Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-29
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In Chicago red.haired girls are called
| fire brands.
THE most famous lecturer can't draw
paying house in New York.
HoRsE doctors are beginning to wear
diamond shirt.studs.
A BAD Book TO READ--A naughty
biography (an autobiography
THE Maine men of New York City
have organized a pine forest society, to
meet annually.
WHEN Is a lady like show window
When she takes great pains with her
sash.
In what case is It absolutely impossible
to be slow and sure In the case of
watch.
| A MONTGOMERY compositor translates
"Alpha and Omega" into "apples and
oranges"
A CORRESPONDENT says his chief objec-
tion to all churches in Titusville is that
they arc all lie
THE public highways and fields for
| dozen miles southeast of Boston are COW
cred with remnants of burnt paper and
cloth.
THE "gossip" man OF the Detroit.
Tribune assures his friends of his sanity
by telling them that 'great wit to mad.
ness nearly is allied.
A ST. Louis maiden explains that
Dolly Warden" was a character in
Thackeray's play of the Terrible Tempta.
tion."
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany is one of the strongest, safest, most
successful and best managed corpora
tions in New York.
THE military organizations in Charles
ton, s. c., are preparing to have good,
oldfashioned celebration of Washington's
birthday.
A RURAL cotemporary remarks "The
yellow pumpkin lies golden on the hill.
sides in the country" The poetry of
that remark induces pie.ous thoughts.
MASSACHUSETTS is in bad way. She
has got to have q new Episcopal Bishop,
but can't find a man to take the place who
is not either too High" too Broad, " or
too "Low."
OLD EQUESTRIAN "Well but you're
not the boy left my horse with p Boy
"No, sir 1 jist spekilated, and bought
i'm of t'other boy for six cents p'
Mr. WIN. WHEAT, of Petersburg, Mich.
whose orchard is trimmed so low that all
the fruit can be reached by the hand
gathered 600 bushels of fine apples this
fall.
A ToUeH MExIcAN-A copperhead
snake tried his fangs on a Mexican few
days ago. The snake is dead, but the
Mexican still lives and enjoys his victu
! ais.
THEY have had contempt" case al
: Peoria, H., if we are to believe the
Springfield Register, and the Justice is
nth ahtl Il,
young man, if you speak in that way
again this Court will forget its dignity
and punch you in the snoot."
HARRY, four years old, and Noonie
two and q half, were looking at pictures
the other day, when Noonie said: "Har
ry what is a polar bear?" "Why," re
piled Harry, 'dont you know? It's q
bear what climbs up a pole."
A wRLL-DREssED gentleman coming ir
on the cars last night, became disgusted
, with the high prices of an epizootical ex
press driver, purchased wheelbarrow
with which to transport his heavy trunk
: and saved 81. so by the operation. He
was a Yankee. Chicago Mail
A CALIFORNIA dog recently went on
board the Alameda boat alone, and would
not be driven off. The officers took it or
to the landing, when it rushed immedi-
ately for the cars and took a position
therein, refusing to move or be moved
At certain station it jumped out and rar
to its home, two miles away. Investiga
tion showed the dog had taken an inde
pendent trip to San Francisco and back
A RECENTLY married man in Franklin
County, Massachusetts, coming home
rather late the other night, took an UNI
brella from rack in the hall and proceed
ed to his room. The grieved and indig
! nant wife opened her eyes, and seeing heI
, husband supporting himself by the foot
} board with one hand, and holding an um
brella spread over his head with the other
, cried in astonishment, "What are you do
ing? Are you crazy?" mo" said he, il
an unsteady voice, "but-hic-I suppos
come prepared for it,"
AT the marriage of Miss Annie A. Have
meyer, of New York, niece of the Mayor
elect, to Forris Mundy, nephew of the
, late Henry Keep, which took place il
; New York City, the crowning wonder oil
, the occasion was the wedding cake, which
was four to five feet in height, and weigh
ed sixty to seventy pounds. The cakt
was surmOunted by miniature marriage
: temple, the roof of which was supported
i by mermaids, from whose mouths Jets o
! fine spun glass represented pouring water
Above was an alcove of Cupid, surround
ed by fountains, the alcove and the whole
structure being crowned with frosted
; flowers.
| An air-gas patent is now in litigation il
{ London. As its name implies, gas ,i
manufactured from air by q process whfei
, dispenses with coal altogether, and the
2 new illuminator is said to be infinitely
: purer and better, besides being mucf
! cheaper than the ordinary coal gas. TIL,
new gas is also said to be applicable fol
: heat and power, and to threaten to super
sede our steam engines. There seems t
. be no question whatever as to the import
5 ance of the discovery, the law case turn
| ing entirely on the validity of the paten
and the remuneration claimed by the riva
inventors.
: THE following beautiful chemical eX
pertinent may be easily performed by {
lady, to the great astonishment of cir
, Gle at her tea party. Take two or three
leaves of red cabbage, cut them into
I small bits, put them into basin, and poul
l a plat of boiling water on them; let il
stand an hour, then pour off the liquiC
into a decanter. 1t will be of a fine blue
color. Then take four wine glasses; into
one put six drops of strong vinegar; into
another six drops of solution of soda
into third the same quantity of strong
solution of alum; and let the fourth re
main empty. The glasses may be pre-
pared some time before, and the few drops