Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-03-31
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The Best PoLIoY.-A policy in the
Mutual Life of Chicago.
A CRATE NoIsE.--The one Won mako
putting on the Goals.
The greatest nutmeg ever known met
with crater.
AT last accounts poor Mrs. Partington
was complaining of chill brains.
PARoDox.-The greatest bores are al
ways persons of the smallest calbre.
The stockholders in the Washington
only receive the interest their own money
earns.
AN afflicted mother living in Dresden
mas lost In the war five sons and six sons
in-law.
A TENNEssEEAN uses as cane cab.
page stalk cut by his father while soldier
Of 1912, In Florida.
IF people would be comparatively safe
from Kerosene lamp explosions they
should ill their lamps by daylight
WHEN base ball clubs are victorious of
what mountain range should they remind
you?-Appe-nines.
BIsMARK's second son, who was so se-
verely wounded in the early part of the
war, Will remain cripple for life
AT Peterborough, ~ H., at a recent
Dlrth, the great grandmother of the child
acted as head nurse. The grandmother
was also present.
AT Pembroke, Mass, Mrs Robert Park
er and Mrs. N. G. Randall have been
elected overseers of the poor, and Mrs.
Sarah j. Brown one Of the school com
mittee.
A NAN in st. Louis has been guilty of
| one OF the most utterly reckless acts on
| record. He has defiantly thrown tempta-
ton In the way of his heirs by insuring
his life for $4,000.
1t is forty years, my old friend John,
since we were boys together" "Is it?-
well, don't speak so loud, there's that
young widow in the next room"
| AN old peddler, who has travelled over
New Hampshire for thirty years past, last
winter, for the first time, kept his cart
upon wheels never putting it on runners
for single day.
A BOY in Detroit has killed sixty.seyen
OF his neighbors' cats to get money to buy
his mother set of false teeth. He has
made quiet neighborhood where once
was a bowling wilderness.
PROFESSOR D. D. SMITH, at the late an
nual commencement of the PHILADELPHIA
Dental College, stated that artificial teeth
were in use among the ancient Romans
before the time of Augustus.
A POOR woman in Savannah, Ga, lately
put over the grave of loved son slate
on which was written his name and age,
with pane of glass ON the top of it,
which was stolen by some candidate for
the penitentiarY or gallows.
In Troy N. Y, number of profession.
al burglars were recently sentenced to three
years Imprisonment whilst poor outcast
who stole some food to prevent starvation
was at the same time sentenced to five wears
As the workmen were tearing down an
old wall in Reading, Pa, the other day
which had been built thirty seven wears
ago, they found lemon imbedded in the
mortar which had been there for that De-
riod of time.
GRAMMAR class, stand up and recite,
Tom, parse girls" "Girls is a particu.
lar noun, of the lovely gender, lively per-
son, double number, kissing mood, in the
immediate tense, and in the expectation
case TO matrimony, according to general
rule"
A KNOXVILLE, Iowa, physician was
called, one day recently, to attend an in.
fant whose mother had dislocated its
shoulder by lifting it up suddenly by one
arm. The doctor remarked that this was
the fourth case of that kind which he had
met in his practice.
THE Crown Princess Victoria of Prus-
sia, has declared her readiness to devote
two-thirds of her whole income during the
years 1871 and 1872 to the relief of wild.
ows and orphans of German soldiers killed
during the war with France.
FROM statistics gathered from reliable
sources, it appears that the loss of cattle,
from foot and mouth disease and lung dis.
ease, in England, in the last thirty years, is
5,549, $50, the value of which, at moder-
ate estimate, is put down at $419,OS4, ,270.
Col. BURR PORTER, of Newark, N. J.,
who was killed in one of the battles in
France, had taken his place at the head of
his command, drawn his sword, and was
urging his men to the fatal charge, saying
81 will show you how we fight in Amer.
lea" when he was hit by bullet
THAT full occupation for the mind,
without overtaxing it, is good preventive
of suicide, has long been held by investi-
! gators. In corroboration of this is the
fact now stated that only five suicides were
committed in Paris during the seige-an
unparalleled falling off of selfmuTder in
that city.
| AT recent woman suffrage meeting in
New York, one of the female speakers
proposed that the thirty-five thousand old
maids in New England should go West
and buy farms. This proposition was
commented upon and the opinion given
that, if they should, there would be fifty
thousand men after them.
A FEW days since, a couple of brakemen
on the Fitchburg (Mass.) Railroad, were
talking on the subject of eggs, when one
bet his watch against that of the other and
five dollars, that he would eat two dozen
eggs within five minutes. The bet was
taken and the eggs brought on. In less
than five minutes he ate the twenty four
adding that ''for one dollar more" he would
eat the shells.
AN eccentric man in Massachusetts, has
made and published his will. He gives
his body after his death to Professor Agas
siz and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to be
| placed in the museum at Cambridge, but
directs that two drum heads shall be made
| of his skin, ON which Yankee Doodle Z"
shall be beaten at the base of Bunker
Hill Monument, annually, at sunrise on
the nth of June.
A FEW days since Waterbury Conn
lawyer returned to the railroad ticket agent
at that place one dollar, overpaid him in
making change. For moment the agent
stood speechless; then, as the tears poured
down his cheeks, he grasped him by the
hand and exclaimed: "Please stand still
one moment, sir, and let me look at you
and alawyer, toor
Mr.. QUiRK, of Nashua, Iowa, is the
owner of an old sow. One night the sow
went into the stable, where a span of
three-year-old colts were hitched. The
SOW commenced biting the colts legs.
The colts did not relish that kind of treat
ment, kicked up amuss about it, and finally
drove the SOW out of the stable. The blood.
thirsty old poTcine then went into another
stall where there was a splendid grey
mare. The hog caught her by the ham,
managed to bring her to the floor, and sue.
ceeded in killing her, tearing out her
entrails.
| ABOUT the first of February, q little son.