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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01
LIVING FREIGHT BY EXPRESS
The Companies Used to Take Children,
but They Do 1t No Longer.

The Companies Used to Take Children
but They Do 1t No Longer.
The big express companies will take
practically any freight that offers en-
cept explosives, such as gunpowder
and nitro-glycerine, and human be-
ings. They carry many dead bodies;
there is scarcely a through run from
the west or south to this city that
doesen't bring one or more daily; and
formerly the express companies car
ried living people, but that was done
away with about ten years ago.
The custom nowadays in sending
persons, usually children, from
one point to another is to buy ticket
for them and put them in the care of
the train conductor or of the conduct
or or porter of the Pullman car. Chill
dren so shipped for long distances are
sometimes tagged. When persons were
carried by the express companies they
were often tagged with the name and
address, and they were always way
billed like any freight Conductors
sometimes took them into the passen-
ger cars. but frequently they were car
ried with the other freight in the ex-
press car. The charges for this class of
freight were double passenger rates,
but this included food and care: when
ever h train stopped at meal station
the express messenger always took his
living freight to the restaurant with
him.
In reality the number of persons
carried in that manner was never very
great, but there were enough of them
SO that every messenger of those days
can recall runs that were made inter
esting by the presence of children car
ried Us freight; perhaps a small boy
sitting still and disconsolate, or NAV be
cheerful youngster who followed the
messenger in his work, his putting off
and taking on freight. checking up
way bills, and so on, with lively inter.
est; or it might have been n pretty lit
tie girl in whom the whole train crew
became interested, SO that in the course
of the run all hands came TO the ex.
press car to look at her
Finally the railroad companies OBJ
jected to the carrying of that class OF
freight in express cars; they thought
that they should have the profits aris-
ing from the transportation of persons,
and so came about the general ooserv.
ance of the custom of buying a ticket
and sending the person in charge OF
the conductor. Application is still
made, however to express companies
for the transportation of children by
express.
But while the large express compan-
les no longer carry living human be-
ings, they will carry anything else
alive. They carry many dogs, aud the
, number of dogs carried is constantly
increasing. The rules of express COM
panies require that dogs shall be boxed
and made fast in the box with chain;
1t often happens that dogs break their
way out of boxes and then the chain is
OF some use in holding them. Dogs
are fed in transit if necessary. The
express charges on dogs are double
merchandise rates; dogs shipped to
dog shows at these rates are returned
to the point of shipment free.-N. Y
| Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

cures. Thousands write that they
suffered intensely with nervousness
and were cured by this great medicine.
The building-up powers of Hoods
Sarsaparilla are wonderful. Even q
few doses are sufficient to create an
appetite, and from that time on it's
healing, purifying, strengthening eff
fects are plainly felt. The nerves be-
come stronger, the sleep becomes nat
ural and refreshing, the hands and
limbs become steady, and soon "life
seems to go on without effort" and
perfect health is restored. Such is the
work which Hoods Sarsaparilla is doing
for hundreds of women to-day.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

GHoRGE LArBEL and Miss Annie Mex
son, midgets of the Mrs, Tom Thumb
company, were married at Minneapolis,
MINI.
ANDRE LOUIS BAaGER, consul in
Washington for Sweden, Norway and
Denmark, died suddenly of apoplexy at
Asbury Park, N ].
ATTORNEY GENERAL A. G. HASKELL,
of Montana, and Miss Ella L. Knowles,
the assistant attorney general of the
same state, were married in San Fran
cisco.
GEN. ]. B. HAwLEY, assistant secre-
retary of the treasury under President
Hayes and six years member of con-
gress from Illinois, died suddenly at
Hot Springs, S. d.
AoULLA ROBINSON, the oldest native
born resident of Indiana and the oldest
Methodist minister in the state, died
at Deputy, aged 95 years.
HENRY LINDLEY Fry, who ranked
high among the wood carvers of the
natl, aged ss years.
WALTER Q. GRESHAM, secretary Of
state. died in Washington of pleuro-
pneumonia after an illness of four
weeks, aged 6S years. He leaves wife
and two children. Mr.. Gresham's iu-
dicial career began early in the admin
istration of Gen. Grant, and continued,
with the exception of his connection
with the Arthur administration, first
as postmaster general and then as sec
retary of the treasury, until the sec
ond Inauguration of Mr.. Cleveland,
when he was chosen as secretary of
state, having left the republican party.
He served in the war with distinction,
retiring as major general. His home
was in Chicago.
Col. GOLDSMITH w. HEWITT, the most
prominent criminal lawyer in Ala
bama and member of the Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty
seventh congresses from the Sixth
Alabama district, died at his home in
Birmingham, aged 6l years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01
Hoods SarsapariIla
Makes Pure Blood.
GRAvITATIoN AND THE BLOOD.
Some Singular Facts Regarding ArteriaI
| Circulation.

