The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-07-23
TOPPERS.

+ VIZ take the following from Old H,sD,phrcy',
ASd,c~s,:
WILL, my friends, how passes time With you
With me IL seems to hurry along as rapidly ss a
riiroad carriage; If every week had fourteen
days, and every day eight and forty hours, |
should net even then be able TO accomplish one
htf Of what undsrtske. sill, in the busiest
hfe there are moments Of leisure, and rs eseu
tiess ought to be turned to profitable purpose,
you shall now have another hint from Old Hum
phrey.
Many OF you know London city, but as 70
kn wing huudredih part Of the strange things
W iiht place there, that Is quite out of the
ques,ion dy method IL, when witnessing a
M l,plicty OF odd occ irrences. to treat them
as do bIackberres Il pass by u great many,
aud pick out those only that like best
Whoever has been iE London in the fruit sea.
son Inust have heard men, women aud children
crying out in all directions, Hautboys, 6ue
hautboys."
These hautboys are large strawberries, and
are sold 10 baskets called politics, which. taper.
ing from the top, go of less aud lesser to the
bottom.
was passing along, on a hot day, when pile
of theie potiles in irui,erer's shop caught NV
srention. There was one Of particularly fine
fruit, and soon had hold OF il but the man
cried out in hurry, "Stop, stop, sir Icannoi
sell them"
Cannot sell them said [, "and for wha,
reason9"
"oh," replied he, 81 cannot sell them, for
they are toppers."
Nov, these torpers were the largest.sized
strawb rries, picked out on purpose to put on
the tops Of the other pottles, to make the fruit
look better than IL really was "Cone, thinks
to m, sell, "if you will not let me have the
Il,
the Lesson they have taught me-" So walked
off, talking to myself about the toppers.
At the corner of the next street, at a drnper's
shop, some dozens of good-ooking bandker.
chitt' ~eie hanging at the door and marked a.
the low price ct iourpence each. Thinking this
wss no I'D opportunity of lay in in a stock 0i
haIi-a'dozen or II dozen good handkerchiefs, for
worthy but poor friend, I entered the shop
but was told that they only sold those handker.
chieis TO customers, and that it | had sny OF
them must buy something else with them. Old
Humphrey was soon out of the shop again
thinking 10 himself that he should never hsvt
gone into it The handkerchiefs were nothing
in the world but toppers, aud were hung at the
door 10 make people believe that things weie
so cheaper at that shop han they eally we're
One OF the o1jects had in view in my walk
was TO buy leg of muttos and observing two
very fine legs hanging by themselves at butch.
ers shop, told him to pull one Of them down,
for that had set my mind upon il.
1.-THE legs are sold, sir" said he "but you
may have the shoulders TO match them.n
" Sold replied | !; "why, if they are sold,
what is the use of letting them hang up there ;
Only 10 show what sort of mutton sell, 81
said the butcher. ! saw in a moment that the
two legs of mutton were his toppers, and that,
OF course, he would not part with them.
When came 10 Smithf!eld, stopped awhile,
for horse,jockey selling a horse TO a Young
gentleman, who appeared TO me to have more
money in his pocket than Judgment or discre-
ton in his head The gentleman seemed dis.
posed to fancy black horse, but the Jockey be-
gan 10 puff off brown one, and talked so much
of thoroughbred" courage" esprit to the
BACKBONE" high action" sure footed, 81
" fAst-going." " tree from vice." "auiet as a
lamb" and fifty other putting phrases, that
thought to mpself "Ay ay Mr.. Hnree.dealer,
thesa ehhying terms are your toppers, and
will enable you, no doubt, TO get rid of your
brown horse"
About an hour after, saw two ladies getting
into Il cotch,n They were very gsyy dressed SO
much so that the scarf of one, and the shawl OF
the other, were quite sufficient to attract atten-
tcn; but their hetd-dresses struck me more
than either the scarf or the shawl, for IN ore oi
them was struck a bunch Of artificial hows rs
almost as big gas bosom, and in the other sew.
traI ostrich ie thers, loot or two high. "More
toppets," thought I, hurr, ing along; "and
thnse who are caught by them may fiud, per
hap' the head> OF the wesrers still lighter than
the feathers and the flowers"
AHaving occasion to cal on a tradesman to
settle an account, | found him ia violent pas
sion with his shopmsn for IL triaing mistake; this
grieVed me the uore, because he had the credi
OF being IT ligious man, and a truly religious
man will seek for grace to restrain his passions
The tradesman soon after began to talk 10 me
on serious aqhjects, and quoted several texts o
Scripture; but soob perceived that he was
not SINCERE, that be waa not religions at hi.
heart, and that he merely used the texts ot
Scripture as toppers, to pass religions charsc.
ter.
Now wha' shall we say to these things? Why
seeing the errors OF oher., let us ny TO av0iC
them, aid ACT nj cody sincerity IN thing.
spiritual and temporal
Take, then, ihe hiAt al ol' Humphrey bear
irg In Srd shat there are topper- in dress, top
pers in trade, and toppers in religion, as well a
tOppers in sira berries.