THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
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Book Table.
Book Publishing in Toledo. Sawyer, In
gersoll & Co., of Toledo, are extensively en
gaged in the department of book publishing,
s well as book selling ; and their facilities
are such that they can, at reasonable notice,
publish works of any common magnitude,
in the best style of the art, and on as fair
terms as can be done elsewhere, engraving,
stereotyping and binding of all kinds, inclu
ded. We are indebted to their politeness for
several books published by them, which are
fair specimens of their skill in this line, and
will compare favorably with similar works
from eastern publishers.
Pilgrim's Progress, a handsome volume of
nearly 500 pages, on clear large type, thick
white paper, several engravings, embossed
muslin binding with gilt back. "VVe need
not describe the contents of this book, that
almost everybody has read, and that every
Christian finds particular pleasure in and
desires to possess.
Messianic Prophecy and the Life of Christ,
a volume about the same size and appearance
as Pilgrim's Progress, the object and. design
of which is to present in popular form the
prophecies concerning the coming of Christ in
the old and new testament in their chrono
logical order, and the Life of Christ as veri
lying those prophecies and establishing the
harmony of the gospels, and the divine ori
gin of the Christian religion. The Christian
student will find in this volume some valu
able helps to fortify his religion, not to be
had elsewhere in so complete and convenient
& shape.
The Son of a Genius, is a beautiful moral
tale, well calculated to make a lasting im
pression upon the minds of youth, for m hose
especial benefit it is written and published.
It is a handsomely bound little volume of
00 pages, and just the thing for a present to
a young friend.
Prison Tales, containing interesting biog
xaphies of persons imprisoned for political
offences. There are four of these biographies,
viz: Picciola, or the Prison Flower; The
Heroine of Siberia; Story of Silvio Pellico;
and the Story of Baron Trenck. This is a
little volume of 250 pages, full of interest.
The Illustrated Magazine of Art for March
is full of engravings, many of which give an
idea of the wonders of nature as well as
4- art." We know of no way that any one
cua become so familliar with the works and
history of the great artists of the world, both
present and past, as by reading this maga
zine. It is an illustrated repository of the
world's most distinguished artists. The pre
sent number contains engravings of four of
Powers's great works the Fisher Boy, Eve,
the Greek Slave, and Proserpine.
Alcohol and the Constitution of Man;
being a popular scientific account of the
chemical history and properties of alcohol,
ud its leading effects upon the healthy hu
man constitution illustrated by a beauti
fully colored chemical chart : by Edward L.
Youmans, author of the Class Book of
Chemistry." New York; Fowlers & Wells,
publishers.
Tins is a complete view of the effects of
alcoholic drinks on the human constitution,
and its general circulation and study would
be an emcient instrument in propagating
temperance principles.
The Water-Cnre and Phrenological Jour
nals for March are good numbers. These fine
publications c&nnot be too generally read.
Arthur's Magazine is becoming one of the!
most beautifully illustrated, as it has always
been one of the most readable, American
monthly magazines.
jZSrWe are indebted to Addison Smith,
Esq., our excellent representative, at Colum
bus, for a copy of the state auditor's report.
This document has but just been printed, al
though the legislature has been in session
almost three months, and much of the busi
ness of the session depends upon this report
and the others not yet printed. There is
something wrong about this. If the state
printers have taken their contract at too low
prices, they are themselves alone to blame,
for they are practiced skillful workmen and
knew just what they were doing and could
do when they put in their bid. They and
their securities should be held to damages for
breach of contract. The clerk of the senate
is, we believe, a member of the firm holding
the contract to do the Btate printing, and,
being such a master of thimble-rig as he has
shown himself, he ought to be able to make
his partners whole for any losses they may
sustain by reason of a prompt compliance
with the terms of their contract !
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We learn from the Troy papers that a
" lightning train " is to be run over the rails
between this city and New York, by the
way of Troy, as soon as the bridge at that
place is made strong enough for locomotives
to cross it safely. Cars have been taken
over the bridge by horse power for many
years, and engines have not heretofore been
employed upon the road in the heart of the
city, it has been determined to use steam
through the city, as soon as the bridge is
finished ; so there will be no detention of
any kind, and the Troy lightning train will
run half an hour quicker than that which
goes by the way of Albany, the passengers
by the latter having to cross the river in
boats, and change cars. We presume that the.
through travel will 6hun the Albany route.
Buff. Adv.
Disasters on our Western Waters.
