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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

ted, und curved like bent plow-
share.
We were saved from sure destruc-
tion by the woman, sir, lying
there.
She lived in the village close handy,
and when the hard words were
said,
Back to the old home she fastened, in
sorrow to hide her head;
And, knowing the line was in danger,
she watched there in frost and
snow.
Each night till Bills train was in
safety, pacing the road to and fro.
And it happened she'd seen how the
rock fell, and, finding our time
was close,
Had rushed back to where we found
her, hardly a second to lose.
So she saved us, and saved us nobly;
but there on the track she lay,
Pallid and weak and fainting, like a
figure of lifeless clay.
And some of the eager helpers, when
they heard of her loving care,
Fell on their knees by the metals, and
offered heartfelt prayer.
No! she was safe and sound, sir. Gods
hand had been surely lent
To shelter the guardian angel that
he from above had sent.
Need 1 tell you how those two met
sir, on the shores of the land of
death;
How Bill kept close by his darling,
and hung on each trembling
breath?
You may guess how the story ended,
think when tell you this:
That now, when his steps turn home
ward, he is met with wife's
fond kiss.
My leg? 1 was clean forgetting. Why,
when Bill jumped off the car.
followed, but missed my footing-a
fall, sir, and there you are.
But Bill is as straight as die, now. I
don't mind, for know he's right.
In fact, you might like to know, sir,
he's driving you down tonight.
There's his whistle; so come, sir.
Smoking? You've hardly minute
to spare.
There's the rug, the portmanteau
and hatbox you'll find they are
all in there.
Goodnight, and one word ere you go,
sir-should your faith in woman
eer fail
Just think of the tale have told you
how Bills wife saved the 6:15
mail
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
Do Fishes Racollsnr.

Mr.. Seth Green, an authority upon
the rearing of fishes, kept in pond a
large number of trout that had been
caught by means of a fly and barbless
hook. The men were ordered to take
them quietly and gently, so that they
had plenty of time to study the tackle
by which they had been captured. Mr..
Green believed that they never forgot
this experience of theirs. He used
sometimes to walk by the side of the
pond feeding the fishes, but carrying
behind his back cane and fishing
rod. The trout would follow him for
bread, and when he suddenly waved
his cane over them, though startled
at tho time, they soon returned for
the food, Presently he would raise
his tishing-rod but tho moment the
trout saw it they darted to the far end
of the pond, and remained in hiding
for the rest of the day.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

the presence and power of Alexandra
Ribot. NJ Ribot, who is veritable
Norman in strength and intelligence, Is
not a new man to those who keep an
eye upon public affairs in France. He
has figured in the cabinet of former
ministry, and even in the days when
Gambetta was at the zenith of his
power he was looked upon as a coming
man. One day in the chamber of depu-
ties, when Gambetta was speaking, a
clever citizen who sat by me said: DO
you know the men down there?" point
ing to the scene of action.
NO" l replied, with the exception
OF Gambetta and Ribot, that young
man standing out there, they are stran-
gers to me-"
"Ah, you have anticipated me-" he
said. "Ribot is the one of whom 1 wish
to speak. Now, there is a republican.
pure and simple, without French frills
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
A n ixed Prayer.

At the advanced age of 5 Marjorie
developed an extraordinary liking for
prayers. She had been taught not
only Nov lay me-" but also the
Lords prayer, and then at her re-
quest codicil had been added, pray
ing that papa and mamma and all
my relations" might be protected dur
ing the night. She said the prayers
just before going to bed, in the morn
ing, and her mother often heard
snatches of them as the little girl
went about her dolls affairs during
the day. 1t was no doubt partly
owing to this familiarity with her
prayer, but largely to drowsiness, that
one night the sleepy little girl cleo
trified her listening mother oy hastily
cutting short the Lords prayer and
ending up the ceremony with, "De-
liver me from evil, and-all my rela-
tons" Her father said she was q
philosopher, but that she ought to
have added;rell tions-in-law.-Editor's
Drawer in Harper's-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

or fluctuations. He knows what he
wants and what Is good for his govern
ment and his people, and when he gets
it he is satisfied
But" 1 said, "Ribot is not yet of the
ministry. He is a young man, "a"
Yes" he interrupted, II know; he
is here to listen, and, like the English
Capt Cutie, to make note ont, but.
mark my word, he will yet be president
Of France, or have his head taken off
for being patriot"
Since this conversation 7 have
watched NJ. Ribot in his upward career,
until now, as premier of France, he
seems upon the threshold of the presi-
dency. And 1 am amused to note that
the defeated members call him An
glomaniac," as if that term were sy-
nonymous with blackguard or traitor.
Despite their invectives, however, M.
Ribot has formed a cabinet that is said
to be a strong one, of men selected for
a reason, and not, as has been the case
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

