Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-02-09
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gun seven feet and four inches i'll length.
A MIsER's first rule in arithmetic Is ad-
dtion, but his heirs generally begin with
division.
assault with intent TO become In
sane" is the way they put deadly attacks
now.
THE Washington Star recently an
nounced that all the little girls in Pbiladcl.
phia were having their dolls vaccinated
WHY is an old pooket-handkerchief like
an old ship2 Because il has experienced
many hard blow.
INSURE in the Washington Life lnsur-
ance Company, for the benefit of your
family No creditor can touch the pro
cceds
A New YORK court decides that the
secretary of II company has no right to
open letter addressed to the president.
A VERY prccocious London boy Is ac-
Cuscd OF having commenced as burglar
at the age of three, and being a scientific
garroter at ten,
THE cold is so great in Italy this winter
that there has heon skating in Elnronco
and Naples, for the first time in many
years,
Our of two thousand and twenty-six
buildings erected in Boston last year, nine
ty-siX were stone. The rest were brick.
GEORGE +. HARRINGTON, a Boston let
ter-carrier, has received $34n from his pa
irons, in the form Of holiday presents.
AN cnterprising young lady of Rock
Island, ILL.,, has made wager of $i,G00
that she can collect n million cancelled
postage stamps III four years.
Buf two genuine Laplanders have ever
landed in this country, and they came in
the ship Boetia from a Baltic port to New
York, last December.
\ VERY singular matrimonial case re-
Gently happened in Essex County, Va. A
gentleman second wife's two sons mar
ricd his third wife's two daughters.
THE other day workman at South
Bend (Me.) sugar factory was suddenly
struck dumb. The first intimation his
fellow-workmen had of the occurrence
was finding him in tears.
\ YOUNG man having n late railroad
disaster I'm his mind, has broken his en-
gagemcnt with young lady, because she
wears a train and is negligent about her
switch.
AcconDING to a newly published direct
ory of Denver, the population of that city
is at present 10,S32, against 4, 700 in Jan
=
erected, at cost 1f 81, 301, ,315
JUNIOR CLERK -" " Hawl look here
Fipps; | want to be away a month or so"
Sick, | supposesn Junior Clerk-"IIawl
no--domestic afiliction-some ones go
ing to marry me-
AN Arkansas telegraph operator sent a
dispatch to Memphis firm, instructing
IN Nh
three hundred dollars to one Morgan, and
then going to Memphis he claimed to be
Morgan, and received the money.
Mr.. RusRIN calls upon workmen to
promise these three things: 81. To do
their own work well, whether it be for
life or death. 2. To help other people to
do theirs when they can, and seek to
avenge no injury. 3. To be sure they can
obey good laws before they seek to alter
bad ones. ~
A MILLIONAIRE, who lives on Fifth ave
nue., gave Il testimonial TO n chiropodist
which testifes that Several years ago lie
successfully extracted several cOrns from
my feet without pain, ms also members of
my family, and they have not returned
| since that time"
TIE Maine F,ymer states that farmer
drove his oxen and sled over tops of small
pines fifty years ago that now are from
forty to sixty feet high and will scale
/ from 400 to 1000 feet of lumber each.
The profits of these trees have been as
COED as money at ten per cent. interest
A CHAMBERMAID in Bangor, while shak
| ing rug out of a secOnd-stOry window,
| lost her balance, turned a complete, somer
/ sault and came down to the ground with
| a rush. Astonishing to all who witnessed
/ the fall, she jumped up, ran into the house,
/ and resumed her work as if nothing had
/ happened.
! THE wife of an Irish gentleman being
/ suddenly taken i'll, the husband ordered
a servant to get a horse ready to go for O
! doctor. BY the time, however, that the
| horse was ready, and a note TO the doctor
written, the lady had recovered, on which
/ he added the following postscript, and
! sent the servant off MY wife having
recovered, you need not come"
AT Chelsea, Mass, few days ago, Z
! boy, six years old, was taken dead drunk
from the Park Street Primary School. HC
was conveyed home, where his mother
was found lying on the floor in the same
state, with an infant child beside her.
LEWIS SPoTTs, of Rochester, Ind, il
blessed with convenient nose. The
other day he was traversing the roof of {
house, at IA fire, when he slipped and fell
He was on the eve of sliding down to the
ewes and breaking his neck, when he jus
hooked his proboscis "over the comb,
and spoiled a local item which the Sps
man was beginning to pencil.
AFoND DU LAC, Wis, lady prevailed OF
her husband to leave his loaded revolver OI
the bedroom table as he was going away
to stay all night, as she might be fright
ened by burglars, and need it for her de
fense. On his return in themorning, sh'
informed him that it would not have beer
bit of use to her as she "hadn't mattel
in the house to fire it off with"
A FEW months ago, George Schlegel
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, commissioned {
friend, who was about sailing for Europe
to select him wife from among tn,
maidens of Germany, He did so, tn,
parties exchanged photographs, and, tn,
other day, Miss Emma Meyerhubber, lat,
of Karlsruhe, Prussia, became Mrs
Schlegel, of POughkeepsie.
AN apparatus has been invented for de
termining the richness of milk by means
of its transparency. Two polished plate
of glass are adjusted by mean
of a screw and the milk is placed betweel
them. Inc distance Oh inc plates iron
each other, when the flame of stearin
candle is rendered invisible, is a measur
of the richness of the milk.
A MAN living near Binghampton, N
Y, went into that town the other day an,
bought rocking-chair and pint o
whisky. He started for home on foo
after dark, After walking an hour o
two he felt fatigued, sat down in hi
chair and took a drink, threw his hea
back and watched the moon for an in
stant When he was suddenly arouse
by passer-by he discovered that it wa
} ten o'clock the next day.
AN ingenious Yankee was before tn
Postmaster General the other day with
postage stamp that had on its adhesiv
side taste of choice candy. One sol
had chocolate, another orange, thir
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