Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


nen?-Texss Siftings
81 didn't take any cakes, mamma"
vhimpered Bobby 81 only took lit |
lie calxelet.'' "Then will not give !
you n spanking, my son." said his
mamma, placing him gently but firmly |
cross her knee and reaching for the
,alse-turner; II will give you n little
spanlSlet."
Lighthouses are now distinguished
| by the mariner by color, com binations
Of color, or the periodicity of short
flashes. Capt Mahan, of the United
States Lighthouse board, has devised
system of signals given by shutters
over the light, by which each light
tells its own name or number, and pre-
vents any possible confusion. Whe
tested at New Haven last month it
worked admirably.
The first warlike measure of the
Americans previous to the hostilities
begun in 1912, was the construction, at
| Sacks it's Harbor at the eastern end of
Lake Ontario, of the brig Oneida, six
teen guns, by Christian Berg and Henry
EclSford. She was launched in 1900,
and was intended for a two-fold pur-
pose, namely, to enforce the revenue
laws under the Embargo act, and to be
in read mess to defend American prop
srty afloat on Lake Ontario in case Of
war with Great Britain.
In 1921 fierce controversy arose
In England in consequence of a claim
set up by the council of Plymouth, a
company chartered by James l., for the
monopoly of fishing in American seas
between 40-4S degrees of north lati-
tude. This company demanded from
each vessel fishing in these waters a
tax of about eighty-three cents per
ton Th is claim was stoutly resisted.
The house of commons took part with
the fishermen, and the contest was con-
tinued in the reign of Charles l., and
was one of the causes of the quarrel
between him and parliament, which
brought on the civil war.
The first settlement of white people
in Vermont was made in 1T24 by the
erection of Fort ID ummer, near the pres
ent site of Brattleboro, then supposed
) to be in Massachu setts. In the spring
of 177T the settlers in Vermont peti
toned the Continental congress for ad
mission into the con federacy, but New
York opposing, the petition was with
drawn, and at a convention held the
next year at Win dsor constitution
S modelled after that of Pennsylvania wa
a adopted. In 17S1 congress offered t,
1 admit Vermont upon terms which tn,
t people would not agree to, and it re
: mained outside the Union until Marcl
' f., 1871.
e The firm of Longmans, Green &c Co.
e under the same name, dates furthe
: back, it is stated, than any other pub
s fishing house known to this genera
e ton, with single exception, and b.
S buying up that one it became the oldes
s publishing house known. The origina
d Longmans, born in 1899, purchased th
e stock of William Taylor, publisher, i
). 1926, and since then the name of Long
e mans has always stood at the head c
d the firm name, and their headquarter
l. are still at the sign of the Ship and tn
e Black Swan, Paternoster Row, Londor
}. where the house of Taylor stood at til
s time of the purchase by Longmans i
" 1926. This firm brought out DR.. JOIN
e son dictionary in 1916, Lindley Nsl
o ray grammar at the beginning of tn
+ century, Moore's ''Lalla RoolSh'
y 1926, and paid Macaulay large royastie
IS on his books
l. Joseph Francis, the inventor of til
5. lifeboat, died at Otsego Lake, May 1
'e aged ninety-three years. When tt
e. little Joseph was but eleven years
age he built small boat with cork
the bow and stern, which has bee
called the first lifeboat built in Anne
Is lea. The unsinlSable rowboats mao
I. I.
IL were bought by England, Russia ar
81 Brazil. In 1912, Mr.. Francis succeede
90 in completing his corrugated ire
~ water-tight car, but it was not unit
- January II, 1850, that its great efficien,
!, " was proved. On that occasion the Bri
y ish ship Ayrshire came ashore at Squi
III Beach. n. j., with 200 souls on boar
as The life car was taken out and ma'
ce about forty trips, saving every on
W with the exception of a man who 8
s. tempted to ride on the outside and w
ar washed off. Three years ago Mr.. Fra
Gu els was presented by President Harl
IL, son with the gold medal which hi
a' been voted to him by congress.
* The majority of travelling IN
:, sleep head foremost on well-ballast
~ road and feet foremost on road whe
~ the cars sometimes run on the ira
-; and sometimes on the ties. 1t is mu
- pleasanter to sleep headfrst, as
-. M were, because it prevents that swe
~ head feeling which results from
-, much blood being forced in the dir
W ton of the brain. But in case of an
"a cident it is very much pleasanter
~ sleep the other way. Nature did I
or provide the human neck with as ma
Ia % joints as that of a giraffe or ostri'
~ and when train suddenly comes t.
~ ~, standstill and the whole force of
y" wa collision comes on the top OF the slSu
- the feeling is unpleasant On the otl
hand the knees have kindly tender
to give" on the occasion of the col
ter ion, and hence, if man is sleepi
he feet first he is less liable to accident
,he the train stops suddenly.
eX- More than one-half of all the oil