Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-29
CURRENT ITEMS.

BETTER be upright with poverty than
be wicked with plenty.
The Washington Life is one of the old
est New York Companies.
RESOLVE to perform what you ought,
and perform what you resolve,
The story of an unhappy marriage is
often narrative of many ao0rds.
LONDON statistics show about 200, ,00C
more women than men in that great me
tropolis.
THE greatest beer-drinking city on the
face of the earth is said to be Munich in
Bavaria.
PHYSICIANS SPY that thirty thousand
people die annually in this country from
using tobacco.
A COUPLE of chairs belonging to Bene.
dict Arnold were recently sold at st.
John, N. b., for $1,275 each.
ACCORDING to the Danbury Conn, J
Ne,os, they utilize the fever and ague
there by setting the subjects to shaking
carpets.
BECAUSE a man and wife be-dear and
be-angel each other in public, don't be
sure that they are blessed turtle-doves in
private.
A BOOK entitled Lectures to Married
Men" has appeared in England. Heaven
save the markl Haven't they their share
already?
DANDY Ito shoemaker)-"I say, can you
cure defect in my boot, here?" Shoe
maker-"I won't promise cure, but I'll
agree to heel them"
A DEs MONIES Iowa) damsel having
offended young man at leap-year ball,
he threatened to send his big sister to de-
mand an apology.
LONDON papers state that the comet ca
nard has had serious effect there, "alarm-
ing many weak people, and making many
weaker people positively sick"
THE Pension Agent at Albany recently
paid David Gathen, a blind pensioner,
$2,734, the first instalment due upon his
certifcate-being at the rate of $25 per
month.
IT is we'll established fact that people
who live much in the sun are usually
stronger and more healthy than those
whose occupations deprive them of sun
light.
AN old farmer in telling young one
how he made money, said: "When l
woke up in the morning, instead of roll
in for 'nuther nap, rolled out and went
to work"
THE death rates, extending through the
year 1871, in Scotland, are said to exceed
by far the usual aggregate of mortality in
that country-a fact that seems not easy
to account for.
MOTHER, send rthe DOCTOR" "Why,
my son ?" "Cause that man in the parlor
is going to die he said he would if sis
ter Jane wouldn't marry hlm-and she
said she wouldn't"
A CONNECTICUT greenhorn, who recent
ly visited New York for the first time,
paid a sharper 81. so for admission to Cen
trail Park, and thought he got in cheap
A bystander had the confidence operator
arrested
A CRUsTY old bachelor, not liking the
way his landladY's daughter had of ap-
propriating his hair oil, filled his bottle
with liquid glue the day before ball to
which the girl was invited. She stayed
at home in consequence
In 1880 there was only one scientific
man in Great Britain who believed that q
locomotive could "work," or, in other
words, that it had a sufficient hold on the
rails to move a train of cars, and that
man was George Stephenson.
A FoRLoRN individual perambulated
the streets of Boston few days ago seek
ing for wife. He said he would give
fifty cents to any one who would put him
on the track of tirst-rate article, and
that he would furnish the article. when
obtained, with home on a good farm.
A FANCY farmer sent in the following
report of his agricultural operations to
the Assistant Assessors of the revenue
tax MIR. K, my farming operations l
have to report follows: My cattle have
eat up my crops, and my hired men have
eat up my CATTLE"
APARTY of Spiritualists have purchased
fine piece of farming property in Santa
Barbara county, California, on which
they intend to establish themselves in a
sort of community life, taking the Oneida
Colony, of New York, as a model. All
property is to be common.
DURING a recent storm at Somerville,
Mass, a large quantity of live worms, OF
a greenish hue, an inch long and an eighth
of an inch thick, fell to the ground
Where they came from is not exactly
clear, and specimens of the wrigglers
were collected and forwarded to the Mu
scum of Comparative Zoology for exam
ination.
HERE is very practical remark from
the Boston Journal ga writer on Short
hand in Tayler's magazine, american
Homes, says he has never seen IAN expert
enced and successful shorthand writer
who was not in love with his work Call
round to our office about ont
o'clock some morning and we thinl
we can accommodate the writer with {
sight of one"
1T is not generally known that oysters
and CLANS can see. 1t is, however, sale
to be fact. They have not regularly
constructed eyes, which give distinct i'm
pressons of objects on the retina, bu
they have floating nerve filaments, tina
give them a sense of light They ar,
rudimental optics, but sufficient for al
the purposes of these very humble anima
forms.
A LADY recently died at Utica leavin
seven children, the youngest only a fey
days old. Soon after her demise the Chi
dren were taken with the smallpox, an,
the father was compelled for days to car
for them alone, day and night, no one be
ing willing to give him assistance save
physician, and he was obliged to carr
milk to the house for the babe.
A PERSON having been mentioned VIII
had been notoriously unfortunate in hi
uIsC hldrIlaSe IeldIlon, anu YET nau 500
afterwards married again, was asked if
was not rash to embark anew in an adver
turc which he had already found to be S
disastrous. "No," SAID the philosophe
elevating his hand and his countenanc
glowing with enthusiasm, "it was the IT,
umph of hope over experience"
A MAN was recently arrested in Lancai
ter, Pa, who candidly acknowledged tina
he had never done days work in hi
life, although he was forty-one years c
age After travelling through the create
portion of Europe as professional beg
gar, he came to America several yeaI
ago where he has since pursued his voc'
tion with varying success. He boasts {
having obtained much valuable informi
ton regarding the station-houses and jail
of every country he has visited.