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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

tured. The following report is made
of this incident:
Eight men were sent to guard Nc
Millan's ford on the Holston. One of
them went off on his own hook, so
that seven were left. One of them was
large, powerful fellow, the farrier
of company Il, by name Alexander II.
Griggs. The seven men actually kept
confederate brigade from crossing
that ford for az hours by desperate
fighting, killing 40 or so.
The conlederates, by swimming the
river above and below the ford, sue
ceeded in capturing the whole party.
Daring the fight the big farrier was
badly wounded in the shoulder.
Gen. Wheeler was much astonished
at the valor of these men, and at once
paroled man to care for the wound
ed man. Approaching the latter. the
following dialogue is said to have
taken place:
Gen Wheeler-Well, my man, how
many men had you at the ford?
Griggs-Seven, sir.
Wheeler-My poor fellow, don't you
know you are badly wounded? You
might as well tell me the trutb. You
may not live long,
Griggs Gndignantly)-I am telling
the truth, sir. We had only seven
men.
Wheeler Oaughing)-Well, what did
you expect TO do?
Griggs-To keep you from crossing,
Wheeler-Well, why didn't you do
it?
Griggs-Why, you see, we did until
you hit me, and that weakened our
forces so much that you were too
much for us.
Gen. Wheeler was greatly amused,
and inquired of another prisoner (who
happened to be horse farrier too) {:
"Are all the Tenth Michigan like you
fellows?"
"Oh, MOI" said the man, "we are the
poorest of the lot. We are mostly
horse farriers and blacksmiths, and
not much accustomed to fighting"
"Well," said Wheeler, .if had 300
such men as you l could march
straight through -, and the -
couldn't stop me-"
Gen. Wheeler, after the war, met
Capt, afterward Col. Brooks, one day,
and on being told his regiment said:
"The - regiment out of -.
Whenever l met them they licked -
| out of me-"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

fowls that shall croak all night for
the next ten nights to come"
''If you do, you'll get into trouble"
l said A
Bring on Your troubled" he
sneered, as he kicked his hind legs at
me.
The ducks and geese were for driv-
ing him away at once. and the hens
said it was a shame for frog to
come to a strange pond and be so inn
pudent, but l said 10 them:
1--WE will do nothing yet. We will
wait three or four nights more, and
then if he is not more reasonable we
will give him a surprise party"
1t wasithe same on the second night
as on the first. He kept calling out
How! Howl" as loud as he could
below, and now and then we heard
him chuckling TO think he was keep
ing us awalte.S 1t was the same on
the third nightse That is, the frog
started jnssoon Safter. dark to make
the night hideeusuagain, and some Of
the ducks and geese were for driving
him out at once, when ! saw one Of
the farmers sons come skulking down
to the pond. >. He sstood for a minute
until hes made,i Out 1. the frog on the
log, and then rhe !drew back his arm
and hurled q stone. His aim was true,
and the frog fell into the water as
dead as a nair.. Then the boy turned
to go back to the house, and we heard
him say:s1ST - EIirrr
"Oh, no. 1old Frog ep1eYou wanted to
knowssIIsM saHos4spit was, and I've
shown, you !s5Y orbkept me awake two
nights, but Isguess you won't do any
more ereakipgs this ,summer" - St.
Louis GlobeJ,pemoerat,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
A TALK ABOUT FISH.
They Are Coated with Slime to Pro-
tect Themselves from the At
tacks of Parasites.

