; sub.
tract the tare and mark legibly on the
head the gross, tare and net weight
Thus you may have Gilt-Edge Butter"
that will keep from June to June. Thus
there will be no necessity to ship except
in cold weather, when good butter is al
ways scarce and will command high
DriCe,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
French Dresses.

AMONG late importations of French
dresses are many novelties. Carriage
and reception dresses of French gray or
of pale ashes-of-roses silk are trimmed
with cord passementerie of the same
shade and most elaborate shirTing. The
basque has a Marguerite back, with the
two middle forms shirred from top to
bottom and edged with passementerie
The front is also shirred in vest shape.
The sleeves have lengthwise sbirrs around
the elbows. There are two scarf aprons,
edged with fringe and shirrcd length
wise. The back breadths are held in
quadruple pleat, on which is set tlounce
halfway down.
A reception-dress of pale blue silk has
flounccs, overskirt and vest of cream
colored soft silk, embroidered all over
with dark-brown leaves and open English
embroidery. Blue Joan-of-Arc basque,
with two rows of the cream. colored en-
broidery passing from the vest over the
shoulders and down the back.
The handsomest black silk dress sent
out by Worth is trimmed with ruches of
crimped tape, thread lace and knife
pleatings. There are three knife-pleat-
ings across the back breadths, while the
plain front has merely ruche and lace
down the front and a single pleating at
the foot. The side breadths are trimmed
with rows of beaded fringe, forming a
square, and there are square breadths
and black satin streamers behind to give
fullness. The Marguerite basque has
two side forms, and the whalebOnes ex-
tend to the end of the basque.
A travelling suit of gray limousine is
striped with threads of red and black
The striped basque has plain gray sleeves.
An English collar of the striped material
is faced with cardinal red silk, and there
is necktie and bow made of this silk
laid in fine pleats and fringed by ravel
ing. The double apron, shaped in a deep
point, is striped, and the stripes meet in
seam down the middle. The back is
two straight breadths, looped, and the
whole is edged with knife -pleating. The
plain gray skirt has a gathered and a
pleated tlounce, one plain, the other
striped.
Another stylish suit for morning, shop
ping, travelling, ETC., has skirt of navy
blue silk, with an apron and basque Of
wool goods in wide blue and brown
stripes. es.-Hd1per's Bazar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
Posture

In standing, the true posture is the
upright one with the heels together, or
nearly so, and the toes turned out at an
angle that is easy, and gives a strong
base to support the body. The arms
when not in use should hang evenly by
the side, OF be folded on the chest. In
sitting the spine should be kept straight,
and hips and knees only bent. Suppose
you try standing up in the way l tell
you, and to be sure that you are up
right stand with your heels against the
wall of the room. Now if your hips,
shoulders, and the back of your head
touch the wall, you are upright. Main
tain this attitude and go before large
glass and see how straight you are Try
and get into the habit of maintaining
this posture when standing, walking, or
running; and after q while it will be
easy for you. Now sit down in your
chair as you generally do, sprawled out
over half the room, so nobody can get
by you without falling over your feet
and legs, and ask your mother how she
would like to have you always take up
so much room in the world. Then try
sitting upright, and see how she likes
that. Try both ways before the glass
and see if you don't like the upright
position best. Some people think it a
sign of weakness to look much in the
glass; but / should like to have one side
of every room, from the floor halfway
to the top, large mirror so people
could see their own behavior and attitude
in it all the time. / believe they would
be ashamed of themselves whenever they
saw anything wrong, and learn to do bet
ter. One reason why many people are
so mean is because they never see them
selves. They don't know how badly they
do act. A very large looking-glass in
their room would help them a good
deal. Fancy, for instance, large boy
or girl quarreling right before Il large
mirror. They would laugh themselves
into good-nature at once, or else go Oft
and hide for shame. Then, again, if
people could always see themselves in a
large mirror they would like their good
department so well that they would
want to repeat it constantly. Sickly, de-
formed and ugly people never want to
look at themselves in the glass.
Uprightness of body is not the only
thing to look after. There is an upright
ness of mind that thinks and acts cor
rectly, that does what's right, tells the
truth, and is kind and tender of the feel
ings of others. There is verse in the
Bible which every boy and girl should
remember and practice, and which reads:
Mark the perfect man and behold the
upright, for the end of man is peace. -
Herald Of Healh."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A SOLUTION of chloride of lime in
water TO which little acetic acid has
been added is among the many recipes
recommended to remove ink-stains from
linen.
MOUNTING fluid forl microscopic OBJ.
iects is made of gelatin one ounce, honey
five ounces, rectified spirits one.half
ounce, and creosote six drops. Filter
through fine flannel. Heat the honey
before adding to the gelatin, which last
must be dissolved in boiling water.
When cool, add the creosote.
A VERY good imitation of meerschaum,
which may be carved like the genuine
article, can be made by peeling common
potatoes and macerating them in water
acidulated with 8 per cent. sulphuric
acid for thirty.six hours. Dry on blot
ting-paper, and for several days on
plates of plaster of Paris in hot sand.
The potatoes should be strongly COM
pressed while drying.
To MAKE pocket mucilage boil one
pound of the best white glue and strain
very clear; boil also four ounces of isin-
glass and mix the two together; place
them in water bath (glue kettlel with
half pound of white sugar, and evap-
crate till the liquid is quite thick, when
it is to be poured into molds, dried and
cut into pieces of convenient size. This
Immediately dissolves in water and
fastens paper very firmly.
Pork Soup.-Many persons object to
eating pork, but for those who loin eat it
we give the following, and though pork
soup does not sound so agreeable as beef
and mutton, yet to the taste it is equally
as good but II needs no praise from us (;
try it; Pare and slice some potatoes,
have a quart of them after they are
sliced; put them into three pfhts of cold,
boiling or hot water; pare and slice half
a dozen of onions, and add these when
your potatoes get to cooking, unless they
are small; if they are they need not be
added quite so soon; then fry five or six
slices of pork and when it is nearly done
add to the soup with the drippings
(there will not be too much fat for this
if the pork is only half fried). When
the soup is done, before taking it from
the stove, thicken itwith tablespoonful
of flour wet up with milk and let all boil
up once more; if you like add crackers
the same as for any soup .-HousehoId. -
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
Curious Names.

