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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
MISS PEABODY.

pathos in the picture of this noble lady
who has devoted her life to benevolence
sitting alone in q dreary hotel waiting
to die.
''Do you write any thing now?" ques-
enough" she answers, somewhat i'm
patiently, after a severe fit of coughing,
which required frequently during the
interview.
On the table near Miss Peabody were
Louisa Alcott's Life, Letters and Jour
nals," edited by Mrs. Ednah d. Cheney,
fresh from Robert Bros press and a
volume of James Freeman Clarke.
''Since Mr.. Clarke's death I've been
re-reading his books. Mr.. Clarke wasn't
appreciated during his lifetime.
don't think appreciated him." So she
talks on, uttering scrappy and discon-
nected gems of thought.
For her mind wanders often from the
subject, and tho thread seems wholly
gone. Her memory is failing much as
Mr.. Emerson's did when the only way
he could say umbrella was to describe it
as something people borrowed and
never brought back" The word had
wholly escaped him.
Miss Peabody promised to write to a
friend on behalf of her visitor. Every
few moments she would say: "What was
it promised to do?' This reiterated
question was finally put an end to by her
debating the letter in logical and con-
nected manner.
If half Miss Peabody's "reminiscences
could be given to the world they would
make an interesting chapter of personal
history. Probably no one living has
known intimately so many of New En-
glands most gifted men and women.
AT her house Margaret Fuller gave
some of those marvellous conversations
which held all listeners captive by their
transcendental thought. Then Emer-
son, Parker and tho Alcotts Miss Pea
body knew intimately. But all her
precious memories are in danger of be-
ing lost to tho world. She thinks only
in scattered sentences and sleeps three
quarters of her time. The burden of
life is heavy, and is sure soon to
drop away from the ''children's FRIEND"
Of whom it can truly be said that no one
mas worked moro untiringly or more
successfully in their cause,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Bits of Information Compiled Expressly
for Busy Housewives.


If brcakfast-bacon or ham is to be
served for breakfast the fat that is
drawn out in cooking should be used for
frying its accompanying hominy or In
dian mush.
A crumb of bread must not be wasted,
but dried, pounded and put away in a
tin-boX, ready for breading Goldfish
balls, rice croquettcs, etc. Remains of
cooked vegetables must be saved for
soups; not even leaf OF cabbage should
be thrown away.
A tablespoonful of ammonia in gal
Ion of warm water will often restore
colors in carpets; it will also remove
whitewash from them.
A damp cloth dipped in salt will re-
move egg stains from silver, or tea stains
from china dishes.
Willow chairs that have lost their
natural color can be restored by using u
solution of chlorine. Clean cane-seated
chairs with salt or ammonia and warm
water. Apply it with nail brush,
scrubbing it well, rinse with cold water
and dry thoroughly. Wet the under
part of the seat anG. when dry it will
become taut.
We know Of one housclleeper whose
husband had constructed for her a spe-
cial chair for baking days 1t was of
such height that she could sit at the
table and mold her bread or roll her
dough with ease. He likewise had a
foot-rest attached, so that she might at
the same time rest her feet firmly And,
sitting on the chair, she for years con-
structed all the bread and pastry that
the house needed. 1t took her no longer,
and was quite as good as if she had stood
up to make it and mad wearied herself
almost to death in the operation.
A sink or other home-drain should be
thoroughly washed out with boiling
suds at every weekly wash-day.
A little ammonia in tepid water will
soften and cleans the skin.
To clean so-called brass lamps rub the
lamp thoroughly with a mixture of GRO
Gus and sweet oil, stand it aside to dry
When dry polish it with dry crocus and
chamois skin.
Yellow stains, left by sewing-machine
oil on white, may be removed by rub
bing the spot with cloth wet with am
monia before washing with soap.
A red-hot iron passed over old putty
will soften it SO it can be easily re
moved.
Hot fat or cutting bread will soon dull
the edge of the sharpest knife.
To remove ink from paper, if not o.
too long standing, wet a teaspoonful o.
chloride of lime with just sufficient wa
ter to cover it. Pat mo ruby the spot
gently for few moments, using a sof
cloth wet with the mixture, and the inl
will slowly disappear. If one applica
tion is not sufficient, try second.-Bos
ton Budget.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
BEE-kEEPlNG.
Some Good Advice to Those Just Begin.
n.ng.