Fish, as q rule, increase in weight
and length every year up to their death
There are several varieties of fish that
cannot swim; they are deep-sea dwell
ers, and crawl about the rocks, using
their tails and fins as legs.
Why fish are slippery is accounted for
in this way: The Shiny coating pro-
tects them from the attacks of fungus,
form of plant life found in all waters.
III fish is uncovered by slime the fun
gus lodges there and grows until in
time it kills the fish. The slime helps
also to increase the speed of the fish
through the water.
In order to capture a certain fish, n
South American tribe whips the water
with the wood of tree which contains
substance having narcotic influence
on the fish, which are then readily
caught. One South American fish, the
anableps, star-gaZer, can see in air
as well as in water. Its eyes are di-
vided into an upper and a lower por-
tion, giving the effect of two pupils in
air, and the other for seeing in the wa
ter. The fish often swims at the sur
face with its head sometimes above,
sometimes below the water line.
There is n wonderful fish in Alaska,
which, when dried, is used as candle
The Alaskan inserts the tail of the dried
fish in crack of his rough, wooden
table and lights its nose. The fish
burns with a bright and steady fame
of about three candle-power, giving a
clear, white light and considerable heat
A fairly large fish will burn about three
hours. The fish is very fat and its YER
tebrae are formed largely of phos-
phorus-thus the fat is the tallow and
| the vertebrae the wick of this curious
candle. If necessary il can be eaten
| afterward, being nicely smoked
The pollock is severely let alone by
its finny brethren, for it is armed to
the teeth with a formidable sting and a
sac of poison. The lake lamprey OF
| central New York is another fish which
is ferocious and bloodthirsty Its
mouth is bigger than its head and its
teeth are sharp and pointed like a IL
gers. The brook lamprey has never
been known to eat at all. 1t is supposed
that he does all his eating before he be
comes a real lamprey-in the larvae pc
riod-and is never hungry afterward.
People marvel Mt the mechanism ot
| the human body, with its nearly 50t
bones, but man is simple in this re
spect compared with the carp, which
moves no fewer than 1886 bones and
muscles every time it breathes. II
has 1920 veins, to say nothing of it,
80 muscles. One fish has brain larger
than man's-the whale.-St. Loui!
| Globe-Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

out in her business career by. making
candy, which she sold to small dealers.
Then she opened shop of her own,
where she sold groceries, meats, ice
cream and few simple drugs. She
employs clerk and is making good
deal of money. She studies during the
pauses in trade, and has a sitting-room
behind her store, in which she keeps .
piano. Her candies are sent, also, to
the Harlem Women's exchange for sale
where they are disposed OF rabidly.
Little Miss Evans is the granddaugh-
ter of judge who died few years ago
leaving his family "land poor" and
as the little girls father was dead
the family found existence difficult. Be
ing the eldest daughter, MARY Eliza
BETH" as the neighbors called her, be-
gan her enterprise OF candy making
with the success told above.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
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LITTLE PAWPAW.
4 Union Soldiers Foolhardy Venture
Furnished Him with This
Nickname.

"Do you know why the gray-headed
boys call that one-armed man papa?"
asked the colonel, relates the Chicago
Inter Ocean. AT the meeting the
other night he was the youngest man
in the crowd. There is no stoop in
his shoulders, no bend in his back,
no limp in his walk, little gray in his
hair, and yet the men STOPPING with
age or crippled with wounds or rheu-
matism, or gray as badgers. called
him papa. In his home neighborhood
down in Indiana the children refer
to some of the older men as Uncle So
and-So, but it is always Papa Black.
"In 1861 Black was one of the
youngest, one of the jolliest, and one
of the most adventurous men in a
company serving in West Virginia. He
looked like a boy with his blond hair
and smooth face, and small hands,
and he acted like boy, even when
he was in skirmish or on a scouting
expedition. Between the picket posts
of the two armies was pawpaw
thicket. The confederates managed to
station their outposts so as to COM
HluHu lnlS lHlChcI, anu uilOll SUI
dier went into it at his peril. Black
knew this, but one morning when he
was released from outpost duty he
started gun in hand for what he called
the pawpaw orchard. He was going
to have some pawpaws or lose his
head.
"Before he had proceeded very far
the case was reported to the officer
in charge and Black was ordered back.
When the order was shouted at him
he pretended to misunderstood waved
his hand and went on. In five minutes
the confederates opened fire on the
blond head that showed above the
bushes. Still the owner of the head
went on picking pawpaws until he
had filed his haversacK. Then he
started back, walking deliberately and
turning occasionally to thumb his
nose at the confederate pickets. After
he left the thicket, the confederates
ran forward, dozen men fired and
Black went down. He came up again
and started on a run for our post.
Our boys ran forward 10 rescue him
and one of the fiercest little picket
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
Served for Thirty Years.

