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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDucA,oNA,.


Tho Royal College of PLs;cians
has passed resolution that tk redi.
cal curriculum should be extened IN
five years instead of four.
Religion was severed from mol.
ity and morality from religion, and Ia
outcome of the ancient world was q,
immoral religion and irreligious moral
ity.-Luthardt.
Nine new missionaries have been
appointed to Japan the present year by
the American Baptist Missionary Union
an addition of 33 per cent. to its work.
ing force in that country.
Baptist progress.in Sweden is one OF
the remarkable religious movements of
the present time. Revivals are constant.
In twenty years the number of church
members has advanced from 1900 to
32,3os. The baptisms in 1888 were
$500.
"A new manuscript of the New Tes-
lament, which, it is thought, dates back
to the fourth century, has been discov-
cred. 1t is in the possession of the Pa
triarch of Constantinople, through whom
the Didache was given to the public
few years ago.
The educational system in force in
Italy is assuming proportions which
may be called National. Nearly four
millions of boys are in schools, less or
more under the inspection of govern
ment, and the education of girls is fairly
begun. n.-Missionary Review.
The Young Woman's Christian AS
sociation of New York teaches it's even
inor p1nccoc fhouiIno hn o1
such as commercial arithmetic, penman-
ship, bookkeeping, photography, type
writing)a a class called business training,
retouching photo-negatives, photo-color,
mechanical and free-hand drawing,
modelling and design, physical culture
and choir music.
Get a habit, passion for reading;
not flying from book to book, with the
squeamish caprice of literary epicare;
but read systematically, closely,
thoughtfully, analyzing every subject as
you go along and laying it up carefully
and safely in your memory. 1t Is only
by this mode that your information will
be ut the same time extensive, accurate
and useful.-Wirt.
The government Of New South
wares duOpbtu new
scheme of technical education. The
present Board of Technical Education
is to be abolished, and technical schools
will be placed under the direct control
OF the Education Department. A sum
Of $3.50, 900 is to be expended in the erec-
tion and equipment of new Technical
College and Museum in Sidney, while
branch technical schools will be estab-
lished throughout the country districts.
1t is estimated that $3.50, 900 will be
required annually to carry out the new
arrangements.
"A teacher who comes late to the
Sunday-school may be better than no
teacher at all; but such teacher
is not as good a teacher as he
ought to be, or as he could be.
The fifteen minutes before the school
session begins may be made the most
important fifteen minutes of teachers
work with and for his class. The teach
er who loses these minutes loses gold
en- opportunity for the day; and if in ad
dition to these he loses the frst fifteen
minutes of the school hour, he is at
disadvantage that no work or skill OF
his will enable him to make goods.
s. Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
THE NEW MorHER-IN.LAW.

oh, crod-yos, did
Right in front of 'em nlli
Though tho table was full
I lot them tenrs fall
Wherever they chanoed TO be maltn'i
On my plate Some kcrplashod,
On irg Powp some fell hot,
An just let 'em go,
Though kuowod it'd spot.
For pear like my heart was a-brcaltin'.
Thar before mo sot Bell
AS fine rs n rose,
A-smilin' 10 kill
In hor white wcddln' clocs,
The ring on her finger nglowin'.
An clost to her side
Sot the groom, Daniel Glover,
In slick -flttin' coat
With n button holo flower
On tho lap of his collar n.showin'.
An how It come up
amt clear, but says he
A.hllin' his glass
An u-noddin' ut me:
"Say, folks, here's toast for your drlnkin' I;
Fill up, every one,
To my mothor.in-law"
An with that he haw-hawcd,
Though reckon he saw
The tears on my eye-lcts ablinkin'.
Says I: You kin fling
Any insult at me.
For I'm lonesome an lorn,
But-watch out, Daniel G!'
<For my blood was a-bilin' nm a-brewin'O
II am gentle an meek
AS % lamb, an NIL thet,
But I'm not quite slave
For to patiently set
An be iolted at," says 1, n boo o.hoo-ln'.
An then-wcll 1t pears
Like the hull o. the crow
Got about me an Bell
She was huggin' me, too,
An crushin' her fine woddin' bunnit
An Glover, he stood round
Sort o. shame faced an shy
A-rubbn his chin
An says he drorin' nigh:
''Mdw, fergive me; please do'--an' I
done i'll
Eva Wilder McGasson, in Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
PARENT AND CHILD
Tho Confidence OF Children Necessary to
Their Proper Government.

