Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-11-13
VARIOUS ITEMS.
A FAIR future-pretty soon.
A wRETcuED time-mean.while.
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A wRETCHED time-mean.while.
LONDON has $4,000 houses.
SLIGHT Of Misunderstanding an offer o.
marriage.
THE most fashionable Partisan miliner,
are men.
How TO prevent conspiracy from leak
ing outlet the plot thicken.
Mrs. STEPHENS daughter of Thacke
ray, isin Boston.
THE fear that is life to us us-Tho atmos
phere.
AT night London streets are illumi
mated by 100000 lamps
SWITZERLAND purposes adopting the
postal money order system.
MARSHAL SERRANo, President of the
Spanish Junta, began life as a journalist.
THE largest advertiser in France is 3
mau who has invented u patented bait fol
fish hooks.
A BOY of eleven has Just died at Aargau
in Switzerland, from the sting of venom
Gus fly.
New YORK city has contributed $25, ,0OC
for the sufferers by the recent earthquake
in South America. q,
IF nature abhors vacuum, why does
she permit so many empty-hea1ed people
to liver
IF a revenue officer engages actively in
politics, in England, he is fiued $500 and
dismissed from office.
| THERE are over forty thousand Second
Adventists in the United States, who, from
religious scruples, do not vote,
WHY is it important for a physician to
keep his temper?" Because if he did not
he would be apt to close his patients I"
(patience).
Mrs. Polly KENT, q sprightly Massa-
chusetts dame of eighty-one years, recently
walked fifteen miles in five hours and a
half
If human being could make as much
noise in proportion to size as n locust, he
would be heard to sing from Chicago to
New York.
A FEW days ago, half-a-dozen of the
urchins in the Meriden (Conn) Reform
School mutinied, threshed the overseer,
and escaped.
AN inhuman English Captain and mate
who turned adrift two stowaways," on
the ice near Newfoundland, have been
committed for murder.
A DRUNKEN fellow in New York, who
lived upon the charity of his widowed
sister, fatally stabbed her the other
night because she objected to his beating
her.
A CALIFORNIAN writes to the papers
about snake with head as large as a
milk.pan and eyes like apples. lie saw
twenty feet of snake and didn't stay for
the rest
A BOY at Lisbon, Me-, fired hay-mow
q fnx hoxJ IN
hen. He was amply successful, and his
father will proceed to rebuild the barn.
A TwENTY-YEAR-oLD Connecticut youth
has lately married blooming widow of
fifty, who has seven children, the Oldest of
whom is six years older than his new
papa. aH
LOUISA MUHLBACH, the authoress, is
poor. In recent letter she says that she
would like to have money, enough to buy
small house and garden, which she
might leave to her two daughters.
A BOY living in Allegheny County, N.
Y, while leading horse to water, tried
the experiment of attaching the halter
strap 10 his ankle Result-the horse be-
came frisky and the boy a corpse.
NEVER attempt to do anything that is
not right. Just as sure as you do you will
get into trouble. Ifyou even suspect that
anything is wrong, do it not until you are
sure your suspicious are groundless.
A PHILADELPHIA policeman, the other
day, escorted to the police station a
woman troubled with an unusually large
and unshapely Grecian Bend, composed
OF stolen shawl and other articles.
THE Berkshire Courier says of lady
who sent in some manuscript called poet
ry, that she had far better been darning
stockings-she can't write poetry worth a
darn, anyhow" Ungallant, very.
A FELLOW was detected at Ipswich,
Mass, the other day, in weighing load
of hay that he was selling, with four hun
dred pounds OF iron, which, of course, he
meant to smuggle out of the way before
the hay was delivered.
AN unclaimed express package was
opened in Memphis, the other day, previ-
GUS to its being sent to the sale of guam
tity of such bundles to pay expenses of
transportation, and found to contain
twenty-five thousand dollars in counter
felt fractional currency.
A WOMAN was lately by mistake shut in
the vaults of a small village church in
Sweden, where she remained eleven days.
When found she merely asked for some
water, and, being treated with great care,
perfectly recovered il few days.
A VALUABLE horse belonging to a
farmer in Addison county, VT, was re-
Gently bitten on his fetlock by rattle
snake, and died in fifty minutes, in great
agony. The reptile was trampled to
death by the horse in its rearings and
plungings after the bite.
A WOMAN in Vienna is realizing for
tune by means Of trained goldtinches that
draw numbers from small bowl. Policy
and lottery players attach great prestige
to this humbug, and pay fabulous prices
for the numbers.
Col. DRAKE, who sunk the first oil well
on Oil creek, and gave the world the ben
eft of his grand discovery, is at Titusville,
living in extreme destitution, with no
source of maintenance except the uncer-
tain charity of friends.
GEN. FAIRomLDs, of Wisconsin, who
received an empty Left sleeve in battle, re-
Gently presented to Gen. Stannard, of Yer
mont, who has an empty right sleeve for
the same reason, halfdozen pairs of odd
dress gloves.
IT may not be generally known that
the bodies of trees grow only in the fall Of
the year. The sap commences TO run down
into the trunk from the upper branches
when the first frosts come upon us, thus
giving fresh impetus TO the body of the
troe.
A FASHIONABLE portrait painter, when
asked what are his terms, invariably an
swers: ~ have no scale of prices. In
fact, generally leave it open TO the liber-
ality Of my patrons. have but one rule
to guide me In taking likenesses, and that,
to be candid, is, handsome is who hand
some does"
SEVEN members Of the Hoagland family
dined together recently, at Lexington, KY,
whose combined ages amount TO $50 years
The Oldest is 80 and the youngest &C.
There were originally eight brothers and
sisters. Only one has died, and he at a
very advanced age.
A PRACTICAL joke recently had fatal
Issue in Bolton, England. A man was