Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-07-05
CURRENT ITEMS.


In the dress of common convict,
A HUMBLE duty, faithfully performed,
is sweet morsel forever.
WHEN man makes eyes at you, can he
be charged with egotism
SwEETBEINa ones coffee is generally
the hrst stirring event of the day.
10 MAKE thin man look fat, call after
hlm, and he will then look round,
THE annual Income of the lady who
Presldes over the republic of bonnets in
Paris is 100000.
SMIGGLEs says that the most thrilling
tale ne ever listened to was that of rat
tle-snake,
Two women in New York have been
semitic jail for knocking a man down on
broadway and robbing him.
WHAT requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come Parting
with things as they go.
The latest California earthquake had
the effect of suddenly curing several lame
beggar5 in San Francisco.
THE present population of Prussia, ac-
cording to the recent census, is "a, $40, $50
an increase of 2S0 per cent. over that of
1867.
1T is said that the ladies of the congre.
CATION OF popular English preacher are
subscribing for fund to procure HIM a
divorce.
DESPITE all the efforts of political econ
omists to reconcile capital and labor, cur
rent events show that there is striking
difference between them.
Two young ladies going home from a
fair in New Haven, the other evening
had their dresses ruined by scoundrels
who threw sulphuric acid on them.
THOSE who serve you because they love
you, will exact no return those who
serve you from self interest, will exact
both principal and interest.
CHRIsT's HOSPITAL, one of the oldest
school-houses in London, having been es-
tablished by King Edward VI, has been
sold to railroad company for a depot, for
$4,000, 900.
A MAN and his wife who died in Ander-
son, s. g., recently, within an hour of
each other, had been married seventy
years: He was nearly ninety years old,
and she cighty-seven.
In 1918, the late James Gordon Bennett
taught school for two months at Steuben,
Me. 1t was district school, and he
" boarded round" For his two months
labors he received the munificent COM
pensation of SIT.
A NOTED wag in certain college one
morning read theme of unusual merit.
The President, being suspicious, asked
pointedly if it was original. "Why, yes,
sir was the reply, "it had Original
over it in the paper 1 took it from.''
A PARIsIAN journalist recently lost the
sight of one eye in yery curious man.
ner. He was putting on a clean shirt,
when the edge of the stifily starched
bosom struck him in the eye, permanent
~ dlsabling that organ. Moral Don't
put on clean shirts.
AN elephant which was sold at auction
from the Royal Menagerie in Edinburgh a
short time ago, was to be taken to Man
chester by railway. But he did not fancy
MS quarters he smashed up his car with
out ceremony, and took his journey on
his own feet.
AN impertinent fool in Des Moines at.
tempted to read lady's letter over her
shoulder in street car. He was restored
to consciousness in about half an hour,
but it turns out that his neck was not
broken, as was at first supposed.
All Hoop, Chinaman, was in the pen
ltentiary of Idaho, serving out a five
years sentence, and he managed to es.
cape, but justice has not been cheated,
after all, exultingly explains the Idaho
Statesman, for he was "the wrong China
man, and guilty of no crime at all"
THE old story of a bachelor filling HE
har oil bottle with an Objectionable COM
pound for the benefit of his chamber
maid, has been revived. This time. how
ever, the compound is nitro glycerine,
which exploded when the girl was dane.
lng at ball, and blew her own and her
partners head off.
DIR. u. ROGERS, recently of Chicago.
appeared the other night at Woman's s
Suffrage Convention at San Francisco,
with half his head shaved, the other half
having hair and whiskers. He announced
That he did it in recognition of man being
halt woman and half man. He was ar
rested and sent to the insane asylum.
The following note, written to her
scheolmate by girl who had been alb
sent several days, illustrates the sweet
simplicity of childhood: Dear S1sSe-I
Shan't attend school again until 1 Get
some new cuffs, collars and Jewelrv-
dear Mama agrees with me that it is nv
Dooty to take the shine out of that Up-
start Many Jones and I'll do it if I
never learn nothing"
A GEoLoGIsT, Professor Cunning,
estimates that Niagara Falls are only
about 2OO, O0O years old! And he does not
call that old, geoiogically speaking. He
has recently examined the condition of
the great Horseshoe, and finds that there
has been perceptible change within the
past ten years. In fact, the falls are re-
ceulng, though very slowly, probably at
rae OF not more than six inches wear.
a FUNERAL probably unparalleled re.
Gently took place in Wayne County, N. ].
An economical citizen who buried his
tlrst wife without funeral services, lost
ms second, and on the occasion of her
burial the pastor, whether by instructions
or otherwlse, seized the opportunity to
perform the funeral services of both
wives at oncei and with the body of the
second wife lying before him, first alluded
TO the former, taking them up in order
A LADY went into dry goods store in
augusta, Me-, the other day, to purchase
necktle. She looked at several varie.
tles-black, white, scarlet, striped, ETC.
got down at last to the consideration oil
choosing between plain black and white
Here her mind was evenly balanced for
some time; but she finally decided to
choose black, as her brother was very
sick, not being expected to live, and the
black necktie "would do for mourning >
A GOOD story is told of a candidate be
lore county convention in Ohio. He
was out electioneering, and stopping at d
house on Harris Prairie asked the lady
who came to the door if her husband was
at home. She replied in the negative
The candidate expressed regret, as he
wanted to secure his vote for the coming
convention. 80, if that's ALL" returned
the lady, ''you needn't give yourself any
uneasiness; he'll vote for you. There
were seven candidates along here this
morning. before he left home, and he
promised to vote for every one Of them.
John" writes to the New York Sun
from Pittsburgh: merchants in Pitts
burgh keep cannon in front of their door:
TO keep the Boston drummers away. But
Yankee ingenuity will overcome almos
every difficulty. One dark night one ol