Their Proper Government.
Rebellion and insubordination on the
part of children frequently result from
lack Of confidence on the part of parents.
Children are dependent creatures and
like advice better than they appear to;
but when a timid child realizes that its
confession of fault will be repeled by
harshness or ridicule, the heart is hard
ened and shuts upon thoughts and inn
pulses which are dangerous tenants.
Occasionally q child seems to have an
abnormal inclination to lie, but any one
who has had long experience in dealing
with all sorts of character and disposl-
tion can testify that whore there is ono
liar by defective moral nature, there arc
a thousand who lie through fear and in
ability to endure punishment. This is
particularly true of delicate children.
Every nerve in the frail body recoils
from the blow which will follow upon
the confession OF misconduct.
The super-sensitive Imagination
which goes with such temperament peo-
pies the darkness to which the offender
is banished with horrors that chill tho
blood. Half that they suffer can never
be estimated. A woman of more than
average intelligence once said that in
all her after life,' she had never suffered
as when she was sent to bed in the dark,
thirsting for the faintest glimmer of
light that might have dispeled the hor-
rible fancies which took possession of
her brain. She had read Pope's tale of
premature burial, and it haunted her
for months. Yet she dared not go to
her parents, confess it and feel that
they would comprehend that her suffer-
ing was actual and real.
"If L ever have children of my own,"
she said, they shall have light in
their room at night, if they ask for it,
and, beside this, shall encourage them
to tell me of their troublesome fancies,
shall treat them with respect, how
ever absurd the fancies may be-
There is another point upon which
parents do not always take care to in
form themselves, and that is the asso-
ciates whom their children have chosen.
The tendency Of the times is to level all
social distinctions, whatever labor agi-
tators may say to the contrary. No
where is this so apparent as in the pub
lie schools, where boys neighbor may
be of the lowest or of the highest char
acter. One week of bad association will
taint a sympathetic and retentive mind
for life. Habits will be inculcated that
the most careful aftertraining can never
overcome, and tendencies developed
which can never be checked. 1t is a
strange and oft-repeated axiom that
disease and not health, is contagious,
and evil examples are apparently much
more readily followed than the good.
Children should be encouraged to talk
to their parents freely and unreservedly
of what they think and what they do.
The morally weak should have aid and
sympathy. No punishment should ever
follow the confession of fault, how
ever grevious, the effort which it prob
ably took to tell the truth should be
recognized and the moral sense strength
ened by commendation put into wise
and tender words.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
FALLING FROM BALLOONS.
The Proportion of Accidents to Successful
Ascents.


