Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


ADVICE TO people who dye their hair
Keep it dark.
A WIT being requested "to say good
thing" iaconicslly responded, "Oys.
| ters!
Why Is an oculist like an extemporane.
Gus yersitier? Because he can improve
eyes dmprovise)
| WHERE is money first mentioned in the
Bibley Where the dove brought the green
back to Noah.
| CALIFORNIA papers note the death of q
Scotch terrier which crossed the plains tC
the Pacific coast more than twenty years
ago.
The complexion of the "Girl of the
Period" is said by L0RdOR Fun to differ
from a railway season ticket in this, that
one is, and the other is not transferable.
A STUDENT who was riding, being jeered
for wearing but one spur, said that if one
side of his horse went on, it was not like
ly that the other would stay behind
A BOLD and sdroit system of robbery is
being practiced in Boston. 1t consists of
cutting out piece of a window pane by
means of diamond, and removing the
same with what is termed "sucker"
placed upon the piece cut out
The Lafayette Qnd) Courier says
Ben Davis, who was sentenced TO the
Penitentiary this afternoon, was q local
policeman of some note. Eleven of the
jurymen wanted to send him to the Legis.
lature, but finally compromised on two
years in the Penitentiary."
THE New York Journal Of Mcdiciae
says that DIR. N. Hickman, Demonstration
of Anatomy in the University of Pennsyl-
Vania, has met with q case of complete
transposition of the internal organs in the
dissecting room of the University. The
apex of the heart is on the right side; in
TACT, every organ occupies exactly the op-
posite side from what is natural.
In Redding Ridge, Conn, it makes very
| little difference how a man treats his enc
my, During one week recently man
horsewhipped another and was fined one
dollar; a boy Intentionally discharged a
pistol at one of his companions, and was
fined one dollar; and an agile youth pun
meled an associate, and was also fined one
dollar. You pays your money and you
takes you choice"
A SMALL lad in Bath, Ne, the other day
was coasting down \ steep road which
| crosses railroad, when a freight train
came along. He struggled hard to avoid
what seemed to be certain death, but was
carried forward with an irresistible mo.
mentum, which seemed TO threaten certain
death. While the bystanders held their
breath in horror, expecting to see him cut
to pieces, he shot across the track like an
arrow, between the wheels of one of the
cars, coming out safely on the lower side
A CLERGYMAN recently related the fol-
lowing; Two young friends Of his were
boarding in Germany with very deVout
Catholic lady, who always asked blessing
before each meal One day she asked the
young men how the Americans asked q
blessing. One of them, remembering the
haste with which so many of his country
men attack their food, said, "The Ameri-
can blessing is, Pitch in" A few days
after, the good lady, thinking TO please
her boarders, reverenuy folded her hands
before breakfast and uttered the words,
" Pitch in" which they of course did.
A CURIOUS incident occurred recently,
near the depot of the Knoxville & Ken
lucky Railroad, at Knoxville, Tenn. An
engine was proceeding along the track at
good speed, when the engineer suddenly
discovered man walking along the track.
The man did not appear to heed the
whistle OF warning, and before the engine
could be reversed he was struck by the
cow'catcher and knocked about twelve 10
hfteen feet in the air, alighting in the fall
upon the bumper beam in front of the en-.
gine. Strange TO say, the only injury he
received was fracture ofone ofthe small
bones Of the left ankle His mysterious
conduct was fully explained when it was
discovered that he was deaf aud dumb,
being one Of the pupils of the school for
the deaf and dumb. .tg