Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

A WATER-SPOUT-A teetotal speech.
A CAPITAL BusINEss-Lending money.
A "CHEsT PROTECTOR "A good pad
lock.
AWELcoME SHIP AT ANY TmE-Friend-
ship.
CATS are taxed three cents apiece in
Paris.
SANGUINARY REvoLUTIoN-Circul
of the blood.
OUGHT not hermit to call his house a
man-slun9
WHAT is higher when the head is off,
The pillow.
MIXING IN SocIETY-Taking your grog
with your friends.
School boys hear with pleasure of the
decline in the whaling business.
RELATIVES of the killed Cinnamon at
Los Angeles are suing that city for dam
age.
The HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE-Taking
shelter from the rain in an umbrella
shop.
SECURE-Tbe Washington Life Insur-
ance Company has CASH ASSETS more than
sufficient TO reinsure every risk
To LAwYERs-Can you make a blind
man liable for his bill, if it is payable at
sight?
THE lighting of one of the public gas
burners in the streets of Paris by flash
of Lightning is authoritatively reported.
Liberal advertisers are the men who
"mean business" Those who don't ad-
vertise only do mean business.
AN indignant gas consumer says that
there's no use in abusing the gas COM
panies, for they've always a vile retort
ready.
PUMPERNICKLE says that woman's
heart is the most sweetest thing in the
world; in fact a perfect honeycomb-full
of cells. Bee-ware.
IT has been estimated by Senator
Carpenter that the number of
lives lost in Wisconsin during the late
contiagration was from twelve to eighteen
hundred
CRUDE sign-boards aud curious signs
were improvised after the Chicago fire,
announcing whittier various establish
ments had fed. The following is a spec
linen: 'Owing to the recent warm snap,
Jones Il Smith have removed to"
AT Dubuque, the other day, horse
disappeared in the ground where leak in
the water main had washed away the soil
underneath, leaving the astonished rider
astride of where the horse should have
been.
BEFORE hanging a man in Louisiana,
they let from fifteen to forty reporters for
the newspapers interview" him for three
weeks. The poor fellow is then not only
willing but anxious to be hung.
THE Africans consider the white ant as
a rare delicacy. Mr. Smeathams, an Eng
lish traveller, prOnounces them to be deli
cate, nourishing and wholesome, resem-
bling in taste sugared cream or sweet-al
mond paste.
A MARRIED gentleman of Elizabeth, N
j., lost valuable diamond pin, which he
advertised in the Herald, leaving fifteen
dollars with the ok-keeper as reward
to the finder. His wife was the lucky per-
son. She took the pin to the Herald Of
flee and got the money.
THE poet of the Chicago Post gets off
the following
A tinker and tailor,
A soldier and a sailor,
newspaper reporter who couldn't get his
back pay,
Bank messengers and tellers,
And host of other fellers,
Are now carpenters and masons at S. day.
HERE is "A neat sample of personal
item from local journal in India: "We
are very glad TO learn that the marriage of
MIR. Rughoonathdas Madhowdas, Ku-
pola Bunia merchant of Bombay, with
Dhuncoorbal, the daughter of Shet Gud-
hurdas MohundaS, and the widow of Luch-
michand Dhurumsey, was celebrated at
Chinchpoogly.
A LETTER to the Universe contains
story of remarkably bulky taper having
been sent to the Vatican-no one knew
by whom--accompanied by a request that
it should be placed in the Pope's private
chapel, and lit during his mass. The re-
quest was complied with, and the Pope,
seeing it burning in corner of the chapel,
ordered it to he Immediately eXtinguished.
1t was opened after mass in his presence,
and found OF contain small Orsini shell.
A MEMBER of family in Germantown
! (Pa) was awakened few nights since by
singular noise, and arose on the lookout
for burglars, but was surprised to find
his alarm occasioned by two rats, who
had evidently formed partnership. One
rat was on the attic floor, rolling walnuts
to the top of the stairway, and then
throwing them off the top step, whence
they would roll down to the story below,
where his partner took charge of them
and rolled them into hole in the vicinity
of the stairway, where they were de-
posted.
! THE New Albany Ind Ledger of re-
cent date says This afternoon highly
romantic marriage took place in this city.
/ James A. Reasor, an old Kentuckan, of
! some fame as stock raiser, and author
/ of work on hog cholera, and Margaret
! Cleveland, of this county, were married
in the street, in front of the residence of
! the Rev. G. Hutchinson, the loving couple
/ rio in
| them, while the genial, good-natured
clergyman leaned against his fence, and
! with the rain of heaven spattering in his
face, pronounced the words which made
the couple happy
ONE of the drollest occurrences in the
| annals of gallantry is related of Gibbon,
the historian, who was short in stature,
and very fat. One day, being alone with
the beautiful Madame de Cronzas, he
! dropped on his knees before her and
made declaration of love in the most
passionate terms. The astonished lady
rejected his suit, and requested him to
rise The abashed historian remained on
his knees. :" Rise Mr. Gibbon, l beseech
you, rise" " Alas, madame" faltered
the unlucky lover, 81 cannot" He was
too fat to regain his feet without assist
ance. Madame de Cronzas rang the bell,
and said to her servant, "Lift up Mr..
Gibbon."
OVERwoRKED.
Pray, doctor, give me, If you please,
Some medicine for my disease
My health and courage are all gone,
And am weak and feeble grown"
The doctor felt her pulse, and said,
There is no cause for fear or dread
You've no disease, be not distressed
You need no medicine, but rest"
I've no disease why, how you talk
just see my tongue +; it's white as chalk
Look at it, doctor-look, indeed
And say, in truth, what does it need ?"
II you win keep 1t still and quiet,
'Tis all II needs; pray, madam, try it,
You overtask II at the best,