Ascents.
The proportion of balloon accidents to
successful ascents has, on the whole,
however, been probably smaller than
should have been anticipated. Blanch-
ard, the first to take up ballooning as a
vocation, died in bed in 1909, after
having made &C ascents without acci-
dent. Many ascents have been made in
the cause of science; and the names
of Green, who made over 1, 400 aScents;
of John Wise, who made the distance
from st. Louis, Mo-, to Jefferson County,
n. Y, 1900 miles, in 20 hours; of Gay
Lussac and Blot who, in 1904, made a
most valuable series of meteorological
and physical observations at the height
of $4,000 feet; of Glaisher, who rose to
81, 900 feet with the nronaut, Coxwell !;
and especially, recently, of the Brothers
Tissandier-all these are familiar to
every one.
In 1894 the balloon was used for mill
tary purposes by General Jourdan, who
secured continued observation of the
Austrian movements, and thus gained
the battle of Fleury. The French are
also reported to have used the same
method in the battle of Solferino. A
balloon corps was organized by General
Mcclellan at the outbreak of our own
civil war, 1861; and the use of balloons
was one of the regular and daily means
of obtaining information of the move
ments of the enemy. During the
siege of Paris the balloon became the
only means of sending dispatches out of
the beleagured city, and proved to be
very reliable. OF all the balloons sent
out from Paris, over sixty in number,
but three were lost; and they, probably,
simply because they were dispatched at
night to avoid the risk from the fire of
the enemy; which as the event proved,
was far less dangerous than darkness.
Every government probably now has a
balloon corps.-Forum.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
COSTA RICA'S SWAMPS.
Disagreeable Bed-Fellows That Render
Sleep an ImpossIblllty.

Go and live there, inhabit that pic
turesque adobe dwelling for twenty-four
hours, either with or without jungle fe-
yer, and your enthusiasm will possibly
be considerably modified. The breeze,
tepid and langourous, brings little re-
freshment to the heavy, steaming at
mosphere, charged by blazing sunshine
in brief alienation with torrents of
rain, deadly miasmas from the rot-laden
lagoon steal like ghosts through the
moonlit night, and every type of winged
and creeping abomination that earth
produces there teens and swelters in
luXuriant virulence. Great hairy taran-
tula spiders, centipedes foot long, and
scorpions like miniature Holsters had
their being in the banana-leaf thatch
above me; land crabs burrowed up
through the fungus-grown floor to visit
my couch; huge toads and venomous
reptiles came frankly in at the door.
Alligators and enormous serpents in
tested the lagoon hard by and might
be expected at any moment. l did
not see an anaconda while l was
there, but blow from the tail of
an alligator struggling with some crea-
ture it had captured actually broke
away some of the wall of my hut
one night. Beastly bats sailed in
occasionally, and were found by day
light pendent and pugnacious overhead,
while more than once n yell, a scuffie,
and rush proclaimed the disturbed in-
trusion of some unidentified delegate of
the cat tribe. Respiratory air seemed
to have acquired third constituent in
addition to it's normal oxygen and nitro
gen in the sitting clouds of mosquitoes
which filled the darkness-and Cen
tral American mosquito is as merciless
an organism as any of it's accursed kind
found outside the Arctic circle, which is
saying a good deal Strange things
whizzed and buzzed and doomed through
the obscurity, dropping with sharp
thud as though shot, or alighting with
sticky feet, reluctant of dislodgment, on
ones face; all night long there was a
rustling and cracking and creeping
suggestive of unseen invertibrate hor-
rors all around; walls, floor and rocf
crawled and were hSrrent with hidet-as
animation. / ana q naturalist by
instinct and can love and cherish tho
meanest reptile but would not volun-
tarily of forethought and design choose
a hat in a Costa Rican swamp as shell
ter for my sick bed during the dilirium
OF intermittent fever.-Longmans Mag
azine.
A L.. 4 II
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
The Capital of Brazil.

If you have occasion to mention the
capital of Brazil and wish to be exact
you must say Rio de Janeiro and pro-
nounce it Reeo day Hay-nay-ray-oh.
That is pan-American. 1t means river
of January. Tradition says that when
the Portuguese mariners who discovered
the Brazilian coast passed through the
narrow gateway to the harbor, and saw
the beautiful bay in the amphitheater
OF mountains surrounded by eternal
verdure, they thought they were enter
ing the mouth of river that would lead
them to the enchanted land. When
they discovered their mistake they were
SO disgusted that instead of naming the
river after our Saviour or one of the
saints, they simply christened it the
river discovered in January. However
the city has street called "Street of
Good Jesus" and others called st. John
the Baptist, st. John the Evangelist,
etc..-Indianapolis Journal.
Tame goats peeled 500 prune trees
Cal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15

Tame goats peeled 500 prune trees
for farmer at Hanford, CAL, recently.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15
Queer Houses In Havana.

