Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

TIE militia of Pennsylvania number
10000 men.
HARRIsBURe, Pa, contains 6S5 more fe-
males than males.
THE policies of the Washington are
| liberal as to travel
VIRGINIA has half million members of
the Order of Good Templars.
A Stow MAToH-The marriage of a
couple after thirteen years courtsbip.
| THE Mutual Life of Chicago makes all
its policies non-forfeitable.
A HISTORY of Tobacco" is announced.
1t should be illustrated with fine cuts.
THE city of Boston paid $21 ,2S5 during
the last year for bathing 1,397,014 men,
women and boys.
THE sagacious A. Ward once said he
thought it rather improved comic paper
| to print joke now and then.
THE man who is too poor to hire his
boots BACKED and too much of gentle
man to black them himself, wears dirty
| boots.
! In Norfolk the indolents proposed to
organize lazy club but failed on account
Of the party being too lazy to sign their
names to the constitution.
THE State Inspector reports 628,07 bar
| IGlS vi salt ldSJ
year-being an increase of nearly 10000
barrels on the product Of the previous
year.
A LADY, aged G1, in England, finding
herself on the wrong railroad train, leaped
| from it when it was running at speed of
forty miles an hour, and escaped without
any injury.
DoBB, the portrait painter, says that
| IL,
stance, search warrants should be printed
on q tracing paper" and wedding notices
on FOOLS cap"
A MAN in Essex, Mass, refused to have
the pegs ofa new pair of shoes he was
that case the boy would run all over town,
and the shoes wouldn't last him three
weeks.
THE Superior Court in Cincinnati de-
cides that wife has vested right in her
husbands society and companionship and
can maintain an action for damages against
any person who tempts him to stay from
home.
CINCINNATI has a divorce case, the par
ties in which aggregate 130years in age I;
and the plaintiff complains of cruel treat
ment, and that she had to fish for a living
while her husband was drinking whisky
out of Britannia teapot.
THE doctors are not all agreed about the
use of the sewing machine being injurious
to health An eminent French authority
denies that any evil effects have been ex-
perienced by women operating machines,
within the range of his observation, which
| is extensive.
"HAvE you ground all the tools right,
as | told yOu?" said carpenter to rather
queer lad whom he had taken for an ap
prentice. "All but hand-saw, sir" re-
| piled the lad 81 could not get all the
gaps out of that"
IT was once observed to Lord Chester
| field, in the course of conversation, that
man is the only creature endowed with
the power of laughter. "True," said the
earl, and you may add, perhaps, that he
is the only creature who deserves to be
laughed at.
KARL, aged five years, has brother a
few weeks old. Nelly, little girl of nine
years, meeting him, asked if he was not
| glad to have little brother to play with
With a shrug of his shoulders, Master
Karl replied, "Play with He can't wash
his own face"
A ROMAN father, of Bridgeport, Conn,
| had his son arrested the other day for rob
bing him of some small change, and the
penalty adjudged by the court was fine
| of $17 and costs, which, as the culprit was
minor, came out of the pocket of the
plaintiff, whose reverence for the majesty
of the law has undergone trifling modi-
| tication.
A PHILADELPHIA Judge has picked up
somewhere the absurd idea that witnesses
are not criminals. He rebuked lawyer
| for badgering one in a late case, and laid
down the astounding proposition that a
witness should be treated in the same man.
ner rs any gentleman would treat a visitor
to his house. The lawyers talk of having
him impeached or sent to lunatic asylum.
THE other day the front door of the
| New York Tribune Office had to be closed
for some purpose. So Mr.. Greeley wrote
on piece of paper, Entrance on Spruce
street." and sent it down to the man who
does the painting Of the bulletins, to be
copied The man studied over Greeley's
tracks all the forenoon, and finally, in de,
spair wrote Editors on a spree" and
posted it up.
A LITTLE four year old had been intent
ly watching the process of corn-popping,
on a stormy day in the beginning of win
ter. Happening to turn to the window,
she observed for the first time the falling
snow. Amazed and delighted, she ran to
her father and exclaimed "Oh, papa, do
look at the funny rain; it's all popped out
whitep
SOME diamond merchants write to the
London Daily Nelos to observe that the
public needn't imagine that it is going to
get these stones cheap and good because
of the discoveries at the Cape They de-
| oil hat 1n iI11nnC there
and that most exaggerated estimate of
the value of the stones is the consequence,
A parcel consigned, valued at $4,000, was
found to be worth less than $40O.
A RESIDENT of the st. Lawrence county
IN. " Jail has discovered new use fol-
soap. Having thoroughly soaked his right
arm in soft soap, he was able to thrust il
through bars that would scarcely have ad-
mitted an infants, and then unlocked the
door, when, by the connivance OF friends
outside, he made good his escape
A FELLOW stopped at hotel at Pixies
Peak, and on settling his bill the landlord
charged him 81 day for five days. "Didn't
YOU make a mistaken" said the fellow
mo" said the landlord. "You did" re-
torted the wiry-looking fellow, "you
thought you got all the money | had, but
you were mistaken. / have purse full IL
another pocket"
REV. Il. X. BEEcHER of Elmira, sale
something unpleasant about II, B. Smith,
Congressman elect from that district
Smith remarked to him that those state
ments were conspicuously ineXact Beech
er exclaimed, "Do you want to get up {
quarrel with the Beecher family?" "No
sir" said Smith, but want to know i
you intend to get up fight with the Smitl
familyg' And peace was restored betweel
the two great divisions of the humal
family,
JAMES Fisk, Jr., explains what h