Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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A VERY unpopular officer for indolent
ladies' General housework.
IF you would not have affiictiou to
visit you twice listen at once to what IL
teaches
BARNI.M wants to exhibit, as a curiosity,
the man who perused all The recent annual
official documents.
THE last words Of Helen Western, this
is becoming serious" were uttered few
moments before she died.
BONNER says that so loug as Dexter re-
mains the first horse in the country, there
is not money enough in Wall street to buy
HIM.
AN ardent antiquary wants to know
where You can find any modern buildings
which have lasted as long as the ancient
ones.
THE other day gentleman while pass
ing on the sidewalk, on Franklin street,
Cleveland, had his left arm grabbed and
severely bitten by vicious horse hitched
to post.
A YOUNG lady who saw steam fire
engine in Boston for the first time, inno-
Gently inquired why they boiled the water
before they threw it on the fire.
A TORONTO paper says the members of
the Legislature wish to 90 home for The
holidays, and kindly auus at is a pity
the holidays don't last all year"
Two mutes were married in Lansing
burgh, n Y, a few days siuce. The bride
was quite pretty. The service was read
and the questions to the parties were writ
ten on slips ofpaper.
TRUMAN SMITH, of Connecticut, has pro-
posed u new way to pay of the public
! debt. "Put tax on words" he says,
| "a Al. 81 Inn la
will pay it in less than four years.
A GENT out West was invited to take
game at poker, but he refused, saying:
mo, thankes; | played poker all one
summer and had to wear nankeen pants
all next winter; have no taste for that
amusement since"
A SOUTHERN lady resident in New
York, who is to become bride shortly,
has received very handsome bridal robe,
under linen, etc, worth several hundred
dollars-the gift and workmanship OF
"Mam Betsey," a former slave of the
family.
THE same old lady who recently in
uuired how they turned the oil INTO
"them ERE iron things sticaiN dow IA
the plastorin'" CHE gas-pipcs), drew up
to an iron safe the other day and remark
ed that she "never did lNe them awful
cold air tght Stoves.
A MAN of Audover Maine, hitched his
horse to board fence, and fed him with
hay in big box. There was a crack III
one of the boards large enough for his
cow to lick her tongue through at the hay.
G The horse hit her tongue oil so that he
f., had to kill her.
!, "MARY, do you say your prayers morn.
1 ing and evening"" "NO, Miss, don't.
"Why Mary are you not afraid 10 go to
, sleep in the dark without asking God to
take care of YOU and watch over you until
the morning." No, Miss, amt afraid,
, cause sleep in the middle"
In New York, few days sco, q lunatiC
} jumped on a locomotive engine at the
! Hudson River Rsilroad depot, put on full
stearn and dashed up town at full speed
J Many narrow escapes were made before
the madman was overhauied, and mar
and his wife were seriously injured.
,, MAJ. CHAPMAN, Sheriff Of Cumberland
county, Kentucky, had tax bill agains
a man who refused to pay and seemed &c
have no available property to answer tht
claim, until one day he found the dClin
4 quent with his set of false teeth out fol
$ the cleansing process, aud seized upon III,
i pearls The delinquent is now cumming
y it.
: IT is said Frank Reno alone knew o
+ the place where was deposited 100000
= the proceeds of one of his many rObberies
e His sister visited him come day 8 before HI
was murdered and tried to induce him r
! tell where this hoard was concealed, bu
= i he refused, telling her that if h" could no
i live to enjoy it no one else should. Th
!, secret died with him.
A LATE Judge, whose personal appear
n anca was as possessing as his lega
II knowledge was profound and his intellec
a keen, interrupted q female witness
II Humbugged you my good woman
II what do you mean by that?' said he
4 sternly "WeI, my lord" replied tht
3 woman, al don't know how to explain
! exactly; but if a girl called your lord
a ship handsome man, low she would bt
/. humbugging you"
y A MASSACHUSETTS, orthodox divin,
d who was in the habit of playing with hi
g notes while the choir was singing, acci
c dentally dropped them in a crack in hi
j. desk After trying for some time to re
!, cover them without success, he arose, aut
o addressed the congregation as follows
! "My dear friends, l brought my note
?, with me this morning, have got them int
e this provoking crack, and can't get ther
e out, but l will read two chapters of tn
It book of Job, which are worth two sue
n sermons if had them"
q 10y The Hartford Post publishes tn
!. following puff of the New York World
. "The publisher of the New York WOrl
~ proposes shortly to commence printing
N German edition of that journal. Their
a are very few newspapers that could b
4 translated into German SO easily as th
= World-its English is so very g,ittura
m We should find 1t in our heart 20 congratl
a late the public upon the eyeLt, were it nj
Ne that the English edition is to be continue
A -and-realiy have nothing againi
,s the Germans"
a. CY- In his speech at a banq1etat Phi
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