until his death in Nice in the winter of
1883. When quite young Nine. Ribot
married a frenchman named Demon
geot. Several years after his death she
married NJ. Ribot, who was Demon
geots greatest friend. They have two
sons, who are now at school, and have
live in Paris in winter and in the coun-
try near by in summer.
The first time 1 saw Nine. Ribot was
in 1881, and 1 never shall forget how
she impressed me. Our introduction
was made in Paris railway station,
than which there is no noisier place in
Christendom. She had come to meet her
father, who was one of the party with
which l had been in Austria and Ba-
Varia, and l thought her very beautiful.
She was tall and we'll formed, extremely
graceful and composed in manner. Her
eyes We're large, dark and lustrous, her
complexion was true olive in hue, re-
lieved by few brown moles, cunsid-
cred a great mark of beauty in foreign
lands, and to her red lips and full teeth
gave firmness to her face. She re-
sembled her cousin. j. V. L. Pruyn, of
Albany, so strongly that had she
chosen to play the part of Rosalind
she could, despite her femininlty have
easily passed for him.
And now time has added to her
charms. She is, as all who knew her
say, noble woman. nobly planned
One whom all Americans may be
pleased to know is wife to a great
Frenchman, whom seems destined to
stand in very high places. In Buffalo
live three own cousins to Nine. Ribot:
Mrs. James L. Curtiss. of Richmond
avenue, who was Miss Burch. of Little
Falls, her brother, William 7. Bureh.
and John A. Burch, general agent OF
the Lake Shore railroad. Another cousin
Is Mrs. John T. Randall, of Little Falls,
who formerly lived here. Besides Nine.
Ribot has many Pruyn and Corning
connections.
Despite her long residence abroad, I
believe Nine. Ribot still loves the coun-
try of her birth. and honors the institu-
tons that her father respected. and so
let us hope by this token America may
be drawn closer to France. as we watch
the progress OF her great men, among
whom none Is greater than the new
premier, Alexandra Ribot.
GRACE SHELDON.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
GIBRALTAR AND ITS DEFENSE.
Possibilities in the Event of Attack by
Hostile Force.

Possibilities in the Event of Attack by
a Hostile Force.
Experiments at Shoeburyness have
shown that an Armstrong shell can
be thrown 9,lT6 yards-about five
and one-third miles-says writer in
Temple Bar. 1t is therefore abso-
lutely clear that if all the fleet were
temporarily absent, either on some
special mission Or dispersed by a
storm, hostile ironclads taking up a
position within four miles of the east
ward of Europe point might with i'm
punity send shot and shell into the
outlying parts OF the fortress and
cause much obstruction of J , anc
property. On the other hand,
the governor of the fortress
would not be idle, and the ex-
periences of the late civil war in
America have abundantly proved that
the cannon in fortresses, if they
strike ship of war with their pro-
jectiles, even at long range, may do
considerable mischief; while, on the
other hand, many shot and shell may
strike fort and only do trihing dam
age. 1t is practically impossible to
throw shot or shell over the high part
of the rock, near Spain, and the
cannon ensconced in the unique rock
galleries, with their royal artillery
gun detachments, would be absolutely
safe. Even if the neutral ground be-
tween Gibraltar and Spain were occu-
pied by u hostile foe, comparatively
little damage would be the result.
During the writer's stay at Gibraltar
it was considered desirable to try the
experiment of firing upward from the
plain on the Spanish side into the gal
leries, dummies being placed to repre-
sent the necessary gun detachments.
A regiment several hundred strong
was accordingly placed in position and
supplied with ball cartridges The
range. however, was unknown, and
the fire being directed upward it was
fully an hour before any of the dunn
mics were hit, after the expenditure
of much ammunition. In actual war
fare, of course, the British rifle sharp
shooters must have picked out their
foes by firing downward from the gal
leries. Bomb-proof barracks and hos
pitfalls are potent factors against the
horrors of bombardment, and there is
little doubt that there is ample room
at Gibraltar for some amendment on
this head
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.
A Free Educational Institution with a
Handsome Income.

