Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
sonE men are quo.r. bul eaoh wom.r

The life of a child was recently sacri.
flced in Albany by the carelessness ot
drug clerk, who put up the wrong medicine
for Il. at .f.
FRED. DOUGLASS and others are about
starting a weekly paper In Washington,
TO give special attention TO the wants Of
colored people.
A NEW YORKER play fully threw a spool
OF cotton at his wife's head, which cut
open an artery and almost severed the
thread OF existence. .O.I
AN octogsnarian says; al was born ~
the wrong time. When l was q young
man, young men were Of no account.
Now am old, find old men are of no
no account" ..t
IT is asserted that the skin of the sal.
mon will make leather as tough as wash
leather, and about the thickness of dog
skin leather. The scale marks give very
neat pattern to the leather.
ADVICE TO those who arc about to 20 10
law-aIst, ask yourself this question
Are you morally in the right :" If the
answer is mo" 20 to law BY all means,
you'll be sure to -Tonahdlok.
TIRE is an old English statute which
profits people from getting married after
certain hour in the day, because such a
solemn obligation ought to be entered
into only when the parties are duly sober.
THE ordinary mode Of churning in
Chill Is to put the milk in a skin--usually
a dog skin-tie it TO donkey, mount a
boy on him with rowels 10 his spurs about
the length Of the animals ears, and then
run him four mile heats.
A MAN Ia Danville Va, went down a
well TO clean II out, few days ago, when
q pileof rocks caved in and buried him.
The rocks were over him to the depth OF
twenty feet, and he remained for seven
hours in this situation but was finally
rescued, though badly bruised.
THERE is gentleman in Waterbury, Ct.,
who, since a severe sickness a year ago,
has lost both the sense of smell and taste.
The vilest of odors are to him as fragrant
as perfume from "Araby the blest," while
the juciest of steaks, the mouldiest of
bread, or the rankest butter, all taste
alike.
HERE is a unique reason, given by a
New YOrK paper, why Mr.. Beecher ought
TO refuse his call to Montreal "There is,
doubtless, well written obituary notice
of the distinguished gentleman in every
vell-regulated newspaper office in the
country, and they all locate him at Ply
mouth Church. It's not likely that he
would 60 back on the press in any such
way rs this Montreal business would indi.
cate"
A CINCINNATI correspondent, returning
from the East, was about to file himself
away in one of the railway pigeon holes
OF sleeping car, when the somnolent
passengers were reused by the voice of a
huge Kentnckian who, holding up pillow
between his thumb and finger, roared out
to the attendant, l say, you boy, come
back and take this away |" "What for,
sayP" because I'm afraid the darned
thing will get in my ear"
In Norway, according to Chdm6er's
Journal, men, women and children skate
to church on Sunday, and in the far
north the Lapps, who do the same, and
who are punctilious in the discharge Of
their religious duties, bury their children
in the snow outside the church, while
they, the parents, attend the service.
Wrapped up in pelts it y warmer for
them than in the church, and then their
cries do not disturb the congregation.
JEROME CARDAN relates that eight reap
ers, who were eating their dinner under
an oak tree, were all struck by the same
flash of lightning, the explosion of which
was heard far away. When some peo.
pie passing by approached to sec what
had happened, they found the reapers to
ell appearance, continuing their repast.
One still had his glass in his hand, an.
other was in the act of putting piece of
bread into his mouth, and third had his
hand in the dish.
A NEW York man was recently i'm
prisoned in the Ludlow street iail for a
debt of four dollars. The bill was pre-
sented to him purporting to have been
contracted by his wife, who was not liv-
ing. He, not having any knowledge OF
her incurring the debt, refused to pay,it.
After remaining in Jail few days, he
found that the cheapest way to get out
was to pay the bill, the plaintiffs lawyer,
the $t1,75 fee demanded by the sheriff
and the $3.50 Jail fee demanded by the
jsilor.
A WIDOWED resident of Albany, New
York, lately had sharp trick played upon
her by her only daughter. The mother
owned two houses and store. The two
former she gave to her daughter when the
latter got married, a few months since.
ConceiVing the idea Of keeping store, the
daughter induced her mother to exchange
property. The transfer papers for the
parent were made out and signed, deed
ing the store TO the daughter, but the lat.
ter being yet minor could not fulfil her
part of the contract, and thus the mother
ID left penniless.
A SMALL boy made application of his
| frat instruction on the sanctity of the Sab,
bath by objecting to the apothecsries
shops, which he saw open on that day
But" he was told, "the druggists must
keep open on Sundays, so that sick people
can get medicine" "Why do people gel
sick ON Sundayg" "Yes, Just as on any
other cay" "well, good people don't die
on Sunday, de thoyY" Certainly
How can that heH Does heaven keeI
open on Sundsyt" It is needless TO say
that all further grave conversation on the
subject was mpossible-BdEdar.