Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

THREE skirts instead of two, worn one
above the other, is to be the fashion for
street costumes the coming season.
A BALTIMORE girl has broken her en-
gagement because her lover couldn't af-
ford to give her q diamond pledge of
betrothal.
A NEW YORK woman, in 1870, took
out seventeen patents, and, according to
the records, most of them were sold be.
fore they were issued.
AN Independence Qowa) damse having
offended d gentleman at the late leap.year
party, he has sent his big sister to de-
mand an apology.
A CONNECTICUT lady, ninety-three years
old, Knitted over one hundred pairs of
stockings last year, besides refusing an
offer Of marriage.
VINO is wise? He that learns from
every one. Who is powerfulS He that
governs his passions. Who is rich? He
that is content.
A CITIZEN of Newport, r. l., is report
ed to have left the bulk of his property,
estimated at $4,000, to the worthy poor
of that city.
a. MIDDLING-sIzEDb boy, writing compo-
sltion on Extremes, remarked that 1--WE
should endeavor TO avoid extremes, es-
ADVICE TO HUsBANDs.-Set as much
money upon your wife as YOU can, for her
second husband, poor fellowl may not
have sixpence.-JudH
KEEP your store of smiles and your
Kind thoughts for home; give TO the world
only those which are to spare, and, thus,
you VIII always have some to spare.
A CANADA editor says he has "a keen
rapier to prick all fools and xnaves." His
friends, If they are prudent, will take it
from MN. lie might commit suicide.
Tony, little Italian, who peddles pop
corn and fruit in basket at Eureka, Cal
was once prosperous merchant of Sacra-
4 mento, worth $4,000 or $4,000.
Mrs: CATHARINE EDWARDS was recent
{ " buried at Dubuque, Iowa, robed in a
haolt made Tor that purpose thirty-six
years ago, and inferred in lot purchased
by her twenty six years since.
Z A PHYSICIAN in New Hampshire has
used the same horse for twenty-six con
secutive years. The animal shows what
air and exercise will do for health and
. length of days.
LANCASTER, Mass, contains in its poor
mouse an old woman, known as "Aunt
Gates, who distinctly remembers seeing
her father take down his gun to fight the
red-coats at Bunker Hill.
A DANBURY Mantalini. who played
suicide with laudanum, etc, to test the
affection of his spouse, was quietly
resuscltated by the lady's running a
cambria needle into one of his lower
limbs
COLONEL W is a fine-looking
man." said jenkins. eyes, " said Nog,
gins II was taken for him once" "Youl
why You are as ugly as stump fence. "
y can'thelp that; aods taken for him.
endorsed his note, and was taken for
him by the sheriff"
A WOMAN raised to the third power of
widowhood has the photographs of her
three departed lords in a group, with a
vignette of herself in the centre, and un-
derneath is the prescription, "The Lord
win provide"
AN erudite Connecticut farmer has
seen somewhere a saying that "straws
: show which way the wind blows" Being
skeptical, he made practical test of its
truth by placing a bundle of straw on
the top of his barn, and is firmly con.
lvinced that the adage is deluslon.
SOME young scamps have, it appears,
been in the habit of cumming the slide at
! the Post Office in St. John, n B., thereby
causing the letters to remain where they
u can be easily picked out and appropriated
II they contain valuables, or returned if
they are of no use to the boys.
IT was Sunday in Grass Valley, Cali.
fornia. Joe Bonvirt went out for walk
on Dead Mans Flat, instead of staying
at home and reading While he was out
he picked up a nugget of gold, which
was worth $3.50. Sabbath breakers are
not 10 take loo for an evappIa
The Sacramento (Cal.) Grand jury, in
their report on the County Jail, say: 1--WE
would recommend the removal of the
jailor, P. MCGOWAN, for taking prisoners
out and strolling around the city with
them in the dead hours of midnight, leav-
ing the control of the Jail to one of the
. prisoners"
The Rondout IN. W Freeman records
the recent marriage of couple, each sew
enty-nine years old, in townsville, Della
ware County, who have loved each other
from childhood, but have been separated
by malign fate, and have not even met,
until recently, for many years.
A FASHION reporter describes some of
the toilets at a recent party at Cheyenne:
The belle of the evening was Miss w.
She was dressed faultlessly in linsey-
woolsey of the palest shade of cafe an lat,
cut en- train, and trimmed with Chicago
relics. Miss III. wore polonaise made of
blue jeans, postillioned in the back, cut
ots-d-ciS with de tr0p bias, and gored in
the most sanguinary manner"
THE words which Walter Scott puts in
the mouth of Jeanie Deans, in her mem
orable address to the Queen, are as true
as they are beautiful; "When the hour of
trouble comes-and seldom may it visit
your ladyship-and when the hour Of
death comes to high and low-lang and
late may it be yours, o, my leddy!-it is
ma what we have done for oursels, but
what we have done for others that we
think on most pleasantly"
A WORTHY Baptist, of Boston, anxious
to help a UNCONVENTIONAL school, agreed
to leave it 800, 900 at his death, if the in
stitution would pay him the interest on
100000, at six per cent, up to that event.
The shrewdness of it lies in the fact that
he could get his life insured for that
amount for 81, coo or $4,000, leaving him
very comfortable income besides! That
is, for nice annual revenue of, say,
$2,000 he would let any college insure
his life for $780, 600.
How TO QUIT THE USE OF TOBACCO.
The man who would free himself from
the bondage of tobacco using must make
up his mind that he has a hard struggle
to pass through, call all will-power to his
aid and resolve to quit at once and for
ever This leaving off by degrees seldom
succeeds. 1t is better to make the battle
short, sharp and decisive. A thorough
course of bathing, to eliminate the tobac
co from the system, will make the strug-
gle much less severe, and prove the great
est aid that can be given. Hearth and
Home.
Mrs. FAIRS interviewer writes, Feb
ruary II: Since the welcome intelligence
of a new trial being granted, Mrs. Fair
has wonderfully improved in appearance.
Her cheeks have gained something of
color. The expression of utter abandon
mentwhich she wore on the occasion of her
auit with Dr Trasl n q dieannaarad and a