Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-27
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In the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, Of New York.
AT Titusville, Pa, the other day, John
Gilpin raised 10-pound dumb bell 1850
times without stopping.
DEATH will stop all income Provide
for the change by insuring In the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Chicago.
RICHMOND boasts that, of the 1000 of
her citizens who died in 1870, only one
died of gout and four of intemperance.
THE last literary sensation is a serial
story in the new periodical, EVERY BOYS
MAGAZINE, founded on the extraordinary
romance of the Missing Earl of Aberdeen
In Galveston, Texas, an indignant father
whose daughter had married against his
will sent her for wedding present a
patent burial case.
THE Supreme Court has decided that
the stamping of note subsequent to its
date, is sufficient where no fraud was in
tended in the omission.
SMALL Boy Ito proud friend, with
weed on his hat).-"Well, you needn't be
so precious uppish about 1t neither as If
nobody else's father couldn't die except
yournp
A PHYSICIAN said of quack that che
was such an ignoramus that, If he could
take lantern and 60 down inside his
patients, he couldn't find out what the
matter was"
A MAINE sophomore tried to haze a
freshman, but came off second best. The
fresh" tied him into chair and shaved
his head, all but a scalp lock on the
crown.
THE Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas at indianapolis, Ind, has determined
that professional jurors-men who hang
around the courtroom for the purpose of
being placed on juries-shall not serve in
his court
THE Cinnamon in California, whose
means would allow, have all gone home
to celebrate the beginning of a new 1000
years, which comes in February. The
last celebration was in S70
"TAKE off youf bonnet, and spend the
afternoon, my dear Mrs. Slow We are
going to have tableaux tonight, and am
sure you will enjoy them" Law-sakes,
thought smelt something good a cookin'
and guess will stop until after supper"
A LADY who recently died in Boston,
at the age of eighty-seven years and nine
months, had lived in the same house from
her birth, and never heard sermon ex-
cept in the New South Church.
A LITTLE school-boy presented his
teacher the following note from home as
an excuse for tardiness: Baby cross Bis
cult to bake had no Baken powder the
dog upset the ekaughphy-pot the cat liched
the milk got up late Excuse"
A CATHOLIC gentleman, who was on
the point of being married, obtained from
his confessor his certificate of confession.
Having read it, he observed that the priest
! nod
you not tell me-" said the confessor, that
you were going to be maried?"
To GRAMMARIANs-The verb "is'
being singular and "are" its plural, does
it follow that Arabella is the plural of
Isabella, and must the latter necessarily be
as singular in disposition as in number,
and if so, must Arabella always be mar
ried woman, Isabella being single?
A MAN in Covington, KY, made bet
the other day that he could drink a pint
and half of Cincinnati whisky in twelve
hours. He won the bet, says the Louis
vile Courier Journal, and his widow re-
marked at the funeral the next day that it
was the first money he had earned by
hard work in ten years.
A FARMERS wife, in Contra Costa, Cal,
cut open a turnip, and found gopher dead
in its center. The little fellow had eaten
its way into the turnip, which had taken
new life and closed the hole, or else he
laid in its way and it grew around him
one of the two-the farmers wife says
At all events, the gopher won't go for any
more turnips.
THE details of the death of Mr. John
Walter, son ofthe proprietor of the London
Times, shows that it occurred while trying
to save his brother and cousin, who had
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lake in front of his fathers residence at
Bearwood, Berkshire. He had only re-
turned forty-eight hours before from a
tour round the world.
THE night editor of daily paper wrote
this head line to one of his cable dis
patches "The British lion shaking his
name" He was unable to eat his break
fast next morning when he found the
printers version of the matter staring him
in the face thus "The British lion skating
in Maine"
A THIEF of strongly religious impulses,
but imperfectly educated, made raid
upon the premises of a preacher named
Guild, in Nebraska City, the other night,
and captured a lot of shirts, sheets, cut
lery, &c. Next morning the bundle was
left at the door, with the following Rev.
Gild-Diddent no twoas minneisters hous
or woodent a took theas things. Hear
they is CONSCIENCE"
THE chairman of Western vigilance
committee, who was instructed to duck an
obnoxious citizen, thus reported to his
constituents; 1--WE took the thief down
to the river, made hole in the ice and
proceeded to duck him; but he slipped
through our hands and hid under the ice.
All our efforts to entice him to come out
failed, and he has now retained his point
of advantage some hours"
MRS. JANE p. THURsToN, the crazy
woman who sold the State of Maine at
auction, last winter, to satisfy her claims
against it, is at Augusta again, seeking re-
lief from the Legislature. She became a
monomaniac over real or fancied injustice
done her in the settlement of her hus-
bands estate. Though quite sane on other
subjects, she commits the wild eXtrava-
gances in relation to her supposed wrongs.
In Perry County, Pa, recently, Wash
ington Blair "treed" fox in hollow
after Reynard, and when on the top of the
stump, the wood, being rotten, broke from
his hold, and he fell inside to the bottom
the cunning animal making his escape
and leaving Mr.. Blair in the trap he had
intended for ITSELF After thirty-six hours
laborious work with pen-knife, the luck,
less hunter succeeded in whiting himself
out.
A FEW days ago the engineer of train
on the Boston & Albany road, having
run down market wagon, stopped the
train as soon as possible to learn the re-
suit of the accident. Upon dismounting
and looking on the platform connected
with the cow-catcher, he found man
well muffied up, with bag of oats and @
tub of butter by his side, sitting very com
, posedly, apparently on his way to market
He was not hurt in the least, though his
, team was made into kindlingwood.
A SMART girl in Minnesota popped the
:. question to her lover, asked the consent ol
his parents, procured marriage license,
ordered the wedding breakfast, the car
riage to convey them to the depot, and
had private conversation with the par
son, all on the same day. The young mar