Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-10
A Distinguished American on His Travels

We don't refer to Gen. Grant, not at all,
if you please. Gen. Grant is all we'll
enough, but, if he thinks he is to be the
sole recipient of European attentions this
season, he is mistaken. We don't know
how many bars on his shoulder-straps the
General wore when he appeared in all
the blaze of his uniform at Her Majesty's
opera, but ten stripes on either shoulder
are sported by his rival ON the European
stage. We refer to our old friend the
dOryphOrG decenlLiRedtd, the ten-lined
spear bearer, the Insect That Has Crossed
the Big Water, the potato bug. They
found him on the dock at Queenstown,
I" his baggage checked for Troy" we
presume, where he would have a good
opportunity with Admiral Sir James
Drummond, of the Besika fleet, to watch
for the opening of the Bosphorus.
He was also found at Mulheim, league
from Cologne on the Rhine. He was
about four strong, but, land, he couldn't
have reused the German Empire quicker
if he had been the Pope They went for
him, Bismarck, and the rest of EN-
horse, foot and dragons. Mr.. J. Boyd,
an Englishman, was there, and tells the
whole story in the London Nesos. Three
of the four were captured, but one " took
wing" One" we are veraciously in
formed, "was sent to Bismarck, the
other to the Minister of Agriculture, and
the third rests in the possession of the Bur
germeister of Mulheim on the Rhine"
Me5n GOtt, G6er, chuckled the rotund Of
ficial, Jas he sat down his mug of BGtrirSch.
And you would have mine kartoffel,
eh? Sop And what would the life of a
Rhinish Burgomaster be with the supply
of kartoffel soup and kartoffel- salat en-
dangered? The American sovereign potato
bug wouldn't have lived long on " them
things" even if they hadn't bottled him
1--WE recur to Mr.. Boyd's account) in a
large-mouthed glass jar, twelve inches
deep by nine in diameter" temporarily
diverted, Mr.. Boyd might have added,
from holding the noon-tide draft of beer
for His Excellency, the Burgermeister
of Mulheim-am Rhein."
Those great glass beakers, most as big
as sap. p.buckets-they come handy when
the dusty troopers ride in from the long
QuadrUpedGRte plStrem of the drill field
and the tavern window goes up and the
bar-maid pours out one of those vessels
of brew, To be drank in the saddle--it is
like hot locomotive stopping under the
water-tank and taking in the whizzing
tide through four-inch nozzle.
| But to return to the bug who took
wing"; the farmer of that innocent two.
acre patch had a suspicion of it. The
Burgermeister he was reused, too, his
blood was up, and the Minister of Agri-
culture, we presume, thought this was u
rare opportunity in his line to save the
country" They event for" that patch
till it was a sight to see. They fired it
with petroleum and sawdust, and after
ward drenched it with vitriol.n Mean
time the local entomolOgists were max
! ing models of the Larvae and of the full
grown insect-they couldn't make them
fast enough to supply the demand.
There was high premium on the egg
also. Burgermeister Steinkopf trans
latable into Mayor Hardhead) had some
promising Larvae which were expected
| to hatch in twelve or fifteen days" Mr..
Boyd gleefully promised to forward "a
beetle or two" to his London journal if
they hatch, and lest one or two should
seem to be a small stock for great
daily with 80, 900 circulation, he promises
that she is estimated to lay from 700 to
200 eggs" What chance for Gen. lie
Due to throw himself into the breach and
seek foreign market for our surplus!
If he doesn't believe it, let him notice the
following personal" from the Liverpool
Morning Post:
| WILL anyone kindly lend lady Live Color.
| w ado Beetle for a few days Great care shall
be taken Of H. Payment II desired Address X.
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