Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-02
ALL SORTS.
WHO ever saw a rat tanp

Schooner cigars are the latest.
"A. Savannah horse has died of sum
stroke.
-Quince seed is astringent and de-
mulcent efT o.
The United States has 700 carpet
factories. ..,4 ......tof. ..-,.I
Coffee excites the will but not the
imagination. F
st. Joe, Mich, is to have a storm
signal station.
Paris bellies still encircle their waists
with steel belts. rf .'
st. Louis has had Alabama peaches
for over a month.
.--Mitts are now made of undressed
kid, embroidered.
Never grab more than you can
draw out of the bag.
"A bookkeeper asks if anybody ever
saw an awning postP 1- tl
Boston is not gwen to paying big
salaries to clergymen.
-Grenadine dresses are in demand
now for all occasions.
1t is estimated that Georgia has at
least 600 crooked stills.
Indiana, even amid her harvesting,
is ablaze with politics.
Big apples and plump wheat swell
Michigan with elation.
"A standing frill of lace is becoming
to every feminine neck.
A seven-pound rat has been cour-
ageously slain in Atlanta.
beautiful women are too much in
clined to touzle the hair.
-Florida's lumber product nets her
over $l0,000,000 annually.
--Baltimore's "basin has begun to
emit its old familiar stencil. Ir3.a
Wyoming Valley, N. r., contains
not only salt, but paying oil.
The Texas wool crop this year will
amount to 100000 pounds.
1t is the season for seaside walters
to waylay you with whisk.
Last year Key West, Fla, shipped
1927, 900, 900 worth of cigars. s.. -..-...
I'm Augusta, Ca, many swallows
are dropping lifeless to earth. .-....
The late George S. Appleton was
an excellent critic of paintings.
An Atlanta bride has had one heel
scorohed by flash of lightning.
"A Kalkaska, (Mich.) man was
lately treed all night by wolves.
The Gloucester County On. J.) cit
ron crop is being riddled by lice.
"A Canada cheese factory has turned
out ree-and-a-half ton cheese.
An exchange tells of q barber who
g tonsoriates'' for the best society.
A colored grenadine, made up over
silk of contrasting tint, is dressy.
-Elecampane, which is good for hy-
drophobia, also flavors cake nicely.
The amount of gold produced in
Montana up to date is 12O,0O0,000.
--Redbone, Ga, has assumed the
more aristocratic name of Grantley.
A firm in Belleville, H., turns out
100000 gallons of castor oil per year.
Some seaside bellies wear bathing
shoes of the same stuff as their robes.
The Dramatic Mirror predicts
flood of English opera bouffe next fall.
The Michigan troops are armed
with new Sharp's rifles of smaller cali
ber.
Mr.. Gladstone, London paper
says, is no longer invited to State din
ners.
-Vineland thinks nothing of ship
ping 80, 600 quarts of blackberries in
day.
A lightning bolt at st. Georges,
Del, jerked bell-knob out of its
socket.
Two hundred tons of borax per
month are produced IN California and
Nevada.
A sixty-three pound turtle has been
captured while Tipping around Penns-
vile, N. j.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has oats nearly
seven feet tall waving on his Sussex On.
J.) farm.
"A North Carolina paper incredibly
says: 1.-The air is full of independent
candidates.
The Engineering Journal thinks
| bituminous coal equal to anthracite for
steam making.
"A laundering exchange lately print
ed its marriages under the heading,
Attempt to Swindle."
Great Britain is importing 3,000,-
900 bushels of grain per week, and
France 1000, 900 bushels in the same
time.
During the year 1877 there were
10, 403 fires in the United States, on
which loss was paid by insurance COM
panies. -...,..e
The Touring mill industry of the
United States is said to rank next to
iron. The number of mills is over
2j,0 900.
-California expects to realize $780,
600, 900 on her wheat crop this year, an
increase of $26, 6,000,000 on the receipts
of last year.
Minnesota has 395 flour mills,
operating 1,4S6 run of stone. They
can grind out 56,000,000 bushels OF
wheat a year.
Iowa win set about enforcing the
tramp law, which provides for the
arrest and punishment, by labor, Of
vagabonds and tramps.
In Massachusetts large numbers OF
birds are found dead in potato fields
killed by Paris green scattered for the
destruction of potato bugs.
1t is proposed to reclaim the desert
lands of Western Utah with artesiar
wells, which yield water very abund
antly from moderate depths.
"A young lady in Sacramento ha'
become u raying maniac through sin
ole years use of arsenic for the i'm
, provement of her complexion.
' In 1859 Minnesota exportedits frs
: wheat, amounting to 450 bushels. Thi
I year its wheat crop will be between
5 Al, ,O00, 600 and so, 900, 900 bushels.
Kansas reports flattering crop pros
poets; wheat averages 25 bushels, oat
, 80, and the outlook for corn and fruit
I is better than ever known before.
The demand for lumber is increas
. ing in the United States at the rate o
, 25 per cent. per annum. The forest