Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,


residents, each aged over 105. ..a..
WOULD man be much tired If he pass-
ed a restless (k)night on horseback
TEE Philadelphia Press says "The
weather is as cool as rich relation"
JUsTIFIABLE STINaINEss. - Grudging a
friend the right to laugh at our expense.
A RECENT old folks party in Connect
cut aggregated LAO years, divided up
among 15 people.
TIE man who staked his reputation
was probably preparing for general sur
vey.
THE beer drank in the United States
in one year costs the drinkers twenty
millions.
A NEWPORT couple have just celebrated
their pearl wedding, having been married
for seventy years.
ACCORDING to the State law of Mary
land, potatoes must be sold by weight in
stead of measure.
AN accurate estimate shows that each
Indian in the United States costs the gov
ernment $3.50 annually.
Horace Greeley's farm in Hamden,
Conn, which cost him $500. was sold,
the other day, by auction, for $S,65O.
THE young lady who fell dead-in love
with a young geDtleman-immediately
revived on being asked to name the day.
Mrs PARTINGToN says that since the
invention of the needle.gun there is no
reason why women shouldn't fight as well
as men.
TIE waves brought intelligence to Bos-
ton of recent terrible storm at sea, four
days before it was heard Of from any
other quarter.
"SHE isn't all that fancy painted her."
bitterly exclaimed rejected lover "and
worse than that, she isn't all she paints
herself"
In private dwelling in York, Pa,
twelve hundred mosquitoes were killed in
a week. OF this number 62S were caught
in a room in one hour.
A LITTLE boy having broken his rock
! ing-horse the day it was bought, his
mother began to scold him, when he 81.
fenced her by inquiring, What is the
use of a good horse till it's broker"
NEXT year completes thousand years
since Alfred the Great, founder of the
| University of Oxford, ascended the Eng
lish throne. The English are proposing
to celebrate the occasion.
SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON says that it is
rs certain as it is that the weights of a
clock will run down, that planet after
planet, age by age, will creep into the
sun, and not one escape its fiery end.
THE Patrons Of Husbandry, in Missouri,
have side degree into which they initi-
ate horse thieves. After the ceremony,
nothing can be seen of the candidate, and
the ground is all nicely sodded over.
THE Rev. L. j. Fish, of Adrian, Mich,
writes from San Francisco that California
has over LOCO insane in her asylum, and
| believes this great number is TO be attribut-
ed to the exciting life of the Pacific coast
THE New Jersey State Prison contains
! 515 prisoners, including 26 females
Three hundred and seventy are engaged
IN the manufacture of shoes, turning out
daily 1900 pairs.
A BAsHFUL youth was lamenting to his
paternal progenitor the ordeal of popping
the question. "Pooh p said the patri-
arch, chow do you suppose managed ?"
"YOu," responded the hopeful; "you
married mother, and I've got to marry
strange girls"
The directors of a fair at San Antonio,
Texas, October 9th, propose that every
lady in the State shall send a photograph
of herself to the fair, and committee
will select the most beautiful and have
picture painted of the lady, according to
the photograph, and present it to her as
a prize.
az don't care much for a quiet baby
but dOte on a squslling one," said an old
bachelor. "Why, how strange" admir-
ingly chorused all the mothers in the
room. "Not at al, !" responded the bach
elor, because, you see, as soon as brat
begins TO squan it's always taken from the
roomp
A MAN much addicted to drinking, be.
ing extremely i'll with fever, a consulta-
tion was held in his bed chamber by three
physicians, how to "cure the fever and
abate the thirst" "Gentlemen," said he,
az will take half the trouble off your
hands; you cure the fever, and l will
abate the thirst myself"
THE San Francisco butchers use no ice
for their meat, and need none. In that
dry climate meat keeps long time with
ont ice, and improves rapidly as long as
it remains sweet. The consequence is,
the butchers can keep their meat several
days before exposing it for sale, and it is
then tender and in the best possible con-
dition for the table.
A PHYSICIAN being summoned to YES
try to reprimand q sexton for drunken
ness, dWelt so long on the sexton's mis-
conduct, that the latter Indignantly re-
piled: "Sir l was in hopes you would
have treated my failings with more gen.
tleness, or that you would have been the
last man alive to appear against me, as
have covered so MANY blunders of yours I"
JOHN V. FARwELI, the senior partner
of John V. Farwen & Co., since the great
Chicago fire has made the muniicent be-
quest Of $4,000 towards establishing
library for the Young Mems Christian
Association. The disastrous confiagra-
ton, it appears, has not exhausted his
means, dried up the fountains OF his char
tiles, or even left the smell of fire on his
garments. Such men deserve prosperity.
THE following scene recently occurred
in a court OF justice, between the judge
and Dutch witness, all the way from
Rotterdam: "Whst is your native Ian
guageP" 81 pc no native" What is
your mother tongueP' "Ich hab no
mudder, mynheer.6 "What did you first
learn9 What language did you speak in
the cradle ?" 81 It'd not speak no Ian
guage in the cradle; only cry in Dootch."
Then there was general laugh, in which
the judge, Jury, and audience joined
The witness was Intercepted no further
about his native language.
| w luuoO hSSP BOuu OOulp0hJl DOSVJ1
or not any at all. This is a fact. Even
an apple is known by the company it
keeps. Grandpa Parlin says if you put
apples in potato bin, they won't taste
like spples--they'n taste like potatoes.
Sometimes l think, Dotty, you'd be as
good and nice as q summer sweeting, if
you wouldn't play with naughty children,
like Lima Rosenberg; but ii you do, you'll
| be like potato, as true as you live.
Finis. &c OliOer Optics MagGsine.
A sTALwART soldier from Pomerania,
whe almost tainted at his arrival in Ber
lin, from the terrible heat in the crowded
cars, was tenderly cared for by one OF the
ladies of the Sanitary Committee. She
pressed large bottle Of eau do cologne
into his hand, and then fastened to pro-
cure him some refreshments. Fancy her
astonishment when she returns TO lind
her patient standing hale and hearty, who
hands her the empty bottle, which he had
| drained TO the last drop, with the remark
| that tho drink had rafreahpd him WOnlar-