Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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COUNTRY SuAREnoLpERs-Plowmen
A ROARING TRADE - Keeping me-
nagerie. .,..#
WHEN is a wall like fish' When it is
scaled.
BLOOD, they say, tells. But not so
often as tongues.
WHEN isa young lady like part of
word2 When she is silly belle (sylla.
ble)
CAN 1t be said that the man who makes
a business of raising pork for market gets
his living by his pony b. .tlll u
II breYity is the soul of wit, whata vast
amount of fun there is in the tail of fash
ionable coat.
LEAF YEAR An old bachelor says
that during leap year the ladies jump at
every offer of marriage-hencet the name.
TIMD bachelors are eongratulating one
another upon tho close of leap.year and
their escape from the peculiar danger
which threatened them.
MADAME DEMoREsT, the celebrated
New York Modiste, learned the millinery
business at Lansingburg, N. Y, where
she was only plain and prettyl Ellen
Curtiss. rI .
IT turns ont now, according to French
man lately writing on the subject, that
Napoleon lost Waterloo because he was
sleepy, and coffee would not keep him
awake during the most critical hours be-
fore and during the final struggle.
TINS advertisement recently appeared
in the New York papers "The person
in the possession of a stray Maltese cat
with white spot on its breast will re-
ceive the prayers of a heart-broken female,
and So also, by leaving the same at No
81 Lexington avenue"
The Russian student in Cornell Univer.
sity, noticing that boots were placed out
side the doors of certain rooms at night
(the Professor's), placed his outside also,
but next morning, instead OF being well
polished, he found them filled with water.
PRoF. MARSH says: "I know q man
who, at the age of forty, entered the Law
renee Scientific School at Cambridge, Mass,
became boy arain among the boys, re-
ncwed his youth of body and mind, and
probably made far more proficiency than
he would when twenty years younger"
WHEN Horace Greeley started the Nelo
Yorker in New York, years ago, he en-
deayored to create sensation by offering
prizes for the best poems and stories.
Lewis Gaylord Clark was chairman of the
committee to decide these things, and
awarded the $50 to Mr., Henry w. Long
fellow, a professor in Bowdoin college, for
the poem. .r- s.
NOTHING is more easy than to grow
rich 1t is only to trust nobody; to be-
friend nOne to get everything and save
alive get; TO stint ourselves and every
body belonging to us TO be the friend of
no man, and have no man for our friend
to heap interest upon interest," cent upon
cent TO be mean, miserable and despised,
for some twenty or thirty years-riches
will come as sure as disease and disappOint-
ment -r .s.f-. -..
TIE Coos IN. II } Republican says that
Richard p. Kent's mare reeently getting
loose in her stable, the door of which was
open, trotted out through the street to
blacksmith's shop entering which she
trotted up to the anvil block, at which a
man was at work, and held up her fore
foot. Examination showed that the nails
were loose, and they were properly fixed.
In Tif1in, Ohio, few days since, man
visited an unoccupied mill and entered an
old boiler that had been taken out for re-
pairs. While pegging away at its sides
with hammer and chisel to obtain speoi-
mems of lime scales, it rolled and fell on
its end, closing the entrance and imprison-
ing the specimen, seeker. In this unex-
pected dungeon he remained six hours,
until his cries attracted the attention of
some passers by. .. |t...
SEVERAL weeks since Cincinnati doc
tor WAS called to attend a sick young man
in boarding house. Apprehensive that
the youth would Gle, the doctor refused to
prescribe until the proprietor of the house
agreed TO pay in case the patient died,
The youth re covered, and is now at work
but unable to pay. The doctor then de-
manded compensation of the proprietor,
who said he had become surety only in
case death ensued, hence, as the man
lived, he was not responsible. The indig-
nant doctor sued the boarding house keep
er and lost the suit Next time he will be
more careful in his treatment Of such
cases.
THERE is a story, forgotten by all but
men who were students at certain college
near thirty years ago, of an enthusiastic
professor of entomology not celebrated
for his exercise OF hospitality, who was so
delighted at the arrival Of an eminent pur-
suer Of insects that he invited him to
board and bed in chambers. Next morn
ing Dr. Macfy greeted his guest, "And
how did ye sleep the NIGHT, Mester Bee
hemoth 2" "Not very well; strange
bed, perhaps But" "Ah," quoth the
doctor, eagerly, ye were just bitten by
something, eh?" Well, to tell you the
truth, doctor, was" "Just think of that
Bitten, war ye? Now, can you say it was
Eany thing at all noteworthy that bit you
Peculiar, eh Y'' Fleas, think. But such
devils for biting | never met in my life.
" should think so, indeed" with great
glee). "They're Siclian feas I importec
Hep' mg'elflR RsgJt 80
WHEN horse drops dead in the street
it is the duty of the policeman on the beat
! to examine the carcass. If he finds life ex
| tinct, he is required TO report the same tC
the roundsmap as soon as he encounter
him. The roundkman, having convinced
himself OF the truth OF the statement, re
/ ports 10 the Sergeant on duty when he re
turns TO the station. The Sergeant OIL
duty enters the fact on the blotter. TIL,
Captain copies II from the blotter and II
ports to the Superintendent The Superin
tendent, through the Inspector, refers thl
case TO the Board Of Health. The BoarC
Of Health, through their Secretary, com
municate the intelligence 10 the Sanitary
/ Committee. The Sanitary Committee refe
the matter to the Bureau Of Vital Statistics
/ The Bureau of Vital Statistics thereupoi
/ issue instructions to a contractor, VIII
keeps a windlass, two men and dead
| horse truck, and the contractor shereupol
proceeds At his leisure 10 TemoYs the body
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