Mr.. BoURcHIER was for many years ac-
customed to jot down the out-of-the-way
surnames which came under his notice,
in shop-windOws, in directories, in par
ish registers and elsewhere. He sent a
large budget of them to "Notes and
Queries" and we will make room for
portion of the list by way of sample. In
letter A we find Apothecary and Ancient.
b supplies us with Breeks, Bytheway
Barefoot, Bodily, Birchenougny and
Birdseye. From G we obtain -Curds
Cornfeld, Candle, Cakebread and Coffee
d is represented by Dinner, Drinkall and
Dainty. e and f give us Eatwell, Friz-
Zle, Freshwater, Fish and Food. In G
may be found Goosey, Graygoose, Cos
ling, Greengrass, Greedy, Ginger and
Garlic. In II are Honey, Haddoek, Hag
gis, Herbage and Hogsfesh. ] and L
supply Jelly, Juniper, Lunch and Long
cake; while the next three letters of the
alphabet furnish Mackerel, Mutton,
Mustard, Nice and Oysters. From we
obtain Pigeon, Pepper, Peppercorn,
Pickles and Pheasant; and from r, Ram,
Rawbone, Raspberry. In s are to be
found Swine, Sheepshanks, Spice,
Shanks, Smallhorn, Snipe and Sweetap.
pie; while T gives Tongue, Thirst and
Tart.
Bourchier's budget seems to refer to
names taken from articles of food rather
than to those of any other class; but
multitudes of others have been collect
ed, which makes one marvel how such
names ever came to be devised. Moist,
Mudd, Boots, Wholebelly, Sunshine,
Jabberer, Quickfall, Vile, Whitlow, Dust,
Tattoo, Whackman, Paddle, Crackle,
Reason, Frizzle, Cobbledick, Shirt, Save
all, Hartiull-what strange medley
is here. Nor are the following less
whimsical; Thoroughkettle, Shavetail,
Hiredam, Foresight, Smalbehynd,
Strangeworm and Catchglove. A whole
| cluster OF surnames may be found bear
| ing some relation to the period of life
when young people form mutual attach
ments; Gallant, Manhood and Manlove
Virgin, Treasure, Prettybody, Love,
Dearlove, Delight, Eighteen, Lovely,
LOvelock, Precious and Sweetlove
Walklate, Kindness, JOY, Jealous, Yes
and Kiss; Younghusband, Husband, Baby,
Littlechild and Littleboy. In collec-
tion OF surnames that attracted attention
in the United States were found Melady,
Measles, Pippin, Pipkin, Rhino, Rosin,
Rump, Spitfather, Saucebox, Spleen,
Smock, Sixty, Shaver, Towel, Tags,
Tankard, Vixen, Viper, Vinegar, Wal
lower, Winternight, Witherup and Yell.
Bairnsfather would be proper enough for
a man, but Mrs. Bairnsfather reads
oddly. A mulatto lady, born in Barba-
does, had for the second of her three
names Ga baptismal rather than sur
name) the designation Blowbellows; she
dislikes it, and used merely the initial
letter. An adequate reason has been as
signed for the adoption of many peculiar
surRames in America. Settlers arriving
from Europe bring with them the names
peculiar in their respective countries
and these names, undergoing the modif-
cations of sound and spelling so clearly
elucidated by Max Muller, gradually as
sumo a new form. Hence are believed
to have arisen Bumpus from Bon Pas,
Bunker from Bon Ceur, Henderson from
Hendricksen, Buckalew from Buccleuch
and Peabody from Piebauder.-Oham
berS' Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
How Farming Implements Are Neg.
lected.