Some Singular Facts Regarding ArteriaI
Circulation.
We ordinarily think of the attraction
of gravitation only as producing what
we call weight, and as governing the
earth and other planets in their orbits
But gravitation acts in very impor-
tant manner upon the circulation of the
blood in our veins and arteries. An
elaborate series of experiments has re-
Gently been carried out in England to
determine just what effect gravitation
exercises in this respect and how its
disturbing influence is compensated in
the bodily mechanism.
1t has been found that man probably
possesses more complete compensa-
tion of this kind than any other animal,
and that the monkey stands in this re-
spect next to man.
Injuries to the spinal cord nsphyxia
and poisoning by chloroform or curare
paralyze, more or less completely, the
power of compensation, and then the
influence of gravitation on the circula-
ton of the blood may become serious
danger.
In such case death is more likely to
result, according to the conclusions of
Prof. Leonard Hill, if the body is
placed in such position that the alb
domen is at a lower level than the
heart.
But the danger may be diminished
or removed either by elevating the alb
domen or COMPRISING it so as to drive
the blood up to the heart. When the
heart itself, however. has been injured,
as by chloroform, there is danger in
forcing the blood too rapidly into it.
Prof. Hill finds that, generally speak
ing, the best position for the body,
when the power of compensation for
the effects of gravitat tion has been ar
rested, is with the feet up instead of
with the feet down.-Youth's Com
panion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01
A PLOT AGAINST WELLINGTON.
Failure of Design to Bag the English
Commander.

Failure of a Design to Bag the English
Commander.
The story goes that Wellington used
to ride over daily, with one or two of
his staff, from his headquarters at st.
Jean-de-LuZ, and take his stand on the
top of a wooded sand hillock, called
Blanc Pignon, on the left bank of the
Adour, which commands view of
both banks and the town itself two
miles up stream. This had been noticed
by the French, who had still command
of the river and the opposite shore;
and the Jealous sailor aforesaid, Bour-
geois by name, conceived the plan of
entrapping the great English captain
by lying an ambush for him, with a
few men, among the underground
on the sand dune, which happened to
be on neutral ground just outside the
line of French picl1ets.
Gen. Thouvenot very honorably de-
clined to sanction this tricky proceed
ing, but, seeing through his glasses
from the clock tower of the cathedral
in Bayonne that it was actually being
carried out, Notwithstanding his disap-
proval, he sent mounted orderly, as
fast as he could gallop, down the road
on the left bank of the river, (the pres
ent site of the Allees Marines, past the
French pickets, to warn Wellington of
his danger. The message was just in
time. When within a short distance
of the ambush awaiting him on the
narrow little track winding up the
sand dune, he turned his horse, and
moved quietly off in another direction.
So says the story, which, entirely be-
lieved by the French, is placed on re-
cord by Morel, declared ip a foot note
to be correct, and then qs46) within
the memory of living witnesses. We
can entirely agree with the author in
his succeeding remark: "Thus, by 'Ine
of those strange chances beyond all
human explanation, there fell through
. design which might have materially
changed the course Of events Mao
millan's Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

THE japanese are poetic people,
md their poetry has the quaint, sug-
Pestive style of their paintings. Every
national event is signalized by some
lyric or ballad, and the recent war
has given rise to many popular songs.
Every new year the mikado gives his
people the subject for "leta," or
short, sharp poem of thirty-one sylla-
bles. These poems are sent to the
court poet, who decides upon their
merits. This year the subject was the
'plum blossom and, as usual, the
emperor and empress composed poems
on the chosen theme.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

THE supreme court of Maine has re-
fused white woman divorce from q
negro on the simple ground of color.
This may excite some persons, but
Maine simply follows the nation by re-
fusing to recognize the color line in it's
citizenship. If the white woman re-
garded a negro as unfit for her husband
because of his color she ought to have
made her decision before marriage. He
was just as black as lover as he was
as a husband.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01
Women Only Know

How much they suffer when ner-
vous, weak and tired.
Nervous prostration is lingering,
racking, living death to those afflicted,
though wholly incomprehensible to
Others. The cause of this condition is
impure and insufficient Blood.
Make the blood pure, give 1t vitality
and 1t will properly feed the nerves
and make them strong. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla cures nervousness because it
acts directly upon the blood, making
1t rich and pure and endowing it with
vitality and strengthening power. No
other medicine has such a record of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

