Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-04
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Who is the first boy mentioned in the
BibleS Chap. 1.
A SOCIAL glass to which the ladies are
addicted-The mirror.
NEVER undertake to fasten door with
a lock from your own head.
WHY is q calm man like a school teach
err Because he keeps cool.
A MAN may not like the fashion of
his nose although he follows it.
The chieftain of the Creek nation Is a
thoroughbred negro.
MANY hands are employed in printing,
but we have seen footprint.
@"I SEE through it," as the washer.
woman said when the bottom of the tub
fell out.
A RAT thatmeasured twenty four inches
from tip to tip, was killed in Dubuque
the other day.
A VAMPIRE bat was caught In Nspa,
Cal, the other day. 1t measured eighteen
inches from tip to tip.
Mrs JOHN SHAW, of Bakerville, N. j.,
tore $3,400 in greenbacks to fragments,
"heoause she wanted tor
A FURNITURE man is said to be the
LATEST member of society, beoause he
keeps chairs aud lounges about all day.
A LADY wrote of her lover, who had
become insane, that "he had gone out OF
bis mind, but had never gone out Of
hers."
WILLIAM, who is an undersized clerk In
a dry goods store, objects to being refer.
red to as that little dry goods Bill.h
A PRETTY sourenir of European travel
Is an alpenstock bearing the names of
all the mountains climbed by the owner
MosT people have heard of dead wall,
but correspondent writes to say he has
actually got living room in his house.
A. T. WMLMARTH, Vice-President of
the Home, of New York, is policy hold
er, stockholder and director of the Wash
ington Life.
STOCKTON, Cal, has a musical prodigy
in the person of a 5-year old boy, who
performs the most difficult music on a
tiny violin with consummate skill and
grace.
BECAUSE vessel sinks should be a
good reason why she should not be de-
stroyed by fire. Yet the schooner Bound
Brook, laden with lime, ran ashore near
Rockport, Me, recently, filed and burned
up.
A SUMMER boarder, of Shakespearian
Richard Ill because it is "deformed,
unfinished" and "scarce half made up.''
IT really requires more delicacy OF
touch, better acquaintance with the in.
ner emotions of the heart, and grander
pathos of sentiment to make a declara.
ton of love than it does to put up a
stove.-Ddnbury Netcs.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Richmond
. \ \ tAnN A1,,
under the celebrated Natural Bridge is
now dry, the water having forced pas
sage through the sandstone bed some
distance above the bridge.
WHEN you see an old gentleman oil
sixty on clear bright day, carrying a
blue cotton umbrella, tied tightly about
the waist with a hoe-string the um,
brella tied, not the old gentleman
may look out for rain before night. but
the probabilities are that you will not
see 1t.
IT is said that the soil of Ireland is ia.
tai to snakes. A son of Erin who visited
the Green Isle last summer, and returned
to New York with a mementoi in the shape
of shamrock growing in Irish soil,
tested the matter by placing snake with.
in the box containing the plant. The
creature died eleven months afterward.
A DIVER, J. w. Win, while exploring
| the bottom of the Savannah River,
brought up copper kettle. Just after,
! by his order, the contents had been
thrown out, he found at the bottom of
the vessel n Spanish dollar coined in
in 1888. He now thinks there were
thrown from the kettle over S400 In
silver, and he is going to hunt for them.
"HUMPHm said an Englishman to a
Scotchman, as they were walking over
the fields, 'Oats are very well in their
way, but in England we feed them to our
horses, while here they are food for men u
"Ech, mon, an just see what fine horses
ye have in England, and what fine men
we have in bonnie Scotland"
AN English lady asks the British Acad.
emy of Sciences to give her a million ster.
ling for that she has discovered the
principle which difierentiates the finite
! from the infinite" Mr.. Caudle made the
same discovery while he was enduring
Mrs Caudes curtain lectures, and had
to pay for making itinto the bargain.
THE Nautical Gazette tells in its last
issue how the cabin passengers of n Ger.
tain steamer were nearly starved to death
on recent voyage from Liverpool to
| New York. The ice gave out two DAYS
|
quence, the meats, foul and fish rotted in
the chests, and, of course, the passenger:
were forced to subsIst on very hard tack
Mrs. JAMES B. WADE, of Atlanta, niece
of ex-Vice President Richard NJ. John
son, of Kentucky, has consented to de
posit for time, in the Young Mems Lib
rary, of Atlanta, superb sword, which
according to its inscription, was "Voted
by the Congress of the United States to
Colonel Richard NJ. Johnson, in testi
mony of their sense of his gallantry in
the battle of the Thames, in Upper Can
ada, fought October 5, 1878"
WHILE Henry Ward Beecher was stand
ing in front of the Twin Mountain House
in New Hampshire the other day, dandy
looking gentleman drove up and told Kin
to put his horse into the stable and feed
him well Reecher said never word
but took the mans % cents, and stabbed
the horse. Pretty soon the achievement
was noticed about the hotel, and the
dandy in question found it convenient tC
leave that night.
A REMARKABLE mirage was lately wit
messed at Dover, England, whereby the
dome OF the Cathedral at Boulogne
France, was made distinctly visible to the
naked eye; and by means of telescope
the entrance to the port, its lighthouse
shipping, the hills surrounding the town
and neighboring farm houses, with theil
windows Illuminated by the setting sun
were plainly distinguished Even a loco
motive and a train were seen leaving the
city and travelling toward Calais. The
distance from Dover TO Boulogneis about
tlirty miles.
HIS OBJECT-A doctor was called in
to see patient whose native land was
Ireland, and whose native drink was
whisky. Water was prescribed as the
only cure. Pat said that it was out OF
the question; he could never drink it.
Milk was then proposed, and Pat agreed
to get well on milk. The doctor was soon
summoned again. Near lhe bed on which
the sick man lay was table, and on the
table large bowl, and in the bowl was
milk, but Favored strongly with whisky.
What have you herey' said the doctor.
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