HAVE just come in from walk, dis
gusted with the slip-shod manner in which
some of my fellow-farmers will persist
in carrying on their business Here is
one of my neighbors-a tip-top good man,
kind to a fault, indulgent to his family,
thoughtful for his hired help-in truth,
man whose opinion upon matters of be-
nevolence and Christian charity l respect
highly. Still that man has no sort of
feeling for inanimate things and his
wholesale neglect of their care is worse
than hole in his right hand pants
pocket. His wagon has been out all win.
ter, and stands now exposed to the
changeable weather of spring-the worst
sort OF weather to try the constitution of
tools as well as man and beast. The
plow stands in the last furrow where it
was left in November. A stone-boat lays
by the barn-yard gate fiat upon the
ground, and single.wagon, harrow, cul-
tivators, horse-rake and numerous hand
tools are scattered about promiscuously,
fully exposed to rain and sunshine. A
low estimate of loss from this want of
care is per cent. of the investment
Look at the figures:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

Six MILLIoNs.-About two years ago
DIR. J. WALKER an old and prominent
physician of California, discovered, by
actual experience upon. his own system,
a medicine which may honestly be termed
ga boon to suffering humanity" Being
combination of herbalistic extracts,
pungent and sour to the taste, and yet
possessed of gentle stimulative charac.
teristics-although entirely free from
alcohol-he named it VINEGAR BITTERs,
and despite the prejudice existing among
his profession against all patented med
icines he determined to brave the ieers
of his brother practitioners and give TO
suffering humanity the benefit of his ac-
cidental discovery. He did so, and the
benefits from its use became known The
demand increased, and immense auanti.
ties were sold at merely nominal price.
Its merit is told in the fact that in two
years over SIX MILLIONS of bottles have
been sold" and still the demand in
creases. Surely such man should be
ranked among the benefactors of the
human race. 80
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
KAroHTNa FoR FATHER.

THERE'S a little face at the window,
And two dimpled hands ON the panei
And somebody's eyes are fixed upon
The gate at the end OF the lane.
The hills have caught the shadow
Which hcralds the coming night
And the lane, with its flowery fringe, grows
dim
To the Watchers anxious sight,
Where half way down,
Like glittering crown,
A FREELY band have clustered
Round an aster's leaf
royal chief
A driven herd are mustered.
Away behind,
With busy mind,
But a step That is light and free,
And sun-burnt face
On which the trace
OF hard days work you sec
Comes the farmer home from toll,
Driving the cows before him;
And the child-eycs, strained at the window
there,
Were the first in the house that saw him.
Ali would, when the day is done
And leave my cares behind me,
could have such pair OF wnsomc eyes
Searching the night to find me
". Y. Egc,aing Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
Criminal Statistics in England.

