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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

The rebuilding in 1882 consisted in erect
ing the roof over the monument and re-
pairing the stone work where it had either
been struck by cannon balls during the bat
tie or had succumbed to the wear and tear
of time.
So here rests the proof that the patriotic
citizens of Washington County, Md, hon.
ored the memory of the lad whose prof.
cheney with the hatchet determined the fate
of the celebrated cherry tree, twenty-one
years before the cornerstone of our monu-
ment was quarried.
The top of this ancient structure once
gained there breaks upon the vision view
that would make Colonel Casey's shaft flush
with envious shame were it made of any
thing more sensitive than white marble.
Stretching out for miles at ones feet lie
hundreds of beautiful farms teeming with
life, industry. corn and cabbages. To the
west and north lies the Washington County
Valley, from which rise the spires of
Boonsboro, Keedysville, Hagerstown and
numberless smaller towns. In the east,
Middletown Valley reposes peaceful, pros
porous and happy with its myriad of farms
and villages. In the south the mist capped
summit of Mount Reno towers high into
the clouds, while pale blue mountain walls
| in the distance surround the whole. pano-
rama as though afraid that something that's
| in might get out or something that's Out
| might get in.'-WdShingtOn Critic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
LEES DAY.

Into tho field of life wc pass
At early morn. Tho jowcled grass
With sunbcams kissed spreads ut our feet:
And youth, like morn, all pure and sweet
And bright is filled with rosy dreams;
While In tho purple heavens CLEANS
The star of fortune aud OF fame,
And In It's light we Z nd u name
o dream, most sweet, II is our own;
More glorious still, 1t shines alonol
The sun speeds ON; the star no more
Ie seen. Illusive dreams are o'or.
Fortune and fame SO coy and Hect
But mock our weary. way-worn feet;
Ambitious faircst prize has flown;
A name appears, but not our own.
What have we then for ull our pains2--
For all our praycrs2 Arc there no grains
OF good to show2 Has nll been lost
In that our cherished plans are crossed,
And dissipated each fond dream
AS snow-fakes melt within the streaIn2
All, mol Sec how our souls are filled
With wealth of harvests we have TILED,
NTH, meekncss, patience, love and TRUTH
Blest springs OF everlasting youth;
Bright jewels of the crown within;
Ripe fruit of life's sharp discipline;
On which there dawus the twilight gray
OF day that dies not with the day.
George w. Crotts. in Current,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
Tho widower Danced and His Partner
Didn't.

A gentleman living in village not a
thousand miles from Erie, and not alto
gether unknown here. buried his wife few
weeks ago Recently, so the story goes,
he attended dance and mingled in the
merry mazes of the waltz SO long as the
man who welded the baton invoked sweet
strains from the fiddle. His basne3s part
ner, who never trips the light fantastic, was
present as spectator merely. During the
evening lady said to the latter: "Why,
Mr.. -. don't you ever dance~ "Oh, yes,
some times" was the reply, "but out of re-
spect to the memory of the wife of my part
ner, lately deceased, am denying myself
that pleasure on this occasloai"--Eric Die
patch,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
fro BE Continued
1t is told of Cassius M. Clay

1t Is told OF Cassius M. Clay that he
was once present at convention where
the qualities of the Short-horns Of Ken
lucky were discussed, and he was asked
how much milk these Short-horns gave.
He was entirely taken back by the ques-
tion. The idea Of its being a matter of
information how much milk COW gave
seemed to strike him as something en-
tirely new. He hesitated, but soon re-
covered himself, and said he did not
know exactly, but was quite sure in
fact he was positive. that he had known
them to give as much as half a bushel.
Chicago Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

It Is said that a lady's standing in socie-
ty can easily be determined by her dress
at the breakfast-table; an expensive,
snowy costume indicating that the wearer
has not yet learned the proprieties. But
no one need be afraid of being called
"shoddy" if her loveliness is as apparent
by daylight as at the hops. Perfect beau
ty is never the attendant of disease; above
all, of those diseases peculiar to women
and which find ready cure In DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" Price reduced
to one dollar. By druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
AN ANXIOUS SEARCH.
How a Woman in Black Astonished +,
Clam Dealer.


