Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-27
CURRENT ITEMS.

vania pittsburgh sunshine"
1T is low enough to live in an attic, but
ground floor Is basement.
WHY is drunkard like bad accountP
Because he generally overbalances.
THE WASHINGTON is purely mutual,
and divides its profits among its policy
holders only.
TIE revised statutes Of Colorado are
being printed in Spanish.
A MEMPHIS paper defines advertising
to be "a blister which draws customers"
A DUMB MAN recently went to law with
deaf man. The latter, of course, was
the deqf fendant
AN unusual amount of California fruit
has been shipped for the Eastern markets
this season.
oman is a mystery" said young lady
to her beau. Eyes, DEAR" said he, land
girl is MISERY"
BACKWARD, turn backward, oh time
in your flight. Agassiz has discovered
that oysters used TO be q foot in diam
eter.
ONE hundred and fifteen pounds of but
ter in four weeks from three COWS is the
latest Georgia achievement
A SHARK has been captured at Charles.
tOu, D. Va WClkulnk NV pOOuOsi NAQ
measuring eight feet in length.
THEY are still growing about the
weather at the centeTs of observation,
They invariably speak Of the mean tenn.
| perature.
Two TWIN boys in Warren County,
Ind, aged seventy-two years are tenderly
care for by mother Of ninety.six.
AN insane Pennsylvania editor imag-
ines himself a mule. The insanity con.
sists in assuming that he is half horse
| Boston Post
A COUPLE publish card at South
Bend, Ind, thanking cornet band "for
so kindly disseminating practice during
our late Illness"
Mr.. MANNING, of Cincinnati, was
"pickpocketed" of $0,000,005, the saw.
ings of lifetime. 1t is said that the loss
almost unnamed Mr.. Manning.
A VERMoNTER, who sent for one of the
$3.50 sewing machines advertised in the
papers, received shoemakers awl,
worth about ten cents.
WARE, Mass, has young lady of
twenty years who stands six feet and two
inches in her bare feet, and another Of
twentyfour who weighs AGO pounds.
Mr.. HoLLINGswoRTH, the new Super
intendent of Mt Vernon, has reduced the
expenses of the place from S 900 to
$4,000, thus making it self-sustaining.
THE chief signal officer at Washington
in engaged in perfecting an apparatus by
which the appearance and forms of the
clouds at sunset may be recorded.
THERE was heavy frost in some parts
of Penobscot County, Maine, recently.
In the town of Plymouth the corn was
killed, and the farmers cut it for fodder.
A LITTLE girl was tenderly nursing her
sick doll the other day, and on her moth.
er's asking what allied it she replied, TITS
got the Alabama claims very bad"
A BACHELOR of seventy, at Loretto,
Ky, has never been fifteen miles from
the spot where he was born, and has
never been sick.
In the Mission School last Sunday
, Miss 7. asked little girl: "Do you like
{ lamentations" 81 don't know them
'uns, but like lam an peas"
A YOUNG Connecticut lady was lately
taken back when her swain got upon his
= knees before her and read a declaration
, of love which he had nicely written off.
THE Arizona Miner declares that witt
!. 1000 men mounted on good horses, wei
armed and equipped, within year every
! Ap che would be reserved or go on res
ervation.
THE Chattanooga Herald had so many
! typographical errors in an article on tn,
Atlanta & Chattanooga road, that TIN
paper reproduced it entirely.
: WHEN young lady in Cincinnati wen
= to White Sulphur Springs, she had NOR
than fifty gentlemen to go to the railroaC
: station with her, look at their watches, ant
q say farewell.
a A MAN in Pittsburgh, Pa, who own
j half million, has just had a committe
= appointed to take care of it upon hi
D wife's application, on the ground that HI
: is a habtual drunkard.
e IT will be interesting to the ladies t.
know that the eXEmpress Eugene nov
S dresses almost entirely in red and black
n and that her beautiful hair is beginnin
y to show threads of silver.
v MIDDLETowN Comm boys are enter
t prising. AS excursion trains from Har
3 ford pass the station, they knock tn
l. handkerchefs from the hands of the chi
r dren with long poles. One boy secure
l. ten in one day.
q ABOUT 100 fat men, each weighing owe
If 200 pounds, were present at the annul
e clam-bake at Gregory's River, Conn, II
y Gently. Two Norwalk ladies of 270 an
IS 227 pounds weight, respectively, wei
s. also present.
SEVERAL parties have been found guilt
of selling liquor to Indians, in the Unite
States District Court of Colorado, an
sentenced by fines and imprisonment, or
# man receiving ten years in the Penitel
, tiary.
/. A PLUMBER had an Irish lad in his en-
ploy, and one day having occasion for
n piece of zinc, ordered him to get on
is twelve inches square. eyes, sir" sal
D. Pat, 'twelve inches square, but ho
IS long?"
A TERRE HAUTEAN who vowed nev,
at to marry until he had accumulated $1G
o. 000 Is now slowly collecting the last hui
er dred dollars, and a beautiful young lad
is preparing her wedding tr01ssedu.
"a DOMESTIC help in Oregon has been su
~ piled for some time by an enterprisir
=, agent at Dundee, Scotland. The your
,h girls sent out are said to be steady al
'i industrious, and very much in deman
H. A DETROIT Mich man found und
his kitchen floor, the other day, a pac
NJ age of $15, 900 in greenbacks, but it hG
n laid there so long it was eaten up Wi
nj rot, and on being handled crumbled
dust. How it came there is the myster,
re AMONG our National Post. Offices a
nc the following: "Ti I'll, Tote, Why No
Pipe Stem, Stony Man, Sal Soda, Shic
Id shiny, Snowshoes, Overalls, Lookou
Last Chance, Backbone, Marrow Bone
i Sorrel Horse, Tally Ho, and Tired Creek
Il A MAN in Kansas accidentally fell in
>. a vat of boiling water and was kille
Is His bereaved children erected tom
le stone to his memory, with the brief b
,u touching inscription-Parb0tted.
~ -. If you have friend who loves yo
- who has studied your interest and hapI
W ness, be sure to sustain him in adversit
rJ Let him feel that his former kindness
~ appreciated, and that his love was n
thrown away.
e. A oNEARMED Irishman at Salem, Mas
having got into trouble with his wife, a
iy piled for a divorce recently, and claim,