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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
Owls as Pets.

WHEN the boys in Europe wish to rob
an OWLS nest of the young, and can not
reach down the hollow tree, they tie a
worsted stocking to a stick, and poke it
down. The birds turn on their backs
and grasp the stocking with their claws,
and are easily drawn up, as they possess
the faculty of holding on in a high de-
gree, as my torR, clothes and lRcerated
hands could frequently testify. Owls
are easily tanned, and sometimes make
interesting pets, although there arc
more differences In individual teInpers
than most people would imagine.
have living at this timo three. snowy
owls, captured this winter. One was
wounded with a rifle ball one was
trapped; the other attacked a hen in
midday, but was in turn knocked over
by gallant gamecock y the farmer saw
the circumstances, ranla and threw his
coat over the owl and secured him, All
my birds are very tame, and will sub
NIT to be coaxed ON the head, and will
take food from the hand at any time of
the day or night. Ithink may say the
snowy owl is an exception among ra-
pacious birds in the quality of its flesh,
as it is really tender and well tasted. 1
have known it eaten on several Occa-
sions and pronounced excellent. One
was served Ap ineOgnito at a public din
ner, and was greatly relished, ,-Eefffr
70 Forest and Stream
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
Fun-What is It2s71


"a SALT" said the boy, "is1a3 3spico
that spoils the potato if yOu do not put
it on.'i Fun is an ingredient thai spoils
the adventure if it is omitted. Thecara-
full definitions of wit and humor, analyz-
ing each and comparing them, fail to
explain its essence, nor can it be eN-
planned, only felt and appreciated; woe
to those solemn natures who miss it,
and manage to get through life without
it.
There is an impression that fun is
characteristic of young animals like kit
tens and puppies, also of young races
and the childhood of nations and that
with maturity and the higher cultivation
it dies out, as the stamens SO pretty in
the open center of the wild rose find no
place in the deep heart of a Jacquo-
iminot. 1t has been feared that our
beloved city is reaching this achme of
cultivation, about TO lose forever the
spirit of fun. Let us hope for our town,
however, since it is only a superficial
view which makes fun exclusively an
attribute of youth. A fine illustration
of it is to be seen in a parcel of kittens
frolicking together, but, the Oldest of
cats, in a genial mood, will pursue her
tail with as much zest as the latest of
her progeny. 1t is not permitted to the
morning of life to monopolize its gaiety.
A light heart and 's animal spirits" so
called, outlive pain and grief and ad-
versity in those lucky natures who pos
sess them. Conventionality may frighten
them away from some places, but they
will start up elsewhere. They may be
suppressed, but not destroyed. oD
Long may the spirit of fun prevail,
and may Heaven forfend that ''oulture"
or decorum should drive it away from
the heart of our society. 1t makes light
the burdens of life = it takes the sting
out of the east wind, and makes tolera-
BILE even this month of March prolonged
into the lap of April. Fun is genial and
generous. 1t Is not fun that laughs
when man slips in the street and falls.
That laughter is simply hysterical,
caused by the surprise at the sight, and
u kind of embarrassment to know what
to do about it-a spasmodic effort to
cover 7llaUUdiSe h0ite, which has moth
ing to do with the free, light ripple of
enjoyment belonging to the spirit of
fun. Fun is not malice, All the prac-
teal Jokes and, teasing tricks and un-
derhand cOnspiracies that are planned in
its name by children OF all ages are
launched under false colors. Fun dis
owns them, and refuses to lend its laugh
to the hollow ones they provoke, 1t is
the sparkling effervescence of healthy,
JOYOUS natures; the world can not do
without it, nor are there yet any real
signs that it will fail us. .ABoSton Id
y
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
IATER NEWS.