SOME boys were asked the other day
to define editor" Here are some of
their definitions: IAN editor is man
who handles words;" IAN editor
makes his living out of the English
language;' AN editor is somebody
who does not do anything himself, and
when somebody else does goes and
tells other people all about it," "An
editor is "a man who has the industry
of beaver, the instinct of a bee and
the patience of an ass"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

The inventor of car fender in
Brooklyn, n. Y, had so much conf
dence in his device that he lay down
upon the track in front of an electric
car going at the rate of miles an hour.
He repeated this experiment ten sue
cessive times and escaped without in
jury. Such sublime faith in his own in
vention ought to be rewarded by sue
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

HENRY A. CHIrrEsDEN, the philan-
thropist and noted abolitionist, died at
his home in Mont Clair, N. j., aged 70
years.
HUeH McCULLooH, who was secre-
tary of the treasury under Presidents
Lincoln and Arthur, died in Washing
ton, aged IS year
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

THE New York World says there is a
law in that state which makes it a
misdemeanor, punishable by fine and
imprisonment in the penitentiary, to
knowingly give reporters false lnfor-
nation for publication. There ought
TO be su.h a law in every state, says
the Minneapolis Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

THE transcontinental lines are going
to refuse to carry bicycles and baby
carriages free. This is rather taking
advantage of the babies; but as for the
'cyclers, they can protect themselves
and get even by travelling the whole
distance awheel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

THE woman who fell from fourth
story window in Brooklyn and imme-
diately asked if her bonnet was on
straight demonstrated that the new
woman never loses her presence of
mind in the most perilous moments of
her existence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

IN the Massachusetts school for the
blind is a little girl named Edith
Thomas who is deaf and dumb as we'll
as sightless, but, thanks TO the ad-
mirable training of the institution, she
can read and write and is as intelli-
gent as any child of her age. She has
thus been able to have many pleasures
in common with more fortunate chill
dren and she is living example of the
noble work done by such institutions
TO make the world brighter and pleas
anter to those who are so afflicted as
to be shut out from all participa tion
in the pleasures of life without such
training.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

The Boston school boys are formed
into companies and regiments which
are regularly reviewed by city and
state officers. The country is going to
have plenty of good soldiers for future
emergencies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

WH1TELAw REIDs latest pictures,
sent home from Egypt, show he has
been taking some of the hair from the
top of his head and putting it on the
bottom of his chin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

A COUPLE of Chicago policemen chased
fleeing fugitive on bicycles the other
day and captured him. Every day
seems to open new fields of usefulness
to the narrow-guage steed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

A SCIENTIST places the age of the
earth at $50, ,ooo,oo years. And still u
man who struts the earth for thirty or
forty or sixty or eighty years thinks he
is factor in it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

The navy department, after many
years of experimenting, has at last
adopted type of rifle with which the
service and marine corps will soon be
provided. The new rife is the inven.
tion of j. p. Lee, of Connecticut, and Is
believed to be superior to the Krag-
Jorgenson rife which is now supplied
TO the army. 1t is lighter, and enables
the sailor to carry fifty more rounds OF
ammunition than the soldier. Ordinari.
~ it is capable of forty rounds min.
ute and possible speed of fifty. The
chief of ordnance believes the Lee
rifle to be the best yet tried in ths
United States.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

A BROOKLYN woman convicted of cut
ting her brutal husbands throat,
though not fatally, was allowed her
freedom under a suspended sentence,
with an injunction from the judge that
she must not let it occur again.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

THE constitution on which the peo-
pie of Utah will vote limits the state
indebtedness to 100000 That is a
good provision. States ought to pay
ms they go.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

ODETTE TyLKR, the actress whom
Howard Gould did not marry, is writ
ing book. All kinds of accidents
make authors in these days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

In Mexico train robbers will be
hanged, In case any passengers are
killed during the robbery. This is one
way of putting stop to this form of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01

PERRYsBURG, OHIO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11
Funny Incidents.

