Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

HAVANA boasts of larger organ than
Boston.
A GOOD coal fire on cold mornings is a
CRATE comfort.
SHELBY County, Tenn, is prosecuted
by wood-ticks.
A MALAY prince owns the largest dia-
mond in the world
SOME Georgia ladies fogged a bogus
doctor for quackery.
QUANTITIES of Irish moss are gathered
near Plymouth, Mass.
BULwER says that poverty is only an
idea" It's very bad idea.
SPOTTED fever is becoming quite
common on the Pacific slope
QUITE large amounts of timber are ex-
ported from Quebec 10 Europe.
AT Santa Fe, in defiance of the latitude,
there was snow storm recently.
PENN YAM, N. Y, has a young lady
who nails up 400 grape boxes day.
CONNECTICUT expects to close about
one-half of her dram shops next month.
BEET root sugar is preferred for fine
confectionery when it can be procured.
OF forty steamboats, navigating the Red
River, thirteen are named the "Era.r
A YEAR and half old colt weighs 1870
pounds on the Olathe scales, Kansas.
THE Adams Express Company has a
monopoly of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
FLORIDA is manufacturing feather flow
| ers from the plumage of the white heron.
A New JERSEY locomotive pulled
seven loaded cars fifty miles in forty five
minutes.
WHY is bashful girl like cameleon ?
Because she often changes color.
A SUGGESTIVE Spanish proverb--" The
road By.and by leads to the town of
Never"
THEY are fools who persist in being
quite miserable because they are not quite
happy.
SHAKEsPEAREAN reader to Mr.. Fahren-
heit's thermometer Down, down, thou
climbing sorrow I"
THE wearing of turbans has almost
been abandoned by the negro women of
| the South.
A REWARD is offered for barber who
docs not ask you to be shampoOed or "hev
your hair cut, sahI'
THE Mormons complain that ever Gen.
tile who visits their country is walking
armory.
BAD manuscript makes an editor think
sometimes that he keeps house of cor
rection.
BARNUM's gorilla suffers dreadfully from
the headache, and cries salt tears while
the infliction lasts.
A HUSBAND can readily foot the bills OF
a wife who is not afraid of being seen
footing the stockings of her husband.
THE Boston car drivers complain that
old ladies punch them in the back with
parasols when they want the car stopped.
"THIs is the rock of ages" said the
father, after rocking two hours, and the
baby being still awake.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com.
pany is increasing more than two thous.
and dollars per day above all losses and
expenses.
"WHAT is your hurry, Jimmy?" asked
kind lady of precocious little urchin
who had called on his way to school the
other day. 80, must 60" "Where are
you going, Jimmy" With heaving
sigh, and pointing to the schoolhouse,
Unto the house of correction, ma'amW
THERE must be something done to pre-
vent those horrible mistakes of druggists
clerks. One of tie careless fellows lately
gave young man in Louisville bottle
of mucilage Instead of cologne. The
youth went to church, and, after applying
the contents freely to his handkerchief
and applying the handkerchief freely tC
his nose, he was in no condition for de
yout worship. This thing is getting to be
alarming. - CbicdgO Inter. ocean.
In st. Louis court, the other day, 6
lawyer asked the witness, :" Are you {
Jew9" He replied, eyes, I am. WHAT'S
that to you ?" The lawyer was going on
when the judge reminded him that the
witness had asked him a question. HC
had nothing to say, and the judge tolC
him he must not put such questions L
witnesses in that court. Prejudice o
race has no place before legal tribunals
THE editor of the Danbury Conn
Neus went off last Saturday for n halfhol
iday of fishing. When he returned h,
had walked thirteen miles, lost a forty
five dollar watch, sprGined his thumb
spoiled an eleven dollar pair of pants b,
sitting down on his luncheon, and caugh
four pound mud turtle. He got bacl
in time TO help the doctor cut from hi
Oldest boys foot one of the several fish
hooks he had left at home. He took
cursory view of the situation and went {,
bed.
, A ROUGH North CarOlinian, going Yves
with his dozen children and two doZel
dogs, got on board the steamer Iighfye
, at Kentucky landing, and his first ques
tiOn was, Chow much will you charge
| cap'n, to take us to st. LouisY" VII
you go on deck or in the cabinP" querie,
the captain. The Carolinian hesitated
2 moment, and then, with a sigh over hi
. own sef-sacriflce, replied "Wal, cap'n
/ Eve lived in cabin all my life, an,
] s'pose the cabin'll be good enough TO
me-"
} SCENE--A city hotel telegraph Office
early Monday morning, Young gentle
] man operator, after repeated calls 10
young lady operator In 4 branch Office, q