Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-30
CURRENT ITEMS.
D1roncrs-The turn of tho tled.


roll on the grass.
PEOPLE who come TO high words fire.
quently indulge In low expressions.
NOTHING so reasonable and cheap as
good manners.
Now is the time to insure in the Mutual
Life, of Chicago.
AN exchange says o horse sandwich is
an ear of corn between two wisps of
grass
CAPTAIN HALL takes with him, in his
Arctic voyage, a thermometer which will
register SO degrees below zero.
LITTLE fish have proper idea of bust
ness. Not being able to do better they
start on small scale.
A MAINE mans family of four sons and
one daughter have married his next-door
neighbor's four daughters and one son.
A WIDOW holding policy on her de-
ceased husband, in the Washington, gets
the money herself. 1t cannot be taken for
his debts.
"IMPERCEPTIBLE switches" are an
nounced for sale in New York. These, of
course, are for young ladies'; but what the
small boys want TO see announced are inn
palpable switches
THE Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma
sons, in session at Burlington, VT, recent
ly, unanimously voted to return to its ale
glance to the general Grand Chapter of
the United States, from which body it Sc
ceded in 1860.
A MAN in Albany was arrested for rob-
berry the other day on the flimsy preten-
tions of fortune teller that he was a
thief. The court not receiving such sort
of evidence discharged the man, and the
prosecution now finds himself in trouble
for false imprisonment.
A CRAWFORD Co., Pa, farmer, who
raised great crop of corn last year, says
the main crop of roots were, by measure
ment, found to be from seven to nine inch
es below the surface, without hilling, while
some of them extended to a depth of
twenty-five inches
JOHNNY" said one of the boys to a be-
reaved friend, who had just lost his father,
eyer behaved well at the funeral" ooh,
pshaw" replied Johnny, with the air of
one whose merits were only half recog-
nized, you should have seen me at the
| grave"
AT the session of the Photographers
! Convention, in Philadelphia, the President
stated that Professor Morse WAS the first
person who took a Photographic picture
on the American continent, and that the
camera which he then used is still in exist
| ence.
JOHN G. ROBERTS lived in Boston
house forty seven years. the tenant of one
family, until quite recently when he was
obliged to give way to the march of inn
provement and move. The family whose
tenant he had been so long, presented him
a silver service appropriately inscribed.
| Il. al.
wife?" well Squire" was the reply,
you must be green un TO AK me such
question as that. Do you suppose I'd be
such Plaguy fool as TO give up the bar
hunt and take this gal to the quilting
frolic if warn't conscripturously sartin
and determined to have her? Drive on
with your business"
! THERE are 80 inmates of the Illinois
State Penitentiary who are under Is years
of age-32 white and colored. Six were
sent for burglary and larceny; Is for bur
| glary o for larceny; for assault with in
rent to kill for forgery; for robbery
Hereafter all juvenile offenders will be
sent to the State Reform school at Pom
tiac.
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN left, in 1901, to
Boston and Philadelphia, each $1,000
! $4,000 to be loaned in small sums to me-
chanics. He calculated the fund would
reach, in one hundred years, over $3.50, 900,
and gave directions as to its investment.
The Boston TrdceLer says the Boston fund
amounts to $142, ,06S 80, and is well invest
ed, but the Philadelphia fund is less than
| $4,000.
LONG prayers furnished the theme of
discussion at the Young Mems Christian
| Convention in Washington. One of the
delegates asked: What do you do with
the people who presistently indulge in
long prayers?" The answer promptly
| given by another was Never give them
a chance to prayp instantly qualified by
another, who said Except in private"
In reply to a young friend leaving
town because some things in it were not
| exactly to her taste or content, an old lady
of experience said my dear, when you
have found place where everybody and
everything are always pleasant, and moth
ing whatever is disagreeable, let me know,
and I'll live there too"
MUSICAL criticisms nowadays run some
thing after the following style in certain
parts of the United States: Miss -
wore a rich purple suit trimmed with
a handsome shade of lavender, a white
over garment, tight-fitting, with flowing
sleeves, aud a white bonnet trimmed with
the same shades of purple and lavender
and she sang finely.
REV. THOMAS HANLoN, of Pennington,
| N. D., a school teacher of the Squeers
sort, recently whipped four pupils of his
school so cruelty with a rawhide that they
had to be helped home by their com.
! paniOns. His intention was to walk
through eight of them hut when he came
to the fifth his strength gave out. Their
olfense was bean-shooting.
IT is said that the improved lands in
South Carolina are worth $20,000 900,
while the fences that enclose them have
actually cost $l6,000,000. l'he fences in
New York have cost $l44 100000; those
of Ohio, $1l5, 100000; and, according to
an estimate made by Nicholas Biddle,
! thirty years ago, the fences of Pennsyl
vania had then cost $100000,000. The
fences of the whole Union are estimated at
$1,300,C00,000.
AN Ohio Judge has decided that the
words of common scold are not action
| able" In recent case where woman, in
referring to the guardian of her children,
said he could not spend SO much money
without using the funds of the ward" the
Judge held that they were not slanderous,
since they had their origin in a propensity
to. find fault with anything and every
thing
AT Boston, lady who had been injured
while returning on the street cars from a
church meeting of spiritualists at Maiden,
brought suit against the railway company.
The statutes of the State make all trav-
cling on Sunday, for amusement, illegal,
so that injuries received while so travel
| ing would not afford ground of action for
damages. The main legal point of the de-
| fense in this case was that a camp meeting
of Spiritualists was not place of worship,
but place of amusement. The jury took
different view of the matter, and re-
turned a verdict of $1,000 for the plain
tiff.
TINS story comes from Sharp Mountain,
| in PENNSYLVANIA: "TWO Vounp Girls a faw