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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
LEATHER GLOVES.
OF What They are Made-Technical Term.
intho Trade.

OF What They are Made-Technical Terms
In the Trade.
There are several terms in the glove
trade that may be worth explaining.
The word ''kid" really means kid leath-
er, and there can be little doubt that the
better grades of what purport to be such
are made of the cuticle of the infant
goat. About twice year some ncwspa-
per revives the old yarn that kid gloves
are made of rat-skin and tells how the
rats are hunted for that purpose in the
sewers of Paris. The only foundation
there is for the story is that some years
ago experiments were tried with rat
skins. The results were unfavorable,
the largest skins being too small for any
but child's glove, and the pelt too ten
der to be of any service.
"Chevrette," term used to distin-
guish some gloves of dressy character
for street wear, is both French and Eng.
lish, and has several liberal meanings.
1t is from 'chevre," goat and we are
justified in expecting chevrette glove
to be of young goat-sllin, in distinction
from the heavy goat gloves used for
rough work. Great progress has been
made, however, in tanning sheep and
| lamb-skins in recent years, and they are
now rendered so elegant and so durable
as to be practically indistinguishable
from goat leather in looks or wear.
Until within few years ''dogskin
| gloves" were always made of lamb or
goat skin, never of the real canine cuti-
Gle. Lately, however, the difficulties Of
| Il cir hny nd
excellent gloves are made of real dog
skin, though the quantity is not very
large. Only the finer grades OF skin are
suited to street wear, the heavier
skins being dressed in oil for hard
usage.
Gloves called "castor" have had quite
a history. The word indicates the skin
of the beaver, but the best French cas-
tor gloves were formerly made of thin
deer skin, and were soft, durable and
expensive. Latterly shaved lamb or
sheep skin was used, and the goods were
unsatisfactory. These were displaced
by American castors made of antelope
skins from our Western plains. They are
sewed with silk and are handsome and
durable. Of late years new leather
has been brought out called Mocha cas-
tor. 1t is the skin of the Egyptian
sheep, and is very thin, tough and
durable, and has rich, velvety appear
ance.
Colt skin is a new conner for glove pur-
poses, and is an exceedingly smooth,
| fine leather, suitable for in or oat door
wear. Such expressions as Craven
| TAM "Cis-Atlantic" :" 'Gant de Iuye'
and others, are the trademarks of par
ticular makers, and are indicative
special designs.-Men's Outfitter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

One of the best remedies for burns
Is dry soda bound on closely.
-lIemorrhages of the lungs or stomach
are promptly checked by small doses OF
salt. The patient should be kept as
quiet as possible.
That formation of hard skin on the
hands which Stimulates eczema can often
be relieved by rubbing in lanoline, or
wool-fat, with pumice-stono.
1t is asserted that corns and bunions
can be relieved by painting them three
times day with mixture of equal
parts of sweet-oil and tincture of iodine.
"A good way to wash kid gloves.
Spread out the gloves smooth and neat.
Rub toward the fingers with flannel
dipped in milk and well soaped. Rub
them well and dry. The gloves will be
soft and clean.
Goose oil rubbed on the throat and
chest is an old-time remedy for Group,
but after it's use the child must be kept
we'll covered and away from draughts,
as it is very opening to the pores, and
the least cold often proves fatal,
Every one who prizes good health
and intends to maintain it should in
dulge in dry rub upon going to bed.
A flesh brush is good for the purpose,
but good rough towel is better. Tho
object is to keep the pores open and in
healthy activity.
-Tea-drinkers are warned against the
careless habit of leaving any tea in the
teapot to be warmed over" or to be
taken cold at an hour much later than
when it was made. The tannin which
tea that has been long standing con-
tains, does great deal of mischief
Sufferers from neuralgia are warned
by q medical writer not to drink tea;
but to drink freely of coffee into which
the juice of a lemon has been squeezed.
Neuralgia is said to indicate a low and
depressed state of vitality. The best
remedy is to build up and fortify the
constitution.
An excellent remedy for whooping
cough is to pour boiling water on flax
seed, steep it some time, strain, and to
every pint of tea add enough granulated
sugar or honey to make thick sirup,
and after boiling them together . few
minutes put in the juice of two lemons.
1t is said q few spoonfuls taken often
will soon relieve the cough.
For rheumatism beat one egg, yelk
and white together, add one wineglass.
full of brown vinegar, and one wine.
glassful of turpentine. Let the mixture
stand one hour, then put in bottle and
cork. Evening and morning rub the
part affected with the pains with the
above mixture. 1t is also useful to rub
on the neck when the throat is sore,
or on the chest when the cold is there.
Any ono who suffers from chilblains
will be glad to try the following remedy
recommended by a writer in Arthur's
Home Magazine: ! made strong solu.
tion of white oak bark as hot as l could
bear, and bathed my feet every night
before retiring. 1t made perfect cure,
had been troubled so much that l used
to dread the cold weather on that &C
count; my feet would tester and be sc
swollen and sore that l could not wear
shoes. Now, 1 hava had no chilblains
since applied this remedy, good many
| wears ago"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22