Some Good Advice to Those Just Begin
nng.
One who began Bookkeeping with too
many colonies gives the following words
of caution to those who are about to
commence bookkeeping:
Begin in very small way. Hardly
less important is it that you begin in
the right way. Still, if you make some
or expensive to get right when you start
slowly.
The reason for starting slowly is just
this: Before you can make Bookkeeping
success you must learn to properly
manage the bees; and you can learn
as we'll from one colony as from many,
and with much less time and expense.
Do not think that you can learn all that
is necessary from books and periodicals
on the subject. You should learn all
you can in this way, but you will not
know all you have to learn before you
begin keeping bees for yourself. Some
thought about, and If you start out with
many colonies it may cause you to make
some costly experiments and mistakes.
Besides, the best bee-keepers differ
widely as to methods, and you must de-
eide many things by your own expert
ence.
The cheapest and most satisfactory
way to start, think, is to get one or
two three-frame nuclei, with untested
queens. These can be had at reason
able price. Order necessary hives and
fixtures from supply man; or, if you
are neat and accurate, you can make
most of them yourself. But it is
necessary that every thing should be
accurate, as you will soon find out.
When the bees are received lift them
into hives and build them gradually in.
to strong colonies. Beginning in this
way you will have many less discour
agements than those who start more
literally. From three-frame nuclei
purchased early in the season, we have
taken in a favorable season over fifty
pounds of honey.-Farm, Field and
Stockman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
A FAMOUS WOMAN.
Visit TO Miss Peabody, Founder of
the Kindergarten.
Living at tho Age of Eighty-sevon on tho
Outskirts of Boston-Almost Forgotten
by tho World, Which Not Many
Xonrs Ago Sang Her Praises.

slow tickle goddess is famel" one
reflects as he enters the present retired
abode of one of Boston's most famous
women. Now that her pen is dropped
and her voice no longer heard in the
assemblies of the world the great
founder of the kindergarten in America
seems sunk into oblivion. Few even of
her friends know where she lives. After
following up every little Glow and
knocking at many door persistent
searcher may find her in the second
story of q hotel at Jamacia Plain, four
miles out of Boston. The building
stands close to the station and is shaken
by every passing train. Tho lower floor
is occupied by paper store and an un-
dertaker's rooms.
But the upper apartments are CHEEKY
and pleasant. An ancicnt-looking at
tendant answers the bell and the ques-
tion whether Miss Peabody will sec Wis
itors by ushering the guest through a
winding hall into little parlor. 1t is
q warm day, but vigorous coal fire is
burning its best, sending out a heat that
IL almost insupportable. However, the
impressive figure on the couch by the
window rivets the attention and renders
one for moment unmindful of aught
else.
What figure it is in the black dress,
white kerchief and cap! Aged, but
not bowed down; weak, but not in
firm-a few white puffs beneath the cap,
a funny little short nose, q firm mouth
and eyes, which in spite of weakness
look out on one sharply now and then
such is Miss Elizabeth Peabody at the
ago of eighty-seven.
The walls are hung with old po'@aits.
An old-fashioned secretary, a few old
chairs and marble-top table in the CEN
ter of which is big bunch of pink coral
under glass, are all the room contains
beside the black hair-cloth sofa on
which Miss Peabody sits. The lady
smiles welcome and gives one firm
"handshake." Her voice shows no signs
of feebleness as she says with another
smile: ''It doesn't make much difference
which world we are in. I'drather be in
the other one now" There is tragic
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
THE FARMING WORLD.
FUMiGATiNG BOX.
An Excellent Advice for Kidding PlaI
of InaaCtg.

