Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-07-12
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averaged one hundred brook trout a day
through the week, with hook and line.
A SHEFFIELD (England) youth recently
rode a bicycle four days in succession,
travelling at the rate of eighty-five miles
per day.
Ar the recent exhibition of oil paintings
in Paris, all pictures which might have
excited hatred against the Germans were
refused admittance
liz you were to die to-day, would you
leave your family independent of charityY
Insure in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, of New York.
SOME people have strange ways of en-
joying themselves-a chap in Danbury,
Conn, goes to the dentists and has u
tooth pulled, whenever he feels like hay
ing a little fun.
WHAT is the difference between civil.
lied diner and person who subsists at
the north pole? One has his bill of fare
and the other has his fill of bear.
A BosToN Jubilee correspondent writes
that at the first note those of the audience
occupying front seats "wiltod like the vic
tins of boiler explosion"
THE DeutscRe Bauyeit1tnq, of Berlin, saws
that the mason and carpenter of build
ing which fell while in process of cree
tion have been sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment.
UPON an average steamer leaves Liv-
erpool for this continent nearly every
twelve hours. During the last month the
total number was fifty-three, and to these
must be added the French and German
line.
A TwELvE.YEAR.oLD youth at James.
vile sent companion to the drug store
with n fOll 4
maple surop and good Bread and one raw
. egg a weak will mock the measels hire ma
kite"
GEoRGE-"Oh, 1 do love the Central
Park so! prefer it to Switzerland, ,reallyp'
Mabel-"Why, George, you've never
been to Switzerland" George-''No;
but I've seen it on the map, and l don't
like the looks of it at all"
A QUAKER who had been troubled with
rats, informs friend that he creased a
thirty-foot board, filled it full of fish
hooks, set it up at an angle of forty. five de-
grees, and put an old cheese at the top. The
rats went up, slid back, and he caught
thirty of 'em the first night.
AN exchange, which gives some of its
space to agricultural items, says: "This
is good time 10 plant cats-they should
be prepared With boot-jack, revolver, or
some other utensl, and then planted
under the plum tee. If you haven't got
plum tree, plant anywhere. Plant all
you can, and plant deep"
A GENTLEMAN connected with Boston
bank as clerk recently robbed the bank
They called him "fellow" and other dis
reputable names at first, and some init
mated that he was thief-for they
thought he had stolen only few dollars
but it turns out that he took $50, 900, and
is not thief at all, but defaulter. HC
has been bailed out for the good of SO
ciety.
WASHING WINDows.-In washing win
dows or other glass, never use soap, un
less 1t can be thoroughly rinsed off; wash
oil the dirt with clean warm water; after
the glass is dry, rub with little paste o
whiting and water, in the center of eacl
pane. With another cloth, rinse over the
glass, then rub it with a dry cloth till il
shines like crystal
Two MEMBERS of the Shaker commu
nifty at Watervllet, Ohio, were married
the other day. The bridegroom is aoou
iorty years Old, and has been member
OF the society nearly thirty years. ThC
bride is about thirty. The former sale
that he had faithfully endeavored to keeI
the faith Of the society and live up to it.
doctrines and belief b but p6rt thai R2fAfte IS unnsf
urai, he is resolved to follow it no more
A CoNFIDENCE-woMAN from America
Mrs. Fanny Jordan, has been expelled
from Bavaria. She had managed to oh
tain several interviews with the King o
Bavaria NJ his cOuntry-seat, and he hat
been so pleased with her that he hat
made her several costly presents, an(
given her thousands of dollars. TIL,
police, however, discovered that she wa!
an unprincipled actress, and sent hel
summarily across the frontier to Switzer
land.
THOSE Amherst professors are fearful,
malicious fellows; they have to keeI
awake through their own sermons, anC
won't let anybody else sleep in peace
The other day one of them cries out, il
the middle of a gently soporofic discourse
Wake up that young manr and hal
the students and faculty woke up the
other half, not knowing, of course, whicl
was the young man meant, and some o.
them did not get any more sleep tina
morning.
A PAIR were married at Plainview
Mimi, in an unusual way lately. The
ceremony was performed in a dancing
hall, the floor of which was filled fol
dancing, except one set. Then the happy
couple, followed by three newly-marrieC
couples, stepped forward and formed tn,
lacking set, the minister stepped into the
center of the circle and performed thC
ceremony, the music struck up and thu
dance went forward as if nothing haC
happened.
A VERY finely dressed lady, on whose
face powder and wrinkles were desperate
ly struggling for the mastery, got on the
train at Norwalk, lately. The car beinl
crowded, she was obliged to stand up
Seeing her, young woman in an adjoin
ing seat rose and offered the place. "Bu
you will have to stand" said the first
lady, edging toward the seat. "Oh, that.
nothing" replied the other, 81 an
young" In the next instant, the frs
lady was at the other end of the car, anC
didn't intimate to anybody to bring the
seat along.
A CLEVELAND woman not long age
modestly requested her husband to go tC
the dressmaker and tell her that she (thC
wife) had changed her mind and would
have the watered silk made up instead Of
the poplin, and "that if she thinks il
would look better with ten bias founces
without putting and boX-plaited below
the equator, which should be gathered in
hemstitched gudgeons up and down the
seams, with gusset stitch between, she
can make it up in that way, instead o.
fluting the bOhbinet insertion and piec
ing out with peint applique as suggested
yesterday" The poor man is now in {
lunatic asylum.
PLANTING OURRANT CUTTINGs.-A cor
respondent of the american farm Journa
gives the following method of setting cur
rant cuttings: "Cut your cions as Ions
as you can get them. Take penknife ant
cut out every eye as high up as you wan
TO start the top don't leave an eye foI
roots, for they won't root; stick them thu
usual depth, say about four or five inches
in the ground they will not send out any
blows. If your cions are tall and slender
stake them and tie up to keep straight