The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-02-23
Our Scrap aluuk.


Take tho most thorough man Of th
world, Uf your acqnainlaice~-th tho man mos
perfectly vcrsed IN what goes on in nj
ranks and conditions of life who knOwi
when aud lor what tho vol is fighting
in this quarter aud in ihat--how IL build,
It's ships it pays Cor gold how 4
tills It's Eel ls, mclls its metals. cooks ifs
food, aud writes its uovcls--and ask yOu
what he woull be without his newspaper
! by what possible machinery conld no ieacn
as ho sits at his breakfast, the last news
| from China, of The last ballet at Paris, the
state Of The funds az, San Francisco, ibc
| winter at Newnflrket, tho pantomnis az The
| Olympic, the oncyclical Of tho POpeY
IL il with tho actual, passing, daily aris-
iGg incidents 0flife, man ought TO be thor.
oughly acquainted, bringing TO thoir con.
sidoraliou all The aid his reading and re.
lection can supply; 81 tina, hc neither falls
into doggcd iucrcdulity on one side, nor
fatal facility OF belief on the oihord In
~, age 40 widely speculative 10 tn" pres
cnt, eager 10 inquire aud not oVrrgiveh to
Bcrhp'o-slici men Az thcse arc ihvalua1lc
to society anl whole corps Of college
professors would bc less elective ir DIS
pplliug error or asserting truth, than these
people irahelin all the dialects of the
prcss.
.Withoutimy newspaper, life woull mar
row itself tU the small limits of my personal
experiences, apd humanity be compressed
into tho ten or iiltcon people ! mix with
Now ! rcfuso 20 accept THIS havc Bnt n
sixpcnco in cousolS, but want TO know
how they stand. | was nevor---l am never
likely 10 be--ih Japan; but have an Intense
curisoity to know what our troops did ut
Yokohama. deplure tho people wliu
suffered by the railroad SIN lsh and sym
palhz5 with tho newly mttried couplo so
beautifully depicted IN the 'HiusfrUeIi'gas MS
they drove off in chaisc atid-four. like
the letters to tho correspondents, With their
littlo grievances about unpuhclual trains
or some uuwarrantablo omissions in the
Liturgy. even like the people who
chronicle the rainfall aud record Little facts
about tho mi,ness of the season ''-
AS fJr the advertsements, regard them
Ms the mirror OF the age. Show me but one
page Of tho "wants of any country aud !
engage myself to give sketch of the cm.'
rent civilization of the period. What
glimpse of rose interiors do we gain hy
these brief paraSraphsl How full Of sug-
gestions and story they are. Think of the
social circle at Gaapnau's, that adVettises
for a lodger that has good voice, and
would appreciate the domestic lilo OF re-
tired family devoted to music and tic fine
arts ImagiLe the moro exalted propriGly
of tlfoso who wanta "footmln in n serious
family, Where there are means of grace aud
kitolicu maid lept.Y Hero window ~
niluem circumstances announces her inten-
ton to remarry. Here naturalist pre-
poses his readiness to exchange bugs and
catcrpillars with another deyotec. And
here moro practical physiologist wants
from throo to four lively rats for his terrier
Are not those life etchngs? Do you want
anything m1re plain or pdpable to tell you
where aud how to live? go.
Now | want neither beetles. rats, nor
widows, but I'm not to be cut of from my
sympathios with tho people who do! In
the very proportion that all wife things do
eater my requirements, do desire to know
who and what are the people who need
them why they neod then, an what thcy
do with thcm when they get thcm. Ian
human TO tho very tips ofny iinSors aud
there is not mood in humanity without
liza interest for me. may possibly be able
TO rnb on without my legacy, but ooul lint
exist without my newspaper. Cornelius
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