Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-08
CURRENT ITEMS.
PnoFrssons OF Observation-Disclosures


labor under an impression.
VERY odd-Boots are generally soled
fore they are bought.
TT is said of vindictive mule that his
foot is against every man.
THE Paris Chief of Police writes
fashion articles in his leisure moments.
A sHoAL of fishes lately stopped an
English steamer plying on the high
seas.
IF topper and q quart of whisky
were left together, which would be drunk
first
A WASHINGTON father threw a saucer
at his little girl and now she has but one
lip.
A SINISTER person in Atlanta, Ga, Of.
fers premium at the State Fair for the
ugliest editor.
DENVER is about to establish hospital
for the deluded invalids who go to Colo
RADIO to die.
THE Roman theatrical managers are
filling their pockets by producing repre-.
sentations of the Inquisition.
A LOOSE stone, the size of a walnut
was found in one of the cells of the
heart of an OK the other day at Peters
burg, Ind.
PROVIDE for your old age with policy
in the Washington Life Insurance Com.
pany, of New York.
ONE hundred and twenty.one patents
have been granted on wind.mills in the
United States since 1854
THE Dayaks, of Borneo, believe that
"all whom they kill in this world shall
attend them as slaves after DEATH"
Four buffalo hunters left Great Bend,
Kan, and killed and skinned one hun.
dred buffalo in one day.
AN incoherent gentleman living In
New York has built shed over sun.
dial in his garden to protect it from the
weather.
THE Danbury Neps says that commit.
tee appointed to canvass Rhode Island,
has sent for the tent of the Danbury Agri.
cultural Society.
A GERMAN doctor is said to have writ.
ten book on the south pole. Whether
he stood up or set on stool to write is
uncertain.
A MATTER .oF.FACT Danburian being
asked If he saw Rubinstein when in New
York, vacantly responded: "Why no;
was he looking for me9"
IT took exactly three days and six hours
to weigh the 800, 900, 900 francs recently
sent by the French Governmet to EN-
peror William of Germany.
On a recent Sunday Chicago saloon
hung out beer bottle, dressed in mourn.
ing, underneath which was a bucket of
water, with the generous invitation,
Help yourselves, boysl"
PHILANTHRorIsT--" Now, my little
man, do you really think you could eat a
TART" Object of benevolence, contempt
uously-"Eat tartl Sh'd think / could
forty dozen on 'em.
THE editor who was such a fool as to
publish newspaper that made nobody
angry at him, was obliged to abandon
business. He is now engaged in the more
congenial labor of peddling SKINNED
milk.
ELIHU EMERSON, t01 years old, and a
native of Leicester, Mass, was measured
for new pair of corduroy breeches the
other day, and refused to take them be-
cause the tailor would not warrant them
for ten years.
MEssRs. A. & w. SPRAGUE, of Provi-
dence, r. l., have recently purchased
45O, GOO acres of timber lands in Maine,
paying therefor 50 per acre, or 81 800, 900
for the whole. They paid down $3.50, 900
to bind the bargain.
Two HUGE African slaves, with their
faces much tattooed, driving with reips
pair OF ostriches, are among the present
sensations of Paris. They are invariably
followed by an immense crowd of men,
women and children.
THE laws of Illinois protect the blue
birds, swallows, martins, musquito hawks,
cuckoos, whippoorwills, woodpeckers,
cat birds, mice birds, sparrows, humming
birds, wrens, dovos and mocking birds,
or goldfnches.
VERY genteel and amiable young man
is now insane. He splits his hair in the
middle. The other day, in cOmbing it he
chanced to get two more hairs on one
side than on the other. This DESTROYED
the balance of his head and overturned
his brain. He makes very gentle luna
tic, however.
IHE ladies' now wear exaggerated neck
ties around their waists, with the bow
dangling half way down the skirt. On
seeing one of these arrangements, an
Evansville youth bawled out: "Say,
mum, yer surcingle's comm off," A
scornful look was his only reward.
Two YOUNG ladies were seen wander
ing up and down Merrimac street, YES
terday, with the hair hanging down over
their foreheads in an idiotic style. They
were at first supposed to have escaped
from Tewksbury almshouse, but it was
afterward found to be only fashionable
-L0lceN Courier.
AT Owenshoro, Ky, the taller placed
three perch fish in the jail well two years
ago. On cleaning out the well few days
ago, he recovered one of them, but, singu-
lar to say, stone blind, and its dark, nat.
ural color bleached to almost Transparent
cy. Otherwise the imprisoned fish was
as full OF vitality as when first consigned
to its dark and damp abode Thus the
eyesight seems to go out when confined
where it is useless.
NEVER knu a man yet, not even oy
fust rate judgment, if he should ketch a
fish that weighed pounds but would
guess he weighed 6, and if should kill a
snaiX that was feet and 3 inches long,
would want tew sware he waz II foot
long, without taking the krooks out ov
him. This IL human natur, and human
natur is heavy on marvel.-JOd Billings
AN Iowa man, fond of sport, went out
hunting last week, and shot one "kil
deer" and the top of his horses head off
His little son laughed boisterously when
he saw the governor" coming home at
night, drawing the wagon, which con.
tanned set of harness, after him, but the
parent famed his offspring with one end
of ting, and quiet was restored. - Titus.
oale Press.
A PARIS gentleman had purchased
paster-of.Paris copy of the Venus of
Milo. He gave his address to the mer-
chant, and asked him to send il to his
house. On the following morning he ask
ell his footman: Joseph, has a plaster.
of.Paris statue been brought to the
house?" "Yes, sir,P replied Joseph;
they brought here a large woman in
plaster of, Paris, but refused to receive
it," Why, JosephY" "Well, sir, her
two arms were broken off and know