Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-16
CURRENT ITEMS.
A Northumberland.

n HLEDuB OF IONE-IhWh Iho eh-
gagement ring.
THE unfortunate mans friends live
long way off.
A WEsTPoRT, Conn, lady has we'd
ding cheese forty-six years old.
FROM 10000 to $4,000 Britons are an
nually punished for poaching.
AN ODD Sort OF SHIP-Courtship
which has two mates, but no captain
THE rates of the Washington Life are
the same as other good companies.
A YOUNG lady of Lee, Mass, had hair
which reached to the ground, and she sold
it for 500.
A GREAT SURGICAL OPERATIoN-To
take the cheek out of young man, and
the jdto out of scolding woman.
A MODERN Solomon says he would not
give two cents for boy who did not pre-
| fer kite to concordance.
A WESTERN journalist has written the
heading, "Another Lie Nailed" $1,000
times during his long career.
A SINGLE Squire in Aberdeen, Ohio,
has married thirty.nine Runaway couples
from Kentucky in four months.
Is it not contradiction in terms to as
sumo that man is bent on his purpose
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THE property in New York, exempt
from taxation, including that owned by
the city, amounts to $275,O00, 900.
PEOPLE in New Orleans rejoice that
they have escaped the terrible heat
which has lately affected the Atlantic
| cities
A YOUNG lawyer who has just been ad-
mitted to the bar, sadly and discontented-
ly observes that the law is better in theory
than in practice.
A THIEF was lately caught breaking in
to a song. He had already got through
the first two bars, when policeman came
up and hit him with a stave.
SMALL but active bootblack to wear
er of thirteens: "Say, boss, let me
black your boots; do 1t for five cents
an acre, and warrant done before sun
down"
A PARTY of surveyors found, recently,
near Astoria, Oregon, box containing
old Spanish coins to the value OF So, 700,
secreted near the line of their survey.
Boston drummers, while on the sea-
shore. wear plain black trowsers, with
the knees and seams neatly linked over to
conceal age, while their entire salary goes
for boot polish and neck-ties.
AT Albany, recently, a woman met her
once husband at wedding party. They
had been divorced ten years, and had not
met in all that time. A short talk at sup
per reconciled their estrangement, and
they were married next day.
NEAR St. Louis an unaccountable hole
in the ground was recently discovered by
farmer. He dug to the bottom, seven
teen feet, and found an aerolite eff solid
/ al ~ cfrrt to a N
shape, and the size of twelve-pound can
non ball.
A BALLOT cast against levying tax for
completing the High School in Fond du
Lac, Wis, declared the voter did not
"want no skole by a dam site" and an
other asserted that there was "too much
skule now." And yet Fond du Lac will
have more "skole.'
THE Hartford ladies, especially the
property-owuers, are plucky, and they
don't mean to pay taxes without repre-
sentation. So say nine tax paying ladies,
one of them representing 100000, and
they have made formal protest, which
accompanied the amount due for taxes.
a CHINAMAN in Weatherville, Cal,
whose life was insured for large amount,
was seriously hurt by falling from a
wagon. There was some doubt of his
ever getting bet ter and at length one of
his friends wrote to the insurance COM
pany, Charley half dead, likee halt
money
TEE other day a little boy who had cut
his finger ran to his mother and cried:
"Tie it up, ma; tie it up quick, for the
Juice is all running out!" The same ur-
chin, on one of the late excessively hot
days. appealed to his mother for help,
saying: MA, do fix me, for I'm leaking
all over"
LAST Saturday evening a young gawk
nineteen years of age, escorted a young
lady to the Northern Liberty market from
the eastern section of the city, paying hel
car fare (ten cents both trips. as a matter
of course. Next morning Sunday the
young gentleman's mother called on the
young lady for the ten cents that her sor
had so injudiciousy expended. - WdshiHg
ton Republican,.
A PARIS correspondent relates a story
which may be taken as an Illustration o.
sublime impudence. He states that {
gentleman walking with his little boy OF
the banks of the river, the child slipped
over the bank into the water, and would
certainly have been drowned but for thu
courage of man who was fishing, whC
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father thanked him cordially, but asked
him if he would add to the obligation, a,
he was already wet through, by swim
ming for the boys cap.
In reply to inquiries made by circular
letters the Pension Bureau has just hearC
J from one who is probably the oldest in
: the pension list of the widows of Revolu
= tionary soldiers. The Postmaster at New
Matamoras, Washington County, Ohio
, writes that Mrs. Lois Miller, widow o
Philip, a soldier of the Revolution, wa
r living on the 23d ult., at that place; tina
! she would be 100 years old on the 18th o
; August, and that her sight is sOmewha
defective, but that her mind is good fol
one of her age.
SIR WALTER ScoTT paints, in one o
the Waverly Novels, girl who pretend
to be deaf and dumb. and keeps her ful
possession of hearing and speech secre
: for years, until she chooses to reveal it
, 1t has often been said that such a decep
tion was an impossibility, and that thu
great novelist, protesting to portray
nature, had no right to palm this off upoI
! his readers. His reputation has beer
| vindicated by recent marvellous case o
, self-control About two years ago,
} certain George Scott was convicted, il
New York, of burglary. On his trial
he pretended to be deaf and dumb, anC
thereby created so much sympathy tina
, he was sentenced to only two years i'm
prisonment, while his accomplices go
, ten. He was sent to Sing Sing, and thel
to Auburn. At both prisons he kept VI
his pretence, and So escaped all heav,
work. A few days since he was released
and instantly gave his tongue full compen
sation for its two years OF enforced absti
! nence from talk.
OUR SHERIFF, NJ. NJ. McPhetridge
lost valuable silver watch in a strip o
,, timber in Davies County fifteen year
I ago, and after thorough search, wa
unable to find it. The timber in whicl
Q the watch was lost has since been cleared
: and has been under cultivation about 81,
4 years. Six weeks ago, as little girl o
! Mr.. Wigglesworth was planting beans
: she saw something protruding from tn
, earth, when she stopped down and, afte