Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-19
MIsCELLANEOUs ITEMS.

bihO Dullb III lOOC.
THE French population of Vermont |
numbers 15,491 persons.
THE inexperienced make the best ho- |
tel servants.
Missouri has 027 miles of railroad, cost
ing SCI, 100000.
CALIFORNIA produces 100000 pounds
| OF quicksilver annually.
DIVIDENDS are applied IN the Washing |
| ton Life to make the policies larger.
Ara late fire in Fitchburg, Mass, a |
stesmer played for thirty-six consecutive
| hours.
THERE are twenty-one prisoners in the
| North Indiana State prison who are SEN
| fenced for life.
THE stockholders of the Washington
| only receive the interest their own money
earns.
SEvENTYFIvE brides sat down to din
ner on a recent Sunday at one hotel at
Niagara Falls.
TIE winner of floating match at Long
| Branch lay on his back three hours and
| forty minutes.
WHY are pimples on drunkard's face
| like the cuts in London paper? They
are illustrations of Punch.
THE Romanist population of the
French Empire is $4,000, ,664 the Prot
estant, 1901, ,l50; the Jewish, 15S,994.
WHY are country girls cheeks like a
good calico dressS Because they are war
rantcd to wash and retain their color.
A PANE of glass seventeen feet high
and ten feet wide, lately set up in New
York, is considered the largest in the
| country.
| SEVERAL young men of good families
in New York have been taken to the
Binghsmpton Asylum to be cured of
drunkenness.
On gate-post in front of farm house
near Indianapolis, is q sign which says
"No life insurance nor sewing machines
wanted here"
A SERVANT girl, in Toledo, frustrated a
burglars plans by throwing him out of
garret window to the sidewalk. He new
er recovered from the shock.
GEN. J. T. PRATT, of Wethersfeld, has
been q member of the Connecticut Legis-
lature for fourteen sessions, and during
them all has only been absent ten days.
A DISCRIMINATING young lad of our &C.
quaintance says that he likes rainy day
--one that is too rainy to go to school,
and just rainy enough to go a-fshing.
THE latest style in gold bracelets is in
the shape of fiuted muslin cuff, and is
made OF FURNISHED gold with diamond
button, and 3 ruby button hole.
"How about the small pox excitement
up your way?" asked one countryman OF
another. "Ohw was the reply, "irs dy-
ing out with the patients"
BENJAMIN GRIswoLD, of Cambridge,
Vt, now in his 7Ssh year, has just finish
ed reading his Bible through, by course,
for the one hundred and thirteenth time.
DIR. LRwIs SAYRE, of New York city,
has written pamphlet, describing three
cases Of lead palsy, resulting to ladies
from the use of cosmetics containing
lead poison.
A sMART young lawyers clerk, hearing
it stated by lecturer that imam is mere
ly machine" remarked, "I suppose an
attorney may be called Suetn9 ma
chine"
A FEMALE factory operative Of Water
! vile, Me died, short time sinse, from
the use of jute switches. The autopsy
revealed the fact that the skull had been
perforated by vermin, and the brain par
TALLY eaten away.
A WOMAN of Troy was lately brought
before justice, charged with stealing
sum of money from her husband. She
was dismissed on the ground that wife
could not steal from her husband.
EDWIN FORREST, at the age Of sixty
four, has recently concluded an eight
months season, in which he has Travelled
over six thousand miles, played in fifty
two towns, and averaged five perform
ances week.
OF six hundred and twenty-five mur.
ders committed in New York during
the thirteen years ending with 1858, the
perpetrators of one hundred and fifty five,
!, or one. quarter OF the whole number, have
never been discovered.
The champion shoemskers live al Lynn,
80 far as length OF service is concerned.
Edmund Lewis and James Barney have
worked at the trade seventy one and sew
enty years respectively, and now work
every day.
ALApY recently deceased in New Hamp.
. shire has left $500, 900 to found college
for Young women, wherein they shall be
taught all the higher branches of educa-
tion enjoyed by male students in other
establishments.
THE English papers report that in an
, action brought against the proprietors OF
Iloyd's paper for damages for not insert
! ing a newspaper advertisement correctly,
, the verdict was for the defendant, with
costs, on account Of the illegibillty CT the
, writing.
"WHAT is the chief use Of breads"
| asked an examiner at school exhibition.
t "The chief use of bread?" answered the
urchin, apparently astonished at the sim
pllcty OF the inquiry. "Why, to spread
. butter and molasses on"
CARE you not ashamed to begH" said
the philosopher Montague to strong
, healthy beggar, who was collecting aims
"you are certainly able to work" 60
sir" was the knsVe's rejoinder, If you
T only knew how lazy l am"
0 A YOUNG Italian, by the name OF Brado
e who is clerk at Indianapolis, has lately
. fallen heir to S1,000,000, a rich Italian
r having left his fortune Of $2,OOO,OOO II
Q gold to his two nephews, who proved tc
be Brado and his brother.
A RowDY intending to he witty, thut
d accosted lady in the street; Madam
4 can you inform me where l can see Tho
0 elephantg" ''No, but if had looking
glass l could show you a very large mon
s key" The rowdy sloped.
: A ROBUST hod carrier in New Hamp
j. shire, recently, carried barrel OF houl
from the sidewalk to the third story of |
: new building, and retarned with 1t upoI
his shoulder to the street, where he sol'
: the flour for eight dollars, and received |
Q handsome sum from the lookers-on.
THE old provsrb says, "every man Is {
: physician or fool at forty" Sir Hsrr,
Halford, distinguished physician, hap
pening to quote this old saw TO circle o
friends, among whom was Canning, tn
3 latter inquired, "Sir Harry, mayn't he b
4 both :"
:. A MAN in Concord, N H., has in hi
possession biscuit which was set upol
4 the table at the collation. given on Lafay
i cites visit to that city in 1926. 1t is OF
long in shape, has stamped upon 1t tn
q words, Welcome, General Lafayette,
and many of the letters can still be distin
7 guished.