Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-28
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A SPOILED CHfLD-Ihe one that played
with the kerosene can.
THE mosquito, as public singer, draws
we'll but never gives satisfaction.
A PIECE of calico mile long has been
manufactured in New England.
The wicked man in New York is
said now to be a candle-maker.
THE managing editor of the New Or
leans Times has celebrated his golden we'd
ding.
AeAssIz, during the last year, has dis.
covered ten thousand different varieties of
the fly.
WHY does the fool who never laughs re-
mind you of the wisest manY Because he
Is Solemn'un.
THE Mutual Insurance Company, of Chi
cago, is the Oldest Life Company in Illinois,
and second to none i'm the Union.
MERCHANTS who advertise only once in
three months, forget that most folks can.
not remember anything longer than about
seven days.
THE "new-fashioned gentemen's hats y
are bell-erowned, and carry rim two
inches and half wide, with an upward
tendency.
A New JERSEY forger has recently
been sentenced to five years in the State
Prison on each of twenty charges of which
he had been found guilty.
If Micawber were living the longing OF
his life would be satisfied in view of the
new gipsy bonnet, which turns up both at
| front and back.
In Boston, a gentleman has just obtained
a verdict of $639 damages against drug
gist for negligence in putting up prescrip
| ton, which caused the death of the plain
| tiif's son.
IT is estimated that America, when hel
| productive power is fully developed, will
| be able to feed four times as many person,
as there are now on the face of the earth
A RESIDENT of Saratoga was suddenly
stricken with total blindness on recent
| Sunday, and on the following Monday his
sight returned to him as suddenly as he
had lost it.
THERE is herd of twenty-six camels il
| Nevada, used for CARRYING salt from tho
desert to the mills. They live on prickly
pears and sage brush, and are as easily breC
us goats.
A BUTTER train containing over 9,00t
packages passed over the Vermont Centra
Railroad recently This is said to be the
| heaviest train of the kind that ever passed
over any road in the country
A MAN in Albany, while tearing dowr
an old building, the other day, found :,
wellpreserved silver coin, dated t771, ant
bearing the image and superscription o
Ann by the grace of God"
The "man who dared" thus reveal,
himself in the columns of the Gin
cinnati Chronicle: "I wish to inform
those of my busy neighbors that
am not afraid or ashamed to acknowl
| edge that | was married to Cara Belle
Dickson, on the 10Th of June last, at the
residence of the Rev. p. of ST Johns Epis
copal Church, John H. Elliott.
JAMES TRAVIS
"WHAT?" Mr.. NJ" said a wedding guest
to clergyman, don't you drink wine at a
wedding?" "No, sir" was the reply, "Tl
take glass of water" But, sir" said
the officious guest, you recollect the ad
vice of Paul to Timothy, to take little
wine for his infrmity." II have no III
trinity" was the sententious reply.
THE night of the steamboat explosion
at Oswego, IA guest at one of the hotels re
quested TO be called at five o'clock in the
morning, and, on being aroused by the eX
plosion, with a rattling of windows and
wash pitchers, he spnng out of bed prompt
ly, calling out TO the supposed porter
That will do; you needn't make such /
! noise about it,"
A MAN in Leavenworth evidently think,
it is not well for man to be alone Hi,
wife lay very sick, not expected to live
| and, while in that condition, she heard hin
make proposals of marriage to the servant
| girl. That night the wife died, and wa'
buried the following day. The widowel
of day renewed his proposals To the sery
| ant girl, was accepted, and she is now en-
gagged in making her wedding garments.
THE Sioux City, Iowa, Ne,cs says: 4" One
of our physicians was called on yesterday
to visit a lady living near Perry Creek Or
examination it was found that a large ir
regular hole had been bored in her heaC
Just behind the car. A closer examination
| proved that vermin from her artificial hai
had forced their way nearly through tht
| bone. The doctor who attended her de
| scribed her condition as horrible.
Tue sister who nursed Marshal Mac
Mahon says that he never uttered com
| plant during the dressing of his wounds
No matter how they cut and hacked in tn,
| frightful wound, which completely travers
ed his thigh and in which a boy ten year
old might turn his fist around, not groar
was heard. Whatever was given him
whatever was done for him, his reply wa!
always, VERY well, my good sister"
ONE by ONE ...
| One by one the lessons are learned;
| Whether of good or i'll;
! One by one the deeds are done,
Each record OF life to ill
| One by one, in the book of life,
| Are written the names of men;
One by one our years fly of
| Returning never again.
| One by one. earth's Joys we prove,
And find that those most dear
| Are transient as the bubble blown
1 In the airy atmosphere
One by one the years steal on,
Till we see the evening star
| Whose light Is the only beacon
| To the brighter land afar.
| A LAWYER of Detroit advertised that ht
| would procure divorces at reasonable rates
A Wisconsin woman employed him by
letter to get divorce for her He repre-
sented that he had procured one, and sh,
married again. A few days ago she learn
that he had taken no steps in the matte
and had absconded, leaving many othe
victims. The woman was glad TO learI
that her marriage with husband No. wa
void, as she was already disglsted will
him.
THE Lafayette, Ind, Courier says: a.
| laughable incident occurred last night dur
ing the play;of The Lady of Lyons Ii
the scene where Beauseant attempts Il
offer personal injury to Pauline, CLAUDE
rushes in, and in the scuflle 20 rescue her
received n blow on the nose, which caused
the blood to flow freely. While he whC
impersonated Claude Melnotte perfectly
was bleeding profusely. Pauline, in tn,
sweetest voice, said: | am so glad tha
this affair has ended without blOodshed
Here is where the laugh came in, and thu
audience laughed most heartily"
Affecting Incidents.
THE late terrible floods at Harper's Ferry