An Excellent Advice for Kidding Plants
of Insects.
Very few window-plants are entirely
free from that troublesome insect, the
green aphis, and the problem of getting
rid of it is not always an easy one, on
account of want of place in which to
fumigate with tobacco. Our illustration
shows convenient box in which may
be placed plants infested with green lice
while smudge of tobacco is being
given. There is q piece of zinc in the
bottom of the box, to prevent its taking
fire from any dropping Goals. On this
set three flower-pots, and on these the
pan containing the leaves, The pan
should have hole in it the size of an
egg, to give sufficient draught that the
leaves will be consumed.
In starting the smudge, place few
shavings first, then the tobacco leaves,
slightly moistened. Those leaves
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
The Registration of Prize-winninrs.

Allow me, says contributor to tho
Breeders Gazette, to make a suggestion
regarding the registration and grading
of all kinds of pure-bred stock. AL
though only tradesman till within the
last eight years tbeing my term of res
idence in this country, / have always
observed differences to exist among ami
mails having by inheritance the same
claim to consideration. For myself l
hold that the prize-ring should be de-
termining agent in the reputation of an
animal, and that all animals should be
compelled to pass, as it were, their class
examinations from the lowest up, be-
ginning with the county fair, then tho
State or provincial, as the case may be,
ending with the United States National
or Dominion of Canada, as might be.
Thus there would be the primary regis
tration by inheritance in the first de-
gree and so on to tho second, third and
fourth degree, the strd or herd book to
record the exaltation of the successful
animal charging therefor only a
trifing fee, say one dollar for making
the entry and placing the same on the
owners certificate CT registration.
l think were such or similar plan
adopted the inheritance claim would
have to work on its own proper level;
and Furthermore in all localities where
settlers and stock were sufficiently nu-
merous 1 would urge the passage of a
law forbidding an unregistered stallion
to travel for custom. If people will use
scrub let them have the trouble o!
going to him. But to return to the de-
gree system of registration, l hold that
while creating little soreness in some
places it would put ban on inferior
stock that would work for good in the
end.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
Unouestionably reutonic,

Census Taler-Were you born on
American soil?
Citizen-No, sorr.
Census Taker (facetiously)-And your
face, my friend, tells me may as we'll
omit the nationality question. When
did you leave ireland?
Citizen (nettled at being sized up so
summarily)-A foiue cinsus taker ye re,
tndade? Dim no Irishman at all, at all.
Census Taker--Well, what are you?
Citizen-Oi'm Ger-r-man.
Census Taker-All right; what name?
Citizen-McCar-r-r-thy.-Life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
How to Keep Fresh Beef.

part OF, the steak is cut into conven-
lent pieces, salted with dry salt Ia tritie
more than for cooking fresh) while be-
ing packed in any suitable jar or dish.
After about week it is hung to dry
near the ceiling over the kitchen stove.
If the weather is unfavorable for keep
ing meat, we slice the steak as for cook
ing and pack it in a deep dish, season.
ing each layer; we then put plate over
1t, and weight on top to press it. For
immediate use we cook it and placei it in
jar or dish as above described. AS
soon as possible we can all the beef we
can not use fresh. Last year we used in
July canned beef that was put up in
the previous winter and it was fresh and
nice. Cook the meat for canning in q
double baking or roasting pan in the
oven, or in covered kettle on the stove
until it will cleave from the bone. Sea-
son while cooking with salt and little
black pepper. Do not let all the water
evaporate, but calculate to have enough
TO allow you to fill in with the meat.
Heat glass fruit cans-we use two-quart
cans. BE sure the rubber rings are pac-
feet. Put some of the boiling liquid III
the hot cans, then pieces of meat, push
ing them down with fork or spoon so
that no air bubbles will be left among
the meat. Continue this process until
tne cans are filed, when the covers, well
neated, may be placed on and screwed
tightly Turn the cans over to see if
they are properly sealed; but let them
cool right side up that the tallow may
rise on top Keep in cool place. AS
long as the liquid remains thick like
Jelly you will know that the meat is
keeping well.-Rural New Yorker.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
Pretty Woman Machlnist.

