Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-08
ALL SORTS.

New school eloquence-College oar
atoms.
Nine railroads are in process of con-
struction in Texas.
Some say saleratus will not harm the
stomach. 1t is lye.
"A Montreal man died the other day
from the effects of the bite of fly.
In young lady's book of travel Co
logne is called the sceaAimental city?
Fairfield, Me-, expects to turn out
$50, 900 cans of sweet corn this season.
The number of day laborers in the
United States is estimated at 1,000,0 600.
Railways are aristocrats. They
teach every man to know his own station
and to stop there.
-Goodhue County, Mich, produced as
much wheat last year as all the six New
England States combined.
"A boy of fifteen, weighing 46S
pounds, is among the Indiana visitors at
Lebanon Springs, Mass.
-Four ladies, who entered the Wes-
leyan University in 1872, have recently
graduated with high honor.
Wild Alaskan wheat is being propa-
gated in Oregon, where it grows luxuri-
antly, and produces very superb grain.
"A wealthy Baltimorean who died the
other day left all his property to his wife
on condition she should not remarry.
The city authorities of Boston have
given notice that only one COW for every
5000 feet of land can be kept in that
city.
An enterprising New Yorker adver-
tises that for the modest charge of 81 rs
day he will act as escort to the Cen
tennial.
During recent storm in Nehama
County, Kan, farmer named J. A.
Holtz, living near Centralia, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
| These are the last rows of sum-
mer," as the granger said when he went
through his eorn-ield with his cultIvator
for the last time.
The decrease of the whaling interest
is marked New London, Conn, which
thirty years ago had 100 whalers, now
has but sixteen.
Immigrants arriving at the port of
New York without funds can have tele-
/ =
in any part of the country.
The New York Central Railroad has
issued stringent orders to its employees
to deal summarily with all tramps found
on the line of its route.
Boston has an eccentric insurer who
insists upon having his policies payable
in pounds, ounces and pennyweights
of pure gold, without alloy"
Mrs. Sturgis, the mother of Lieut..
Sturgis, who was killed in the Custer
massacre, and who was her only son, has
become insane from grief.
Nearly all the postoffices in Texas
are in charge of females. 1t works so
we'll that the males now arrive and depart
every hour in the day.
-" Where is the east?" inquired tu-
tor one day of very little pupil.
"Where the morning comes FROM" was
the prompt and pleasant answer.
The 1900 breweries in the United
States produce yearly 285, 600, 600 gal
Ions of malt liquor Most of them have
been built with the last twenty-five years.
Rhode Island has no reason to COM
plain of dull times, one of her cotton
mills alone admitting profit of $55 900
on the transactions of the past six
months.
Your disposition will be suitable to
that which you most frequently think on;
for the soul is, as it were, fringed with
the color and complexion of its own
thoughts.
1t is said there are 100000 feathers
upon the wing of silk-worm moth, and
that anyone doubling the truth of the
statement can easily satisfy himself by
counting them.
Among the visitors to Saratoga this
summer is lady who wears jewels val
ued at 5000, 900, and carries, in addition
to her other baggage, a small fire and
burglar proof safe.
1t only takes little thing to disturb
the current of metropolitan llfe-an es-
capped canary-bird absorbed the atten.
tion of half of one of the busiest streets
in New York the other day.
"A man carried load Of watermelons
to Hampton, Ga, recently, and, not
being offered fair price for them, he
hunted up every widow in town and di-
vided the melons among them.
"A postoflice has just been established
in Pennsylvania under the title of " Au-
tumn Leaves" This must be one of the
offices from which falling Off in re-
ceipts is annually to be expected.
"A political orator, speaking of GER
tain General whom he admired, said he
was always on the field of battle where
the bullets were the thickest. "Where
was thatY" In the ammunition wagon"
Times are hard in Alexandria, Va
As an illustration, it is said that a
painter has lately concluded contract to
paint the house of an undertaken, for
which he is to receives coffin, selected
by himself.
Times of general calamity and con-
fusion have ever been productive Of
great minds. The purest ore is produced
from the hottest furnace, and the bright.
est thunderbolt is elected from the dark
est storm.
-"Peter, don't you enjoy the astro-
nomical phenomena these eveningsS"
said well-to-do citizen to his colored
servant the other evening. "Clare to
goodness, ! never tried 'em; mushmelons
is my favorite fruit"
Singular death notice from the Waco
(Tex.) Examiner. "Died-At the resi-
dence Of Maj. w. w. Downs, on Third