Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-06
ALL SORTS.

an honest man.
Coffee is now successfully culti-
waited in San Diego, Cal.
-Chinamen are passing east every
day on the Pacific railroads.
"A one-armed negro boy at Augusta,
Ca, has saved four persons from
drowning.
-Disraelis new garter is silk
ribbon, yet it makes more noise than a
string band.
-Man-eating sharks are appearing
all along the Atlantic coast, and Boston
harbor has been visited by them within
few days.
One of the disadvantages of grow
| ing old is that when a man gets bald
headed he has no handy place on which
to wipe his pen.
jesse Pomeroy's latest trick was to
make a saw from some article in his cell
and nearly cut his way out of prison
before he was discovered.
"A Yankee has walked across the
English Channel in air tight boots and
stepped ashore in France. Does this
foreshadow revolution in navigation.
Lieut.. Gov. Underwood, of Ken
lucky, takes eighty newspapers and
pays for them in advance. We enthu-
| siastically and unanimously nominate
him for Mayor of New York. - Graphic,
An active volcano has put in an
| appearance in Humboldt County, Cal,
and is throwing up stones and fire.
| This is in harmony with the periodical
earthquake shocks experienced on the
| Pacific coast.
Total wheat crop of this country
407, 900, 900 bushels, or 82, 900, 900 BUSH
els more than last year, giving sur
plus for export of 1877, 100000. This is
the estimate of w. l.. Fawcett of the
Chicago Tribune.
-Proportionately more suicides are
committed in San Francisco than any
other city of the Union. One-half of
those who destroy themselves there are
! foreigners, and June is said to be the
most fatal month.
! "A new rOpe-making material has
| been found in the fbrous leaves of a
! New Zealand aloe. The long, tough
threads are said to exceed iron wire of
| the same thickness in tenacity, and
they are not affected by immersion in
salt water.
The Rev. Reuben White was in the
|
can Baptist Church, Little Rock, when
Deacon Bush entered excitedly, walked
up the middle aisle, and opened fire
with revolver. The clergyman
lodged behind the desk, and escaped
the bullets.
1t is strange to contemplate the
number of persons in the world, and
we only one!-less conspicuous than Il
single hair would be on the back of cat
a mile long. Yet what responsibilities!
Have to attend to everybody's business
+, (unless it requires money orlabor) look
out for the heather, help run the
weather, distribute advice and take
three meals daY!-N. T. Graphic.
In the course of a street brawl the
other day one of the disputants was
heard to reiterate with considerable
profanity that he might be whipped
but he wouldn't be subiugated 1t
seems that he miscalculated little on
/; this point, as he was seen the next day
going to picnic along with his wife,
! and actually carrying the baby.-Ct1e-
cinndti Breakfast Table.
The interests of reform require
that our hotel and restaurant bills of
| flare be printed in plain English. We
do not pay for our dinners in French
money. The French cooks are mostly
born in Ireland. The fish and the
chickens are native here, though we
sometimes think the latter were incu-
bated in Asia and sailed with Noah.
Let us have the bills of fare, like the
bills for board, in our mother tongue.
"A Chinaman has sued the Sheriff
of San Francisco for cutting off his
queue in the County Jail. The Sheriff
demurred to the complaint on the
ground that he was empowered to cut
off the queues of prisoners by city
ordinance, but the Court overruled the
demurrer, declaring that there was no
ordinance which gave such power. and
that there is no general authority for u
Sheriff to clip the hair of eonvicts.
The Government should ut once
appoint commission of yellow fever
experts to study the disease this season
and collate facts that will be useful in
the future. Thorough systems of
marine, riparian, and inland quaran-
tines should be devised, and the next
Congress should pass the necessary
laws and appropriate a sufficient
amount of money to enforce them; to
prevent, if possible, the importation of
the diseases TO prevent its generation in
the Southern cities if possible, but
if it should appear to prevent its spread.
- VickSburq Herald.
The following curious law was
enacted during the reign of Richard l.,
for the government of his followers
during the crusade to the Holy Land:
He who kills man on shipboard
shall be bound to the dead body and
thrown into the sea; if the man is
killed on shore, the slayer shall be
bound to the dead body and buried
with it. He who shall draw his knife
to strike another or who shall have
drawn blood from him, to lose his hand;
if he shall have only struck with the
palm of his hand without drawing
blood, he shall be thrice ducked in the
sea-"
Coffee is native of Arabia, sup
posed by some to have been the chief in
gredient of the old Lacedemonian broth.
The use of this berry was not known
in England till the year 1867, at which
time Mr. d. Edwards, Turkey mer-
chant, on his return from Smyrna to
London, brought with him Greek of
Ragusa named Pasquet Rossee, who
used TO prepare coffee every morning
for his master. Edwards neighbors
becoming so numerous as visitors at
breakfast-ti time that, in order to get rid
of them, he ordered Rossee to open u
coffee-house, which he did in St.
Michael's alley, in Cornhill. This was
the first coffee-house opened in London.
1t is a well known fact that no
animal has greater aversion to inn
prisonment than the hyena, and he
certainly does not appear to any great
advantage to his visitors while laugh
ing over his dinner of bones in his
iron-railed cage. You would have a
different opinion of him could you see