Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A RACE OF ScULrToRs-The Chip-a-
ways
1T Is unwise TO worry about that which
cannot be helped, and foolish to worry
about that which can be helped There
fore, worry not at all. ~
YOUNG SwELI,--"We don't 60 down
Grand street, for l haven't paid my tailor
his Christmas bill yet, and If he should
sec me, he might feel embarrassed"
THE heart is six inches in length, four
inches in diameter, and beats seventy
times per minute, 400 times per hour,
l0O,SOO times per day, and 81, ,770, 900 times
per year,
THR following notice was pasted on a
large box which passed over the Pacific
Railroad few days since; Baggage.
smashers are requested to handle this box
with care, as it contains nitro-glycerine
Greek fire, gun-cotton, and two live goril-
las" ~
DRYING CANpLEs-" How came such a
greasy mess in the oven2" said fidgcty
old spinster to her maid.of all.work.
why replied the girl, "the candles fell
Into the water, and ! put them into the
oven to dry"
A CANDIDATE for auditor of public &C.
counts was called upon fora speech On
rising, he commenced Gentlemen, you
have called upon me for a few remarks. l
have none to make-have no prepared
speech. Indeed am no speaker do
not desire to be speaker, only went to
be en- auditor"
IT is said that the horn of a rhinoceros
consists of numerous hairs firmly united
together, and that when the animal be.
comes old the horn becomes smaller and
finally disappears altogether by process
closely resembling that by which men be-
come bald at an advanced age.
AN ARABIAN LAUGHING PLANT For
the first time, says Palgrave, the traveller,
Il met with q narcotic plant, very com.
mon further south, aud gined with curious
qualities Its seeds, in which the dele
terious principle seems chiefly To reside,
when pounded aud administered in small
dose, produce effects much like those
ascribed TO Sir Humphry Davy's laughing.
gas; the patient dances, sings, and per
forms a thousand eXtravagances, till, af(er
an hour of great excitement to himselfand
amusement to the bystanders, he falls
asleep, aud ON awaking has lost all memory
Of what he did or said while under the in.
tluence of the drug. To put pinch of
this powder into the cofiee OF some unSus-
pecting individual Is not an uncommon
Joke" ID
4 CONTEMPORARY, turning his visage TO
the future and the misty distance Of two
| hundred years, sees and describes the fol-
lowing Scene-House of citizen in New
York. Nme-A. ID. 206a.. A telegraphic
dispatch has been sent 10 a servant who
presents himself at the window in a bal.
loon Master-John, go TO South America,
and tell Mr. johnson that I shall be happy
10 have him sup with me this evening
Never mind your coat, go right away, In
five minutes, John returns john-Mr
johnson says he win come he is Obliged
to 60 60 the North Pole for a moment and
win cali here as he comes back. Master
Very well, John; now you may wind up
the machine for setting the table, and tele,
graph TO my wife that Mr., johnson will
be here presently. After that, John, YOU
may dust out the halloon-I have an ap,
| pointment in London az 10 O'Clock. John
/ disappears 10 execute these orders, while
his master steps down TO the West Indie.
TO get freSh orange,