Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


How TO prevent sea sickness Keep on
shore.
A CURIOUS contradction--tho reign of
snow.
IF industry is no more than habit it Is
| at least an excellent one.
LADY PAIMERsToN, although over sew
| cnty, was sprightly enough TO electioneer
| for her son.
THE last illness of Sir Richard Mayne
was the first for the forty years he had
| been Chief of the London police.
TEXANS believe that the story of the
cattle plague was put up thing TO reduce
the price of their beef
THE man who attempted to hang him.
self with cord of wood abandoned the
enterprise, because IL was too expensive
ROMAN MAxIMs.--1. Never work with.
in doors when there Is anything to be
done without 2. Never do in fair wealth
er what may be done in wet.
A LITTLE girl, on Christmas owe, seeing
the sun setting, said Mamma, know
what makes it 30 red, over there Santa
Claus is baking"
A BosToN artist painted a bottle of
spruce beer so naturally that the cork flew
out before he could paint the string TO
tastcn it. Wonder what became OF the
beer
AN American gentleman writes from
London that common American corn
cobs are sold in the streets of that city
as "pstent fire ightors-eight for a
penny"
THE Pope bought pretty cottage for
the widow of Monti, executed for attempt
ing to blow up n Zouave barrack, in Rome,
but she scornfully refused the gift and
then fled the city in diguise.
Two AMERICAN students at Gottingen
| fought duel last month, in which one of
them, the son of Philadelphia banker,
was severely wounded A quarrel about
Grant ard Seymour had given rise to a
| challenge, which was promptly accepted
The duel was fought with pistols at fifteen
yards distance.
IT is said that the only infallible way to
ascertain chat death has taken place, with
the exception of decomposition, is by
holding u candle to part of the body
If the blister ON being punctured give
forth fluid substance, death has not
taken place, If air is emitted, death has
occurred,
"BopBy," said Unclo Peter, as he OK
amined the points of the beast, al don't
see but one reason why that mare cannot
| trot her mile in three minutes" They
| gathered round to hear this oracular
| opinion, and one inquired, "What is itY"
"Why," he replied, 1.-THE distance is too
great for SO short time
A room laborer in Manchester, England,
| had such an iniatuation for attending
prize fights that frequently he would walk
| fifty miles to witness one, when he could
not afford to ride. His last Journey was
fatal. He had no money to pay ferry.
man on the River Mersey, and attempted
to swim across. He was drowned In the
effort,
DEACON SAMUEL NJ. ANDREWS, since
his arrival ut tho State Prison at Charles
town, has manifested the same calmness
and traCtability of demeanOr which has
usually characterized his conduct As hC
had had some experience of the maChin
cry of cotton.mill, he has been set tC
work in machine shop. He seems u
work with good humor and with a fail
amount of diligence,
SIX Waterbury, Conn, sportsmen went
pickerel fishing one bitter cold night, re
Gently, on a mill-pond number of miles
from that town. Atlcr they had cut sew.
Cral holes In the ice, and tishCd patiently
for several hours without bite, they were
told by small boy that the owner of the
| pond had drawn il of few days before
and captured all the fish.
AN old gentleman in Ridgeheld, Con
nccticut, who is fond of buckwheat cakes
aud who cooks them himself every morn
ing, the other day prevailed ON his SON tC
try them, Son thought they had queer
taste father thought so too What could
be the matters After breakfast, one of tn,
neiGhbor's girls came in to wash the dishes
stir up more cakes, and put the house in
order. On stirring up the buokwheat, she
tishcd up a huge rat from the bottom OF
The dish, and, ON stirring again, flshed up
four more in succession,
THE common artificial lights vitiato the
atmosphere in two ways--by removing its
oxygen, which Is Indispensable to respira,
tion, and by producing carhonic acid gas.
A six foot burner will produce as large a
quantity Of this poisonous gas as would
be expired by eight or nine persons in =
state of quiotude and II would abstract
moro oxygen from the air than they
would absorb during the same time Ven.
tilation, therefore, should be carefully Sc,
cured after the gas or lamps are lighted
at night, and particularly where they are
to be burned all night
| ALTHOUGH enlightened men generally
do not stop TO think about the reason
why they have married, and continue I,
mSintain the family union, Il they vii
look At the subject closely, they will anC
it Is a longing for happiness; TO build fol
themselves home, in the bosom of whicl
they may hide from the deceit, old.heart
edness and ceremony of the world wher,
nothing but love enters where there is n,
strife, no iealousies, heart burnings, env,
or seldshness; nobody to cheat, delame o
deceive them, but all is love and unity
Or, BWord.