The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-02-10
Flour at Pixies Peak mines il S20 a sack
and whiskey one dollar quurt--hard times!


and whskey one dollar quart--hard times!
MURDSRs.--Durng the past year sixty three
murders were committed in the city of New
York. Only one murderer was executed duriag
that time,
The man who put up stove pipe without
getting angry, and the lady who went to church
without irst examining the looking-glass, have
becn found aud are on exhibition.
To cure a pain in the breast, procure we'll
made calico or delaine dress with an equally
well constructed woman inside of il, and press
closely to the part affected. Said to be a kill
or cure recipe.
CoNJuaAL Bliss The wife of Mr.. Brooks.
at Homer, N. Y, the other day, threw knife
violently at her husband, which put out one of
his eyes. She said afterwards she would have
given fpe dollars rather than have had it happen
AN OLD JOKE vERsIRirD.
Luck varies with the who hunt
For gold. SO III explain;
Some find the ore az creasss
While Others seek az reu.
The Mendoza Ql,) Press says that two
citizens of that town have recently lost their
wives by elopement, and that the customary
sautation in the Streets instead Of How do you
do, sir p has become. lis your wife safe this
morningT
A man says that the first thing that turned
his attention TO matrimony was the neat and
skllful manner in which pretty girl handled
broom. He may see the time when the man.
ner in which the broom is handled will not afford
him so much satisfaction.
M. Chevalier, the French traveller, in his
letters from the United States, says: There
exists Yankee, in Connecticut forty years Of
age, who has nsver been TO bed of nights, for
fear some of his neighbors would be up in the
morning before him. And that is Characteristic
Of the peo ple--they ara all alike"
cRiNoLIug.
Behold yon splendid and reSplendent round
or whale bone, covering tensquarc feet of ground;
As down the street the drygoods phantom swims.
AS some guy galleon over the bilows skms)
How grandly on her sweeping course she goes,
Turning aside for neither friends foes
Who would not brave the deepest mud on earth, .
To give those hoops the widest Kind of berth
1t is said that the hogs in Iowa have such
long noses that the settlers employ them to plow
the fields. The practice is to bnry q corncob
on ono side OF the lot, and TO place the hog OPP
posite to it on the other side, when the porkes
seeming il, Immediately digs his snout into the
soil and pressing forward, turns furrow equal
to that OF the best plow, right up to the cob--
II stump should lie in the direct road, the
Iowa hog does not hesitate or work around IL,
but splits it open with his snout snd goes on
This is following the nose 10 some purpose.
A GREAT ODDrTy--A Baptist preacher named
Servant Jones, had occasion TO visit one OF his
flock named Owle. And it happened when he
arrived that the fOmily had just finished dinner,
bat plate was laid for Mr.. Jones, and the mes-
ger remains of chicken placed bsrnre him. AZ
ter cycling it moment he improvised blessing
in this wise;
"God bless the Owle
That ats the fowl,
And left the homes
For ScerYhiit jones'"
WHAT 4 Barren OF F!Es Cosr u. s. SES.
AToR. -rwo passengers came through on the
under ground rail,oad train a ltw days since fron
Kentucky. One was SENATOR Thompson
boy likely mulatto Of some IS on 20 Years
OF oge. II is sDid tie of so delicate natuIc
connects the boy" with his master as 10 excits
the iro of HE mistress aud 10 nshe home pa,-
tIcuiary uncomfortable when the Senslnr Is et
" ashngton.
A batch of pics caused the boy" to leave
home. He had put,the pies IN he oven leaving
the door Open, as The OveA was too aol, hut by
some accident the dor got Shu;, the pies were
hurnei, ,h@ boy was pro,nisrd licking in the
morning hu, before day he oud fellow were
on their way towards he North thS,ar-Clereland
HsroM
Snlsr, SHARPER, Sp,srlsr they nave
sharp SET Of fellows in housas City. We heard
ae0od story OF tri. played 6y one Oi the res
ldeuts of hat city short lime since. 4 lean,
Iank, shallow faced Individual rode d mute into
Kansas C'y aud wanted to sell him, genius,
standing by, offered to seli him Tor 4 dollars.
The Offer was taken, and The mule disposed of,
The auctiuneer wafrouliHg good title. The
purchaser had scarcely GOT his mule home. when
Shawnee Indian cptne into the cry ia search
of mule that had buen stogn hon him. The
auctioneer on hond agaiu, and Offered 10
show the Shawnee whrre the mule was, il he
would plank doNhaV. The lud,nn paid, and
the auctioneer, after pointing ont the mule, went
to the new purchaser aud toll him how the case
stood At hr SAME time olf,riug to run the male
rcroSs lhe river tor ten dollars, The bargain
was struck aud the auctiUneer mounted tho
mulc, ond tho is he last that has been sseu of
! The auclionctr ~ mule