Nelly Patterson, of Mount Carmel, is
the only woman machinist in Connecti-
cut. She is handsome girl, bright
eyed, quick in action, and very popular.
She is employed by the Mount Carmel
Belt Company, and is a full-hedged ma
chinist, having served her full time at
the trade and mastered it in all its de-
tails. Miss Patterson can block up
piece of wood on a planer or turn up an
arbor or any other product of lathe as
well as any man in the enploy of the
company. she earns mans wages
and is in love with her work. Az first
she had to meet With jealousy from her
fellow workers, but her pleasant ways
have made ter general fayorite.-
ton Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
RELIsHEs FOR LUNCHEON.
They Are Essential and Should he Served
in an Attractive StyIe.

They Are Essential and Should he Served
in an Attractive Style.
The midday meal of the household is
too often matter of Indifference to the
housekeeper, and frequently consists of
any thing left over, or is composed of
ingredients which injure the stomachs
of growing children. This should not
be so. Quite as much attention and
care should be given the preparation of
this meal as any other. Heavy soups,
hot dishes, rich salads, pastry and cus-
tards should not appear on the lunch
table; bus in cold weather simple
broth or cup of bouillon is always ac-
ceptable. A we'll made warm dish or a
stew, with vegetable salad waters,
cheese and fruits will be all sufficient
for family lunch.
Relishes are essential on the lunch
table, and should be served in as attrac-
tive style as possible; they should be
varied from day to day. With cold
meats, picked walnuts, sweet peaches
and pear pickles, scraped horse -radish,
walnut tomato or mushroom catsups
and sliced lemons, will be found ac-
ceptable. Radishes, young onions and
crosses are excellent relishes, while
picked oysters, salmon, salted ancho-
vies, German sardeleon and sardines
will tempt the appetite of the most
dainty.
A little thought given to these sub
jects will enable every housekeeper,
with very little additional trouble, to
contribute very greatly to the comfort
and health of her family, which certain.
ly should be the aim of every good
housekeeper.-Louisville Courier-Jour.
nal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
FODDER DRAG.

e e. I fasten them, and the cross
sticks also, with quarter-inch bolts. L f
are pins through the ends to hook over
the wagon axles. 1 use one and one
fourth inch auger all around. l take
the two hind wheels of wagon, make
tongue In it, and in this way can
haul as much fodder as two men can on
hay-frame. Henry b. Lambert, in
Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

"Why, what's the matter, Beryl? Have
you had typhoid or what, that you've
lost all your hair?"
"Oh, no, but you see 1 went to Bar
'aarbor last summer and got engaged to
sight men, and when the season was
,yer they each demanded lock of my
aair."-Munsey' Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
A Good Financier.

Father-I hope you are doing we'll in
the financial world, my son.
Son-Yes, father; made three thou
sand last year, but if l have good luck
this year shall make a cool fifty thous-
and.
Father-You have great business
ability, Jack. Is it legitimate specula-
ton?
Son-oh, yes; Miss Hendricksis going
to give me an answer to-night.-Judgo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
to success.

Take two poles, A A, fourteen feet
long, connect them with two cross
sticks, B b, to the width of wagon-bed
in front and six inches wider on the
lower end. Next make two standards,
&C, six feet high, stationed with two
bearers, d d, also with three braces, q
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
LETTER-oARRlERs ON WHEELS.
The Postal Service in India-Why Telo-
graph Poles Arc Made of Iron.

The Postal Service in India-Why Telo-
graph Poles Arc Made of Iron.
The postal service of India is fully as
good as that of the United States, and
the natives use the rails more and more
every year. The number of letters and
newspapers carried last year were twice
as many as ten years ago. There are
now over fifty thousand miles of rail
routes in India. A fast mail train car
ries letters at the rate of forty miles an
hour across the country from Calcutta
to Bombay, and the Queen so manages
her Indian post-offices that they almost
pay for themselves. The native letter.
carriers use bicycles to a great extent.
1t is the same with the use and the
growth of the telegraph. The English
Government owns all the lines, and it
has covered the country with a network
of wires, says writer in the Cosmopoli-
tan. India has now over hundred
thousand miles of telegraph wire, and
curious thing about the construction OF
the telegraph lines is that the posts are
made of iron.
One of the great pests of India is the
white ant, which eats any thing wooden.
A telegraph post such as is used in the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
Iie Manted tlle sltuatlon.

