Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A RAW clam poulticc is the latest anna
teur medical p.Taw-clamation in cases of
"HERE's another doughmestic Difficult
Iy," said Brooklyn woman as she found
her bread heavy.
IT is the correct thing among London
to boast of having Travelled
in an American palace car.
A TOUCHING obituary: He knew the
value of an editors time and never tres
passed long upon it," Peace to his
ashes.
"HAPPY he who has done nothing to
make himself famous" says the New
York Tribune. In these days of gossip
obscurity is actually delicious"
THE best way to avoid water-pipes
freezing and bursting Is to have a cock
in the cellar, by which the water can be
turned off from the entire house.
To make silk which has been wrinkled
appear like new, sponge on the surface
with n weak solution of gum arabic or
white glue, and iron on the wrong side.
In dealing with furniture, remember
to keep water away from everything sol
uble therein, oil from everything porous,
alcohol from varnish, and acid from
marble.
That you may eat your cake AMI have
it is shown In Hhode Island sending last
year to New York aud Boston II 900
geese with no diminution of population.
-Erchdnge.
SINCE that st. Louis dentist broke
woman's jaw the st. Louis husband,
generally, insists that his wife shall go
down and get new set of teeth and have
the old ones removed.
In reply to young writer who wished
TO know which magazine will give me
the highest position quickest" a contem-
porary advises "a powder magazine, if
you contribute fiery article"
THE ancient way of wearing deep linen
cuffs outside the dress sleeve is reviving.
They are cut with a deep point on the
back, are short in front, and are closed
with three linen buttons on the point.
HANDKERcHIEFs with colored borders,
either solid or striped, are considered
correct for morning and promenade
toilets, though they are never in so good
taste as the simple hemstitched square OF
linen.
A RURAL New England moralist says:
"Give your son a good education and q
III anu NhNh 10 a
man he will not be content to sit back of
grocery stove and crack his finger
Joints"
INDIANAPOLIS papers announce that a
Limburger cheese factory is to be estab-
lished there, and in the next column they
find fault with the odor arising from one
of the big sewers. Be consistent, gen
tlemen.
A NEW trif1e for overdresses and drap-
cry is tulle so closely covered with silver
spangles that it looks like fairy fabric
spun from silver threads. 1t is pretty
and costly and perishable- consequently
it will be popular.-Chicdg0 Tribune Cor
respondence.
MACHINERY has reached great state
of perfection. An exchange says: We
recently saw some burnt peas put into
the hopper of cotfee-mil1 and in less
than two minutes they were occupying a
place in grocery window, labeled
Fine Old Mocha"
Wells are now made OF bits OF white
tulle trimmed with narrow Valenciennes
or Mechlin edging. They are bad for the
eyes, seldom becoming save to the fresh
dozen wearings. Therefore they can
hulul1 pC biphbhOlC'
Two confiding old ladies of Baltimore
boarded a stingy old curmudgeon OF
means for twenty-seven long years, never
presenting him with bill, but relying
upon his assurance that he would remem
lately, forgetting all about the matter
and now his former landladies have en-
tered suit against the administrator OF
10 oofofa for tho amount Of fhair hoard
bill.
In Aldernach, on the Rhine, practi
cal, if homely and unscientific, method
of cleansing the pipes which supply thai
picturesque town with water has lately
been adopted. An army of water scav
engers, in the shape of eels, is collected
in the reservoirs and driven through the
pipes. 1t is reported that the eels come
to sight again in the most edifying fou
condition, bringing with them all the i'm
purities which had collected in the pipes
The attention of many chemists ant
physicians of late has been called to tho
action of prussic (hydrocyanic) acid.
has been asserted that the person VIII;
| died from the action of this powerful
poison did so from paralysis OF importan
nerves that control the action of tn
heart. 1t was also asserted that atropin
was an antidote for the poison. Careful
experiments lately made show that thes
conclusions are probably incorrect TIL
animals experimental upon after larg
dose could not be affected by the admin
istration of atropine but became asphyS
lated. The heart continued 10 beat fo
twenty minutes after the animal wa
seemingly dead; when moderate dose
were given, though they were larg
enough to destroy life, yet they did nc
seem to have utterly paralyzed tn
motor nerves. This was shown by til
fact that if artificial respiration was en-
ployed until the lungs began to recove
their power the animal always recovered
Death by hydrocyanic acid seems TO b
rather from asphyxia than by actio
upon the nerves controlling the muscl
lar action of the heart.
THE French Minister of Justice hi
lately received report of very sad an
extraordinary affair, which is not III
likely to create some sensation. Thirt
years ago a young girl named Mari
Guernic was found poisoned in her be-
She had been betrOthed short time b.
fore to a young man with whom III
younger sister Madeline was said to
desperately in love. The poor girl WI
at once arrested, tried and finally co
demned to death, which she suffert
J calmly and valiantly, without uttering
word of complaint or of justification
: Everybody felt the greatest sympatf
for the poor old father of the two girl
who was giving signs of the most violel
. grief He had come into possession
some money which the girls had inhe
tied from their mother, but his grief d
not seem to be lessened thereby.
: short time ago the old man died, and b
fore his death confessed to his paris
priest, the Rev. Able Barreau, that
was himself the murderer of his eide
daughter. He had, moreover, allowC
suspicion to rest on the younger in ord
to inherit the money OF both. The po
victim had died innocent without ute
ing word in her defense because 81
knew who was the murderer, aad rath
, chose to die than to denounce him to ju
tice.
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