The. St. Louis Evening News, says that dur
ing the two months of January and Februa
ry, twenty-three steamers were sunk, burnt
or blown upon the Mississippi river and its
tributaries, and two destroyed by fire on the
savannah involving the loss of npar two
hundred lives, and more than a million dol
lars worth of property. The records of the
present month will greatly swell this fearful
list of mortality. Within the last few days
we have received accounts of the loss of the
steamers Caroline, J. L. Avery, upon the
Mississippi, and the Reindeer, upon the
Ohio river, hurrying, in all, about one hun
dred and fifty souls, without warning or pre
paration, into eternity.
Fogie. In the citadel of Plymouth, some
twenty or twenty-five years since, there was
a band of old soldiers, (principally men of
small stature,) who went by this name.
They were said to be the only men acquaint
ed with all the windings and outlets of the
subterranean passages of their fortification.
ne cognomen or old old logie is. in
this neighborhood, frequently applied to old
men remaruable lor shrewdness, cunning
quaintness, or eccentricity. The use of the
term is evidently figurative, borrowed from
its application to veteran soldiers.
Mortar ior Chimneys. In building
chimney, put a quantity of salt in the mor
tar, with which the inner courses of brick
are to be laid. The effect will be that there
never will be any accumulation of soot in
that chimney. The philosophy is thus sta
ted : The salt in that portion of the mor
tar which is exposed absorbs moisture from
the atmosphere in every damp day. The
6oot thus becoming damp, falls down to the
nre-piace. in consequence there is never
any accumulation, and as it is only a little
that there is to fall, no inconvenience re
sults. This appears to be an English dis
covery, it is used with success m Canada
Lewistpvvn Journal.
Mammoth Oxen. The largest pair of
cattle ever seen in these parts, nas just been
bought for slaughter, by Mr. Seth Gage, of
Centralville, of Messrs. ki. A. and t. A.
Coburn of this city. These oxen are seven
years old. They weigh on hoof 5500 lbs.,
and girth 8 feet, 85 inches each. They are a
cross of the Durham aud Ayrshire. The
Messrs. Coburn bought them when steers, in
Northfield, and have worked them on their
farm till recently. The price paid was
$500. Lowell (Mass.) Courier.
A correspondent of the Dayton Gazette
gives a list of 88 German papers, published
in the United States, all of them opposed to
the Nebraska outrage except eight. The Co
lumbus Westbote figures among the eight!
Last Thursday's Monroe Commercial an-
nounces that Mr. a. vv . spears nas reurea
from that paper, and is to be succeeded by
Mr. T. S. Clark. Mr. Spears is going to the
Statesman office, in Columbus. Mr. Morton
continues his connection with the Commer
cial. Blade.
E. D. W. Clifford, the young gentleman at
Leavenworth, Ind., who recently advertised
in the Daily Democrat for a wite, informed
a friend of ours residing there, that he is
thoroughly convinced of the advantages of
advertising. He says he received in answer
to his advertisement, 794 letters, 13 daguer
reotype likenesses of ladies, 2 gold finger-
rinas. one coov of Ike Marvel's " Reveries
of a Bachelor," 17 locks of hair, one thim
ble, and two dozen shirt buttons. He ought
to be convinced. Louisville Dem.
Heavy Contract. The Boston Travel
ler says, Seth Wilmarth, proprietor of the
Union Works, South Boston, has lately
closed a contract with the New York and
Erie railroad company, for the building of
40 locomotives of the largest class. I he
first of these machines is already completed,
and, it is believed, is the heaviest and largest
locomotive ever built in New England. It
weishs 32 tons, with four feet drivers, 18
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inch cylinder, 20 inch stroke.
It has been found that the marble o
Greenougb's Statue of Washington is not
calculated to endure this climate, it being
the finest quality of Italian marble, and not
proof against the frosts of the North. The
sword-belt has already fallen off, beyond
doubt, from the effect of the climate.
House rents are now higher in Chicago
than in New York.
By request.
The Widow.
BY MRS. A. M. STARKWEATHER.
Lonely widow, travel onward.
In the vale of tears below ;
Serve thy God, oh ! serve him faithful,
For he doth thy sorrows know !
And thy children God has given thee.
Lead them in the way of truth ;
Tell them of your home in glory
Bid them seek their God in youth.
Tell them of loved ones departed.
That have gone in bliss to reign,
How you loved and how you parted,
But expect to meet again.
Yes ! expect to meet in heaven,
When your toils on earth are o'er,
With your near ones and your dear ones.
