Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-26
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neck's weak.
THE Mexican Congress sits forty
minutes day, for which each member
draws $40.
THE Directors of the Mutual Life, of
Chicago, are among the best men in the
Northwest.
THE town of Holyoke, Mass, has lately
voted TO dispense with policemen rs being
unnecessary"
THE workmen in Massachusetts paper
mill have found 800 in money among the
rags during the past month.
He that studies books alone will know
how things ought to be; and he that
studies men will know how things are.
A KENDALLvILLE, Ind, grocer bought
magnificent roll of butter few days
ago, and, upon cutting it, found about
seven pounds of good dairy salt slowed
away in the center of it,
A CONTEMPORARY says of very promi-
nent militia general, that his sword was
never drawn but once-and then in
rattle"
In Pottsville, Pa, magistrate with the
love of justice before his eyes, has sent
fellow to Jail for eight months for soiling
lady's dress with tobacco juice.
A CHICAGO paper generously remarks
of contemporary that Z" it has doubled its
circulation" but qualified the statement
materially by adding, Another man
takes copy now."
A FOND mother in Kingston, N. Y,
keeps an old-fashioned rocking chair
standing in corner as an ornament, be-
cause in it she had rocked ten babies, all
of whom grew up to be men, and are now
living and married.
A NEW YORK letter says: "The latest
bridal present appeared alta recent wedding
in novel style, for guests were attracted to
a piece of paper pasted on the wall, and
when examined it was found to be marked,
From papa 1t was a check for $50, 900,
which the bride feared might not be seen
and, therefore, escape the usual discussion,
considered enchanting by all young ladies
of similar calibre."
THERE is a man who often comes to
Hamilton, Nevada, whose nose is of such
extraordinary length that he can only
take liquids through straw or glass tube
he carries with him-the straw or tube
has to be inserted in the corner of his
mouth, as his nose will not allow it to go
in the middle. He must be a cousin to
the man who had to hire boy to lead his
nose around corners.
A MAN who attempted to commit sui
eide at Elmira, N. Y, explains the cause
of the act by asserting that, some seven
or eight years ago, in May, at Corning, he
was bitten by dog, which he says was
mad, and every year, between the 4th and
9th of May, he is visited by spells OF in
sanity. For days he knows nothing as to
his doings, and while under the influence
of one of these crazy fits he attempted
suicide the other day.
SOME of the Massachusetts towns which
| voted recently on the question of local Ii
censes are uncertain now whether they
voted yes or no, and must call in the
schoolmaster TO parse their ballots. The
town of Russell used the following form !:
g To sec if the town will vote that no per-
son be allowed to sell ale, porter, etc" The
vote stood II yeas against % nays, and
the moderator decided that the town had
prohibited the sale, but the decision is OBJ
jected to, the Springfield Republican
thinks, very properly.
A FRENcHwoMAN named Cross, living
] in Burlington, Vt, who for several months
has suffered from tumor in the throat,
so large that for nine weeks she was una
BILE to take solid food, and, at times, even
| liquids, had it removed a few days ago.
She refused to take ether, placed herself
on the operating table, assisted the sur
! geon in dressing the wounds, and then got
up and walked to her bed, unassisted. She
had been accustomed to work out doors,
chopping wood, and was very masculine
in her strength and habits.
DURING the past winter friend of ours
employed hard-working woman to do
jobs of scrubbing, etc, about the house.
He was accustomed, when he saw her, to
ask kindly questions as to her family and
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comprised complaint that her husband's 8
business was very dull. Noticing the fact,
Our friend asked her, one of the coldest
days in January, what her husbands busi-
ness was. He's a strawberry picker"
the woman replied. Our friend had no
difficulty afterward in understanding why
her husbands business was dull.
"RocKET contributes the following
sparks to the Boston Commercial Bulletin
Notwithstanding darkness reigns, it
may be very dry night.
" The color of the wind was discovered
by the man who went out and found it
blue.
"You cannot see any better with light
breeze, nor tell the weight of the wind on
a balance sheet.
"When the mercury stands at ninety de-
grees in the shade, you had better sit
down yourself; you may sit up, how
ever, all night.
"If you are out in driving storm, don't
attempt to hold the rains"
THOSE who are compelled to "hurry up
their cakes" may find the following va
riety, prepared for various callings, con.
venient to select from: The best cake foI
prize fighters, pound cake; the most suita
BILE for carpenters, plane cake; the most
relished by loafers, sponge cake ; the most
palatable to boatmen, current cake; the
most acceptable to hangmen, drop cake
the best for farmers, seed cake; the kind
indulged in by surgeons, cup cake; the
kind most used by topers, corn cake the
most healthy for plumbers, plumb cake
the debtors cake, short cake the garden
ers cake, the hoe cake; the one for sum
mer use, the cake of ice the one for dis
count, an oat cake; a cake not enjoyed by
any one, stomach-ache.
THE New York Ray says: "We hop'
none of our readers will be tempted by thu
seductive whitenesss and marvelou
cheapness of the sponges displayed b,
itinerant venders, to rashly invest ten
cent stamp in what appears to be beauti
full product of the seas. That unblem
ished tint is artificial, and the marvelou
) cellular structure dangerous. Certain par
ties make regular BUSINESS of buying VI
countless pounds of sponge which hav
done service at hospitals upon suppuratini
limbs and bodies and are positively con
tagious, though they may subsequent.
have undergone the process OF partia
publication in steam watts. The immacu
late purity is the result of the chemical &C
I ton of chlorine. The seeds of disease ar
undoubtedly conveyed within the sponge
, bought on the street; and an examination
of several reveals that the cleansing pre-
cess has been only partial. Whethe
these dangerous articles are procured b
= unprincipled men through the connivanc
= of hospital managers OF attaches, we d
J not know; but certain it is, that severS
institutions here, and at Philadelphia, hay
the reputation of disposing of large quar-
titles"
FROM Gloucester, Mass, comes tn
| oc a aatl;n.r hOat marry with a hrid,