Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

POWER OF EvI1s-A power of attorney.
"KoLE OYLE sixty cents gal' is a Ma.
con, Georgia, sign.
The mosquito, as public singer, draws
well, but never gives satisfaction.
WHEN may your money be said TO be
glad to see you? When it is mute.elated
currency.
Two men recently died in Baltimore.
with great grandchildren older than their
youngest children.
TIE first locomotive ever constructed
IN Nova Scotia has recently been sent to
the lnter-Colonial Railway.
A WIDOW holding policy on her de-
ceased husband in the Washington gets
the mopey herself. 1t cannot be taken
for BIS debts.
CAN you change 50 billp" said an inn
pecunious drinker to the bartender.
YES" "Well, when l get 50 bill I'll
bring 1t in"
BARNUM's gorilla was heard to remark,
recently, that "he'd be blamed IL he'd
wear a hair overcoat much longer this
hot weather for $40 week."
A New YORK judge has decided that |
signs and banners across the street are IL |
legal distinctions, as a street Is not the |
mere surface of the earth, but embraces |
also the light and air above it.
A PLUMBER had a lad in his employ, |
and one day having occasion for piece |
of zinc, ordered him to get one twelve |
inches SQUARE eyes, cir" said Pat !
twelve inches square, but how long"
THAT was a very tender-heerted man,
near Pittsburgh, who, Oh being told that
his wife, who had LEFT the house only an
hour before, was drowned, and that her
body was found a mile or so below, said,
She mus have floated down right live
lyw
WITNESS, in describing certain
events, said: 1.-THE person saw at the
head of the stairs was a man with one
eye named Jacob wilkins" "What was
the name of his other eye" spitefully
asked the opposing counsel. The witness
was disgusted at the levity of the audi
ence.
A FELLOW in Norwich was bltteu by
dog. AS soon as he recovered from his
fright he declared he would kill the ami
nal. But the dog isn't mad" said the
owner. "MadN shouted the victim, ex.
asperatiDgly, "what in thunder has he got
to be mad about?" He evidently miscon-
strue9 the explanation.
AT Syracuse recently gentleman was
reclining on lounge, when his little
daughter playfully threw peach stone at
him. 1t lodged in his ear, whence it re-
CURED surgical operation to extract it.
The moral is obvious. A fellow with
ears Ike that should fold them over the
top of his head.
A YOUNG lady who let her lids drop on
being spoken to tenderly by young gen.
heman is anxious to recover them and
offers a handsome reward for their restor-
alton. nautical gentleman of her ac-
quaintance assures her that they could
not have been properly lashed, or they
would not have been lost
AN exchange speaks of the house.clean.
ing season of that time when "divine
woman has her way at the house, while
the old man takes his solemn repast from
the top of the flourbarrel, and in sleep.
ing enjoys the interval between the bed
room and the front fence. 1t is a season
OF meditation, whitewash and calm, un,
lmpassioned profanity"
In the museum of Brown University.
at Providence, r. l., is curiosity in the
snap of birds nest Aside from its in
genlous construction as a swinging nest
partly suspended by strings and cords,
carefully woven into the nest and around
the slender branch which holds it, another
evidence of the builders sagacityis given
AS the young birds grew and the nest be-
came daily heavier, the mother bird saw
that the slender twig, about the thickness
of pipe-stem, to which it was attached
could not support it much longer, so she
made II secure by fastening a stout cord
about it, and passing the end around a
stout limb above, which steadied it and
made 1t safe. The cord is wound several
times about the limb and the end tucked
under, to prevent its unwinding.
EX-GOVERNOR FARwELL.-We copy
from the Wisconsin State Journal what Il
says of one of the new residents of Mis-.
q Off 81,
and residence of EX-GOv. FarHell. Hay.
ing suffered severely by the great Chicago
fre last fall, he left that city, determined
to find local habitation for his family
and some friends in anew country, where
he could bring up his boys to practical
work-printers ana stock farmers-their
tastes inclining to those pursuits. After
many trips and wide examination, he
selected Grant City, Worth County, Mis-.
souri,, as place of residence, and that is
his post-otfice address. 1t is the most fer
tile and beautiful country in the West
Ihe Governor is one of the firm of Mum
FarWeii, Land Agents, at Grant City
Tor Northwest Missouri"
A MAN, tried in Dumfries, Scotland, be
fore the Sheriff and a jury, accused OF
stealing some garments from farm-yard
was defended by local practitioner with
so much success that the jury rendered {
verdict of "Not proven" To the sur
prise of his agent, the prisoner seemed by
no means in hurry to quit the docl
after the verdict was rendered. The mar
of law went up to him, informed hin
that he had been acquitted, and was a
liberty to go away, but still the fellow
kept his seat. A second time he was re
minded that he was no longer prisoner
but he remained immOvable. At length
as the court was nearly emptied of tn
people who had been present during tn
trial, including the witnesses in the case
the prisoner whispered to his counsel
THE fact is, mon, l burst ma gang sooner
have on the pair of trousers that wa
stolen"
INSTEAD of standing in fear of gen
erous consumption of ripe fruit, on
should regard it as decidedly conduciv
to health. The very diseases, says tn
Country Gentleman, commonly assumes
to have their origin in the free use of al
kinds of berries, apples, peaches, cherr
pears and melons, have been quite as rev
alent, if not equally destructive in season
of scarcity There are so many errone
GUS notions entertained of the bad effec
of fruit that it is quite time counteract
ing impression should be promulgated
having it's foundation in common sens
and based on the common observation o
the intelligent. No one ever lived longer
or freer from the attacks of the disease
by discarding the delicious fruits of ou
country. On the contrary, they are YER
essential to the preservation of health
ane are therefore given to us at the tim
when the condition of the body, operates
upon by deteriorating causes not alway
cOmprehended, requires their grateful
renovating influences. Unripe fruit ma
cause illness, but fresh, ripe fruit is a
ways healthful.
The Result In North Carolina.