Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS rTEms,
A LIGHT DRmK-Benzlne

A LIGHT DRINK Benzine.
THE RAW MATERIAL = Underdone
steak. n-.g
THE DRAUanTsMAN's PARADISE
Pencil l-vauia. 'H r. CTr
A PITCHED BATTLB-A fight between
two tars
Col Fisk spent $s5O,OOO pocket money
last year.
A MorTo FOR AN ARAB TRlBE--Up
and Be douin. ' =
A BIRD on the roast is worth two on
the roost.
DRrRKNa men, like drowning men,
catch at straws.
RUSSIA Furnishes drunkards by making
them sweep the streets.
LORD PALMERsToN once defined dirt as
matter in the wrong place"
THE Grand Jury of Baltimore re.
ported base ball as one of the gradations
of crime"
OF what feminine creature are you re-
minded on the completion OF buildihg2
A house-made.
UP to the 1st of September nearly 1000
persons had visited the summit OF Mount
w dSHluRLOu, Inls year
SoMRBoDY has discovered that in forty
years snuff taker devotes twenty-four
months to blowing his nose.
THREE young countrymen were fined
ten dollars each few days ago for loiter-
ing upon the sidewalks at Boston.
WAITER, this bit of turbot is not as
good as that you gave us last week."
Waiter" Beg pardon, sir, it's off the
very same fish"
THE Lewiston, Me-, Journal says there
isa little boy attending grammar school
in that city, thirteen years of age, who
weighs 1855 pounds.
PATIENCE is exemphfied in the man
who left his wagon while the horse
baked, and sat on stump and read the
Bible till the animal was hungry enough
TO go home.
A JOURNAL asks what is the difference
between soldier and fashionable young
lady and replies, "One faces the pow
der, and the other powders the face"
'IT is a curious fact" says some ento.
mologist, "that it is the female mosquito
that torments u.s." a bachelor says that
it is not at all curious.
CHEYENNE is three years old, and for
its 1000 inhabitants has a Methodist,
Congregational, an Episcopalian, q Pres
byterisn and Roman Catholic church.
THE Boston Post is responsible for the
statement that the mosquitoes now caus-
ing the English people so much discom-
fort are marked and branded Anew
jersey"
TIE State Prison at Auburn, N. Y,
has 800 cells, and there is new extension
now beiA. built, which will contain an
additional 90. Tho prison was founded
in 1917.
THE Louisville Courier says there is a
Servian Prince in the Prussian army
whose name is 80 long that company of
engineers have been ordered TO level
down the consonants and use it as a pom
toon. bridge. '-.rEF
PROF. KING, of Poughkeepsie, recently
made trip TO Westport, Conn, in his
balloon. The distance sixty miles-was
passed over in one hour and forty min
utes. The highest point he attained was
half a mile.
FROM the returns made to the United
States Marshal, it would seem that Ten
nessee is the healthiest country on the face
of the globe, and the most remarkable of
any for longevity.
A BOX containing black bear was re-
ceiVed at an express office in San Fran
cisco, the other day, with this Inscription;
"Black Bare. Eff yew don't want to get
bit, kepe yer fingers outen the crax,"
ONE of the amusements st Long Branch
is to watch the New Jersey mosquitoes
open clans with their bills on the shore.
Several of these useful insects are being
domesticated and taught to punch rivet
holes in steam-boilers
A RURAL Englishwoman had the right
idea when, finding herself unable to whip
her husband, she shouted to her son who
was up stairs in bed "Billl come down
stairs and lick thi feyther, or else he'll be
the mAisster O. tn whole house ~ p @s1
THE Bricksburg IN. J.) Times counsels
moderation in the use OF fruit 1t says:
"Three watermelons and dozen large
bunches of grapes form dessert ample
for any civilized man, and anything be-
yond that is not to be thought of, if you
care for your health"
A NEWARK merchant got up lot Of
fans with his business card printed there
on, which he gave to deacon to be dis
tributed at camp meeting, but that gentle
man turned an honest penny by hiring
boys TO sell them at 1--WE cents apiece, l
AN apprentice, one day, after dinner,
deliberately stepped up to his master, and
asked him what he valued his services at
per day. "About sixpence," said hismas-
ter. "Well, then," said the boy, putting
his hand into his pocket and drawing out
some coppers, "here's threepence I'm
OIL on the spree"
In the Third District of New Orleans
resides Jules Padre, SO years of age, who
Tor more Than thirty years has not had
tooth in his head. Some six weeks ago,
however, his gums began to itch and
swell, and very soon he began to cut some
teeth. He has now full mouth OF young
teeth, which are growing finely.
A WOMAN in Cincinnati raises forty
eight inches of hair on her head every
three years, and then sells it. Supposing
that she lives to be 10 years of age, she
will raise, allowing her ffty-one yeai of
the seventy to do this business in, seven
teen OF these crops of hair, amounting in
all to sixty eight feet of hirsute adorn-
ment.
A BANKER lent graceless scamp fifty
dollars IN the hope OF getting rid OF him !
but, TO his surprise, the fellow paid the
money punctualy on the day agreed
upon, and short time ai.erward applied
to him for another loan. "No," said the
banker; "you have deceived me once,
and am resolved you shan't do 1t a
second time"
THE mortality returns of England for
1883 record the death OF 179 men and 1856
women registered 40 95 years old and up
ward when they died; IL of these men
had reached 100 or upward, and one at
Cheltenham was III; 90 of the women