Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
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DIET FoRTRATN1Ne BASEBALL PLAYERS
Batter pudding.
THERE never was an honest red-preast
-he is always robin.
In Springfield, Mass, the street cars
bear the inscription, "Will you ride"
AT California picnic gentleman fid-
died den Of serpents out OF their lair.
Two parties of Memphis squirrel-hunt-
ers recently brought home sO,O75 scalps.
A BALD EAGLE, flying with pig in his
talons, was recently shot in Kentucky.
RUSSIAN horse-raisers consider it doing
we'll if only twenty per cent. OF their
stock is stolen.
AN Irish editor can see no earthly rea-
son why women should not be allowedto
become medical men.
A CERTAIN young lady, in making a
pair of gentleman's pants, got joke on
herself by sewing the straps and buckles
on In front.
SMALL snakes, some ofthem nine inches
long, resembling white threads, have been
found in apples in Ellenville, Ulster
County, N. Y.
THKoDoRE Hook was asked to review
"Three Words to the Drunkard." "Oh,
my dear fellow, that / will do in three
words; Pass the bottle"
A GENTLEMAN from California assures
us that earthquakes are 80 common at
San Francisco that even the ragged
urchins in the streets have shock heads.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Washington Life In
surance Company, of New York.
SOLOMON says; "a virtuous woman Is
a crown to her husband" By this rule
the most valuable of the sex is only worth
one dollar and ten cents.
THE Masonic fraternity are soon to
hold grand fair in New York city, the
proceeds to be used in building an asylum,
| in the interior of the State, for Masons'
widows and orphans. ea cd.
MISS PARTINGToN writes to her aunt
that the bridal wave, which the papers
| talk so much about, has not touched that
town for six years.
A HUNDRED thousand dollars has been
appropriated by the city of New York for
a Museum Of Natural history and Art, to
be erected in Central Park.
AN English traveller says: "Put an
| American baby six months old on its feet,
and it will Immediately say, Mr.. Chair.
man, and call the next cradle to order. "
THEY have some plucky women in Mus
catine, Iowa The Journal tells of one
who wormed her way across the street at
the point of her parasol through a passing
| drove of cattle.
| MOSQUITOES are reported so thick at
! Key West that it is sometimes impossible
to see a person across the street. That's
! probably when there is no person across
the street to see.
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captured at the mouth of the st. Lucit
river, Florida, large sea'cow, or mana
tee, which weighek 1, 800 pounds, was II
feet in girth and 13 feet long.
In one of the suburban schools teach
er gave out the word ''psalter" to a class
in spelling. 1t was q poser to all till i
reached the foot of the class, when a curly
headed little fellow spelled il correctly
and being asked to define it, shouted out
"More SALT
IT may not be generally known tha
snake-poison is useful for medicinal pur
poses in these days, and that, under tn,
name of "Crotalus Horridus," the poison
of the rattlesnake is utilized in phar
macy.
BANGOR, Me-, is undergoing a serious
bombardment from neighboring ledgt
of rock, which is being blasted. Hole
have been knocked through the roofs o
several buildings, and a rock weighing
fifty pounds dropped down in front of
lady's parlor window.
AT the convention of the New Y orl
milk producers in New York city, thu
other day, an imaginative speaker declar
ed that the noise of mixing milk and wa
ter atSJersey City, in the early morning
sounds like Niagara
A NEW JERSEY genius is all ready t
bridge the Atlantic. He has perfected hi
plans, and figured it out, and it will tax
only the labor of a million of men for
century. He is willing to stake othe
peoples last dollar on the success of tn
scheme.
E EGe EATING HENS. The best preventive
is to provide dark nests, to be approached
by covered passage just wide enough t
admit the hen. When the egg is laid
the hen starts for the light and does no
turn around to see the egg. So says one
who has tried it.-An. Agrie1tlturist
AT Valley Stream, L. l., man fell be
tween two trains of cars, in attempting
to Jump from one to the other. With tn
exception of a slight confusion he wa
unharmed. When some of the Tailroa'
employees stopped to pick him up he wav
ed them off, saying; 81 can pick up m.
own corpse"
A RECENT writer says of the extrord
nary dryness of the climate of the Argen
tine Republic: "a bowl of water lef
uncovered in the morning is dry at night
ink vanished from the inkstand as if b,
magic The bodies of dead animals DIR.
up instead of decomposing, and neithe
exercise nor exposure to the suns ray
produces perspiration."
VIM HURD, a jeweler of Mason City
Iowa, has invented clock, which, TO
novelty, at least, is wonder of mechani
cal art. The works are in the hands, in
visible to the eye. The dial of the clocl
! is marked out on the window OF hi
store, and the clock has had many ad
miring and wondering spectators.
THE two fine arches of the Mancheste
/ (Va.) free bridge, spanning the tracks o
the Richmond & Danville Railroad i
Manchester, recently completed, are t
be Immediately pulled down, they bein
too narrow to admit of passage throug
2 them of several large stones that hav
, been quarried up the river for the Unite
| States Government.
3 "LAME p sighed Mrs. Partingtor
''here | have been suffering for three moi
tai weeks. First l was seized with
bleeding phrenology in the left hemi'
, phere of the brain, which was exceede
by stoppage of the left ventilator of tn
heart. This gave me an inflammation
4 in the borax, and now I'm sick wit
, chloroform mOrbus. There is no blessiI
5 like that of health, particularly when yo
are ILL.,"
A WESTERN editor relates that b
: once stopped at restaurant in Washing
! ton, d. O., and, noticing that the waite
E was uacommonly sober, asked him if h
= !, was sick. "Yes," very. curtly, ~ is.
, "What's the matter ~ ''Why, si
!. Washin'ton's the worst place ever
, see. When it's dry you can't see wheI
: you're gwine, and when it's wet you can
r CO."
r AN inhabitant of a suburban town, a
s ter spending convivial evening, was di
y covered among the carrots and cabbage
L.. IL glaN