Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-26
CURRENT ITEMS.
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

TUE Tichborne case has been drama
tiZed.
ALL THE RAGE-A woman in high
temper. -s
Is it murder to drown your sorrows or
to kill time.
EXCUSE haste and bad pen," as the
pig said when he broke out.
A CORSET is on exhibition at Dubuque
which has squeezed three females to
death.
APoLIcY issued by the Washington in
1851, for 10000, in 1866 had increased to
$l1, 1870 VIII .-..
An opponent, speaking of Mirabeau
said-d That man would do anything for
money-even a good action" -srlsf
A, TEXAS editor contends that an NJ. G.
from that State has right to sell his seat,
because he bought it,
A Mrs. WISE has succeeded in having
her name inscribed on the list of legal
voters at st. Joseph, Mo, without any at
tempt at opposition or remonstrance on
the part Of the registrars.
JUDY has the following: "Swell Ito
dustman); Il say, old fellow, 1 s'pose you
take all sorts of wubbish in your cart
don't your Dustman: why, in course
does; jump in, guv'nor."
The editor of the New Orleans Repu51i-
edfs thinks it must have been the proof
reader who made him call the Governor
''our enterprising thief, when he meant
to say 'our enterprising chief"
- A MAIDEN lady who had once been
Tilted, wrote her own epitaph, as fol.
lows:
ssHere lies the body of one
Who died of constancy alone.
Strangeri Advance with steps courageous
For this disase is not contagious'
A VIGILANCE Committee in Carlton
County, Mimi, is issuing warnings like
the following:
sa5 sMuRDERERs AND THIEVES, BEwAREl
Any person who commits murder or theft in our
midst is OUR MEAT This is our first and last warn
ing. VIGIANTE.
"a MINISTER who thought that reporting
sermons was all vanity, afterward con
Guiding that if the thing must be done it
should be we'll done slipped greenback
into the reporters hand, saying: "Do not
cOndense me-"
In a Boston court, the other day, a
prisoner had to be discharged because no
one could read the names of the witness
es on the subpGnas. Even the Judge who
had written them was unable to decipher
his own handwriting.
A. MAN at a camp-meeting boasted that
IlS UGCu .LWGnIV-uNG Years,
during which time he had never given
his wife cross word or look. He
omitted to tell his hearers that he dared
not do the one or the other.
A MAN in one of the Western States
turned States evidence, and swore that
helwas member of a gang of thieves
Byand-by they found the roll of actual
members, and accused the man of swear
ing falsely. 81 was q member" said the
man, '9'thappy thought-"T was an
honorary member !"
CERTAIN church-goers in Norwich,
Conn, are puzzled. A few weeks ago.
clergyman from Meridian preached a
very fine sermon to them. On a recent
Sunday, a clergyman from Eagleville
preached eloquently to them, but it was
the same sermon. Now they are anxious
to know who wrote it.
AT Dubuque, Iowa, On the night of
April 1st, Mr.. Walker, candidate for AL
dermanie honors, thinking that he was
elected Alderman by thirty major
ity, invited all his friends to an oyster
supper. He subsequently found that
there was miscount, and that he was
beaten by seventeen.
AN Oshkosh wis., man has in his or
chard several apple trees, the trunks of
WHlCu, uNC lHCllCS III are SDllJ
from the ground to the branches by the
extreme cold weather of last winter. On
cold days the seams would open so that
one could almost see through the trees;
yet they appear thrifty.
THE Journal Of tie Telegraph decides
that twelve words are comprised in the
following messages: "Buy five hundred
and eighty-five $3.50 shares" The fact
that the sum IN figures requires only three
characteristic represent it does not decide
the charge therefor, but is fixed by the
number of words, as in the example
given, ,.....,.s.- .-..f ....
A PREsTIDIGITATEUR, while performing
in Texas town recently, gave the famil
iar trick of pretending to load pistol
and allow one of the audience to fire al
him, he catching the bullet in his teeth
The spectator selected dropped a bona td,
bullet into the pistol, and discharged il
at the operator, killing him instant
ly.s The murderer was arrested.
BsA YOUNG lady, who signs herself "a
Blonde" sends us a perfumed note, ask
ing, ?" Why docs Mr., Byron, who used t.
write such nice, sweet poetry, keep 81
quiet of lateY' If We were to maxi
arandom guess, without consulting an en-
cyclopedia, we should say that the rea
son MT, byron keeps SO quiet, Is JnaJ III
is dead. We believe he died before tn
burning of Chicago, ,-NorriStolon Herald
BONNER, of the New York Ledger, ha
$145, 900 worth of horses which he keep
in 100000 worth of stables. "And no
twenty'years ago" says a New York let
ter, 1.'the owner of all this was without
dollars capital, and was humbly pursuin
his scaling in printing Office" For tn
ENCOURAGEMENT of young men who have
hafkering for the art preservative, W
would here remark that there are printer
in this section of the country who hav
made less money than that within the las
twenty years
c. MOVING. The Cabot Com
Brunswick, Maine, in order :,
enlarge their cotton mill, moved thei
large smoke-stack chimney-7S feet high
7 feet 8 inches square at base, and 8 fee
square at top--cOntaining more than 40,
900 bricks and weighing more than 10
tons twenty feet, without rollers or balls
or guys or braces to steady it-one of tn
greatest feats ever performed in the State
II was accomplished by building sucl
ways as are used in launching ships, SUI
faces planed and creased, chimney wedge,
up, and moved by two iack-screws il
four and half hours. The fues wer
disconnected from the boiler at o'clocl
p, m, and at 01s O'Clock the same even