How Woman in Black Astonished n
Clam Dealer.
An elderly woman attired in black, with
pale face and huge market basket,
stopped at fish-stal In Fulton Market and
inquired the price of clans. 81 want to
get good many" she explained, ''as my
boarders is askin' for 'em." 81 KNOW"
said the marketman, sympathetlcally, this
is just the season boarders is clamorin for
CLANS" and he proceeded to uncover q
bushel basketful of the bivalves and eX-
patiate on their merits. The wOuld-be pur-
chaser leaned over to examine them, and
suddenly sneezing dropped set of false
teeth into the basket, though unseen by the
marketman, who had turned to another
customer. Somewhat startled by this loss,
the woman endeavored hastily to extract
.ner property from where 1t was wedged in
between two half-pound clans at the edge
Of the basket, but each effort only forced
the teeth further down.
"What are you doing, madam" said the
ish-dealer suspscously, as he observed her
notions Nothing" she answered, and
kept on digging furlously toward the bot
;om of the basket.
"We don't come any strawberry dodge
here, madam; big ones on top, little ones
below. The clans is Just the same right
iown, all fresh and good" added the dealer
Indignantly
But she didn't answer; she just kept on
iigging.
sit Injuries clans to paw 'em over like
| that" continued the dealer, beginning tC
| imagine that the woman had some new
| scheme for secreting clans. just then
however, the errant teeth reached the bot
| Iom of the basket their owner in hot pur-
suit scattering clans in all directions in heI
| haste.
With an exclamation Of relief she drew
forth her dental apparatus, clapped 1t in {
| handkerchief and fled.
"Well, I'll be goldurned," calculated the
rlam-dealer when he had recovered from
the astonishment this incident caused
"them teeth must have been dredged up
| and she saw 'em and froze to 'em. Perhap
they might have fitted me."-N. Y. Trtb
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
Likely to Succeed.

Husband My dear, do you think could
iean 10 play the flute?
Wife, haven't doubt of 1t.
Hushand-You think possess musical
talentp
Wife--You possess general deslre TO be
| dlSaggeeable,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
What He WIN Do.

Wife (emphatlcally) "That dog OF
Smiths across the way bit mother again
this morning, and want to know what you
propose to do about it?"
Husband (brutally)-"I think will buy
the ."-Chicdgo Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

--Modesty tells in the long run when
combined by worth. Chicago has both
we won't deny it-and is at last
properly appreciated abroad. The
London Era, speaking of Mr.. Irving's
American tour, says: "Mr. Irving
success was greatest in the States .of
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. Chi
cago and Massachusetts" The Era is
right. Genius is always in the State OF
Chicago. Chicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
AN IMPOsTOR.
Tho Washington Monument Not
the First OF the Series.
A Memorial to tho Father OF His Country
Which Is tho Undoubtod Adam OF
Its Kinda Novel Specimen
of Engineering Skill.

From this day the huge shaft which rears
Its majestic head high above the waters Of
of the historic Potomac must stand back,
for 1t is base impostor. Its claim to the
name of the Washington Monument is an
assumption Of title which properly be-
longs TO more modest, yet not inconsider-
ate, pile, which towers, If not five hundred
feet above its base, yet higher above the
oceans level than its more pretentious fel-
low.
Tho Critic artist has discovered the first
and original Washinton Monument,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

The Walnut Street Theater, Phila-
delphia, is the oldest theater in Amer
ica. 1t was built seventy-seven years
ago.-Philadelphia Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

Some Indians recently exoaysted
in Calistahuaoa, State of Mexico, .
gold idol weighing thlrty-two mud ono
halt pounds
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

ABOVE all other earthly ills,
hate the big, old fashioned pills;
By slow degrees they downward wend,
And often pause. or upward tend;
With such discomfort are they fraught,
Their good effects amount to naught
Now, DIR. Pierce prepares a pill
That just exactly fills the bill
A Pellet, rather, that is all
A Pleasant Purgative, and small;
Just try them as you feel their need,
You'll lind that speak truth, indeed.
THE Hartford Journal says there is poo
try in vegetables. This is tough news for
vegetarians. ns.-BuGalO Enpress.
THE "old reliable"-Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, ESQ
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c
GERMAN Corn REMOVER kills Corns Dunions
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

WHEN two girls meet they kiss. Whe,
two men meet they don't. This show,
plainly. who want kissing the most chi
coDo Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

No more shall Cupid's glances from rosebud
ambush wink,
Or valentines enshrine HIN in love-notes soft
and pink;
Those shops are closed forever and in the
roller rink
Ho carries on his business his wings ex-
changed for Wheels
His arrows flashing swiftly through skewered
hearts and heels.
u. Edgar Jones IN Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

"TIME works wonders" said young
man OF twenty-seven when he returned
home and found his elder sister ouly
eighteen. Chicago tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

Mr.. Gerald Blynk (who is waiting in the
parlor for Clara to come DOWN to small
brother who persists in standing behind
him: What are you looking at?
Clara's brother: Oh! nothing; only pa
said that il you only had rudder he
thought that with those ears you might be
able to tack in a good breeze.
Mr.. Gerald Blynk: And what did Miss
Clara say, pray?
Clara's brother: She said she didn't
b'lleye 1t, cos they wouldn't. have any bat
ldst.--Tfd- Bits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
EAY-EENER.