Comrade Peter Salmon, of Chicago
can lay claim to the unusual honor OF
having served under the stars and
stripes for 30 years, either as volunteer
or regular. He has successfully served
in the Twenty-fourth United States in.
fantry, the First Missouri yolunteercav-
airy, the Seventeenth United States in.
fantry, the Seventh United States cav.
airy, as guard in the United States mil,
itary prison at Fort Leavenworth, and
in the Sixth United States cavalry
which is now stationed in the Yellow.
stone; from this latter regiment re-
firing in 1896 on retired soldiers pay
He is "A member of George II. Thoma.
post, &. A. R.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
WAVED HIS HAND AND WENT ON.

WAVED HIS HAND AND WENT ON,
fights in our whole experience fol-
lowed
"Black was severely wounded and
that day his arm was amputated. He
declined TO accept discharge and re-
mained with the regiment through
the war, acting part of the time
as the generals orderly, riding reck-
lessly here and there in line of battle.
At all events he did good service, but
after his adventure no one called him
Black, but Little Pawpaw. 1t was al
ways: Hello; how are you, Pawpaw,
but never: How are you, Back?'
Even the colonel called him Pawpaw
and he carried the name home with
him. The girl he fell in love with and
married called him Pawpaw.
'When the first baby came to the
family the wife changed the husbands S
title. softening it to Little Papa and
when his old comrades came to the
house they adopted the name. The
next year they elected him to a town
ship office and every vote was cast for
Papa Black. Then he was elected to
a county Office and throughout the
county he was Papa. Nearly every
man, woman and child in that county
knows the story of how he lost his
arm, and so when he comes to Chi
eago or goes to Springfield or to Phil
adelphia. he is, among his old army
friends, Little Papa and he doesn't
dislike the name"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.
An Amusing Incident OF Gen. wheei-
er's Encounter with the Tenth
Michigan Cavalry.

Capt. Il. j. Brooks, of the Tenth
Michigan cavalry, while in command
of about 1875 convalescents and spe-
cial duty men of his regiment, and
about $50 men from other commands,
was left in garrison at Strawberry
Plains, Tenn. They were attacked
August "a, 1864, by Gen. Joe Wheeler
and force of from 5000 to 5000 men,
with nine pieces of artillery. The
union troops made a successful de-
fense against this force, and thus
saved the post from capture and
the great railroad bridge from de-
struction, says the Detroit Free Press.
During the attack seven of Brooks
men, by hard fighting, held McMil-
lan's ford, on the Holston river, for
3h hours against brigade of confed-
crate cavalry, killing 40 or so Of them;
but were finally surrounded and cap
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
FATE oF A cRoAKER.
The Gray Goose Gnnder Tells n Tale
of the Farm Pond with an
Impressive Moral.

Three or four years ago, when our
pond was quite full of water, and
the ducks and geese were taking lots
of comfort, there came to 'us from
some other pond a strange bullfrog.I
He was whopping big fellow, who,
made all our frogs hustle around, and
he had voice on him which could
be heard n full mile on quiet night.i
There was room enough for the stran-;
ger, and we made him welcome, butt
on the very first night of his stay,
he kept us all awake ana made no.
end of trouble. Almost as soon as
it was dark he took his seat on log
in the middle of the pond and cried
out: -..
"How! how! how! oh-h-h-h! howl
howl howl"
The noise woke 'aup every fowl on
the place, including the peacock, who
was almost deaf with old Age, but the
frog had no care for our rights. He
had slept all day, and now wanted
to croak all night. AS he was a
stranger, nothing was said to him
that night, but next day, as he came
out of the water to get his sun bath
l swan out to the log and said to
him: - .
Last night you, kept us all awake
with your croaking, and 1 want to
know if you are going to do the same
thing tonight"
81 am going to do as please about
it," he replied, as he swelled up and
tried to look as big as barrel.
"But we must have our Sleep" I
said. "We shall not fino fault If you
croak softly now and then, but to bel
low as loud and as long as you do
is more than we can put up with"
"rd like to see you help your
selves!" he shouted in anger. MY
voice is my own, and l shall use it
all l want to! IL you don't like things
you'd better go away"
"But this is our pond"
"Oh, it is! Well, I'll show you that
bullfrog can take up his quarters
in any pond he wishes to. Grandaddy
Gander, you go back and tell the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
TheeProfessor Got Even.