The package which he handed to Ger
aid Weston contained letter from his
brother Richard who had been known
for years, and grown rich as "Weldon.'
In it Gerald was asked to assume the
guardianship of his two orphan nieces,
and act rs executor of an estate amount
ing to more than million.
Gerald read it through almost un.
moved. He had suspected something
of this before.
"Whore is the other pachage?" he
asked.
81 burned it, according to my instruc.
tions."
"Without reading the inclosure?"
Certainly"
"rhat is we'll. If it had still been in
existence l would have asked you to dc
just as you have done. Chicago Jour.
nal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
THE LITTLE WHITE HEARsE.

Somebody's baby was buried to-day
The empty white hcarse from the grave rum
bled back,
And the morning, somehow, seemed less smiling
and gay,
AS I paused on tho walk while IT crossed on its
way,
/ And a shadow reemed drawn DER the sun s
golden track.
Somebody's baby was laid out to rest
White as u snow.drop and fair to behold,
And the soft little hands were crossed over the
breast
And the hands and the lips and the eyelids
were pressed
with kisses rs hot as the eyelids were cold
Somebody saw 1t go out OF her sight d
Under the coflln-lid, out of the door.
Somebody finds only darkness and blight
All thro' the glory of summer sunlight
Some one whose baby will waken no more.
Somebody's sorrow is making mo weep
/ know not her name, but / echo her cry
For the dearly-bought baby she longed so to
keep,
The baby that rode to its long lasting sleep
In the little white hearse that went rumbling
by.
know not her name, but her sorrow know.
While paused on the crossing lived II once
more
And back to my heart surged that river OF woe
That but in the breast of mother can flow
For the lttlo white hoarse has been, too, ut
my door.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Demorest's Maya
zine
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
TO REDUCE FRICTION.
Social Laws Whose Observance Is Essen
tial to Good Fellowship.


