Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

|
a TABLE OF INrEREsr The dinner
table. .-.. ,,i,t gi.,'J .,.f1
PLANTis the name Of a Washington un.
dertaker. bro lif'.ale ~ -s1 sI
THE BEST PoIlcY-The Washington
Life Insurance Policy. ~,
THE New York asylum for inebriates is
crowded with PATIENTS, -.se
+ CALIFoRNiA acorrs, It is said, when
dried, can hardly be told from chestnuts.
The Central Railroad has 1,4OO miles Of
fence along its line in Illinois,
IT Is estimated that 300, 600 persons have
settled in Texas during the last year.
FoRTY Wholesale stores Of indianapolis
sell $6,000,000 worth Of liquors annually.
Or sewing machines, 320,G60 were man
ufactured and sold in this country last
year -1 .ft ~ o .ca'i ; al
WHEN Paris was found to be too tight q
place for the Bank of France, the bank
was taken to another plaoe-Tolllouse. ~.
The Toronto Chnrch Herald notes, with
evident satisfaction, a falling off in the sale
| of American books in Canada. t.,.
i. SEvENTY-FIvE bushels Of apples of fair
| quality were sold by auction, a few days
since, in Grafton, vt, for one cent a
| bushel. ..r' ..,..,t .,.ts
| III 4 r
| Provide for your creditors if you have
any any way, increase your estate by in
! suring in, the Mutual Life Insurance Com
paiiy, of Chicago. '',- -' '' '- 9i'
FIGARO says that if :" Whatever is is
right" it follows logically that whatever
isn't is right also, which makes things
nice all round. fss So i5sa tlt
FIFTEEN hundred divorce suits are on
file in the Massachusetts Supreme Court,
which has exclusive cognizance Of such
cases in that State, q ,..,f.,
! A. SCHMIDT, of Sioux City, has horse
| that unties a bow knot with his teeth,
filings the loose end over his neck so that
twill not be in his way, and goes home.
AN Arkansas paper, in elilogiEing one
Of the female performers at n vocal con-
cert says -" Her magnificent and slliAfully
managed voice brought down the house in
several pieces" Lucky it didn't all come
! down at once. 81. . ..,...
In Lowndesboro, Ala, a few. days ago,
100 mustangs were turned into lot where
grew the "sneeze weed" The next day
twenty of them were dead. -''a 'f''
THE other day, conductor on the Tole-
do, Wabash & Western Railway, while the
| train was running at its full speed, shot
\ and killed quail ON the wing, at dis
tanee of about 50feet, with q small Derrin-
ger pistol sa a,sIi -z5.l 10 80 ,,,s.4
l. "DEATH from oyereating was the
verdict of the Coroners jury in the case
of a London woman, in whose stomach a
poa mortem examination disclosed a pound
and a half Of solid food = r'g..
9 "WHY Emily, how do you do?" '"I'm
very well, Julia / celebrated my wooden
wedding last week ~ " Why, / didn't
know YOU were married. How did you
celebrate it?' "By marrying block
headr F
! A MOSQUITO taper is a Pittsburgh inven-
ton. Itcreates such q smell when burn
ing that the mosquitoes ask to he excused.
1 1t drives human beings out doors, also,
which is its only defect
| A JEwELRY dealer of Pontiac, Mich,
was engaged to be margied to young lady
of that burg. He failed to come to time
on the wedding day, and gives as an ex-
ouse that he didn't feel well enough ae-
quainted with her" ,..... -e..
| THERE is said to be one passenger
train on the Burlington & Missouri River
I Railroad, not trainman Of which, con-
4 ductor, fireman, engineer, brakeman, bag
gageman, or Post Office Fman, cliews or
4 smokes tobacco or, swears .-,1sat ~ sf.
"a LITTLE girl WHO had just laid aside
her slate in order to adjust her stockings,
was asked by her mother: What are
i You drawing on your slate, Emma! :" "
amt drawing on my slate, she answered,
"I'm drawing on my stockings" ..,
/ AfRs. Bottles has knocked one obiec-
tion entirely cut of sight by the state.
ment that an invention has been per-
4 fected in Boston by which infants can be
satisfactorily and continuously rocked
while the Women so to vote,
AN italian named Bruzzo was lately
sentenced to, the State Penitentiary IN
i California, who admitted that he was a
professional murderer, and that he had
4 once killed his friend for thirty ight
dollars. This, he said, was a big price in
Italy. 7- 17A '.'is1's lot
A POOR but honest youth at Whining
ton, N, c., was recently encouraged to be
good and virtuous by a reward of 10 cents
for finding and restoring to the owner a
pocket-book containing $435. The indi-
I vidual whose liberality was thus strikingly
tested is said TO beexceedingiy wealthy.
A DEs MONIES printer went farming
last spring He planted an acre of fine
land with some excellent cabbage seed. In
the fall he harvested from thai. acre an ex-
traordinary good crop of fUtd6dgdS, He
marked the large vegetables "wrong font, p"
took them TO market and disposed OF them
4 to good advantage afi
liz recounting the signs of the times as
4 bearing upon,the Adventist theory OF the
earth's destruction, at the Concord IN. H.)
church on o recent Sunday evening, one OF
the cheerful prophets of speedy annihila-
4 ton affirmed that there were more earth
uuakes during the last five years than dur
ing the preceding twenty-five hundred
4 years. ss. ,E. ..g. .~a- .rt.
WIN. GLAzIRR's children, in Bremen
county, Iowa, made a playhouse between
two of his hay stacks In order'to snake
tea" they needed a fire, and made big one
-out Of fifty tons of hay and a large barn
near by. One of the children but just es-
capped with its life. Juvenile tea parties
are not as popular in the family now as
they were. '''4 is sa'reat
Nor IN VAIN.-''. ,+rh- i.1- se
Let me not deem that Twas made In vain,
~ Or that my being was an accident, .
I ~ Each drop uncounted In a storm OF ram
= %. Hhthits own mission, and WAS duly sent
To its own leaf or blAde, ,not idly spent
l., b Mid myriad dimples on the shinless main.
The very shadow on an insects Wing,l ,
For which the violet cared not while II stayed
tu t' Yet felt the lighter for its vanishing,
n.5 Proved that the sun was shining by its shade.
4 FHtRsr9 gent enters the baP-room of {
frst-class hotel early in the. day; "Land
! lord, guess I've got sense enough to take
drink this morning obsequious bar
tender furnishes the required beverage, ant
the thirsty gent smiles, smacks his lips, ant
remarks "Well old top, that's prime, bu
I'm cussed if I've got cents enough to pay
for'it !" Exit with flying oolors,) .. ,.,
The celebrated physician Doumouriel
! was surrounded in his last moments b.
,, several distinguished doctors of Paris
Il -fleaye behind me three great physicians.
On their pressing him to name them hi
bFfefy -addeda Water, Exercise ant
Diet" to the no small discontinue of hi
! disappointed brethren.
!. A LITTLE boy was advised by his fathe
! to use illustrations in his converse when
ever they should occur to him, " for" con
/ tinued the parent, there is no more forci