The following extract is taken from a
report by Col. Du Cane, Surveyor
al of Prisons in England
1T appears that $50 far at least as re-
CARDS crime) that part of the population
which is between twenty-five and thirty
four years, or perhaps little older, sup
plies far more than its proper proportion
to our convict prisons. This may there
fore be called the criminal age 1t ap-
pears also that the criminal age begins
and ends later in females than in males.
"The fact of the large decrease of
crime continuously after the age of thirty
four is well worthy of note, whether it
arises from the moral feelings being in
some individuals developed later than
ordinarily, or in a desire after a certain
age for a quieter life than the risk and
excitement of crime can offer; but it
would seem 10 warrant the inference
that if those persons whose career evi-
dences in them marked criminal tenden-
cies could either be locked up or kept
under supervision until they had passed,
say, the age of forty, supplying thus, in
the interest of the public, that self-con-
troll in which they are obviously deficient,
a vast deal of crime would be put an end
to, for there can be little doubt that most
of the undetected crime, which much
exceeds that which is followed by pun
ishment, is committed by persons Of tins
class. Many of them might thencefor-
ward become respectable members of So
ciety.
at is also worthy of observation that
the proportion of male convicts convicted
of serious crime is much larger than fe-
males-in fact, six to one; but the pro-
portion of males to females convicted of
minor crimes is only four to one.
"The explanation of this probably is
that the occupation of females is not
generally such as to lead them to commit
those offenses against morals which bring
them so much under the operation of the
criminal law, and especially does not ex-
pose them in an equal degree to the dan
ger of committing the more serious Of
fenses.n
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

THE art of voicing reeds, the most diff
cult and important in the manufacture
of cabinet or parlor organs, was invented
by Mr. Emmons Hamlin, Of the Mason
& Hamlin Organ Co, in 1S47. 1t has
been universally adopted by American
and largely by European makers, but
none have attained that high standard
of excellence in it which is reached in
the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs.
This fact is universally recognized by
musicians.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

--"It's awful, it's awful" groaned a
sad eyed man up on North Hill, who has
seven daughters, as he paid bill OF
$147 for cord-wood; "just about the
time that Sunday night fuel in seven
rooms has drained me dry it threatens to
turn warm It's out of one trouble into
another and the budding spring time
brings no Joy to me-" And he wept as
he went into hardware store and made
contract for gate hinges, buyers op-
tion, to be delivered at such times as he
might direct during the spring and sum
mer-B Burlington HalokBye.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

AN Irishman called at a drug store to get q
bottle of JohnSoa'S Anodyne Linin,eat for the
Rheumatism; the druggist asked him in what
part Of the body IL troubled him most. "Be
me SOUL" said he, 81 have it in livery houl
and corner or men
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

GRoCERs who sell Prussing's White Wine
Vinegar will never hear a complaint about IT,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

For loss of cud, horn-ail, red water in cows,
loss of appetite, rot, or murrain in sheep,
thick wind, broken wind and roaring, and for
all distractions of the kidneys in horses, use
Sheridan'S Cdydlry Condition Powders.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

THE NORTHWESTERN HoRsE-NAII. Cos
" Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

ALIENS LUNG BALsAM has proved itself to
be the greatest Medical Remedy for healing
the Lungs-Purifying the Blood and restoring
the tone of the Liver 1t excitcs the phlegm
which is raised from the Lungs, thereby the
Cough, Pains, Oppression, Night Sweats and
Difficulty of Breathing-all the above symp-
toms viii be cured, and the whole system
again restored to health.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

NoTIcE advertisement of the Zinc Collar
Pad. They have been thoroughly tested, and
the guarantee of this Co. is good. Ask hard.
ware dealers or harness-makers for them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

ALL invalids should write to r. II. Parks,
Naukegan, Ill, for Glen Flora Mineral
Springs circulars. Sure cure for Dyspepsia.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09
The "Housekcoper,, Of our Health

cleansing organ of the system. Set the great
housekeeper Of our health at work and the
foul corruptions which gender in the blood
and rot out as 1t were, the machinery of life
are gradually expelled from the system. For
this purpose DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery, with small daily doses of DIR. Perce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, are pre- .ominently
the articles needed. They cure every kind Of
humor, from the worst scrofula to the com.
mon pimple, blotch or eruption. Great, eat
ing ulcers kindly heal under their mighty
curative influence. Virulent blood poisons
that lurN in the system are by them robbed
Of their teTors, and by their persevering and
somewhat protracted use the most tainted
system may be completely renovated and
built up anew. Enlarged glands, tumors and
swellings dwindle away and disappear under
the influence of their great resolvents. Sold
by all dealers in medicines.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

Patented 1878. The best Elastic Truss. Made
only by Pomeroy " Co., 744 Broadway, n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-09

BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and cheap
est hair dressing in the world.