tial to Good Fellowship.
Social laws are humanising influences
when obeyed understandingly. They
may seem to oppress, at times, free
movement, but that oppression is de-
velopment, for it forces us to live in
obedience TO system; and obedience to
system means order, and order is Heav-
ems first law. Obedience to socsll laws
not only reduces friction, but it spares
love many wounds. How many times
is love fatally wounded by the omission
of an act that is simply one of courtesy,
and which would never be omitted be-
tween strangers except through ignor-
ance! Indeed, it would seem sometimes
that we tried to show our affection by
the omission of acts of courtesy. There
is no doubt that separations between
members of the same family would
many times have been avoided had So
cial laws been oboyed, had not liberty
been taken with the law of love.
Not long since young girl, one of
three intimate school friends, died. One
of the three had married and moved
away from her native city. An accident
few months ago to a member of her
family caused her friends to write let
ters of sympathy which remained un-
acknowledged. All through the sick
girls delirium she asked for the letter
from her friend which had never been
received. After her death the friend
gave every evidence of warm affection,
but it was too late to remove one pang
from the loving heart that was still, and
which had been wounded so carelessly.
If the knowledge ever comes to her, it
will leave memory that will never be
blotted out. 1t is just this possibility
of being separated by death that should
make us careful to observe the law of
kindly living, for that is all that social
forms imply or demand, and kindness is
the foundation Of happiness.
Obedience to social laws does not
mean cold formality, any more than
obedience to moral laws means sancti-
moniousness. Either or both express a
certain harmoniousness of nature, a
blending of heart and head that means
an emotional nature well balanced.
Frequently people do not obey social
laws in the circle bounded by friend
ship, because of fear that such obedi-
Il
ence among close friends would SAVIOR of
gush, and they unconsciously are rude
where they meant to give only the inn
preston of reserve. Reserve is a quality
to be cultivated when it is not possessed
by the individual, but reserve is neither
iciness nor sloyenliness in expression OF
feeling. 1t is the nice sense of what
should be said and when to say it. Re.
serve should be gate, not stone wall,
and it should be gate that swings
easily both ways; it should be a means
of exit as well as ingress, and IL should
be developed in harmony with nature
and the laws of life. Gush, and reserve
that means silence, are the extremes to
avoid, and means of keeping them In
check is obedience to the social laws
whose forms are, as we have said be-
fore, the basis of kindly living for ev'
cry degree of relationship. -ChristiaI
Union.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Tho Cincinnati city church oxten-
sion society has under its care three
fourishing missions.
AT the last primary scholarship ex-
animation in Bengal eight out of twenty
scholarships were awarded to girls.
One thousand Christian Cinnamon
are said to be connected with the Con-
gregational missions in Oregon and Cali
fornia.
Eight hundred priests and laymen
have petitioned the Pope to canonize
Columbus October 12, the anniversary of
the discovery of America
Denmark, Norway and Sweden con-
tri tie annually about 100000 for for
eign missions having 100 missionaries
in the field, with membership. of 10000
in their missions.
In one year no fewer than twenty
six associations have been formed in
Victoria in connection with the Young
Mems Sabbath Morning Fellowship
Union-a purely Scottish idea.
Tho officers of the Ohio branch of
the Woman's Board are trying to estab-
lish at Oberlin home for the children
Of missionaries. During the past year
thirty sons and daughters of missiona-
ries have been studying at oberlin.
OF the three Scandinavian lands
Denmark, Norway and Sweden-the
Norwegians Claim to be the best givers
to the mission cause, they giving about
| cents per head to Sweden's . and Dem
mark 1. On the whole, the three lands
have in the Lutheran mission work one
hundred missionaries in the field, with
total collection of $500, 900.
The first Massachusetts State Con-
vention of Sunday-schools was lately
held in fremont Temple, Boston. Rev.
Drs. A. L. Dunning, e. j. Haynes, +. n.
Pelouhet, r. r. Meredith, A. f. Schauf-
fler and Warren Randolph and Mr.. b.
+. Jacobs and Miss Lucy Wheelock
were among the most noted speakers. 1t
was proposed to secure building at the
Worlds Fair in 1899 for Sunday-school
exhibition purposes.
The organization in existence for
some years among Protestants, called
1.-The Daughters of the King" has been
initiated by the organization among the
Romanists of 1.-The Daughters of the
Queen" 1t was organized in st. Louis,
December 6, 1889. 1t is said "they will
help the ignorant and destitute children
of the city, gathering them into Satur-
day sewing schools, teaching them hab-
its of personal department, cleanliness,
etc. The girls who are taught sewing
will be given the clothing they make,
as rewards of merit.-Mid-Conti
Picking University is an educational
enterprise projected by the Methodist
Episcopal Church in connection with its
mission work in China. 1t is only the
form of the enterprise that is new; it
was begun as Wiley Institute. The de-
velopment of the institution into a uni
versity awakens great deal of interest
in the Flowery Kingdom. The Chinese
Times, an independent secular weekly
of Tientsin, discusses it very favorably,
and wishes it all success. An appeal is
made to Christians in the United States
for an endowment fund of half a million
dollars for the university.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
----=------=--
WIT AND WISDOM.

