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

"A young man suffering from "heredi.
tary gout" said he didn't mind the pain
of IL SO much; "but," said he, "the
thought that some old ancestor had all
the fun of acquiring this precious heir
loom is what takes hold of me- s.f
The writing. books of the pupils in a
Vermont district school contain the fol-
lowing models, written by the teach
er: " Setteled," WAITER" Copy"
"Shure," Scholar" .ai FAD
--"ohl my dear sir" said poor
sufferer to dentist, "that is the second
wrong tooth you've pulled out" Every
sorry, my dear SIR" said the blundering
operator; "but, as there were only three
altogether when l began, I'm sure TO be
right next time" .
"A cotton spool seems slight thing,
but so many of them are needed that
thousands of cords of timber are annu-
ally used for the trade. Some of the
best timber for the purpose Is found in
Maine, where the mill at Sebee Lake has
just turned out 500 cords. .r
According to German analyst the
composition of an old bronze weapon,
supposed to be about two thousand years
old, has been ascertained to be ninety
parts copper and ten parts tin, proving
that tin was known to the ancients
The Neptune House, one of the
hotels at Rockaway Beach, is built upon
piles and is gradually settling in the
sand, All its visitors have been notified
to leave on account of the dangerous
condition of the house.
Mr.. Watterson, of Louisville, is the
only member of the present Congress
who was born in Washington. The event
took place on the 18th of February, 1910,
when the elder Watterson was serving as
member of Congress from Tennessee.
- Times are hard in Kansas, and when
the editor of the Chetopa Herald counted
eleven persons seated at the family
board he inserted in his paper PROPOSE
ton to give six months subscription to
the farmer who shall furnish him the
largest watermelon.
The South has really more furnaces
in blast in proportion to her number
of inhabitants than the North has, and
very few are losing money. 1t is assert
ed that the only mill in the United States
running exclusively on railroad iron
which declared legitimate dividend for
1875 was the one in Chattanooga.
Said mother to her little SON;
There! your toes are out of your stock
ings again; seems to me they wear out in
hurry" Giving comical leer, he
said; "Do you know why stockings wear
out first at the toes?" "No." "Be-
cause toes wriggle and heels don't"
"A tramp in the Cumberland (Md.)
station-house made small bonfire of
his clothing in the middle of his cell, and
when the flames, after great exertions,
had been extinguished, he kindly offered
to stay where he was all summer, or to
depart as soon as the authorities would
provide him new suit of clothing.
The amount of fractional currency
presented for redemption at the Treasury
Department is steadily falling off. Dur
ing August it averaged about $63, 200
per day, or 81 900, 900 per month. The
mints are all running to their full
capacity and the monthly coinage is
about So, 500, 900; the Philadelphia alone
turning out about 100000 in small
change every working day.
Soldiers who lost arms or legs in
the army and receive twenty-four dollars
per month pension have not heretofore
been entitled to Communication for loss of
limbs. Congress at its last session
amended the law so as to give the class
referred to limbs or Communication there
for. Applicants should apply to the
Surgeon General of the Army VASE
ington Star.
"A professional life is one that in all
countries is greatly sought after, but
there never yet has been drawn the nice
distinction as to who are and who are
not professional men. A late census re.
port classifies under professional and
personal services" not only lawyers and
editors, clergymen and physicians, but
also bootblacks, bill posters, chimney
women, hostlers, whitewashers and sew
eral other avocations. The "profes-
sional ranks" are thus so widely extended
that anyone may aspire to them.
Among a number of documents re-
ceived few days ago by the Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics were several re.
turns from the Collector of Customs at
Puget Sound. They were inclosed in an
envelope, which bore marks of rough
usage, and contained the following in
dorsement: "Torn by robbers on Sisku-
jan Mountain, Jackson County, Oregon,
Aug. 10, 1876, at $50 o'clock p. M"
The envelope was no doubt returned
by the disgusted robbers because they
were in search of facts, not figures.
An inquest was held at Sidmouth,
England, early in August on the body of
an infant, aged eleven months, which
died from an overdose of opium. 1t was
suffering from diarrrhea, and the mother
sent to chemist for mixture. She
was supplied with bottle of medicine,
with instructions to give teaspoonful
every four or five hours. Her teaspoons
were, however, larger than those in gen.
eral use, containing, upon measurement,
twice as much. The consequence was
that the child was given at one dose
one-eighth instead of one-sixteenth
of a grain of opium.
-AScotch minister, after hard days
labor, and while at denner-tea," as
he called it, kept necessarily praising
the "haam," and stating that MRS.
Dunlop at hame was as found o. haam
as he was" when the mistress kindly
offered to send her the present of ham.
It's unco kim o. ye, unco kim, but I'll
no put ye to the trouble; I'll just TAX it
hame on the horse afore me-" When, on
leaving, he mounted, and the ham was
put up in sack, some difficulty was
experienced in getting it to lie properly.
His inventive genius soon cutthe Gordian
knot. 81 think, mistress, a cheese in
the ither en- wad max gran balance. "
The hint was Immediately acted on, and,
like another John Gilpin, he moved away
with his "balance true"
About two o'clock Saturday after
noon citizen climbed the stairs leading
to Detroit lawyers office, pushed open
the door with an impatient slam and
angrily inquired; "Why didn't you call
on me as requested" "Call on youY /
didn't know that you wanted to see me, "
was the surprised reply. II left note
on your table an hour before noon, con-
tinued the citizen H IL was inclOsed in