Quite funny are some of the expert
ences narrated by persons returning from
the Atlanta exposition. A local news
paper man. who got back from the South
on Monday tells this one on himself. Upon
arriving at Atlanta he chartered a hack,
and with that fine scorn of pecuniary con-
sIderations characteristic of his profess
sion, ordered the driver to convey him to
the best hotel in town." Entering the
really gorgeous caravansary, he dropped
his grip before the desk, held a pen
poised above the register and inquired:
What kind of room can you give
me, and how much?'
The clerk, a typical Southerner, with
saIloW complexion, dropping mustache
and long goatee, replied in an Indifferent
sort of tone
well, sub, All ken give yo' fo'th
TO room fob fo' dollahs a day, sub"
'Fo'th flo, fo' dollahs," repeated the
visitor, facetiously mimicking the soft
Southern accent; then / presume you
can give me a first floor room for 81,
eh -
Moo, suh," drawled the naughty
Georgian. ''Ah KANT give yo' fust flo
room fob one dollah, sub; but All ken
give yo' room without any 40 at all
fob nothin', sub. Jest go down thar to
the balm and inqui' fob the mewel apaht-
ments."
The Philadelphia made no further at
tempt to have fun with the natives dur
ing his stay in Atlanta Philadelphia
Record
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs
It's excellence is due to its presenting
In the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11

ly reprimanded. / became so disgustcd
with this and similar absurdities of regi-
mental pedantry that / sent in my
papers. Once, as president Of board
to report on an accident to Il horse. [
simply stated that the leg was broken
and received a rather sharp reprmand
for embodying an opinion in such trivial
language Thereupon l amended the de-
feet by suggesting that the tibia was
fractured and was complimented for
the satisfactory lucidity of my report.
Tradition declares that in India & SIM
liar board recorded an opinion that the
elephant is dead and smells bad The
general, III q towering passion, sent back
the proceedings for revision, whereupon
the board amended it's report, The Gle
plant is still dead and smells worse y
Elackwood'S Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11
Bubbles or Medals.

sarsapalas" you think of how contradictory
that For there be only best in best
sarsapara there highest mountain longest
deepest And that best sarsaparia is There's
the rub You mountain height and DEPTH but
arsapala You could you chemists But hen
need it, The Worlds Fair Committee tested itand
thoroughly They behind label the bottle What did
this asap result in? Every make of sarsapara shut out
of the Fair except Ayers. So that Ayers the only
sarsapara admitted Worlds Fair The committee found
the best They had for anything that not the best
And the BEST Ayers Sarsapa received the medal and awards
due its merits Remember the word best bubble any breath
blow but there pins prick such bubbles Those others
blowing be sapaa bubbles since the Worlds Fair
prced the old True but Ayers Sasapaa has the medal
pin scratches the medal proves it gold The that
prc bubble proves wind We point medals not bub
bles, when say: The best sarsaparlla is Ayers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11

On leaving Copenhagen for st. Pc
tersburg the dowager Czaritsa gave her
father, King Christian, diamond ring
which was worn by Alexander IL. when
he was assassinated The ring was on
remained intact when the arm and the
other fingers were shattered by the bomb.
AS the Gar was dying he gave the ring
to his son, and on his deathbed Alexan-
der III. gave the ring to his wife. She
probably thinks it has been connected
with too many misfortunes of the Roman
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11

An old man in England was sent to
prison for four months for petty stealing
whose record. the judge who sentenced
him said. "is one of the most awful
pieces of reading that has ever come to
my notice" In 1868 he was sent to jail
for three years for stealing five shillings
and a shawl; then ten years. with seven
years police supervision, for stealing
three ducks, and finally consecutive SEN
fences of five years Zach on three charges
of stealing a coat, a pair of reins and
shovel, with another seven years police
In all, thirty-fve years of
penal servitude for six thefts of objects
whose value. amounted to few dollars.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11
Better Protection for Business and
Professional People.

The recent tests have proven beyond
a doubt that the Cary Safe company
manufacture the only absolute fireproof
safe with tongue and groove asbestos
packed which excludes steam, water
and smoke and guards against the intro
duction of explosives
jewelers. prefer it,
People needing house safes to protect
jewelry, silverware and records should
have no other. Secondhand safes on
hand. Hubbard & Richardson,
Al Milwaukee street.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11

There is more Catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
years doctors pronounced 1T q local dis
ease, and prescribed local remedies. and by
constantly failing to cure with local treat
ment pronounced 1t tneurable Science has
proven catarrh to be constitutional disease
and therefore requires constitutional treat
ment Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Is the
only constitutional cure on the market. 1t
is taken internally in doses from 10 drops
to tablespoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces Of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
tfmonials. Address.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists 15c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11

People who purchase jewelry rely
largely upon the word and honor of those
with whom they DEAL 1t is to this fact
that O. L. Rosenkrans q Thatcher Co,
dealers in diamonds, watches, clocks,
jewelry and silverware at 129 Wisconsin
in the trade of the Northwest. They al
ways guarantee satisfaction or the mon
ey refunded Write to them and save
money.