The twenty-Lfth annual session OF tho Ger
man Roman Catholic Association assembled
at at. Louis on the l7th.
In the Senate, on the nth, the Post-oflloc
Appropriation bin was passedas amended in the
committee. A message was received from the
Presiden. transmitting report OF the Secre-
tary Of State upon the Fortune Bay fisheries
question. In the House Mr.. Cox offered a res,
olution requesting the President to commu'
nicatc to the House all correspondence in re
gard to the prosecution Of jews by the Russian
Government. A message from the President
in regard to the Fortune Bay difficulties was
laid before the House. The River aud Harbor
bin was passed. ..s .ra#
The revenue cutter Thomhs Corwin, desig-
nstcd for the Arctic relief expedition, is max
ing preparations to leave San Francisco on tho
AKA.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee decided on
the nth in the bond suits against the city OF
Memphis, that when the charter of a nuuici-
pal corporation is repealed and the same
people and the same territory is ther
reincorporated under new name, al
though with different powers and different Of
hcers, suit pending against the old corpo
ration at The date Of the repeal may be revived
against the new corporation.
A Deadwood dispatch says the party OF
twenty-five men who started on the Goth OF
April 10 recover the stock stolen from John
DefTcnbach, who was murdered In the Inyan
Kara Mountains, and TO avenge his death,
came upon party Of seventeen Indians on
the 18th. They killed four of them and cap
tured seventy-seyen horses. Joseph Rhodes,
one of the party, was killed
Up TO the nth 81, $40 emigrants had arrived
at New York since the first of the month
A Berlip dispatch says the Ultramontanes
are determined to recommends the war against
Bismarck aud stir up the Catholic population
against the Government. Pol.
The two delegates from Wyoming to the
Chicago Convention were not Instructed, One
win vote for Blaine and the other for Grant.
The Cubans are going into another war fol
Independence. The reyolutionists have estab-
lished provincial government and General
Calixto has been placed in command of the
army.s u f
The strained relations between, Roumania
and Bulgaria have come TO a complete rupture
The recall of the Roumanian representatives
has been followed by that of the Bulgarian
agents. The end was brought about by Bull
gara iusiuuating that Roumdtiia was secretly
supporting insurrectioh. ees ~
The National Committee of the Socialistic
Labor Party has issued call to all those who
sympathize with their movement to have the
Government exercise control over land, labor
and money, so that equal rights and opportp
mites shall be afforded TO all, TO meet in Obi
cago June sth to endeavor TO reach harmoni
Gus action IN support OF a candidate for Pres
ident aud Wee President, who win be pledged
to carry ont these principles,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
WEST AND ROI1TH.

A lodging house was burned at St Louis on
the 1lth, and four men were sufIocated. Sew
eral dodgers jumped from third story windows,
their exit by the stairs being cut of, and were
more or less Injured. if
" A terrible explosion occurred at Fort Nc
Henry on the Ilth, which resulted in the in
slant killing of six persons and the wounding
of two others. The parties were engaged in
breaking up condemned Shrapncll shells,
Two men were burned 10 death in fire at
Danville, Va, on the 9th
The Nevada Republican State Convention,
held at Austin on the llth, instructed the
delegates 10 the National Convention to vote
as unit for James G. Blaine.
The contest between tho railroad company
and settlers on the land claimed by the com
pany, in what is known as the Mussel Slough
district, in Tulare and Fresno Counties, Cal,
eliminated on the llth in tragedy. United
States Marshal Poole, who was sent from San
Francisco to serve writs of ejectment on set
tiers by virtue of decision of the Circuit
Court in favor of the railroad company was
fired upon by settlers, and in the fight which
followed four men were killed and two wound
ed. ft kt
At the General Methodist Conference at
Cincinnati, on the 11th, II was resolved to in
crease the number of Bishops by the election
of four new ones.
The Michigan Republican State Convention,
held at Detroit on the 18th, adopted resolu-
tion declaring that the choice of the Republic
ans Of that State for President is James.
G. Blaine and requested the delegates to the
Chicago Convention TO use all proper efforts
TO secure his nomination The Convention
also passed resolution recommending
Thomas W. Ferry as a IL tcandidate forpom
ination for Vice President A resolution op
posing the nomination Of Presidential can
didate to a third term was laid on the table
DR.. II. W.Warren, DR.. John f. Hunt, Cy-
rus D. Foss and Y. o. Haven were elected
Bishops by the General Conference OF the
M H. Church in session at Cincinnati on the
18th.
The Democratic delegates from Wisconsin
TO the National Convention Igo upinstructed
The West Virginia Republican State Con
vention instructed the delegates to Chicago to
vote for James G.. Blaine for President
The Florida Republican State Convention
was held at Gainesville on the l2th.. The dele
gates to the National Convention were in'
stFpeted 10 vote W 4 pnIt feF Y s. Grant tol
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
Corn in Hills or Drills.