There is more real charity in get
ting one man a job than in feeding four
in idleness.
To be good and disagreeable is high
treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah More.
"A man is never old enough. to get
married until he is so old he does not
care for marrying.
Faith, like any virtue, must have
its test, and probably the reason for in
explicable evil.-Century.
Don't allow yourself to be carried
away by enthusiasm-you may have to
walk back -Philadelphi Press.
The man who thinks quick and
speaks slow will be very apt to get
along in the world safely.-N. O. Plea
yune.
1t is foolish to turn off tried friend
because of failing or two; since we all
live in glass houses we should not throw
stones.
SO long as man wants to seem to
be decent, there is hope of him. When
he passes that point, he must be de-
SPARED of.
Few consider how much we are in
debted to government, because few can
realize how wretched mankind would be
without it.-Atterbury.
How hard some men will struggle to
build up little reputation, and at once
give up the ghost when it comes to
building the kitchen fire.
If your heart is larger than your head
you injure yourself, and if your head is
larger than your heart you injure your
eighbors.-Atchison Globe.
-Truthfulness is q cornerstone in
character, and If it be not firmly laid in
youth will ever after be weak spot in
the foundation.-Rural New Yorker.
"A mans faith in his fellows bears
little or no relation to his own moral
character, the best men being often the
most distrustful, and not always the
most agreeable companions.
A cynical man says: "If you want
| to keep friend never do business with
him. If he takes advantage of you you
will hate him. II you discover that you
have missed an opportunity to trick him
you will hate yourself. Texas Sift-
ings.
Some men are so much in love with
/ themselves that they never see thelr
own mistakes. They display sort Of
heroism in the hopeless struggle to JUS
tify their own errors, and when their
faults are made so plain to them that a
confession is extorted from them, they
still manage to make some capital out
of their infirmity by boasting that it
only proves that they are human
Christian Advocate.
Gould we know that we were GER
tainly making the entire character of o
single individual, and that we alone
must bear the responsibility, how great
trust we should deem it, and how care
full should we be! Yet, in truth, we are
doing far more than that. Every one
who approaches us owes something Of
his character to our influence; and the
effect does not stop there. Like a.mag-
netic current, it passes on from one per-
son to another, and no human power Of
computation can ever measure its
strength or its extent.-Oace Week.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22
SEMl-LlQUlD PEAT.
Great Destruction Caused by n Dcluge o:
the STUFF in 1853.

the Stuff in 1858.
The shifting of peat-bogs in Great
Britain from one place to another is not
u rare occurrence. On the 3rd of Janu-
ary, 1858, bog of Enagh Monmore,
Ireland, nearly mile in circumference,
and several feet deep, began a move
ment which lasted about twenty-four
hours. 1t stoI1ed when it had made an
Pennant describes another affair of this
kind. The Solway moss in Scotland
was an expanse of semi-liquid bog, cov-
ering 1,6OO acres, and lying somewhat
higher than a valley of fertile land
near Netherby. So long as the moder-
ately hard crust near the edge was pre-
served the moss did not flow over. On
one occasion some peat-diggers impru-
IDENTIFY tampered with that crust, and the
moss, moistened by heavy rains, burst
it's bounds. On the night of the 18th of
November, 1771, farmer who lived
near by was alarmed by an unusual
noise. He soon discovered black deluge
was slowly rolling in upon his house,
and carrying every thing before it.
He hastenol to give his neighbors
warning, but he could not reach all of
them. Many were awakened by the
NOISE made by the Stygian tide, while
others knew nothing of its approach un-
til it had entered their bedrooms. PEN
nant says that some were surprised with
it even in their beds. These passed a
horrible night, not knowing what their
fate would be until next morning, when
their neighbors came and rescued them
through the roofs. About three hum
dred acres of bog flowed over four hun
dred acres of land during the night, ut
terly running the farmers, overturning
buildings, filling some of the cottages
up TO the roof, and suffocating many cat
tie. The stuff flowed along like thick
black paint, studded with Jumps of more
solid peat, and it filled every nook and
crevice in it's passage. 1t is said that a
cow stood for sixty hours up to her neck
in mud and water, but was finally hauled
out. When she was rescued she did not
refuse to eat, but would not touch water,
regarding it with as much terror as If
she were suffering from hydrophobia.
Chicago News.
Tho biggest edible oysters in the
world are found at Port Lincoln, South
Australia. They are as large as din
ner plates, and the same shape. They
are sometimes more than foot across
the shell, and the oyster fits his shell SO
we'll he does not leave much margin.
"A Paris correspondent writes that
"A fashionable bride now makes selec-
tion among the presents she receives,
keeping the desirable things for herself
and the others to be given to future
| brides Of her acquaintance"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22

