Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-06
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OOhhbNI IL E4MSs
OMAHA, Nebraska, is to have public
park seventy-two acres in area.
A TITUsvILLE maid has had a book.
keeper in her eye for some weeks
How SWEET morsel is fame Lucca
has had a mud dredge named for her.
A GOOD man provides for his children.
a policy in the Washington Life is one
way to do it.
TEN young buffalo have left Minnea.
polls, Kan, bound East, to go into the
show business.
The beautiful shell work of the West
India Islands is used considerably as gar.
niture for ladies' dresses.
WHAT do you expect to see reflected in
yoor inamorata's eyes? Yourself-if she
is good looking lass.
ONE Of those rare coins, the Massachu-
setts Pine Tree shilling, bearing date of
1920, has been dug up at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island.
YOUNG ladies who are learning to skate
are putting more stuffing in their water.
falls, and making other preparations for
falling down on the ice.
A GUSHING poet asks in the first line of
recent effusion, Chow many weary pil.
grims lie?" We give it up, but exper
ience has taught us that there are a good
many.
VERY STRANGE. is a contradic.
tion: we send to our butcher for sweet.
bread, and if we want a sweet meat we
send to our bakerl
FOOTED UP.-Men of business often
complain that their gas account runs
away with lot of money; they don't re.
tiect how many feet are represented in the
billl
Six New York, one Maryland and three
pennsylvania regiments have signified
their intention OF participating in the in
auguration ceremonies of President
Grant on the 4th of March next.
DURING the hot weather, Peg said she
had been all over the house, and found
the kitchen everywhere; explaining that
she had visited every room and found it
cool in nary department.
IRATE parent ooh yer don't want to
go into business, don't yer Oh yer
want to be clerk in the post. orfice, in.
deed Why, all your fit for is to stand
outside with your tongue hout for peo.
pie to wet their stamps against ~
A GIRL in indianapolis, who has two
hundred thousand dollars, advertises for
sealed proposals for marriage. The
| postmaster has decided to charge her
double price for her box, as it keeps one
clerk half his time filling it up with pink
tinted envelopes, and the whole office is
scented with musk and bergamot, like
perfumer's shop.
! A KANSAS man was "set back" the
other day by couple of squaws enter
ing his house, whom he had forgotten he
| plains. What cheers him up is the fact
that Kansas court has decided that
when white man marries a squaw after
the Indian fashion, the same is legal and
binding upon the husband.
DIR. HALL gives the following "eating
negatlons": Never eat when you are not
hungry never eat when you are very
! tired never eat just before severe mental
or physical effort; never eat while in a
| passion; never eat when very low spirited; !;
never eat just before q bath never eat
while greatly worried" Will the good
doctor please tell us when we can eati
THE Fat Contributor goes back of g.
julius Caesar, and digs out the origin of
the practice of parting the hair in the
middle as practiced by male persons at
was first adopted by an angry father, who
from some show of weakness on the part
of his son, so treated the hair of that
youth in order to disgrace him in the eyes
OF his companions. The operation was
acomplete success, for the boy, unable to
bear the stigma of looking like a girl,
went straightway and hung himself"
WALL hanglngs made of tin foil are a
new Partisan invention, which has been
made the subject of paper read before
the Society of Arts. The metal is in
sheets about sixteen feet long and from
thirth to forty inches wide The sheets
are painted and dried at high tempera-
ture, and are then decorated with many
different patterns, such as foliage, flow
ers, geometrical figures, limitations of
choice woods or landscape pictures.
lNQglsITIvE people sometimes meet
with little adventures which make them
weak. A fellow who was "paying atten-
tion" to girl in Andover. Mass, stole up
to the kitchen where she was at work the
other morning, thinking to see what kind
OF housekeeper she was. He got inter-
ested as he stood behind door all unob.
served, watching the fair one at her toll,
ana In tho ardency of his observations he
obtruded his nose into crack in the
door. She innocently shut that door a
little, and there was amashed bugle. He
now wears it in sling.
A SHORT time ago Engineer Thornton,
at the Instance of the Grand River Trans
portatioa Company, made an extensive
survey OF the river with view to the
construction of dams and locks for the
purpose of increasing the volume of
water in the stream above Grand Haven.
He concluded that the construction of
two dams with locks would be sufficient
to raise the river three feet at Grand Rap.
ids and increase its volume, when at the
lowest, to something over eight feet. II
is now proposed to construct one dam at
Harris Llnding, and another further up
the stream, say near the salt well. The
cost OF these dams and locks would not
exceed $50, 900, and an effort Will be made
to obtain assistance from the National
Government in carrying out the scheme.
The New York Herald SAYS "Two
English expeditions, having tho facts
which Mr. Stanley brought to civilization
from the store of DR.. Livingstone before
them, are about to penetrate Africa-one
from Mombas, on the east coast, to man
out the series of lakes on the lacustrine
river, now called Victoria Nyanza; the
other from the west coast, to ascend the
River Congo and settle the question of
its source. Six German expeditions are
also in progress, and will cover between
them all the central region of Africa.
The great movement toward the SUP.
preston of the East African slave trade,
with all its horrors and inhumanities, is,
perhaps at present, the greatest and mosi
direct benefit civilization will reap from
the journey of Mr. Stanley"
AN important decision, relating To life