The Cuban houses in Havana are one
or two stories high, as rule, and are of
various shapes-long, square or oblong.
They are mostly built around an open
garden or courtyard, the front and side
portions being divided up into parlor,
dining and bedrooms, and the rear into
servants quarters and kitchen. The
rooms are simply immense. The tiled
ceilings are lofty in extreme, the win
dows, which reach midway from floor to
ceiling, averaging twelve feet in height.
The latter are barred on the outside
with iron, and closed within by heavy
wooden shutters, which open inward.
When it rains, which it does frequently
and abundantly, the sill being on the
outside, the water often half floods the
rooms.-Scribner' Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15

Ono of the indications Of the great
improvement in social manners and in
Christian influence is the decline and
almost extinction of profanity in polite
circles. A hundred years ago nearly
every body swore, just as almost every
body gambled and drank. Now it is
rare to find public man that sins in
this way; and in private circles oaths
are regarded as vulgar and offensive
neutrality-suspicious.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15

"A petrified apple was discovered at
Harrington, Me-, short time ago by
some boys. 1t had changed to the color
OF marble. The stem and blossom were
apparently as perfect as when the fruit
fell from the tree.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
Judge +. II. rarrar In North Carolina.

The success Of Judge Farrar in Whining
ton. n. C., must have boen gratifying 20
him. We only make few short extracts
from the lengthy reports Of the morning
papers. The MessngT says: Doubtless
there were none of all the throng at the
Opera-House last night who did not gam
something of profit from the lecture and
lecturer. Judge Farrar's voice seems, If
ANYTHING, better than last winter. better
able to reach the limits demanded by his
periods Of pathos or his inimitable
mimiery. He will lecture tonight on
Johnnie Reb. II Will do US good 10 hear
again of the trials of the brave and chiyal-
ric soldier.
The Rerisir makes this note in part 4:
JUDGE Farrnr has accomplished that which
has OF late years been classed in Whining
ton as an impossibillty. Tie has drawn out
a large hour as lecturer. He has done
more than ths-he has had three fine
houses in two days The attendance last
night was large and IL IL seldom that
more cultured and approciatiye audience
ever gathered in our beautiful Opera
House
The star in commenting on tho lecture
SAYS: One of Wilmington's most cultured
audiences assembled to hear Judge tarrar
last night. The Opera-llouse was hlled;
The audience was drawn totears by the sad
scenes or conyulsed with laughter at the
amusing incidents. In closing tho lecture
the Judge gave highly dramatic ana
beautiful description Of tine scenes at the
unveiling Of tho Lee monument. The
Judge will ever be u welcome and highly
appreciated visitor 10 our city.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
British cntton.Gooa. Market.

MANCHESTER, ESQ. December 1O,-The
Guardian says: The financial stringency
in the United States and the recent failure
in the India trade has had subduing ef-
feet upon the market. Business is light.
Orders TOR India and China continue TO be
received in fair volume. though some are at
reduced rates, owing TO the decline IN ex-
change. For elsewhere there ls steady
though small business. Home houses are
doing little. Yarn is quiet. Some export
orders have been executed which had pre-
viously been refused. The tendency is
downward. though quotations, are un-
changed. Business in the cloth depart
ment is moderate, orders being chiefly in
small quantities. There are numerous in
quiries for approved makes OF gray goods
The best print cloths are steady at the de-
cline. Common are dull. Heavy goods
quiet. The best makes firm.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
HISS ezEkieL's BODY ARRIVES.
circumstances Under which She Received
Her Fatal Burns-Funeral To-Day.