A Free Educational Institution with n
Handsome Income.
There is an endowment fund in the
hands of the trustees in Boston for
the establishment of one of the
largest of free female colleges, says
the Advertiser. 1t is the bequest of
John Simmons, one of Boston's most
successful merchants, who died in
1870. The original Simmons bequest
consisted of this property: To his
daughter Marion he gave the granite
front store at the corner of Eyanklin
and Arch streets, the granite-front
store on Water and Dcvonshire streets.
and the land upon which it sat, and
the old Simmons mansion on Ire
mont street and the land belonging to
it. At the decease of Marion the
estate, together with the accumula-
tions, were to be given in trust, to
the Simmons female college. To his
daughter Alvina was given the gran
ite-front store situated at the corner
of Franklin and Hawley streets, and
the land belonging to it, the whole to
be held in trust during the daughters
life, and at her death the estates, in
elusive of the accumulations thereon,
were to be given to the college. In
addition there was left $50, 900 in
money for the purpose of building
block as a nucleus for the college
fund, the income to be held in trust.
The object of founding the Simmons
female college was for the purpose of
teaching medicine, music, drawing.
designing, telegraphy and other
branches Of art, science and industry.
The Simmons college might to-day
be splendid reality but for the big
fire of 1872. All the fine business
blocks given by the Simmons bequest
were left in ruins. The mutual fire
insurance companies, far from being
able to pay the insurance on the Sim
mons blocks, assessed the trustees of
the college fund. Since 1872 the
trustees have been using the income
from these buildings to pay up the
mortgage Indebtedness on them. The
present trustees, H. G. Nichols and
Joseph Sawyer. are paying off the
mortgages on the various estates as
fast as the income from the estates
will allow. The trustees say that at
the present rate of income the mort
gage Indebtedness will be cleared up
in few years. The property, when
free of debt, will be worth several
million dollars, and as soon as the es-
tates are free of debt the income fund
of $500,00 designed by Mr.. Simmons
as building funG will accumulate in
very short time, when the trustees
are required to erect suitable college
buildings at a cost not to exceed said
sum. The trustees say when the col
lege is founded it will have one of the
largest, if not indeed the largest, reg
ular income behind it in the world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
The rathos of a single Life.

One of these single women, after
living alone in her little hut on Cape
Cod, until old age, a reticent, miserly
creature, became at sixty suddenly
and violently insane. Her physician,
wiser than his kind, prescribed no
medicine but procured huge doll and
the clothes of a baby and gave them
to her. She was at once quieted. She
treated the doll as if it were alive,
fed it, slept with it in her arms, wor-
ried over its diseases, ran to the neigh
bors to tell of its sayings and pretty
ways. 1t was her child; God had
given it to her at last. While she
lived it kept her occupied and happy.
-Rebecca Harding Davis in the Cen
tury.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

And he stood, alert and ready, as I'd
often seen him stand,
Gazing ahead with the lever firm
graspd in his sinewy hand.
Do you know the line by Dawlish,
where the rugged rocks stand high
And the crowns of those dizzy sum
mits seem to almost touch the sky?
Well, we'd beard how the ground was
breaking-how the masses of flint
and stone
BY some mighty force of nature from
those lofty heights were thrown.
God help the sleeping travellers; if a
piece should block the line,
There'd be many poor heart broken,
and many a household pine.
So our orders were, BE careful, and
each sign and signal mark"
And we kept up bright look ont
there, as we entered the rock
gorge dark.
I was peering out through the glass,
sir, when my arm felt vise-like
clasp.
And heard Bill cry out wildly, in a
choking sort of gasp
lucIc y sohtSotilS Nh'pS oh VIC
track there, the brake, Jack-for
your life!
That was the voice l was hearing
good God, man, look!-'tis my
wife"
Too late, with n roar and rattle we
had passea by the fatal spot,
But the brake was acting bravely-
the locked wheels grew red and
hot,
Till we stopped by disused siding :
and Bill-with face of fear,
AS he leapt from the tender--shouted
"Loolz ahead! Why, the lines not
clear!'
Then l saw the rails torn and twis-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
a reason, al

with some cabinets heretofore, chosen
faute de mieux. A travelled FEsnch-
man is a rara avis, as to be French
and talk French suffices the majority.
Hence a Frenchman who has made the
grand tour is considered decidedly pc
culiar, no doubt. and worthy to receive
all the sings and arrows his country
men can throw at him. A few years
ago Premier Ribot, who was then dis
tinguished lawyer, came to the United
States and seemed interested in our in
situations, and no doubt took back
many new ideas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