THE question as to which is the most
profitable, the planting of corn in drills
or in hills, is still considerably discussed,
and we noticed last season a number OF
fields drilled that produced well. Ap-
parently there is much saved by the
drilling system, as it only requires that
the land should be marked out one way,
and the corn dropped along the furrow
and covered by the ploW. There is I'M
doubtedly good economy of time by this
plan, and, if the plants be properly thin
ned, much more corn To the acre results
than when planted in hills in the usual
way. Three or four stalks in one Hill
necessitates strong struggle for food.
These four plants do not do so well,
thus struggling together in hills every
four feet apart, as when each plant is
but one foot from each other in regu-
lar line. There are rs many plants to
the acre in one case as in the other; but
each one being isolated, yields more
than when four are together in one hill.
If this were all, there would be no
question about the value Of this system !;
but we have looked into both methods
carefully, and have noted that the drill
SDsleIl, luOuRu luhlllS ltSS ltbbI W iiIel
to plant, takes more labor to keep clean.
In the hill. culture it is necessary TO have
considerable hand-labor, to Keep the
weeds out of the hills until the corn gets
large enough to care for itself; but the
drill system gives us three or four times
the number of hills to look after. In.
deed, every stalk is hill. Thus the
manual labor is nearly quadrupled.
After all said about the profits Of
farming, it is not SO much the crops
which are produced, or the prices the
produce brings, which make our profits.
Labor-human laber--is the great draw
back in all questions as to what we can
make from our land and, as a general
thing, those systems prove, in the long
run, the most profitable, which produce
the best crops by the least amount OF
hand-labor. In this mooted question Of
drilling or hilling corn, there is no
doubt but an acre of the former will
yield more than an acre of the latter
but it costs more hard labor than the
other, and therefore does not-pay well
We have seen it carefully tested, and
know whereof we speak. When hand.
labor can be had for twenty or thirty
cents day, we may have another opiR.
ion. - Gernia9t0Da 1slegraph. ar
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
PUSGENT PARAGRAPHS.
THE clothing map who put it off
aI Lost money ON his collars, Va
But lac who advertised in tlnois


ID IT'S q difficult matter to estimate the
cost of bonnet by its size,or the wealth
of the wearer by the elaborateness of its
conservatory attachments. 70
A COUNTRY editor has written to his
member of Congress that they mast re-
move the tariff from paper .pplp, add
ing that he will get on o tariff they
don't.-Cincinnatt Saturday Night.
liz man is determined to do the best
he can, whether he drives cart, con-
ducts q business of a million dollars or
breaches the Gospel. he, can not fail
Graphic.
PHYSICIAN to Government clerk:
"Well, what do you complain ofP" G.
c.: Sleeplessness, doctor.pf Physi-
clan: " At what time do you 90 to bed?"
G. c.: "Oh, l don't mean at night, but
during office hours!" a' 'e.if'
WHEN Michigan editor told a poet
ess that "box of bait y didn't rhyme
with cafe-au-lait, y she chucked him
out of the window. 1t is not wise TO
try to instruct person in that persons
own business, boston Post. 'ha 10
WE knew it would be so. Wild flow
ers are now more highly esteemed than
y
more beauty in the dandelion than in
a Gala lily, and rs far as greens are
concerned, the dandelion can discount
any hot-house flower that grows.-NeD
Haven Register. ....i..f -..,a
IT has become the custom to speak of
a capable newspaper man as ga prac-
tical journalist to distinguish him from
the rest of the world. All other people
are theoretical journalists, and believe
they could run a paper, if given a
chance, just as easy as slipping, on a
banana peel. philadelphia NeWs.
JUST before prominent ex-oflice-
holder of Hartford retired the other
night, he got down on his hands and
knees and peered anXiously under the
bed. "What in the world are you
looking for, EdwardP" inquired his
wife. s"Lookihg for a woIhan,"
promptly replied herhusbands ''You've
been looking for man under the bed
| for fifteen years, and thought Id start
! a hunt for woman, and I'll bet I'll
find the woman before you do the man. "
.--Hargord POST F'4.f.I 1.l'o baH
| -i uer .PooR little boy, i5.s 81 rnir
l haa HGGi9g i,b1nt i,S5w SltR .s,SSI ggp ooa.d
J. -..r a.. r- ,Sorrowing followed fun4f "a
Ten in the morning,
Funeral service read.
.2HsLl 2lnN, 1871
Servant girl at work,
h. ara Filling lighted lamp-- b.
| Safety oil, never exploded.
lsiSH nna Trouble inehc-canpt q"
t Hearsc at the door; .t...,r.
Pi ''" Another Bridget dad.
| siN ai.i 10
| Child on the car track,
I Fa1 t. 20 Diver cOuidn't sea. ~ 10
l..-ry .f. Coroner Gail d, all the same
Collected his fec
l. " Ya IN Noone 10 blnne.Laa Eia5rtA
| Can such things be? d.
II gFuf at :, A--1----- En|g
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21

