Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-06
CURRENT ITEMS.


on September II, 1S, 10 and 60
New JERSEY girls eat three dozen
clans at picnic lunch and cry for more
If a termagant wife cuts her nails
every Monday 1t is lucky-for her hus-
band.
ON the summit of Mount Washington
is being erected grand hotel Of 1S0 feet
frontage.
ToBAcco leaves three feet long are
among the vegetable phenomena of Wis
consin.
BLACK RIVER, Wisconsin, is blocked
with ESQ, 900, 600 feet of logs waiting for
water.
STRANGE, BUT TRUE.-When a good
shot fires at lot of partridges, he makes
them all quail.
IMPossBLE--A young man yachting
round the Isle of Wight, says he gets his
mutton from Cowes.
COLONEL LEFFEL was recently mar.
ried at Springfield, o. He is forty.five
inches tall and his bride fifty inches
THE statues of Francis 1. and Louis
XIV. have been discovered under q lot
of rubbish in the cellar of the Hotel de
Vile at Paris.
'DEAR mel how heartily tired am of
this mournjngl" said fashionable lady
to her maid. Jane, who Is 1t am in
mourning for"
owe do not want precepts so much as
patterns" says Pliny; IAN example is the
softest and most invidious way of com.
manding."
AHARD DCAsE.-Dying, without money,
without property, no life insurance policy
in the Washington Insurance Company
of New York City, yet leaving wife
and small children.
NEW YORK brewers say they cannot
make good article of lager.beer to save
their lives, and all because of the CToton
water.
A LADY in one of the hotels at Long
Branch bought collar for fifteen cents,
sent it to the laundry to have it washed
and 1t cost her twenty-five cents.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, rejoices in the pos.
session of the skeleton of whale ninety
feet long, and weighing between seven
and eight tons, just received from the
coast of Greenland.
THE drum of a column from the TEN
pie of Ephesus has been received at the
British Museum. Ten horses were re-
quired to draw it.
FROM THE SCHooL.RooM Question
What is the most lively city in Europe?
Answer-Berlin, because it is always on
the Spree.
A WAC, in what he knows about farm
ing, gives plan to remove widows
weeds: he says good.looking man has
only to say, "Wilt thou" and they wilt.
AN Albany family are making pleas
ure trip the entire length of the Erie
Canal in n steam canal-bOat Their fam.
lily physician advised them TO try sea
voyage.
A YOUNG man, of fast turn and look.
ing like anything but DOCTOR complains
that all his tradesmen are determined to
give him the title of Dr., but they put
the DR.. after his name instead Of before it.
NoTQUITE READY.-(The church organ
has just began to play.) Mamma-"Ilave
you found the place, darling?" Darling
Not yet, ma! (To organist, at the top
of her voice. Please top a minny, we
isn't ready yet"
TIE San Francisco Bulletin says: "Ari-
zona diamonds of three pounds weight,
and about the size of mules head, are
the latest specimens received and exhibit
ed in a window on Montgomery street.
They are OF the grade adapted for sleeve.
buttons"
tions have been lately made concerning
the adulteration of candy in New York.
Terra alba, verdigris, red lead, amboline
and fusil oil are among the ingredients
employed. Some of them act as violent
poisons in the system.
A REMARKABLE character of the Cali
fornian mountain climate is an extreme
intensity and vividness of atmospheric
coloring. The deep blue of an Alpine
sky is startling on first acquaintance; but
in the Sierra Nevada it deepens still fur
ther into violet.
HABEAs Bridget" said a
counsel to witness who had been
brought from the House of Correction,
"wasn't you brought here on habeGs
COrpus?" No, indade," she Indignantly
replied; 81 came like daceEt woman,
on the cars"
SOME very prosaic pioneers have invad-
ed the YO Semitic valley, and have actu-
ally been so lacking in poetic sentiment
as to fell trees and make them into posts
and to build fences and houses. The Cali.
fornia papers are crying out "Vandal-
ism, and shrieking Tor the election OF
the interlopers.
BETWEEN Easton and Leavenworth the
stage from Oskaloosa crosses the track of
the Kansas Central Railway. The driver
considers it dangerous for the narrow.
gauge cars, and TO prevent their being run
down is going to put up warning for the
engineers like this "Crossing--Look out
for the Oskaloosa hack"
A FELLOW in Norwich was bitten by q
dog. AS soon as he recovered from his
fright he declared he would kill the
! animal. 'But the dog isn't mad,' said
the owner. "Madr' shouted the victim
exasperatingly, "what in thunder has he
got to be mad about?" He evidently mis-
construed the explanation.
, A NEW pavement is being made in
, Union Park, New York, chiefly of rock
, imported from Switzerland, which is firs
ground to powder, then heated to 800 de
| grees, and while in that state spread upoI
bed of cement. 1t is compressed by
rollers, becomes perfectly smooth, and il
said to form solid surface alike imper
vious to heat and water.
THE most extraordinary instance of pa
, tience on record is that of an American
|, Judge, who listened silently for two day.
! while couple of wordy lawyers con
. tended about the construction of an &C
' of the Legislature, and then ended tht
controversy by quietly remarking: "Gen
e tlemen, the law is repealed. 49,
IN Ms. in the British Museum, de
r scriptive of Hungary, the writer says
D "lt hath been an ancient custom among
/ them, that none should wear feathe
but he who had killed a Turk, to whom
: onlie it was lawful to show the numbe
of his slaine enemyes, by the number o
fethers in his cappe." Thus we get th,
= phrase, That will be feather in his cap
"JAMEs," said gentleman to his ser
r want, 81 have always placed the utmos
confidence in you; now tell me, James
j how is it thatsmy butchers bills are SC
large, and almost invariably have sucl
bad dinners?' "Really, sir, l don't know
=. for am sure we never have anything
! nice in the kitchen that we don't sen(
some of itup in the parlor,"
: THE intense hardness of black, unclear
: able diamonds, which are used in boring
! machines and for dressing millstones, i
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