Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
DEAD LocKs-Chignons.

| 'NOObE PAPhb-A HbTTlaR6 CeIuuCaJe.
ToPsFIELD, Mass, has goose 90 years
old.
PAE HYsTER1o T1MEs-Before tight
lacing.
DONG HEAVY BUSINESS Tho iron
dealers. ...II
The Aldermen TO their dinner Gorge
usl
NEW York has about $4,000 Freach in
habitants.
There are 1874 vessels in the United
States navy.
A girl who has lost her last beau may
as well hang up her fiddle.
THE average salary of the clergymen
in New Hampshire is $3.50.
TEACHER spells whatH"
Bright scholar" Does itI l thought 1t
spelt ndti"
New ZEALAND has 10000 inhabitants,
and public debt of $15O,000,000.
| IT takes fourteen million gallons of wa
ter day to supply Cincinnati
The Mormons have invented machine
for the destruction of grasshoppers.
! The St. Louis police poisoned very
nearly six thousand dogs the past sum
mer.
THE production of whisky in Kentucky
this year is only about hve-eighths of
what it was last year.
SPINNER's signature on the greenbacks,
translated into English, is SSSXXX07X2-
Z&C.
A PUNsTrR asks whether If Titan wife
had been named Polly that fact would
have made her a politician
i The youth who cried Excelsior" didn't
know that he was naming five out of
every six saloons in the country.
THIS season has been one of the poor
est for cheese-making known in Vermont
for thirty years, owing to the drought.
Boy: "Have a paperi" Man, "No,
sir" Boy, Cloud, to JIM: "Say, Jim,
don't you pity those fellers as can't read ?"
| A FARMER at West Eaton, N. Y, de-
tected in the act of watering the milk
which he sold at a cheese factory, has
been fined $700.
METHUsALEH," the largest of new
grove of big trees recently explored in
Tuolumne County, Cal, is eighty -four feet
in circumference at the roots.
A YOUNG man charged with being lazy
was asked if he took 1t from his father.
81 think not" was the reply; fathers
got all the laziness he ever had"
THE census taker has found quite an in
telASent nAn III INC SSuACJb ILL, uAstLlCtJ
who has been married five years, and did
not know, and never has asked, his wife's
Christian name.
A GOOD deal Of the consultations offered
in the world is about as solacing as the
! assurance of the man TO his wife when she
fell into the river you'll find ground at
the bottom, my dear"
WILLIE, little five year old, was play
, ing with honey bee when the angry bee
stung him. ooh, grandma" cried Willie,
II did not know bees had spllnters in
their feet"
WHEN is a traveller from New York to
Liverpool like John G.. Whittierr When
I he gets seasick and becomes q contributor
/ to the Atlantic. Friends of the family are
invited to attend.
; THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided that the privilege which is
, given to the widow TO waive the pro-
3 visions of the husbands will cannot be
exercised by an insane person or by her
guardian.
The population of London exceeds that
of Scotland, is four times that of New
, York, and is larger than the combined
|: populations of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
st. Petersburg.
|; THE Boston Transcript says that ri,
|, was once said of q Boston money-lendel
that he kept the trunk containing his Sc
curities near the head of his bed, and lay
, awake to hear them draw interest"
A BARRIsTER, blind of one eye, plead
{ ing with his spectacles on, said, "Gentle
men, in my argument shall use nothing
) but what is necessary" "Then," whis
! pered q wsg, take one of the glasses out
of your spectacles."
f A PHENOMENAL Sunday school scholar
e aged fifteen, lately"won prize in Tennes
see by committing to memory 17,60t
t verses of Scripture in two months, with
d out mterrupting his daily agriculture
o labors.
3 THE following is verbatim copy of thu
d "remarks" accompanying the return OF |
9 postmaster out West II here by certify
that the four going A count is as near rit,
as no how to make it If there is emmy
Mistake it is not dun on Purpose"
THE London Netos says: "During th'
last eight years the odious practice o
q painting the face has been steadily grow
= ing, until, in the most conspicuous classe
d of society, the practice has ceased TO b
d the exception and has become the rule"
II ONE HALF of the lame horses through
out the country, says an exchange, ar
/ made SO on account of bad shoeing,s an
/ the loss Of the labor of a horse makes a
n a considerable item in the sum total OF tn
"a wealth Of nation.
FULLY one half the inventive genius
- - the world belongs to the United States
- During 100 years France and Englan
- = have each granted about $4,000 patents
- but within the last 40 years the Unite
81 81 States alone has granted more than lOO
- - 900.
= TIE Janesyille, Wis, Gazette says ths
is "a young lady who had been rendered
AZ position Ia our city schools for the comm
IN term, wrote note declining the appoin
ne ment on the ground that she had receive
se a better offer. She was married last Tue
IN day"
"a SOME idea of the magnitude of th
w work of taking the census may be game
o. from the fact that from twelve to httee
r. hundred volumes of one thousand pag
rs. each will be required in which to emit
w. the names of the individuals returned
as the Assistant Msrshals.
gs THE average age Of American clerg
to men. at death, is found to be "a, which
or a wears more than the longevity OF the ne
re most favored class, 10 years more than
ID, the other professions, and from IL TO
ed wears above that of mechanics, artisan
OF miners, operatives, and the Ike.
ra' A GENTLEMAN and wife at Portlan
a. ai Me-, who recently arrived at the digni
W on of "tin wedding" had the hall way
sS the house so stocked with tin pans, Kettle
20 and other ornaments, that it soon becaI
'as 90 impossible for the servant to answer I
na Ua door bell without going through the bal
,ts ment.
in IT is sometimes curious to notice nc
,ed sharp is the dividing line between cou
i ieu trv visited by a shower and that which
al not. A recent rain in San Diego was
w., W. curiosity. The shower was very hea
iIv in one part af the town, but beyon'
~ certain line near the heaviest shower
this a roof was wet.
md A PERSON in Boston who found
ath wallet of dealer in garden true
sed containing over 500, and returned II
HIM with considerable trouble, was