Her Fatal Burns-FuneraI To-Day.
The remains Of Miss Martha l.. Ezekiel.
who was so badly burned at Bedford City
Monday morning that she died az quarter
before IL o'clock Tuesday night, reached
the city at Z o'clock last night and were
taken TO the residence of her father. Mr..
n. Ezekiel. at the corner of Twelfth and
Marshall streets. DR.. III. III. Levy and wife.
the latter a sister Of the deceased, who
went up 10 Bedford soou after the burn
ing. came down on the train with the body
and il was met at Petersburg by two OF her
brothers. A number of friends were IN
waiting at the Byrd-Street Station when
the train arrived. The funeral services
will be held at the residence this afternoon
at 4 O'Clock
Miss Ezekiel was in her forty-second year
and was we'll and popuarly known here. she
was educated az the Richmond Femaie In
stitute. aud when the publ,c-schooi syss-
tenn was put in operation IN Richmond,
nearly twenty years ago, she stood
an excellent examination and was elected
one of the teachers. She gave unl-
versal satisfaction from the first. and was
reelected from year 90 year; ,untii ias'
| June, when on account of Ill health she
! did not apply for reelection. Not wishing
| T. spend her life in idleness she decided e.
study stenograpny and typewrltng, and
| thinking that she would apply herseltmore
steadily away from home than here. where
| there was SO much TO divert her attention
| she went 10 Bedford.
IL was about 10 o'clock Monday morning
that she received her fatal burns. She wa
operatinga typewriter in her room and SIT
! ting with her back TO the fire when she de
| tected the odor Of smoke or something
burning. Thinking that the chimney
was smoking she hoisted the win
| dow. and 1t was not until the All
| famed the flames and caused then
to run up toward her body that she real
lied that her clothing was on FIRE. Sh,
called TO boy employed in the house. anc
he seeing the bright light in the room
| thought the building was on fire and rar
| to get some water. which he threw on her
| Other assistance soon arrived, but not un
i'll her limbs had been very badly burned
/ The shock 10 her system was very great
and she never rallied from 1t.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
AN APPEAL FROM NEW YORK.
Parnell's Retirement Absolutely Essential
to the Success of frciand's Cause.


New YORK, December 10.-The Executive
Committee Of the Irish National League
cabled the following 10 Parnell to-day:
"Caaries S'e,oayt Paraen, Dr. p, Dublin, Ire
ldnd'
"The Executive Committee Of the New
York Municipal Council, IRISH National
League. gratefully remember your magnlt-
cont services 20 your country and de
plore the necessities of the hour. We
believe your retirement for the pres
ent absolutely essential to success.
A divided Irish party will result IN the
collapse of Irish American support. Unity
means triumph: division means disaster
and permanent ruin. We beg you 10 make
a sacrifice which more even than your past
services will endear you for all time TO
every lover Of Ireland. Our loyalty and
services III the past will attest thesincerity
of our movements. We make this appeal
that Ireland may not be deprived OF your
future usefulness and that her cause may
not perish in our day and generation.
[Sienedl "JoHN p. RYAN, Chairman"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
QUESTION SOLVED.

As il seems 10 be in order at the pres
ent day among clothiers 10 indulge in
gift enterprises, such az watches, ponies,
extra pants carts, harness. &c, "gratis,"
/ would kindly ask an intelligent public
who derives the most profit therefrom ?
Why the customer (of coursel that is to
be understood. Now We propose to fol-
low fashion as o "gift-giyer," but in Q
way so that each and every customer re-
ceives his gift at the time Of purchase.
II you will call and examine our Odd
Suits and Overcoats placed on frst four
counters upon entering our establish
ment at our one price-sl0--and COM
pare them with others at similar price
you will soon be convinced as TO the
truth OF our gift enterprise.
We shall not exsggerate when We ny
that amongst them you Will find Suits
and Overcoats that formerly sold a. high
as SIG. sls, and $40 But they are all
"odd" and must be closed out We in
tend to give you the benefit.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
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