"A Paris correspondent writes that
ga fashionable bride now makes selec-
tion among the presents she receives,
keeping the desirable things for herself
and the others to be given to future
brides Of her acquaintance"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-22

The biggest edible oysters in the
world are found at Port Lincoln, South
Australia. They are as large as din
ner plates, and the same shape. They
are sometimes more than foot across
the shell, and the oyster fits his shell SO
we'll he does not leave much margin.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-09

THE extent to which the packing of
tomatoes has grown is not generally
understood. Last year 1916, ,765 cases of
two dozen cans each were put up, and
enormous as this amount is it showed a
falling off of 366,372 cans as compared
with last year, owing to the partial fail
ure of the crop. The demand for this
delicious esculent is steadily on the in
crease. Fifty years ago it was scarcely
looked upon as an article of food and
was raised rather for ornament than util-
ity. Los Angeles ought to produce pro-
digious quantities Of tomatoes, and in
the winter season a carload day ought
to leave this county for the Eastern
cities. The tomato grows here all the
year round, and yields as abundantiy in
the winter as in the summer months.
Some of the farmers of the Cahuenga
valley made small fortunes by raising
early tomatoes and shipping them to
San Francisco. Winter tomatoes, pota.
toes, peas and other garden truck should
be the specially of our farmers, and ii
would be highly remunerative one,
with practically illimitabe market dur.
ing the later fall, winter and early
spring.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-09

THERE WAS a very peculiar scene in
the Board of Fire Commissioners yester
day, in which seven Councilmen united
in demand for the restoration of Mr..
William Stoermer to the place in the
Fire Department from which he was
displaced by the Commission. Without
entering into the merits of the matter, OF
expressing any opinion as to the rights
of Mr.. Stoermer in the premises, this is
certainly q very extraordinary proceed.
ing, the tendency of which is to divest
the Board of any pretense OF independ.
ence. In the contemplation of the char
ter, the Fire and Police Commissions are
supposed to be independent. With the
Council interfering in the actions of those
bodies this independence is a myth.
With recollection of what happened to
the Board of Police Commissioners some
time ago the Fire Commissioners know
what to expect if they resist. 1t is hard
medicine to be compelled to accept Mr..
Walter s. Moore as their master, but
they may as we'll come to it first as last.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-09

SENATOR VOORHEES, made a powerful
arraignment of the Republican party
yesterday, and clearly showed the COM
plicity of the President with Dudley in
his "blocks of FIVE" bribery methods to
carry the State of Indiana for Harrison.
Edmunds tried to break the force of this
public arraignment by reply that was
intended to meet damaging facts with
ridicule. But the country will not accept
the peculiar Edmunds fence in debate
for the genuine article. It is no answer
to the barefaced briberies at the last
election to assert that Democrats had
also been guilty of corrupt practices.
This is case Of one high in the counsels
of the Republican party, member of it's
National Committee, deliberately, over
his own signature, formulating scheme
to carry State by wholesale fraud, and
who was afterwards protected from pros
ecution for his crime by the President
of the United States, who had proflted
by that fraud. This is the position of the
case, and Senator Voorhees, has 30
firmly fixed it in that position before the
country that no amount of ridicule or
persiasge can change it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-09

On LOOKING over the bills of the city we
find that from the 5th day of December
till the Sd day of January the city has
purchased $941 73 worth of hay for the
fire and street departments. One indi.
vidual presented bills for $729. 63 of this
amount, and on twelve separate de-
mands. We do not intend to charge
that the city paid more for this
hay than it was worth, or that
those who sold it to the city
took any advantage of the municipality
What We wish to call attention to is the
fact that the spirit of the charter is be-
ing violated. For hay or anything else
required by the city for go large an
amount bids ought to be invited, and
the city treasury should receive the ben.
eft OF an open competition. This prac
tice OF asgregating small bills in order tc
evade the $500 provision of the charter
should be stopped at once.