There to dwell forevermore,
Yes ! lonely widow, travel onward ;
God will be thy guide and friend
He will help in time of trouble,
And support you to the end.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Dear Brethren Allopathy : I now no
tify you that I have been receiving your base
slanders from my earliest practice. I notice
by your immoral career, that you neither
understand my views nor practice, in whole
or part. I deny being an Allopathy or Ec
lectic, Homeopathy or Fhysopathy ; but my
guide is the true Physo-Medical practice
this large and broadplatform, that will not
retain any minerals or poisonous substance
but will cling to those unknown . poisons
those tiat will expel diseases, and abandon
those that will create diseases. We
aware that you have continually kept your
calendar boiling with every heterogenous
;
are
stance, upon which you could lay your hands
on, but all to no purpose ; but, dear breth
ren, be careful that you do not inhale the
vapor that rises from our calendar if you
do, it will undoubtedly crack them brass
sculls of yours, and let out that immoral and
tyrannical principle, and undoubtedly it will
give room for a little moral principles for the
future. We are very sorry that our cause
has flustrated you to that degree that you have
neglected that little narrow contracted plat-
ioim oi yours, mat your science is incapable
of repairing it. After you become fully sat
isfied that it was out of your art and science
to repair it, what was your next ungentle
man request from our government, begging
assistance to repair that unwarrantable plat
form of vours? what were your sentence
but to return home and defend your own rot
ten platform, or it may sink in everlasting
darkness. We are aware that your pillars
and posts is so badly decayed that saltpetre
won't save them. You are bound to fall,
and great will be thy fall, and horrible will
be thy condition. You had better never been
born, or one-half ot your patients that you
have mercurialized to death, were hung
around your necks and you were cast into
he midst of the sea. I would advise you
or the future to come out more openly and
manly with your base careers, and no longer
follow the modes of the ring-tail monkey,
sneak behind a basswood stump or a dung
hill and give a yowl, and then make your
escape for the bushes for fear of being discov
ered. Were we as guilty as you are in vio-
atine the laws of nature with vour poison
ous drugs, we would forever hold our peace.
lave you not seen vour patients laboring
under the life-destroying effects of your min
eral poisons ? We undoubtedly think you
have. What does our modern writers say
on the subject? Dr. Richard Reese of Lon
don : We know not, says he, whether we
have most reason to hail the discovery of
mercury as a blessing, or regard it as a curse,
since the diseases it entails are as numerous
as those which it cures.
In the United States Dispensatory, the
highest authority on the materia medica, 4th
jfx? nr.) j. j r i i
euuiun, page oji, Ave una me louowmg 01
the modus operandi ot mercury : We know
nothing except that it probably acts through
the medium of the circulation, and that it
possesses a peculiar alterative power over
the vital functions which enables it in many
cases to subvert diseased actions by substitu
ting its own in their stead.
Prof. J. P. Harrison, in a lecture on the
diseases induced by mercury, says, (Medical
Essays, page 126,) Its vapors salivate a whole
ship's crew. Page 131, Calomel even in large
doses has the effect of diminishing vascular
action. Page 147, Mercury in very small
quantities sometimes produces fatal effects.
Page 161, I have seen another case in which
the child took several doses of calomel be
fore the mouth became inflamed, and was
saved with the loss of nearly all the teeth of
both jaws and a portion of one cheek. Page
160, Another child of six years took, six
grains of calomel and lost the whole left
cheek. '
Prof. G. E. Wilkinson, page 37, gives you
the beauties of calomel in short meter:
What a hydra-headed monster !
Language fails to paint or tell
Half the ills that daily cumber
Man from use of calomel.
Health destroyer, happiness spoiler,
Dropsy maker, sick man's bane,
Stomach retcher, misery fetcher,
Blood eorrupter, source of pain ;
Eruption breeder, piniple feeder,
Skin defacer, beauty's foe,
j Nerve unstringer, vital stinger,
Muscle waster, source of woe,
Bone upsetter, palsy getter,
Ulcer causer, corruption's friend,
Bowel trotter, liver rotter,
Pain producer without end,
Tooth decayer, gum diseaser,
Palate eater, canker's source, i
Tongue enlarger, saliva poisoner,
Brain intiamer, death by force.
I would feel truly grateful to any gentle
man who would be so kind as to explain to
me upon what principle an agent can pro
duce disease and at the same time be the best
remedy in the materia medica to remove dis
ease and restore health, " ,.
GEORGE KELLOGG.