Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-02-23
CURRENT ITEMS.


dren.
A Coon INvEsTMENT-A policy in the
Washington Life.
THE BEST MARRIAGE GIFT-A policy
in the Washington Life.
THE BEST PoLIcY-The Washington
Life Insurance Policy.
THE deposits in the Massachusetts saw
ings banks amount to $s5,000 per day.
FIFTY-Two salt.cellars were presented
to recent bride in Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND allows her Legislators a
dollar day, and four cents mileage.
MEssRs BAREFOOT AND SHOEMAKER
happened to get on the same jury in Penn
sylvania.
OUT of flfty-fve cases of smallpox in
Montreal, only four of the patients had
ever been vaccinated.
WHY are young ladies bad GRAMMAR
ans? Because you seldom find one who
can decline matrimony
A Boston man has culled from the
newspapers forty-three parodies of The
Heather Chinee."
A FEW days ago, in London, Carolina
Portman, aged fifty-seven, died through
swallowing her teeth while asleep.
PRAYERS were offered on o recent Sun
day in all the churches at Sheffield, En-
gland, for the prevention of war between
England and the United States.
If ever the citizens of Londonderry fail
to present the Governor of New Hamp-
shire with peck of potatoes on New
Years Day, their town charter will be for
feted.
A YOUNG man in Cleveland sent
young lady bottle of " Hove you" per
fume, and the label convicted him in
court of justice of breach of promise.
A DETROIT man beat his wife brut ally,
the other day, and was locked up for it,
whereupon the injured woman sold the
family cook-stove to pay his fine and get
him out.
In condemning late dinner hours, Good
Heath says that within four hundred years
the dinner hour has gradually moved
through twelve hours of the day-from
nine a. m. to nine p. m.
A STUDENT, who has been afflicted with
a sermon one hour and a half long,
! grumblingly says that "these Professors
! study so much about eternity that they
! have no conception of time"
A FEMALE Fon-du-Laccer got married
barefoot, the other day, for luck. So she
pretended, but the fact was that they
!
| ger than mems sixteens.- Chicago Post
IT is estimated that a snow-storm in
New York city gives temporary employ
ment to over 5000 men and boys. The
aggregate sum paid in one day for re-
moving snow from tho sidewalks is
5000.
A GENTLEMAN in Cleveland has been
making experiments in eXtinguishing the
I H1mnG ho
sand and aqua ammonia thrown on the
flames will quickly extinguish them.
A BRANCH of American industry has
been developed at Augusta, Me. You
first find out where your room mates pa
rents live, then telegraph them that he
has died in fit and that you will forward
the body on receipt of fifteen dollars.
"MoLLr shut the door it's getting
awful cold in here !" was the remark OF
an Albany husband, as he hung his coat
on hitching-post and prepared to retire
on the curbstone, under the impression
that he had arrived at home.
Mrs. G. II. HUTCHINSON, who prevent.
ed burglars from carrying off hundreds
of dollars from q bank at Trenton, n. ]. ,
recently, by giving a timely alarm, has
received a silver tea service, worth
Sl'ooo, from the bank, as an evidence of
It's gratitude.
AMoSG the latest freaks is that of a
ROCK Island young lady, who appeared at
an evening party in that city with her
dress flounced with copies of the Arg,ls
newspaper, her waist being spanned with
the title-head of the paper.
A ROsToN liquor diCuicT, on being ar
rested by virtuous constable offered
twenty dollars if the officer wouldn't
search the woodpile. The official, stern
I m inf itv nd ho1 To ri
up seven cords of wood, after unpiling it.
He is sorry he didn't take the twenty
dollars.
A YOUNG lady in Indianapolis, whose
married sisters funeral took place few
days ago, excused herself from attending
the solemn Obsequies by saying that her
own wedding vas to take place in the
evening, and it would incapacltate her
for the occasion; besides, she had no time
to spare.
A CORRESPONDENT divides brides into
two classes, the serious and the smiling
The first enters with queenly step, and
seems to say, Don't look at me. Don't
you see I'm married, and that those days
are over?' The other comes up smiling
as much as to say, I've landed him. Is
it not good fung
: A MAMMOTH cake, three and half feet
in diameter, and weighing 1856 pounds
! has just been made in Newark for a glass
wedding soon to take place in New York
There entered into the composition o
the cake, $50 eggs, % pounds of butter
and other ingredients in proportion.
, THE Louisville Ledger makes an unkinC
, cut at its neighbor, the C0urier-JoErRG{
: by stating that a cut representing tht
great ice-gorge, published by the latte
was originally intended for likeness o
the Grand Duke. The cut failing in "ex
preston" it was used for the ice-gorge
and answered the purpose very well.
AN Englishman has invented a nev
method of lighting houses with coal oil
being simply to have an oil-tank at tn
!, top of the house, with pipes to conve
8 the ''non-exposive" to all the lamp
about the building. 1t is suggested tina
:, one effect of this plan will be to reduc
! the number of widows and orphans, a
+ the whole family would go together il
case of an explosion.
$ A sToREKEEPER at Quincy, Mich, hay
y ing pup that habItually upset the pair
. cans in the rear end of the store, rubbe
the dogs nose in the spilled paint as a rC
l. minder that he must not do so agair
e Recently the animal again spilled tn
i paint, and observing that his master wa
Il engaged in waiting on a customer, tn
Q docile pup rubbed his own nose in til
a mixture and ran bowling out the bac
Il way.
= = THoUGH omitting to join the Washing
y tonians, Mr.. Abrams, of the Sixth War(
( slept in chair Saturday night, with on
y foot in dish of pancake batter, o
y awaking and confronting the spectacle i
! l the morning, the startled wretch shoute
u Il to his wife "Sary Jane, there is rat
!, the batter" and didn't discover the di
y ference until he attempted to remove
= = with fork.-Dan5ury No.os.
d Two juveniles from Illinois, aged +
N spectfully sixteen and fourteen year
ell were in Bellevue, Iowa, the other day, il
le quiring for Justice. They were refe
,r red to the venerable Justice adjoining Il