Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

cneap. because ep1CureS say III II is not
deer 1t must be mutton.
THE bridal veil of q young lady who
was married lately in New York, cost
two thousand dollars.
THERE are eight papers published in
Germany which are devoted to advocat-
ing woman's rights.
SUPPosINa man to be in a serious
frame of mind, is 1t necessary he should
be a picture of despair
AN old man in Detroit has played 99,-
600 games of drauglfts in the course of a
checkered career Of eighty years.
A WESTERN clergymanihas petitioned
for a reduction of his salary, and his
friends propose to place him in an insane
asylum.
NAOMI, the daughter Of Enoch, was
$50 years old when she married. There's
hope for some Of you other ladies, after
all.
REVENGE is sweet The young ladies'
anti.tobacco society in Waterville, Me-,
is Offset by the young mems anti.corse
association.
LATE hours" says our esteemed Aunt
sDorcas, "are apt to lead either to the
penitentiary or-matrimony." ThiRk of
this, young men.
THE youngster may be coaxed to bed
early on Christmas Eve but he is apt to
make his presents known early in the
morning. HnI
8 PoN ERTY and pride are inconvenient
companions but when idleness unites
them, the depth of wretchtdness is COM
Plete.
A YOUNG lady of Buffalo has largely
availed herself of leap-year privileges
she is engaged to seventeen gentlemen,
and hoo hanp aup1 for hrnaph of t,rOuniaae
by nine others.
In some localities where spotted fever
is prevalent, 1t is ascrfbed to pork eating,
it being claimed that the hogs last year
were poisoned by eating locusts.
DOMESTIC young lady (making pie)-
"Frank, the kitchens is no place for boys
Has dough such an attraction for your"
Clever youth--It isn't the dough, cousin
its the dearl'
PETER OLSON is the hero of Geneva,
Ill. A few days since he broke through
the ice on Fox River, and actually swan
a considerable distance under the ice,
when he reached an opening.
A CORoNER's jury, in the case Of
Pennsylvania, has settled the whole
matter by returning a verdict that he
''died of murder in the first degree from
fracture of the skull"
A PRACTICAL man in Columbus listened
gravely to one of Mark Twain's lectures,
and said afterward that the statements
were greatly exaggerated, if not verging
on downright falsehood.
SAMUEL TUTHILL, of Worthwhile, L. l.,
owns and occupies the farm which his
father, grandfather, great grandfather
and great great grandfather owned sue
cessively; he being the fifth generation
upon the place.
SPEAKING of theoretical farming, Josh
Billings says he once knew a man who
wouldn't even set gatepost without hav-
ing the ground analyZed to see if it pos
sessed the proper ingredients for post
2 holes.
OVER one-half of the wealth of the
State of New York is owned in the city
of New York. The last total valuation of
all the real and personal property of the
State is $4,000, ,841 1854, of which $3,47O,-
26S,7 700 is in the city.
THE allegorical clock over the north
door of the old hall of the House of Rep
resentatives, at Washington, has never
been paid for. The constructor died,
leaving no heirs, before the appropriation
was paid, and it is yet in the Treasury.
CHILDHOOD is like mirror, catching
and rejecting images all around it. An
impious or profane thought uttered by a
parents lips may operate on a young heart
like careless spray of water upon pol
ished steel, staining it with rust, which
no after securing can etface.
ROWLAND HILL made a good remark
upon hearing the use of the letter II dis
cussed, as to whether it were letter or
not "lf it were not" he said, cit
would be very serious affair for me, for
it would make me ill all the days of my
life"
THE late George Peabody, the London
banker, once sawed a cord of wood in
Concord, New Hampshire, to pay for a
nights lodging at the tavern. That was
; fa'practical lecture to young men who fail
to pay their board bills because they are
out of business.
A NEW style of etertainment has been
given lately by many fashionable ladies
in New York, the rule being that all in
vited guests shall converse in French dur
ing the entire evening, every one who
fails in this srespect being fined to the
amount of a dollar and upwards, the
money so raised being given for the ben
eft of the French sufferers in the late
war.
A SOLDIER who was an inveterate Joker
and punster, having had his nose, left
CACCh duI pOTtlOn VI HIS Culu CdTTl6u
away by shot in the battle of Shiloh,
was asked by some of his comrades if
they could do anything for him, "Boys, u
said he, speaking as well as he could in
his maHgled condition, 81 should like a
drink of water mighty well, if only had
AS face to ask for it.
THROWING ones boots at a noisy and
intrusive dog may be very effective way
of getting rid of the visitor, but is not
always economical. An irascible deacon
up in Connecticut tried it the other day,
and the dog seized the expensive missiles
and disappeared. The deacon thinks il
was "put up job" some unprincipled
party training his dog to obtain boots by
Just this process
THE Teutonic tailor of a Pennsyl
vania village having married a wife inde
Gently soon after the funeral of the first
the young men of the place notified theil
disapproval by a tin-hOrn serenade during
the progress of the wedding feast. The
newly-married man expostulated il
the following style; 81 say, poys, you
ought to be ashamed of yourselfs to bC
making all dis noise ven dare vas fune
raj here go SOON"
AN Indianapolis man stopped runa
way team belonging to lady, at consid
cradle personal risk, and politely held. tn,
horse until the fair owner came up. Sht
was so veXed because the carriage had go
dirty and the reins muddy that she forgo
' to thank the man, although she kindl,
asked him to get some paper somewher
d and wipe the mud off the lines regardless
of his ruined hat, torn coat and battereC
shins.
t REV. Mr.. H, had large family o
boys. He tried his best to Keep them al
well posted in Scriptural matters; bu
they were such lively boys, and so man,
of them, that his task was difficult. On,
day one of them did something yer,
wrong, and as none of them would con
fess it, he declared he would Whip then