General Greely-What makes you
think you could prepare trustworthy
forecasts, Mr.. Weatherwise?
Weatherwise-l have two absolutely
reliable corns.-The jury.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
The Value of Hot Milk.

1t is worthy of reflection that milk
heated to as high temperature as it
can be drunk or sipped above one hum
dred degrees, but not to the boiling
point, is of great value as a refreshing
stimulant in cases of over-exertion, bod
lily or mental. To most people who like
milk it does not taste so good hot, but
that is small matter compared to tho
benefit to be got from it, Its action is
exceedingly prompt and grateful, and
the effects much more satisfactory and
far more lasting than those of any alco-
holic drink whatever. 1t supplies real
strength as we'll as exhilaration, which
alcohol never does.-Louisville Courier
Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
Youthful Reasoning.

Mrs. Brown had piece of cake for
you, Johnnie, but you didn't come when
called you.
Little Johnnie-That was cause !
iidn't hear you. you'd wanted to lick
ne you'd have called me dozen times.
The jury.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

. man gets drunk he generally
b sme ut full" speed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
AS an illustration of the ludicrous

AS an illustration of the ludicrous
results produced by bill sticBers pasting
one bill over another, c. Spurgeon, son
of Rev. C. II. Spurgeon, mentioned in a
lecture that on one occasion in London,
when he and another gentleman were
announced to preach special sermons, he
was astonished to read the following an
nouncement: "e10 Reward. Lost-Two
Fat Heifers. Mr.. j. j. Knight and Mr..
G. Spurgeon." Another read as follows:
Pigs fattened in six weeks on The
Englishman, edited by DR.. Kennedy.
Price I'd weekly, and kills fleas, beetles,
insects and all kinds of vermin. Perry
Davis Painkiller cures smoky chimneys,
and notice to mothers, feed your infants
on Bonds marking ink, Cd per BOTTLE"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

Several remarkable pictures have
recently been discovered on rock on
the Rio Grande in Texas. They were
painted by the Indians, and represent a
series of battles between two tribes. The
paintings are eight in number, and tho
work shows evidence of skillful hand.
The stone was nearly covered with sand,
out the paint, bright red, was appar-
entity as fresh as when first put on.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

The shelter that shuts out both pure
and cold <ir is not profitable structure.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

KEEP pieces of chalk where the young
animals can lick them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-14
THE OTHER WAY. HERE.

What appears like a novel complaint to
observers of the ways of justice in this city
comes from New York, to the effect that the
grand jury there is altogether too free in
the matter of finding indictments. A few
days ago that body brought in bill against
the instructions of the court and the recon-
mendation of the District Attorney, and last
week an attorney who had collected 81 900
for client, deposited the money in bank,
and left the city on business, was indicted
for embezzlement before he could get back
to defend himself. This, as the second case
where indictments have been dismissed, as
the court said, because there was mot the
merest shadow of a reason for finding it,
moves the New York Tribune to some re-
marks on the necessity for greater care in
the selection OF grand jurors.
The same necessity has been urged in this
city, but for exactly the opposite reason,
namely, the dis position of grand jurors not
to return bills where the evidence plainly re-
quires them to. The difficulty of getting
grand juries to find indictments against
violators of the license law has added gray
hairs TO the heads OF several OF our Judges;
while in neighboring county the ignoring
ofcharges of bribery in a case where the re-
cipients of the money had made public con-
fessions, shows that the disposition not to
bring in indictments. as contrasted with the
New York tendency to fire them off too
freely, is not confined to Allegheny county.
If grand juries continue in one place to
find indictments for which there is no foun-
dation, and in others to refuse indictments
where they are plainly required, the grand
jury system is likely to get itself into dis
favor. But it is not certain that there is so
very great contrast between the New York
grand juries and the Western Pennsylvania
kind. We have not observed the New York
body blamed for too great promptness in in
dieting illegal liquor sellers.