Hall Caine is u ManXman himself,
and hence, probably, the great success
OF his novel bearing that name. He is
about forty-fve years old. Photo
graphs Indicate that he looks like
Shakespeare and in the forehead this
resemblance is striking. He is nerv-
Gus, and as he does some of his best
work after midnight it tells on his
health. His present ambition is to
write life of Christ.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

She-Before you wcrw married you
said that my slightest W sh should not
wait moment for fG,Sllment, and
now have to talk an ho,r before |
can get yol to bring bod of coal.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
He-Not bit, You know man
is not responsible for promises made
when he was hypnoti ed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

property, and their children have suo-
ceeded them in its enjoyment.
The old residents say that the "big
rancher of San Bernardino" and his
wife very much resembled the fellow
Barton and the woman who was hunt
ing him and said she was his wife.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

A coroner's jury was summoned in
Connellsville, Pa, to investigate the
circumstances attending the death of
Mrs. Josephine Halliday While the
coroner was swearing in the jurors up
rose the supposed corpse and ordered
them all out of the room.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
THE WIFE OF RIBOT.
SHE WAS ONCE PLAIN MINNIE
BURCH.
Lived in Buffalo Years Ago with Her
Parents and Has well-Known Rela-
tives In Different Parts of tho Coun-
try.
(Buffalo Correspondence.l

CABINET w A s
formed to support
NJ. Faure, the new
pr e s l d e n t o (
France, only after
much time and en-
ergy had been
consumed by de-
bate and dalliance.
This condition of
uncertainty might
have continued in
definitely but for
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
Something That eheerea Him Up.

Mrs. Pecked-You seem unusually
cheerful to-day, Henry. We're the
services at church moro than ordin-
arily edifying?
Mr.. N. Pecked-The minist or
preached a yory satisfying sermon.
Mrs P.-IndeedP From what textP
Mr.. n. P.-There shall be neither
marrying nor giving in marriage in
heaven.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

1gl97GSGS w.
@2ssiT + " w.: =;:: ;:...: e; :.::: a:
ing = there you
are, sir, on the
right;
Sne's rounding the corner now, sir,
and just coming into sight
You're due out at 8:15, sir, so there;
quite half an hour to wait.
Lor' bless you, sir don't be anxious,
our flyer" is never late.
Can l come into the bar for a "tooth-
full" just to keep out the fog and
cold?
Well, thanking you kindly-yes, sir,
that is, if I'm not making bold.
Have 1 seen any life on the line, sir?
l should rather think had;
Near eighteen years I was firing, but
now, you know, times are bad.
Now I'm only an outside porter; even
there I'm not much good,
For you'll see, If you watch me walk
ing, this left leg of mine is wood.
And I'll tell you how lost it; that is,
II you think you'd care
70 hear the tale-it's short ope-and
you've plenty of time to spare.
1t was just three years ago, sir-three
years this Christmas eve
When. down in this very station fell
the signal for us to leave.
There was me and Bill, the driver,
running this self-same train,
Whan the foo bunn t1,ipls arprn1 ,,a
with drizzling, misty rain;
And each lamp we passed on the plat
form threw dim and misty glare
AS the train drew out and we thuns
dered on into the murlSy air.
We were clear on the road to Swim
don, and were running fair and
free.
When saw by the light of the fur
mace Bills eyes were bent on me;
I'd noticed him strange and silent
he had not word to say,
But my work had kept me going, and
I'd let him have his way;
But above the throb of the engine his
tones rang on my ear,
did you hear that voice, Jack, call
ing-calling so sweet and clear?"
All! but Bill had been bad one-he
had left his wife and child
All through breath of slander-with
rage and passion wild,
A girl from some Western village,
they had only been wed year,
And she was as pure and spotless as
ever an angels tear.
But he gave no ear to reasou-so she
took the BARN and fled,
And passed from his life as sure, sir,
as if she were cold and dead
He had often been queerish lately,
and the word had got about
That, off duty, he'd plunge in madly
to many drinking bout
Yet something seemed to tell me that
this was no drunkard's freak;
So laughed, and tried to calm him
with jest at his nerves SO weak,
But he turned away in anger, with a
curse at my feeble joke.
''Jacls, l tell you, he shouted, sit was
Annie's voice that spoke"
Then he seemed to pluck up courage,
and his face grew firm and set.
While the raindrops fell unheeded in
shower of binding wet,
And over the spreading moorlands,
with their gathering mists of grey,
The train with its living burden swept
on its dreary way,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30

What was that heard you sing.
ing last night?" asked the wardrobe.
'Her Golden Hair was Hanging
Down My Back replied the chair,
and the fire went out for air.
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