In college. there is n constant COM
bat of wits between the tutor and
his pupils. The. students who attend
ed the lectures on biology planned a
little joke on their professor. They
removetls asEtuffed baboon from the
nataralihister Jnusenm, dressed it up
ina stadsAts gowp and set it in tho
professar,s shair upon the lecture
plat FORM When he; entered the room
they greeted his evident surprise with
a suppressed giggle of merriment.
"Wen,S gentIemsn," said the profess
sor, b1andIy Ss'I m glad to See that
You hare 9ountl ssaP last professor
who Is suited to your capacities"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
Thc li;s,oEy5BIeS2 Her Horns.

A httle.foursyear-old was taken on
visit to- igraIrtimamma in the coun-
try. There, ,forethe first time, he had
a near viewisf a cow. He would stand
and lookson while the man MIXED, and
ask. all ymap neg n Of f. questions. In this
way he learned that the long, crooked
branches on the cows head were
called horns. Now. the little fellow
knew of eIIy one kind of horn, so
hearing a sstrahges.beliowing noise in.
the yard.s shesnanyout. to ascertain its,
cause. 5Inga afeysfminutes he returned
exclaiming: sMamma, mamma! Oh,
do come out here! The cows blowing
her hornsln' n',s,,.,, ..,.,.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
AT PEEP O. DAY.

Spend little while with me
In the town of Early-o
Sleepy valley cannot be
Such charming place, l know,
When a tired little frowu
Leads the way to Sleepytown.
o. the path of Wideawake
Is the way to Early-O;
That's the only road to take
If you safe and sure would go;
For a sunbeam shows the way
At the very dawn of day.
Come, and see the bluest skies;
Come. and breathe the sweetest air.
Open, little sleepy eyes.
Birds are singing everywhere.
Who will be the first to go
To the town of Early-O?
Frank Walcott HUT, In Good House
keeping.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

The following statistics regarding
the strikes in Germany, which have
s..,, T., been made public
c by the imperial
statistical office at
Berlin, will be of interest:
The number of strikes not settled on
January ], 1860, was 46 New strikes
inaugurated during the first three
months of 1900 numbered $3.50; termin-
ated during the first three months OF
1900, BOB. This latter number affected
1922 managements. the number of EN-
ployes was 81, ISL, of whom l. 1862 quit
ted work In 272 managements, the
strike did not extend to all employees.
The highest number of employees strik-
ing at the same time was 1868. One
thousand seven hundred and thirty
OF the 3O3 strikes. 81 were entirely sue
cessful, OF partially so. and 1+5 were
unsuccessful.
The strikes affected the following
industries: Mining, quarrying, metal
working, machinery, chemical, illumin-
ating, textile, paper, leather, wood
carving, food articles. clothing, build
ing, Photographic, artistic, commercial
and transportation.
or the 40 strikes inaugurated before
January /, 1900, AZ were terminated
during the first three months of this
year; and of the 800 strikes begun dur
ing this period, POI termiRsted before
April !, 1900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
YOUNG STOREKEFPER.
Low a Bright New York State Girl
Has Built Up n Profitable
Little Business.

One of the most popular storekeep-
ers in Syracuse, n. Y, is Mary Eliza
beth Evans, a girl of Is years, and the
accompanying illustration shows her
seated in her little store. She started
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
The AIabama,s Gutter.

Among the historic property de-
stroyed by the recent fire in the Charles
ton navy yard was the cutter which
was saved from the Alabama in her
famous fight with the Kearsarge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

There is determination in Great
Britain to keep to the front in trade,
and one of the new
,.,.,, ~, schemes to accom-
plish this is to
have experts in commercial matters
travel over the world to lecture on
British manufactures in every impor-
tant commercial center. Mr.. Leslie
Stewart, secretary of the National
Lecture society, talked on the subject
with London Daily Mail reporter,
stating that the pressure of trade
competition from other countries has
so increased within the last ten years
that il behooves Great Britain to keep
herself on the alert and to do some-
thing out of the ordinary by way of
impressing foreign traders with her
superiority as great trading and
manufacturing nation. He said:
Through these lectures we antici-
pate increasing British trade and
spreading a better knowledge of ar
ticles manufactured in this country.
We hope to travel around the world
and in each center where CONNER.
cial community exists to deliver an
address upon British manufactures,
under the auspices of the local cham.
Der of commerce.
The subjects will be classified ac.
cording to the different trades: for
instance, the largest makers of min.
ing machinery in this country wish
to make known their superiority over
makers in other parts of the world
and to be recognized in mining dis
tricts of America and Australia. So,
on visiting these countries, our lee
turer will give an address on mining
machinery. and in this way place tho
two countries in touch with each
other.
The Importance of such an awaken.
ing TO our trade possibilities cannot
be overestimated. We shall touch
upon every line of manufacturing in.
terests of Importance to Great Brit,
ain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

