Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

KY-LIGHTs--Aurora displays.
The most popular men with the ladies
-Hy mon.
THE Cherokee Indians observed Thanks
giving Day
REV. WIN. H. PATToN's ADVICE" To
each fellow man we say: Go thou and do
likewise Insure in the Washington.
A TELEGRAPH operator claims to have
patches can be sent over the wire at once.
THE Mutual Life of Chicago does safe
and reliable business, receives its pre-:
miums in cash and promptly pays its losses
n cash. -,+.-.. .- ~. 5, 3.
THE amount of income collected in
Cincinnati by the Government, from per
sons who have made false returns, and ap-
peared in the court to confess judgment,
has been nearly $25000 this year.
THE Presidents late Message contains
nine thousand three hundred and twenty.
seven words, as reported by telegraph
operator who made the count ah
MR.. GREELEY, on being asked by a
Pennsylvania farmer why he didn't write
new work entitled " What / Don't Know
of Farming" is said to have replied that
life was too short. eu 80 iaa.ul ..
OLD GENTLEMAN Now, you children,
I'll tell you what it is, if you make any
more noise in front of my house, I'll speak
to that policeman" Chorus of juveniles
(much iickled): "That policeman why
we amt tafeered of i'm that's tcther@
JENKINS undertook to quote poetry in
praise of woman, but got his authors
slightly mixed as follows:
80 woman, in our hours Of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
THE Fond du Lac, Wis, Daily tells the
story of q youth who, in attempting to as
tonish Oshkosh with feats of jugglery
forced piece of wire up his nOstril SO fal
that the services of surgeon were neces-
sary to extract it. s.asW,.. 'a.
- A COUPLE were married at Great Bar
rington, Mass, on a recent Tuesday, ano
on the following Saturday the husband re
| turned the bride to her mother. He sale
he wasn't in the habit of being kicked out
| of bed by woman, and he wouldn't stand
it. She had bitten him, too. a-,
IT is claimed that rats may be effectually
driven away by powdering with common
red pepper the holes through which they
| get into the houses. So simple q way oi
ridding the place of the vermin ought al
| least to be tried. q' .ru. ..f.o 4tss.f.0r a
AN individual who claims to have giveI
years to investigating the lottery policy
business in the United States, says, ther'
are 10000 policy shops in the country
supplied by 81, 900 players, who afford the
4 prOpfietors, at a minimum estimate, SIG,
100000 of profits yearly. p
A GUEST at the American House, Nor
wich, Conn, recently lost pocket.bool
containing 5000. A servant found anC
Immediately restored it, when the lose
manifested his gratitude by offering her |
reward of forty cents, -'', t
l.. A NEW dodge of the confidence me-
and pickpockets on the railroad, is to stea
a travellers checks and present them I
thu conductor, telling him they had thei
pockets picked, aud that he can hold tn
checks as security for their ride.
| JUDGE GILLESPIE, of the Madison an
St. Clair Oily Circuit Court, has sen
Charles Russell, a telegraph operator, tw
years to the Penitentiary for forging tn
name of Mr.. Van Horn to q pass owe
the Chicago, Alton g. St. Louis Railroad
I TIE following address was on a packaS
received at the Adams express ofice
This package csntains a "duck Of bsnnsAel
Exprsssmon. / pray you place nothing upon III
Tit mShs OF aHbbon, q straw aud 9 feathsfx
rs owSss, wass ni dsaseI, i youthful and fsif
but, like Flora Nor limsey "has nothing 70 wear
Ssd swssS sS: S' sE.s sG1 md VIII spec sDss
AN old citizen Of Trenton, n, j., name
Eldridge, who kept 10000 worth
United States bonds and other secuau'
) in his wife's work-box, which he place
| sult nd oil