Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-11-20

PEOPLE of(en wonder at the most
natural things in the world. "I say,
Dighy,n" said Qpilip, to an scQusintance,
YOU look s0ber this moY1iiRT.n And
for very obvious reason" said Digby
isI am sober.e buG NsLJ UI
ais THIS what ladies wear around their
waistsg' asked country youth of
friend who was clerk In a,dry goods
store "0f corset Is" creturfed the
counter jumper, with mischieyous wink.
In grsdirg the Knox & Lincoln Rail
road, in Thomaston, Me, skeleton was
exhumed, supposed to be that of man
who was executed as a spy by order of
Gen. Wadsworth, in 1880.
A. WHITEHEAD, aged 90 years, has been
sentenced, nc New York, to states prison
for three years, for marrying two young
ladies. He appears to have engaged him
self to two others. IN. I.Gt4
DUDLEY HALL, Of Medford, Mass, SS
years old, went to the polls on the Sd, re-
marking, as he deposited his ballot " This
is the last time1 shall ever vote" He re-
turned home and died In an hour.
Troy IN. " fashionable circles are
greatly excited over the elopement of a
wealthy merchants daughter with a young
barber. The merchant says he would
give $4,000 could he unite the nuptial
knot.
hPuRE thoughts are the seat OF sin. If
dropped into the soil of the mind and
heart, they should be cast out immediate
ly otherwise they will germin ate, spring
up, and bear the fruit Of sinful words and
acts. ---,-,,.. -.
A PRoFEssoR civilians College West
Mass.,) while endeavoring to suppress
recent noisy hubbub among the students,
was completely drenched with a, bucket
OF water thrown upon him-from an upper
window.
A WEALTHY bachelor citizen of Provi.
noe,whodied a few days ago, bequeathed
his $250,000 fortune to q female clsirvoy.
ant-a spiritualistic physician in whose
house he died-but the numerous brothers
and nephews contest the will.
BooTH, the tragedian, had ahroken nose.
A lady once remarked to him, al like your
acting, Mr. Booth, but to be frank with
you, can't get over your nose." "No
wonder, madam" replied the tragedian,
1.-THE bridge is gone"
GENERAL SHERIDAN tells some tall buff
falo stories. He says that he saw, few
weeks ago, a herd of buffaloes ninety-1ve
miles long, twenty-five miles wide, which
must have contained three hundred thou
sand buffaloes.
WHEN Rothschild heard that the head of
the Agnsde family was dead, How much
does he leave p he asked, Twenty. mil
lions" You mean eighty" :" No,
twenty" rDear met thought he was
in easy circumstances" remarked the
modern Cresuss
A MAN in Westville, Conn, discovered
a foundling on his doorstep and took It
in. Two days afterward the parent of the
wait in lalfft Of remorBe, claimed it; but
the hespitable entertainer refused to part
with 1t unless he was paid $3.50. -.
In a late speech to the, workingmen of
Birmingham, Mr.. Vernon Harcourt allud-
ed to the growing influence of the labor
ing classes in politics, and said it was his
belief that, had it not been for the dis
tinctly pronounced opinion Of the work.
ing classes, England would haye been en-
gagged In war long before this time,
ALADY being asked for a recipe for
whooping. cough, for little twin patients,
copied by mistake something referring to
the picking Of onionss which said ! "If
not too young skin them pretty closely !;
immerse in scalding water; sprinkle
plentifully with salt; and leave them for
sweek mstrong brines2 "a
ABOUT fifty private telegraphs are in
use ln,New ork, ana thelnumber is be-
ing rapidly increased. The expense is
about $500 for each machine, with wires
ready for work, and coupting.rooms and
offices are thus placed in Instant COM
munication with docks and manufactures
in different parts of the city.
A PARIsIAN statiStician computes that
as the births since the creation of the
world have been 68627, ,843, ,273, ,075, ,221
souls, and that there are in the world only
3,005, 900 square leagues of fiat surface, that
only one-ffth of square foot of land is
allotted to each inhabitant for burial pur-
poses.
For great many years the Russians
have made use of the expansive proper
ties of freezing water in quarrying opera
tions. In summer they drill crevices in
the marble and fill them with water, The
cold Of winter causes the water to act as a
wedge, and enormous masses of marble
are thus detached with the smallest ex-
penditure Of manual labor.
THE Frontier Iadec of the Both ult.
was issued at Bear River City. about S5
miles east of Salt Lake. The editor
speaks of the new city with the utmost
enthusiasm, and says 5000 persons already
obtain their mails from the Bear River
City post office. Houses and streets are
built up by magic, and every branch of
business Is represented, Wholesale and re-
tail.
A Mr.. MEhRnAN, of Nottingham, En-.
gland, has adopted an ingenious plan for
killing two birds wife one stone. This
gentleman had the misfortune to7lOse his
eldest son land In announcing tho fact to
his friends through the newspapers, IN the
usual way, he ADDS that he himself is zone
of the candidates for the representation
of Nottingham" HH
A COUNTRY doctor being out for days
shooting, took his errand boy TO carry the
game bag! Entering a field Of turnips,
the dog pointed and the boy overjoyed
at the prospect of his masters success, ex-
claimed, "there's a covey ifyou get near
'em, won't you physic 'emS" "Physic
them you young rascal what do, you
mean y said the doctor !" Why kill 'em
70 be sure 2 replied the lad Hrs
THE other day in Schenectady an old
lady with two bandboxes in her arms came
10 the track of the Central and inquired at
what time the next train was due. On
being informed that II would pass through
the city in half an hour, she quietly
dumped her bandboxes on the pavement
and squatted, remarkiDg that she didn't
want to be run oyer, and a body. couldn't
be too keerful"
MY Boy
A lock Of golden hair,
- F,- Tied with a silken thread;
. A tiny Ghoelet lying there;
snow-white cuFtained bed;
A little broken toy; ~
A book all soiled and torn;
A jauntJ velvet cap my boy
Has often, often worn