Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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JOHN JACKSON, of Long Island, is aged
115.
THE Oldest tops in the world-Moun.
tain tops
MINERS are not always unhappy, al
though their hopes are always In vein.
CALIFORNIA paid $4,000 bounty for
gopher scalps last season.
THE utter most parts of the earth must
be that part where there are the most
women.
WHY does pretty girl need no mirror
B Because she is good-looking (g)lass her.
SELF
Miss KATE FIBLD, the lecturer, is ahead
OF most young ladies--she has one hun
| dred engagements on hand.
| WITHIN the past seven years, the sav-
ings banks 10 Maine have increased from
fifteen to thirty.six
A DAVENPORT Justice has married
| 1910 persons In eight years, receiving
therefor nearly $4,000.
Six hundred and fifty soldiers in Berlin
were married on the 3lst of July pre-
vious to their departure to the front.
THE announcement is made that at the
recent book trade sales in New York
city, the books brought on an average 10
per cent more than last year.
AT Wamego, a place in the extreme
West, is a shanty which bears the sign !:
"Here's Where You Get Meal Like
Your Mother Used to Give You"
In one district in Nebraska, eighty
voters have to travel from thirty to sixty
miles in order to deposit their ballot, and
oh
nearer home.
SYDNEY SMITH once said, in an aristo-
cratic party, THAT man, to know how
bad he is, must become poor; to know
how bad other people are, he must be-
come rich"
FIRST MoRMoN-"I wonder who that
blonde isP A nice figurel" Second
Mormon" Why, don't you knowP She's
your wife" First Mormon" SO she is
thought l had seen her before"
TWELVE bridesmsids, twelve grooms.
men, and twelve ushers are to help marry
couple in New York, in church where
the decorations are TO cost over 5000.
"THERE is but one good wife in this
town." said clergyman, in the course of
his sermon-the congregation looked ex-
pectant-"an and every married man thinks
he's got her." added the minister.
a BILL posted on wall in village in
the west OF England announces that "a
lecture will be delivered In the open air,
and q collection taken at the door to de-
fray expensss."
ScKNE in the Dayton Police Court
Counsel says: (Which side of the street
do you live on, Mrs KippeiH" "On either
side, sir. If ye go one way it's on the
lett if ye go the ;other way it's on the
TEAcHER.-"Look here, Johnny, sup
pose you had twenty sugar plums, and
you wanted to divide them into four
parts. You give five to the baby and five
to Gaylord-now what would you do
with the other ten?" Scholsr,-"Eat
'em."
A WOMAN travelling on the cars saw a
man in front of her put his head out of
the window, and asked him if he wouldn't
please keep his head in, as she had a new
silk dress on, and didn't want it all spat-
tered up with brains and such stuff.
A FINE brick building, which has just
been erected in New York at cost of
about one hundred thousand dollars, has
been condemned on account of the weak
ness OF its foundations, and must be taken
down.
The Osago Mission Journal of Kansas
says: "The wealthiest people in the
world are the Ossges. The tribe num-
bers 5000, and have, after allexpenses are
paid, 100 acres Of choice land per capita,
and $6,000,000 in money"
DIR. HURST, the Methodist professor in
Germany, writes to the Methodist, that in
Germany "the voluntary contributions
to the sick and wounded do not amount,
in individual cases, to as large sums as
occurred in our war, but the number of
smaller offerings is much larger. A
thaler, or half thaler, or even less, is the
rule"
A sAvANT says that if you kill mos
quito when he is drawing blood, the
poison remains in the wound. If, how
ever, you wait till he gets enough and
retires, no inconvenience will follow.
This may be right in theory, but the
practice of MASKING them on the spot is
much more satisfactory.
THE three scientific men who are to OBJ.
serve the coming winter on the top of
Mount Washington expect to be showed
in al the Tip Top House from December
till March, but will maintain daily com
munication with the lower world by tels-
graph. The room which they will occupy
is TO be lined with felt, and they ex-
pect to use twenty tons of coal during
the winter.
A CALIFORNIA reporter secured an item
weighing 150 pounds. Passing house,
he saw young lady lighting q fire with
kerosene, when he rushed in and threw
his coat over her in time to save her life,
and she wouldn't let him off without mar
rying her. AS she is worth million,
and is unhealthy, he accepted the situa-
tion.
A SCIENTIFIC French gentleman, DR..
Laborde, has announced the discovery of
an infallible means of distinguishing be-
tween real or imaginary death, by stick
ing a needle an inch or so into the sup.
posed corpse. The novel element of DIR.
Labordes discovery is, that, in the living
tissues, the needle becomes tarnished and
odorized, while, in the actually detunct, it
retains its polish.
ONa window pane at Demassville, KY,
is true figure of an arched rainbow,
about tWenty-four ipches in length and
twelve in width, with the colors OF rain
bow plainly visible, same as in nature,
So permanently is the imprint made that
it cannot be erased by washing with soap
and water, or by rubbing with any other
substance, aud it appears to have been
moulded in the glass.
In recent jumping match for $1,000
and the State championship at Utica, N.
Y, Loomis jumped first and covered thir-
teen feet one inch and half. Sarles fol-
lowed, springing over a space of thirteen
feet five inches and three quarters, beat.
ing his best practice distance and making
the longest spirit-level stand jump on rec
ord, After several Intellectual efforts to
emulate his rival, LOOMS acknowledged
his defeat.
A SINGULAR fate has bsfallen the wife
of master carpenter in Berlin. In the
space of eight years she has been made
three times a widow through war. Inthe
yesr 1884 her husband was killed at the
storming of Duppel. In 1865 she again
married carpenter, who was called mp
in 1865, and was killed at K@niggratz
About a year ago che again married car
penter, and he was killed at the battle Of
RezonVille on the 28lh Of August.
PUNoHIEELLo gives an interior view o.
a Western lawyers sanctum, into which
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