and principles which are utterly fatal
to its development and progress. The
need of the South is light and liberty,
law and justice, labor and capital, and
its greatest drawback is the continued
ascendency there Of party whose ira
ditions, teachings and practices are OPP
posed to all these. In short, the first
great need of the South is good rid
dance of the Democratic party. -Indi-
nllnrnlis .LnhrtlnL -
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21

THE responsibility of a man for his
wife's debts has been recently adjudr
Gated in England in favor of the hus
hand. The court held that il woman
bought goods of tradesman on her hus
bands credit, there was primo tllci,
evidence that she had his permission tc
pledge his credit but if he had forbid
den her to do so, his prohibition Sc
aside this presumption, and the trades
men must suffer loss, even II they were
ignorant of his orders to her on tn,
subject, The case was appealed, ant
the Judgment Of the lower court 'at
lrmed,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The United States relief ship Constellation
sailed from Cork on the l1th, homcward
boupd.
The German Government is about to in7
crease the circulation Of silver coin twenty per
cent. The proposed increase, it is represent
ed win afford an opportunity to rccoin the
silver which has accumulated in the hands of
the Government since 1873
The village of San Luis, Cuba, was entirely
destroyed by fire on the 11th, Seven per-
sons perished in The flames Three thousand
persons we're left without shelter
The British Consul at Bourgas, Eastern
Roumania, telegraphed that a band of soldiers
of Bulgaria entered the district of Aidos and
pillaged nine Turkish villages, killed several
men and outraged some women.
The town of Baumholder, Rheinsh Prussia,
was almost destroyed by fire on the 18th: Over
a-thousand people were left destitute and
homeless.
A st. Petersburg correspondent says he is
In position to confirm the reports OF the ex-
pulsion Of the Jews from St Petersburg.
Mexico has only 5S5 miles of railway in op-
Grafton.
The British Admiralty have given up all
hope of finding the missing training ship Alta
lanta.
The cost of the Afghan war is now confessed
to be upward of eI3, ,090, and probably will
be more. - a' aa
London dispatch, on the 18th, stated that
the volume of emigrants for May promisedto
exceed April, when 2940l persons left Liver
pool, %, lS7 for the United States.
The lockout in Blackburn, England, throws
thirty thousand operatives out of work. The
mills will not be reopencd until the operatives
in a body are ready to resume work.
A boiler explosion in Birchnilfs iron works
at London, on the 18th, killed fifteen persons
and wounded twenty-five, some of whom were
taken to the hospital in dying condition.
| Sir Bartle Frere has rendered his resignation
as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21

