Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-11
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| 1HE FIRST HYMN ON RECORD.-Adam
SOME husbands, though anything but
sharp, are awfully shrewed.
ONE ought to have dates at ones finger
ends, seeing they grow on the palm.
A $4,000 MONUMENT has been erected
over the grave of the late f. NJ Stanton.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid In cash in the Washington Life Insur-
ance Company, of New York.
THERE is but one good wife in the
world, and every happily welded man
thinks he has her.
REMEMBER, life is but a shadow; Its
date the intermediate breath we draw.
Insure in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
THE chap who took the thread of life to
sew the rent Of house, has gone and in
vented a patent point for cross.eyed nee
dies.
AN Atlanta, Ga, boy ate thirteen apple
| dumplings for dessert the other day. The
boy and the dumplins were buried In one
grave.
STATIsTIcs.-Of the 100t young ladies'
who tainted last year, 9S7 fell into the arms
of gentlemen two fell upon the floor, and
one into water-butt.
A PIN, carelessly dropped in the loom by
| u lCuldlO OpSIdbiNOi a lCW udJS hSOJ S)OllSu
seven hundred yards Of cloth in one of the
mills of Lawrence.
AT coal mine in Cooper County, Mis-
souri,, one solid block OF coal was taken
out, which, when broken into small pieces,
measured 600 bushels.
CALAIS, Ne, is nice place for young
men to go to. The local paper says that
| two thirds of the wealth of the town is TO
be inherited by young girls.
PUFFING and blowing are often consid-
cred as Synonymous terms. You Will dis
cover a difference, however, if instead of
putting man up, you should blow him up.
A FARMER in Laconia, n H., speaking
of the thinnesso of the hay crop, said, "The
grssshoppers have all got lame trying to
jump from one blade of grass to another"
In England the deaths annually from
consumption are $4,000, and it is com
puted that $4,000 patients are constantly
suffering from its wasting effects.
WATERBURY,, Conn, has Bachelors 8
League" whose articles of association
punish by heavy tine any member who
is seen twice consecutively in company
wife the same woman, and with expulsion
f ON the order for third offence.
LEANING over the grand-stand railing
one morning Was John G. SAKE "You
look like the monarch of all you survey"
said Fernando Wood, patting him on the
back. mo, | only have a lean on the
prOpGrty," replied the genial SAKE.
A NOBLE woman in Maine recently lost
her lifG: G:by her heroic efforts in saving the
lives of some of her neighbors whose
house was burning. Her clothes took fire
and she was so badly Injured that she
died iI>eight hours.
A NASHVILLE, Kys chap" went into
drug store in that place aid picked up a
bottle of hair oil, thinking it was per
fume. He saturated his handkerchief and
lapels of his coat with it, and now wants
to know which is the best kind of soap for
removing grease spots.
THE following telegraphic correspond
ence is a model of brevity and point: "Oil
Regions, June 49, 1871. To Miss Laura /:
Will you go TO the strawberry festival with
me to.night3 Please answer quick. Yours,
Herb" June Is, 1871. To Herb: Yes.
Harness up your mules. am fixing my
curls. Laura"
A LOWELL man, who had taken out a
marriage certificate one day recently, was
so disconsolate at finding the bride to be
dead drunk when he called at her house,
that he at once proposed TO another
woman ten years younger, was accepted,
| got new certificate, and was married, all
on the same day.
THE ruin of most men dates from some
vacant hour. Occupation is the armOr of
the soul There is satirical poem, in
which the devil is represented as fishing
| for men, and fitting his bait to the taste
and business of his prey; but the idler, he
said, gave him no trouble, as he bit the
naked hook.
THE distribution of carbolic acid
throughout the air of the room in which
patients are treated, so as to create what
is known as a carbolized atmosphere, has
been found to be productive of great
benefit, In India and Egypt, in the treat
ment of such diseases as opthalmia and
variola.
A NOVEL suggestion, proceeding from
| some humanitarian, is 10 stretch galVan-
lied iron wires across Niagara Falls, sus-
pended about foot above the water, for
the convenience of persons on their way
over the cataract. The author thinks that
reluctant tourists on that route would be
able to grasp the wires and tow themselves
ashore.
THERE is a driver on the Fifth Avenue
| Railroad, in New York, who carries a
whip which he has carried for eight years,
and it has the same piece of whip cord at
the end as it had when he bought it. He
has pet name for each of the horses he
drives during the day. and he states that a
re-echOing of these names once or twice
in the course of journey has a greater
effect than all the whips upon the horses.
A FARMER who went to Texas to buy
farm, was greatly prejudiced against the
county he thought to settle in, from the
fact that a doctor whom he called to at
tend him, when he was seized with a
fever, began trying on his clothes inme'
diately after writing prescription. The
fact that, while the doctor was trying on
his coat, the chambermaid was examining
his handkerchiefs and the porter was
struggling with his boots, lent wings to
his Imagination, and doubtless had an in
fluence in regard to his speedy exit from
the State.