Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-05
CURRENT ITEMS.
BADLY BrArrN-carnctr.

DIVORCES in Rhode Island are to mar
rlages as one TO fourteen.
No notes are deducted from the policies
at maturity In the Washington.
IT is hard TO respect cid age when one
gets sold on a venerable pair of chickens.
TIE smallpox, which still ravages Lon.
don, DESTROYED 25061 lives from 1s40 to
1870 In England.
THE dividends of the Mutual Life, of
Chicago, are paid annually, In cash or in.
surance.
THE wifeof Governor Clafin, of Massa
chusttts, has sewing class of 100 girls in
a charity school in Boston.
SoHoHARIE Co, N. Y, had q wedding
the other day, at which al the males pres
ent were over six feet In height.
A cfTlzEN of Montreal is under arrest
for refusing to tell census enumerator
the ages of his two unmarried daughters.
AT a recent wedding reception young
laly accidentally set her back hair on fire.
When IL was extinguished, she said she
was glad It wasn't her best
In a suit against ship captain in New
York for cruelty to his seamen, one of the
allegations is that he compelled them to
( eat sperm oil on their crackers.
IT Ia unjust to blame man who doesn't
advertise because his prices are high. He
has to make them high because his sales
are so small.
A CONNECTICUT school-boy has written
composition on the horse, In which he
says it is an animal having four legs, lone
at each corner"
A NORTHAMPTON editor brags of a cat
which killed nine snakes in one day late
ly, and laid up the insensate carcasses on
his front doorstep.
TIE strongest propensity In woman's
nature, says a careful student Of the sex, Is
10 want to know what is going on, and the
next strongest Is TO boss the Job.
A BLIND man who lives In Cambridge,
Mass always takes a lighted lantern out
with him when he goes into the street at
night People who can see are thus kept
from running into him.
An ingenious New Yorker has invented
pocket in the sleeves of gentlemen's
overcoats, so that lady can slip her hand
In when she takes gentleman's arm, In
case her hand should happen TO be cold.
A FOND father recently wrote: "It gen
orally takes twenty years of training to
eradicate that word nice from q woman's
vocabulary. The falls of Niagara, the
psalms of David, and the progress of the
human race were all nice TO my eldest till
abe g1t married"
A VERY singular bill has been presented
In the Pennsylvania Senate. 1t proposes
to grant permission to persons to record
before magistrate pledge to abstain
from the use of intoxicating liquors, and
Furnishing breach of the pledge so record
ed by imprisonment.
AN exchange thinks those postal cards,
which have the letter all written out in
plain sight, are going TO prove drawback
to the rapid distribution of mails, as every
post Office clerk will have to wait until he
reads the letters before distributing them.
"THAT man." said a wag, "came to
Nashua forty years ago, purchased a
basket, and commenced gathering rags.
How much do you suppose he is worth
nowp 1t was conundrum we could not
answer. Nothing" he continued, after
pause, "and he owes for the basket"
A WEDDING is soon to take place at
Pittsfeld, Mass, the parties to which were
engaged twelve years ago, but owing to
the Incorporate habits of the groom, the
match was broken of. and he went to q
w, stern city, where he reformed and be.
came prominent in his profession. Last
summer the parties met unexpectedly, re.
newed their acquaintance, and are to be
married shortly.
HERE il the most dog goned affectionatt
sample of amatory poetry that we have
ever seen:
When old Carlo sits in sally's chair,
I olI doL't wish that were there
Wien her fairy fingers pat bic head,
Oil don't v ish Lwas me insteadl
When sally's arms his eek inprison,
OIL dom wish nv neck was his'ni
When Sally kisses Carlos nose,
onl don't wish that was thosel
II SAIL tell you how it vas. l drinl
mine lager; den put mine hand on min,
head, and dere vos one pain. Den l pu
mine hand on mine body, and dere va
aUoder pain. Den l put mine hand II
mine pocket, and dere vas noting. So
\ jine NIT de Temperance. Now dere Is nj
more pain in mine head, and de pain il
mine body vas all gone away. put min
hand In mine pocket and dere vas dwent,
dollars. So shtay NIT de temperance.
A WOMAN committed suicide by hang
ing herself to an apple tree. At tn
funeral neighbor, noticing the sad az
pearance of the husband, consoled hin
by saying that he had met with a terribl
loss. Yes" says the husband, heaving
sigh "she must have kicked like thunde
to shake of six bushels of green apple
that would have been worth a dollar
bushel when they got ripe!"
A LUDIcRoUs scene happened at the pa
ace of William the First alter his return I
Berlin. The Emperor has an enormou
Newfoundland dog, whom he did not tax
with him to France. When WilliaI
entered for the first time after his retur
the hallway leading to his private apar
ments, the huge animal, recogizing b
voice, rushed upon the Emperor, and,
his impetuous Joy, actually threw WilliaI
the First on the floor. The Emperor roE
smilingly and caressed the dog.
FIFTEEN years ago young lady of CiI
cinnati, while visiting a friend in Ne
o.. York, left her finger rings upon her vasl
stand, and not hearing from her frienC
relative thereto, inferred that the cbambe
maid had appropriated them A few day
ago the Cincinnati lady received lett
from an old bachelor uncle, enclosing a lie
ter fifteen years old, written by her Ne
York friend, containing the missing ring
The letter had been entrusted TO the uncl
and he had put it in his pocket, and fro
that receptacle it passed into mass of o
papers, where it had slept quietly ev
since.
SOMEBODY asserts that admission fees a
TO be charged at fashionable weddin
hereafter Imagine big fence poster
'Grandest Nuptial of the season. T.
lovely - to the manly Sever
novelties never before presented Ne
music, new dresses, new properties. Tic
cts, 81; reserved seats (middle aisle)
cents extra. N. BAH persons occup
ing reserved seats are assured that the
full names will be mentioned in socie
papers,"
A TELEeRAPHIC FEAT-The Londt
inns of recent date says: "On Satu
y day experiments were made on the Ind
European line, ola Teheran, to work dire,
without any re-transmission between En-
land and India. Bombay and London int
changed signals perfectly, and comm,
cial message was sent to Bombay dire
by London at :59 p. m, and was instant
neously acknowledged. This is the fl
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