Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-01
ALL SORTS.

Portugal has the grasshopper plague.
-Baleful practices-Dealing in wool.
-Wire-pulling-Preparing the cables
for the East River bridge.
The ex.Empress Eugenie has grown
stout, and is no longer beautiful.
England speaks of the Colorado
beetle as the Republican insect"
-Sixty-three infants reported for duty
at Battle Creek (Mich.) baby party.
"A Rushville Qnd) farmer lately sold
$50 walnut trees on his farm for 81 900.
The Philadelphia Item says the Cen
tennial will close $3,00O,00 in debt.
Philip Phillips, the "Singing Pill
grim," now in London, has sung through
India and Australia.
In Contra Costa, Cal, resides Don
Fernando Pacheco, who weighs AGO
pounds, and is as weighty financially as
he is physically.
There is great run on cream-col-
ored dresses at the watering places, and
cream-colOr and scarlet are considered
stunning"
Among the thirty applicants who
class at Bates College, Lewiston, Me-,
are three young women.
"A magistrate in Columbia, S. c.,
sentences Juvenile offenders to be
whipped, and appoints their parents
eXecutioners.
"A man has just bought at the Bridge
port Conn., National Bank 1876 half-cent
pieces, dated 1906, that had lain in the
vault since that time.
Mrs. Davidson, of Reading, Pa, 1902
years. summering at Mount Washington,
never chewed tobacco and has always
eschewed alcoholic stimulants.
There are at present sixty-five female
medical students in Switzerland, and the
rate of emigration from that country to
America is greater this year than ever.
The decrease of the whaling interest
is marked. New London, Conn, which
thirty years ago had one hundred
whalers, now has but sixteen.
The father of Charley Ross is In
New York, still watching and following
up every clew of his lost boy. He won't
believe that the child is dead till he can
see his body.
"A New York clergyman reports that
he has been called upon several times
during the present year to cbristen in.
fants, both boys and girls, by the name
Centennial"
1t is said upon the authority of re-
ports from trades unions that there are
now $500 unemployed workmen in
New York city. Six thousand of these
are laborers and the rest mechanics.
Mr.. A. S. Abel, the proprietor of
the Baltimore Sun, recently attained his
seventieth year. Beginning life under
many discouragements, he is now said to
have fortune of $10,000,000.
"A curious book is about to be pub
lished. It was written by Chinese man
DARN, and recounts his impressions dur
ing visit to England. It's title is: "Ah
Chin Lee on the Civilization Of the West
ern Barbarians."
AT any mOmentous period in the ca
reer of an ambitious man, when he fond
| ly flatters himself that the eyes of his
country are upon him, how much it di-
minishes his sense of greatness to fall over
an ash barrell
AN old Philadelphia negro was paid
his wages in silver half dollars. He
gazed benignly upon them as they lay in
his palm, grinned as though in triumph,
and then exclaimed: "Dats de stuff de
rats can't chaw."
L. P. Richardson, the newspaper
correspondent who was charged with
having been killed by the Indians, sends
his paper rather equivocal denial of the
statement, and the journal publishes il
as coming from him without any indorse
ment.
The newspapers used to get a little
benefit out of the franking privilege
Congressional speeches were worth sew
eral cents pound for paper stock
amounting to quite a little revenue tC
newspaper offices in the course of Ions
session. - Worcester Gazette.
The Worcester Press says; ether
being temporary lull in double-headeC
babies and that sort Of thing, the toaC
that has slumbered for ages in the hear
of the venerable oak has come TO th'
rescue. The old fellow is described a
looking somewhat pale, but natural nev
ertheless.