For 25 years / have
been severely afflicted
with Hay. Fever. While
suffering intensely l was
induced to try Ely's Cream
Balm, and the effect was
marvellous. 1t enabled me
TO perform my pastoral
duties without the slight
est Inconvenience, and !
have escaped q return Mt
tack.-WM. L. CARR, Pres
byterian Pastor, Elizabeth
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

ECcENTR1cITY in rich man is lunacy in
poor one. False alarm-One that does
not 60 off at the proper hour.-Boston Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

WE suppose they call it "the silver
moon" because there are four quarters in
it.-Boston Bulletin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
CHAPTER XIV.

DEEPENIku bHADOWB.
DO that he gathered the red ore and precious
stones,
whss lgs man ever cared for hearts thai
sssl hss As nOksa oF altAp 0ysrAsswa,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

A DERBY race-Chasing ones stiff hat,
blown of on windy day.-Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
CHICACO ROCK ISLAND q PACIFIC RAILWAY

lines and
es Of d the & atnsG p na as saes Geas and
an W & r. % Inc ana pches
s oaws aaa HS9 %ehngoe fae oteun @
Gaaun
vi SR Ateanoh
THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE
soS
@ ana eh % hRRnses wSc PR soVens % @
& az pong % Union Deo
zoess Chicago a
@ aaa wens dt1 od 9d
area Reclining Chair Cars
THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE
the Territories
ateng paees te
still another
points
United Canada
r. n. CABLE, E. ST. JOHN,
Chicago
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
tcopmtoht Secured Au Rights Rcserpedl
Driven From Sea to Sea,
Or, JUST A CAMPIN'.
CHAPTER xIu.-CoNrrNuEp.
BY c. O. POST.

PUBLIsHED ny PERMISSION OF J. Z. DowNEY
g. Co., PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
FOR
Man and Beast.

Mustang Liniment is older than
most men, and used more and
more every year.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

KANSAS FARMS iimProyeaa imPrSysa. sns %sorqsei Tni
County Map published by u.s. containing many val
liable facts-nveragc yield per acre of various crops
Counties and States together with location. partic-
uars and price of era decided bargains mailed for
2ccnts. We can suit most anybody. NJ. NJ BROWN,
Wyandotte and Sixth Sts., Kansas City, No.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14
EDUCATIONAL,


Dalm's Business College, Philadelphia Term
only ti0 Situations fui nished. Write for circulars
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

WILL
EXAMINING THIS
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-08-14

PaImer's Piano Primer, Enaorsfs W% SssoS eS " Y.
Sherwood A. r. Parsons CARLYLE PGtersleH % M a. etc
ers, saving time and labor of teacher worth many
times It's Price, In boards. 40 cents, postpaid
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
A Precocious Baby.

A little four-year-o old boy in Macon,
Ga, went to his mothers writing-desk
some days ago, took thercfrom a re-
ceipted bill, got the scissors, neatly or.
namcnted the edges of the paper by
clipping it. and then, hunting ,xo an
old envelope, he stuck q Cancelled stamp
in the enter of it, and proceeded to
direct it. Having scrubbed all over
the envelope, he went out and posted
it. 1t was stamped "unintellig;ble' at
the office in Macon, and went on to
Washington. The proper authority
sent it sack to Macon to the firm who
had issued it. and it was taken to the
lady who had filled tho blank. She de-
cided at once how the mailing had oc-
Cured. seeing the ''baby writing" on
it, sem the ornamcntcd receipt in its
old envelope back to the payer, and OBJ
tanned this explanation.-M y. Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
"Catskin Earls."

The late Earl of Huntingdon, whose
death and whose genial character were
the subject of remark in these columns
last week, enjoyed, at all events. one
singular privilege. He was one of the
'.Catskin Earls," the other two being
Lords Shrewsbury and Derby, the only
Earls whose names stand before that of
Huntingdon in the table OF precedence.
1t is said that the robes of the holders
of these three most ancient titles in
this grade of the peerage r trimmed
with the skins OF white cats instead of
with the usual fur. and that their lord
ships of Shrewsbury, Derby, and Hunt
ingdon have always declined to follow
the example of their modern brethren
so far as to adopt ermine, and to carry
it on their shoulders. If this fact he
true, rs I believe it to be, it is strange
that it is 30 little known, and that so
few references should be made to it
London Life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
BOYS,
A Bad Thing Not to Have Them in the
House. H

