Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-23
ALL SORTS.

! europeans 40 noJ urlnh ice water
at their meals.
Watch the crow. His feathers are
always rufiled just before storm.
The early watermelon is not
fraud. 1t is green, just as the buyer
expected. 80 ~
"A Florida lady saw an alligator
eating her chickens, so she killed him
with her revolver.
Laura Hartley of st. Louis died in
convulsions on learning that her lover
was counterfeiter.
"A sentimental Dutchman gave his
sweetheart flower which he called a
Don't you forget it,"
The capture of four mules and one
general seems to have put an end to the
| Mexican war.-Free Press.
We could get along well enough in
this world if we did not have so many
disinterested friends to help us.
The dog-catchers of Carondelet,
Mo, were mobbed by the indignant
populace. They escaped by using their
pistols.
Ericsson has invented fast torpedo
ship one hundred and twenty feet long,
heaviest iron-clads.
"A live rattlesnake on its way to
Bethlehem, Pa, in neat little pack
age wiggled out of the mails at Harris
burg, and was quickly dispatched.
of what nationality are trampsP
Brass-illians at all times, Chily-'uns in
winter, Han-'ov us generally, Jaw
| panese, Chinese, but all in favor of
Turkey.
-Ephraim Miller, johnson county
| (TeX.) negro, was so sure the eclipse
meant the judgment day that he killed
one of his children and then committed
suicide.
jacob Weber, French soldier, %
years old, who fought under the first
Napoleon, had his medal stolen in
New York recently, and went crazy
over its loss.
An influx of Mennonites is antici-
pated between this and 1880, in which
year their exemption from military
service will end in Russia, where they
number 200,00
"A Pennsylvania coal miner drinks
five gallons of ice-water per day when
at work, and they are the healthiest lot
of men in the country. Anti-ice-water-
lists will please drive peg here.
American live cattle are arriving
in London in great numbers. One
thousand reached there on one day,
and the London Graphic says that some
of them were so mountainous that
they might be made fit subjects of de-
cent itinerant shows" .
xuo,.o 1otol,, ,,,aJo -
Portsmouth, England, to ascertain how
near torpedo boat can approach a
war vessel at night without being per-
ceived. 1t was found that but one
minute and IL half was allowed q vessel
to prepare for defense.
"A double-barreled shotgun, with
a stock of rosewood, inlaid with gold
and elaborately carved, and costing
81, 100, is the remaining evidence of
young English nobleman's visit to Cal
ifornia year ago. His money ran
short, and he sold the gun.
Lord Beaconsfield occupied with
! his suite at the Kaiserhoff, during the
late Berlin congress, sixty three rooms
at 81, 600 a month, and his food bill was
$4,000. He gave $500 to the walters.
The correspondent of the London Times
took SO, 900 with him for expenses, and
expended SO, ,440, in addition to $2,4lO
for kilograms.
Count de Chambord, the impractica-
Bile Bourbon heir to the French throne,
responded to the invitation OF the st.
Louis historical society to attend the
recent celebration of the discovery of
the Mississippi by Marquette, with an
| ,Nf, l,otl l.a
not be present and a gold medal
stamped with his image.
Americas contributions to the Old
| World carried by ocean steamers are
varied. The cargo of the lost Idaho
comprised 141 packages of agricultural
implements, 1900 pounds of bacon,
SO packages of clocks, 1871 bushels of
corn, 1894 bales of cotton, "a bales of
hops, SO horses, 200 tons of fresh meat,
Is tierces of salt meat, 2 cases of ma
chinery, pianos, II kegs of ink, 25,-
25S bushels of wheat, and u packages
of manufactured wool.
California has Portuguese popu-
lation of 1000, industrious, peaceable,
hardly ever in the courts, civil or crim-
inal, and the most temp crate class in
LnC CtuIC. 1nSy Cdlu thCii ilNOAlnOOU
by agriculture, stock raising, dairying,
gardening, mining, and whaling. There
are nine whaling companies on the
coast of California, composed entirely
of Portuguese. The average annual
yield of their labor is 12S,000 gallons
of oil.
-Kearney's expenses on his oratori-
cal tour in the East are not paid by
him. He is not bloated capitalist,
though the owner of several trucks.
Shortly before his departure from San
Francisco a concert was given for his
benefit that was, in point of attendance
and pecuniarily, one of the most sue
cessful ever witnessed in that city.
The amount netted was sufficient to
pay all the cost of a three months
trip to the East, and will leave some
thing over. ......
-"Rarus trOtted heat at Buffalo on
Saturday in 2:13l, the fastest time ON
record" A small Albany boy read the
dispatch this morning, and then, after
rejecting moment, remarked as, he
laid down the paper; - | kinder. wish
Jim Jones and me had been ,timed
Saturday as we made tracks fronf that
orchard on the Shaker road; I'll bet
that the farmer that chased us will say
that we made a mile in a good deal
less that 2:13l, and the road was bad
in places at that. Jee hookeyl how
we did skoot. "-Albaay Journal.
Mr.. Jeffery has established the
fact that bones disappear in the ocean.
By dredging, it is common to bring up
teeth, but rarely ever bone of any
kind. These, h0wever compact, dis
solve if exposed to the action of the
water but little time. On the CON
trary, teeth-which are not bones any
more than whales are fish-resist the
destroying action of sea water indeh-
nitely Dentine, the peculiar material
of which teeth are formed, and the