Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A LADY KmLxR-Corsets.

A LADY KnLER-Corsets.
AN AIR APPARENT-The fog.
A JUROR, after serving some days in a
Hartford panel, was discovered TO be deaf.
1HE Boston STANDARD publishes the
names of delinquent subscribers under
the heading skunks."
THE keeper Of q CHEYENNE museum
wants the Indian agent whose conscience
compelled him TO resign.
In Nashville, Tenn, on the 25th ult.,
forty four ladies each got valuable
Christmas present-a husband.
ONE of the San Francisco papers has
added a "divorce" feature to its birth,
marriage and death column.
A LoNooNER got the better of gar.
roter by gripping the fellows arm beneath
his chin and carrying him off on his back.
On Christmas day, child in Spring
field, Ohio, was poisoned by putting in its
mouth piece Of green paper in which
candy had been wrapped.
A COW rung the front door of house
in Washington, the other day, and when
the bell was answered the questionable
beast walked into the hall
In Georgia a large hawk has been dis
covered which follows a railway train for
the purpose of catching birds which are
scared up by the noise of the train.
BENJAMIN MONROE, of Waterbury, Con-
necticut, advertises a warning against har-
boring his wife Angeline, and quietly re-
marks that he cleft her to save his life"
A CITIZEN of Monterey, Cal, refused to
receive into his hands a telegraphic dis
patch from a neighboring town because
the smallpox was raging at the place
where the telegram came from. Cautious
chap.
WHEN the announcement of the result
of the Presidential election was made in
Egypt, it was in this wise: General
Grant has been named President, to-wit :;
Head of the Sheiks And Alcafoks has
been named second President.
Two SAN FRANCISCO policemen tried to
arrest Chinaman. They found it neces-
sary to leave him moment, and go hand
cuffed him with his arms each side of a
| lamp. post. When they returned their
prisoner was gone--he had climed up the
| post and swung his arms over the top.
A GENTLEMAN recently from the plains
assures the New York Times that it is a
fact that the number of dead buffaloes ly.
ing on the Pacific Railroad, shot by pas.
sengers as the cars go along, is very great
and says there is enough meat lying there
at this time, easy of transportation, to feed
all the poor people of America.
A RHODE ISLAND horse fancier who
| thought he knew thing or two recently
snapped white horse for cream colored
one, paying something TO boot" More
lately he traded off his cream color for !
beautiful, glossy, coal black herse, pa0Oa.e
"boot again. VegfT soon, hos 'avA- she
kscoal black horse gre, rustyS a. !, al spite
rof all his efforts, nas turss u : j the iden.
I tical white horse which b. st traded off
A FUNNY incident happened in a church
in Kingston, N. Y, few Sundays ago
Owing to the absence of the minister, a
lay member of the congregation was in.
vited to read sermon at the morning ser
vice, which he did very acceptably to those
present In the afternoon g clergyman
from neighboring place occupied the
pulpit, and preached a sermon. Oddly
enough, it happened to be the identical
sermon which the lay member had read in
the morning.
THERE is q brisk rivalry at Westerly
r. l., between the Missionary of the
| Christian Association and an advertiser oi
patent medicines. The former painted in
large letters on fence, "What shall dc
to be saved ?" and the latter put under
it, "Use IS German Bitters !" But the
missionary retaliated by printing in an.
other place, under "Use IS German
Bitters," the text, "Prepare to meet thy
GodW
A CURIOUS habit of the "gordius," or
as the boys call it, the "horse-hair snake,
is given by Prof. Agassiz, as follows
"Soon after being Matched in the water,
and while mere little transparent bodies
they creep into the legs of grasshoppers
and burrow their way into the abdominal
cavity, where they undergo further devel
opment as worms, sometimes growing tc
be two or three inches in length before
they are freed. When they have grown
so long that the grasshopper becomes dis
tended by the size of its strange inhabitant
it bursts, the worm is released, and returns
to its aquatic life" A gentleman living
in Yonkers writes that his little girl re
Gently pulled a gordfus six inches long
and another somewhat shorter, from the
body of cricket. They seemed to be
protruding like horns. The cricket
hoped away, apparently as well as ever
Here is a new tact, perhaps, for the ma
turalists.