A Bad Thing Not to Have Them in the
House.
"There was such a boy; no I
know there never was such a boy!"
Mrs. Mitchell asserted and reasserted
with a change of emphasis. There was
only mi person within hearing, for the
boy whom she thought ''beyond COM
pare'' had vanished after being apprc-
hended in a frolic with his immense
Newfoundland dog and his small
brother, and the three playmates had
left the room disordered, "demoral-
ized," Mrs. Mitchell said. She had
come home from a drive with q plain
tive little woman, her cousin and guest;
and to find her sitting-room $50" was
"upsetting" to her house-wifely equili-
brium. The other lady silently re-
moved her wraps in an ante-room, and
came to sit down in the disturbed
time of picking up" the
room. during which Mrs. Mitchell
continued: .'His grandmother says,
Tom is as full of mischief as an egg is
of meat just look at the threads in
this carpet pulled up by that out
rageous Rab's toe-nails! Charley never
gets into mischief. even with Rab
always ready to help; but when Tom
comes, then / may expect something's
H~alf-provoked that her cousin did not
say a word in sympathy. 'Just see
here!" she exclaimed; ''they have made
tafy. Tom can coax Joanna to let
him make tafy any time when her irons
are off, and they have Clipped taffy
here on my clean table scarf! Oh. oh,
if you can tell me anything worse for a
house than to have two boys in it"
II can. Not to have two boys in itn'
The words were few and quietly
spoken, but they fell upon the WORRY
ing mother-heart heavily. How could
she have 80 forgotten that ten years
before her cousin had buried two such
bows, scourged out of her house by
d%iphtheria? With what altered feeling
she went on with her task; and when
the room was faultlessly trim, and she
sat down, a horrible dread seized her.
| What if it were never to be ''upset'' by
Tom again? And when Tom anne in
again, she looked at him with differ
emit eyes. She failed to see that q
weight of snow chung to his rubber
boots; that the Objectionable dog fol-
lowed him closely. looking askanco
at her, until, missing her Gus
tomary "Out, SRI" he lifted his
heao proudly, watching hisyoung mas
ter. She only noted the healthy glow
on the boys face and the merry sparkle
of his eyes and the frank good-humor
that was inseparable from his breath.
And when meek little Charley came in.
the weakest and slowest and always
the last of the trio, for once she was
glad that Tom had 0 vitality;
""Mamma!!" cried Tom. Il happened
to think that we did not give you and
Cousin Maria any candy, n l came
way back from Robinson,s hill IN -
hurry to show you how good it is to-
day." And when he handed her the
pan of taffy, Cousin Maria old-if you
did not-appreciate tho efort yrs.
Mitchell made not to say anything
about the chips on the Enthusiastically
sticky table scarf.-Nlustrated GA'4s'
tian Veeklu.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
CANALS VS.. RAILROADS.
A"e Latter Likely to Render Artificial
Waterways Obsolete.

A'e Latter Likely to Render Artificial
Waterways Obsolete.
lhere may be some regions of the
earth in which canals are still needed,
OUT there is something more than a
suspicion among engineers and the
planners of great transportation prof.
ects that the railroad has rendered the
artlhclal waterway obsolete. That
railroads were the swiftest means of
transporting freight was understood
rom the beginning, but its cheapness
was always a matter of dispute. Re-
Gently, however, it has been proved
mat allowing for the saving of time.
the railway is cheaper than the
canal or lake transportation. In the
last quarterly report of the Treasury
review of Statistics (page 41S) it is
shown that the tonnage transported on
the New York State canals has fallen
from 6,442, 225 tons in 1868 to 5.OO9. 488
tons in 1884, while the tonnage on the
New York Central & Hudson River
railroad has increased in the same
time from 1,846,599 tons to 10, 211,418
tons; on the Erie Road, from 8, 900, 900
to ll,071,0O0, and on the Pennsylvania,
1rom 4,722,O 600 to {. 1888, 900. This is
exclusive of the tonnage moved on the
leased lines. The tonnage transported
by rail on the four American trunk
lines increased from "A, 767, 1854 IONS in
1881 to $3.50, 316 tons in 1884. These
figures are very significant, especially
when. we keep in mind the fact that
with our present railway facilities we
car carry double the tons of freight
and thrice the number of passengers if
called upon to do so. The depression
in railway securities has been attrib-
uted to the fact that we have overbuilt
railroads. In 1879 there were about
SIP persons in the country for every
mile of railroad. There are now about
1856 persons to a mile. This would be
q discouraging fact for the railroads
were 1t not that the latter have taken
away freight from the lakes, rivers,
canals and all waterways. The most
profitable railways are those located on
river banks and by the side of canals.
Passengers from Boston and New York
bound for Florida or New Orleans
travel by rail rather than by ocean
steamer. Canals connecting oceans
and seas, such as the Panama and the
Suez, will have their use for many
years, or until the splendid conception
of Captain Eads is carried out, and
ocean-going ships are transported
bodily by railway from the Gulf OF
Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, or from
the Mediterranean to the Red Sea-
Dem0rest's Momth1y.