Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-07
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WILL IhlNllEdE-hlSslnS laCbOly
girl.
KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
Bridegrooms.
THE eyes of other people are the eyes
that ruin us.
ONE measure in which civilized ma.
tiOns agree-The churchyard.
MENDINa a clock is an eflectual way of
improving time.
WHAT fruit does a newly.married
couple most resembleS A green pear.
THE enforcement of the liquor law in
Portland costs the city 81 600 daily
IT may always be considered grave
mistake to bury man alive.
No art can teach which does not move
no art can move without teaching
GERMANY is visited annually by 10000
Americans, who spend there no less than
$50 1000 000
WITHOUT health we can enjoy no for
tune, honor or riches, and all other ad-
Vantages are useless.
A TEN.YEAR.oLD negro girl in Jessa.
mine County, KY, pulls the scales down
to 200 pounds.
EUROPE is supposed to contain 300,-
100000 people. One hundred years ago
the estimate was but 60,000,000.
A CHEST containing $4,000 in gold,
and marked Captain Kidd, ,"has been un-
earthed in Cape May County, N. j.
THE dividends of the Washington Life
are made and paid in cash or insurance,
annually from date of policy.
A COMPANY with a capital stock of five
millions of dollars has been chartered to
bridge or tunnel the Mississippi at Mem
phis
THERE are two reasons why some peo-
pie don't mind their own business. One
is that they have no business, and the
other is that they have no mind.
To GROW rich, earn money fairly,
spend less than you earn, and hold on to
the difference. The first takes muscle,
the second self control, the third brains
A MAN known as "Silly Kelly" died the
other day in Edinburgh at the age of
eighty-two. He had been convicted in
the police court $50 times, and spent up
ward of forty years in prison.
PITTSBURGH is fearful smutty place.
Before the doctors can vaccinate anybody
there, they have to cut their way with a
cold.chissel through half an inch of solid
flied coal-smoke.
BOSTON paper states that a society
for the protection of children with bare
legs from the cruelty of mothers is soon
to be established in Boston.
IT has beea determined that the great
International Exposition, which is to take
place in Philadelphia in 1876, shall open
on the 10Th of April and close on the 10Th
of October.
A SAW factory in Johnston, N. Y,
makes ten thousand dozen buck.saws an
nually. One is curious to know how
many backaches are thereby represented.
A MAN eighty years of age at Somerset,
Pa, who was rich at noon, was penniless
at night, having lost his all in the fire.
and, with his two daughters, had to beg
floor on which to sleep.
WE have only escaped threatened dan
ger of being knocked out of time by
some eccentric comet to be menaced by
another equally disquieting. Sir Charles
Lyell says the whole of North America
will be washed into the ocean 4, 500, 600
years hence.
PING WING, the firemans son, was the
very worst boy in all Canton; he stole
his mothers picked mice, and he threw
the cat in the boiling rice, and he ate her
up, and then says he; " Me wonder where
the mewcat be?"
A MAN hearing of another who was
hundred years old said, contemptuously:
"Pshaw! what a fuss about nothingl
Why, if my grandfather was alive he would
be hundred and fifty years old"
In New York, a gentleman is said to
have recently broken off an engagement
with lady after the wedding cards had
been printed, because she would not fol
low his advice as to how the bridal party
should stand at the altar.
You cannot wear anything this season
that will not be called stylish, provided
it has rutfies enough to make you look
like demoralized rag-baby, and is
punched together sufficiently to look as if
you were wearing your whole wardrobe
at once.
AN Iowa man recently died from swal-
lowing pocket-knife and injurious med
ical treatment combined. He got along
very nicely as long as the knife was
closed but when the doctor gave him
opening medicine it killed him.
FIRST RUFFIAN-Wot was l hup for,
and wot ave | got Well, l foor'd u
woman, and took her watch, and I've got
two years and a floggin' Second ruff
tian-Ha flung woman out O. the top
floor winder, an on'y got three months.
First ruflian-Ah, but then SIZE 1Cas ger
aolfe
WILLIAM LAPoINTE left Bayfield,, Wis. =,
on Tuesday morning, May Z, taking the
mail to Superior, aud returning with the
mail from Superior on Friday, the 10th.
He walked one hundred and sixty miles
over road swampy, hilly and rough, in
four successive days, with heavy storm
lasting through the whole time, and car
ried pack of fifty pounds.
THE Marquis of Camden, who has just
died, is the distinguished man who re-
signed the place of "Teller of the Ex-
chequer," an absolute sinecure worth
$60,O00 year, because he thought it a
fraud upon the nation. OF course he
would not have done it if he had been a
rich man, which he was not.
THE estimated amount of gold in exis-
tence had risen from $57 900, 900 in 1892,
the year of the discovery of America, to
some 50 900, 100000 in 1840, and to up,
ward of So 900, 900, 900 in 1870. The ap-
probation in values has also kept pace
the world over with the increase of gold,
which is the standard of value among all
the great nations.
ENocH F. FERNAULD, of Madbury, N.
H., plowed up new Cardiff giant re
Gently, the length whereof is seven feet
seven inches, and the breadth and thick
ness nroportlonOta. When found, the
about It's neck, renderlRg eS1mpoIRhSdT ffFHascHi ffHsH
lures necessary to its removal.
AN intelligent graduate of Massachu-
setts school told the examiner that "Esop
was the author of Latin fables covered
with hair and sold his birthright for a
mess of potash" There is something to
provoke pride in the almost universal dis
semination of abstruse nowledge through
our glorious free schools.
A PHILOSOPHICAL Kentuckian who was
the envied possessor of one shirt, while
living in bed awaiting its return from the
line where it was Tapping in solitary
grandeur, was startled by an exclamation
from the better half of his bosom, to the
effect that ''the calf has eaten it," To this
he replied with an equanimity worthy of
a better cause: "Them who has mus
lose |"