Ba-In forty-nine counties of Michi-
gan this year the Republicans have
elected $40 Supervisors to S57 chosen
by all the other parties-a Republican
net gain of 1903 Supervisors as compared
with last year,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
President, and Thomas Settle, of North Caro-

President, and Thomas Settle, OF North Caro-
lima, for Vice President .#
Henry s. Foote, ex- Governor OF Tennessee,
now Superintendent Of the Mint at New Or
leans, was lying at the point of death on the
18th. -
Samuel Stauuton, Of st. Gencvieye County,
Mo-, has brought suit against Carl schurz,
claiming 500, 600 for false Imprisonment.
In Williamson County, H., on thc 7th, John
r. Russell and Henry A. Stocks, between
whom hard feelings existel, met ia road,
when an alteration ensued, during which
Russell shot Stocks, killing him almost in
stantly.
A Columbia, s. c., colorcd man named Bird
Killed his wife with an AK and then cut her
head off, on the 1lth. lie then went to pond
and drowned himself.
William Harrison, an Engllshman, has pur-
chased ifty-two quarter sections OF land in
Butler County, Kan. A house viii bc built
on each quarter section, and under the En-
glish tenantry system fifty-two English fami-
lies viii occupy these farms. Each family will
have from two TO Ave hundred pounds sterling
A fearful counagration took place at West
Liberty, Ohio. on the afternoon of the 18th,
consuming the greater part Of the two prnci-
pal blocks in the town The Odd Fellows
Hall, reading room and post-oflice were all
consumed Thirty-fve business firms had their
rooms burned out.
On the morning of the l4th, shaft in an
iron mine located eight miles from Norway,
Mich, caved in, burying sixteen miners. The
shaft was fifty feet deep and contained five feet
of water. -Four of the miners were killed.
At the NJ. +. General Conference at Cinein-
natl, on the 18th, the following persons were
elected editors of the denominational publica-
tions; J. NJ. Buckley, Christian Adyocdte New
York; d. d. Wheedon- Quarterly ReUie3C; j. II.
Vincent, editor Of Sunday y-school publica tions
and Secretary of Sunday-school and tr act so
cietics; w. $. Hoyt, Western Christian 4a,o-
cate, Chicago; Alfred Wheeler, Pittsburg
Christian Adsocde.
A mob of about one hundred masked men
surrounded the Jail at Osceola, Mo-, ON the
morning of the 18th, took thercfrom three
men charged with murder and hanged them.
Fifty Indians attacked an emigraut party
going west in Presidio County, Texas, ON the
14th, and killed man and woman and wounded
two other men.
The house Of Mr.. Miller, near Wahpeton,
Dakota, was destroyed by fire recently and his
two little boys pcrished in the 1ames.-
Thomas White, a white man, was hanged at
Spartanburgh, S. c., on the 14th, for the muir
der of Pete Hawkins, a colorcd youth.
The skeletons of man and woman were
found recently at New Haven, Ind, in an un-
River. A rusty knife laid among the bones.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-21
THE EAST.

b. The Massachusetts, Greenback Labor Con-
yention was held at Worcester on the 11th.
Delegates at large were elected to the Nation
al Convention.
The New York Senate, on the 11th passed
concurrent resolution to amend the Constitu-
tion so as 10 extend franchise to women.
The American Sauday-Sehool Union cele-
brated Its afty-sixth anniversary In Broadway
Tabernacle, New York City, on the 1lth. The
Union reported an increase Of missionary work
beyond the record of any previous year Dur
ing the year 1,2T7 new Sunday-schools were
organized, into which were gathered 46,T27
scholars, The aggregate work Of the Ameri-
can Sunday School Union for fifty-six years is
summed up at 6S, ,43l new schools organized in
America, containing 44l,0S5 teachers and
2,9l6,599 scholars. The aggregate cost Of
missionary work is 81, 549,5SS Sunday-school
books and papers 20 the value of over S10O0,-
600 have been sold aud given away.
The steamboat City OF London, which ar
rived at New York City from London on the
18TH, reported that on the 9th she was de.
tanned six hours In a field Of Ice, and that on
ihe 1lh she passed on iceberg three hundred