According to Il report of the Austro-
Hungarian chamber of commerce at
Alexandria, there
was considerable
growth in the sugar
trade of Egypt in the year 1899. Both
importation and expectation in
creased, as did also domestic consump-
tion. The amount exported. was $4,000
tons, of which $4,000 tons went to
America, 1900 tons to India and Red
sea countries. $500 tons TO England,
65O tons each to Italy and Turkey
and 45o tons to France. Egypt is ex-
erting itself to the utmost to increase
its production of sugar, which has al-
ready grown from 772 per cent. in
the year 1s07-9S to SIS per cent. in
1S99-1900.
OF the different sorts of sugar, the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
A Possibility.

Two men who are half-witted may
have an understanding between them.
Chicago Daily News
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

There are some interesting figures
In report of the municipal commit
tee operating the
s''s.' street cars of Glas-
"S""' gov, which has but
recently been published.
The street car system of Glasgow is
owned and operated by the city un-
der the direct supervision of IA COM
mittee of the town council. The re-
port for the year ended May ~, 1900,
shows that the total length of double
track operated by the city is Al miles
furlong 17S yards over AZ miles . fur
longs 16t yards of streets, making
total length of single track of SO
miles 2 furlongs 119 yards.
The gross capital expenditures for
the system since 1894 Independent of
operating expenses) have been 5,164,-
075, and the present Indebtedness is
$4,06l,S0 The capital invested is $4,-
5j9,502. OF the Al miles of double
track. ) miles have electric traction,
the rest being operated by horses.
The total receipts of the system dur
ing the year were $2,2S6.s50. The
ing balapce of S610.43S. of which
there was expended some $4,000 for
interest on capital, $51,50l for sink
ing fund. $!5G.O06 for depreciation
written off capital, etc.
One item of 100000 consists of pay
ments made to the general reserve
fund of the city, which is in lieu of
the amount which the city would re-
ceive in taxes, it is presumed, were
the system operated by IA private
company. The balance goes into the
reserve fund.
There are s,+OO persons employed,
including 100 clerks. The general
manager receives S6.s0O; the chief en-
gineer, So. 400; the electrical engineer,
$4,000, and the mechanical engineer,
who has charge of the power station,
S1,216. Point boys receive 2S cents
per day; trace boys, from 40 to SO
cents n day; car cleaners, from IS
cents to 81 per day; drivers, conduct
ors and motormen, from 81 to SLIP
per day. These rates apply to Sun
days and week days alike.
The rolling stock consists of 3s4
horse cars. 1872 electric cars az only
of which are now running), Il omni-
buses, 80 lorries and numerous carts,
wagons and vans. There are All
horses.
Work is now progressing with the
object of changing the entire system
to electric traction, which it is hoped
to have completed within the next IS
months. No underground conduits
will be used, according to present
plans.
Fares range from cent for first
half mile To = cents for mile; the
longest ride is 6 miles, costing cents.
No transfers are issued, and tickets
are not used.
The committee of the town council
having supervision of the tramways
receives no compensation. For that
matter, however, no member of the
city government of Glasgow, including
lord provost, town councillors and
bailies (police judges), receives COM
pensation.
The city of Glasgow has a popula-
ton of about $4,000 and spreads over
an area of nearly l2,COO acres.
There are no electric or other tram
ways extending out of Glasgow to
| other towns or cities. Within the
city is an underground cable road
which makes a circuit of about S
miles and is owned and operated by a
| private company. The rate of fares
on this road is about the same as that
prevailing on the surface roads.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
Even with Them.

An old mans wit is apt to be dry,
and that of an old soldier is no eXcep-
ton.
A veteran who was boasting of his
prowess during the civil war was
asked: How many of the enemy did
you kill, anyway?"
How many did l kill? How many
did / kill?" replied the veteran, slowly.
"Well, don't know exactly how many,
but killed as many of them as they did
of me."-Youth's Companion,