Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

A POSER Tor an oculst-WlndoW
blind.
BELOW 1,7OO feet deep colliers are too
hot to mine proltably.
1T is proposed to light the Atlantic
steamers with gas.
BALTIMORE is exercised over its made.
quate water supply.
WORMS are making havoc with cab
bages in fields around Portsmouth, n. H.
WASHING is the appropriate name of
a Celestial laundryman in San Fran
cisco
A NEW York Post critic puffs "the
f1awless transparency of Lucca's higher
notes"
DIVIDENDS are paid in cash in the
Washington Life Insurance Company of
New York.
A GROCER of Ipswich, Eng, is exhibit
ing genuine So, 900 painting for which
he paid $15.
A DIsGUsTED Kansas pioneer says that
Barnum's mummy is "nothin' but a jerk
ed Injun."
A BURIED town in Oregon and the hull
of a ship in the American desert are among
the latest discoveries.
HAPPY thought by cheap shirt maker
on his own workwomen: "They come like
shadows, sew, departp'
THE pecan crop promises an abundant
| yield. This native production affords an
! immense revenue to Texas.
A GERMAN lately married says: 81 vas
| youst so easy needle Good walk out nit |
camel's eye as to get der perhindt word |
NIT womans."
AN instrument mas peen invented in |
| Germany which will measure with per-
feet accuracy the heat of the hottest fur |
mace.
A PROFESSIONAL beggar of Yarnhill |
County, Oregon, for fourteen years, now
holds mortgages on the farms of several
of his former benefactors.
Mrs. PARTINGToN does not approve of
this new-fangled stuff, diabolic acid, but
she is highly delighted to see there is an
antisceptic.
JUDGE INGRAHAM, of New York, has
decided that watch belongs to that class
of necessary articles which cannot be
taken on execution for debt.
AN Illuminated copy of the sacred
writings of Buddha, in the language of
Thibet, is being executed for a Mongol
prince.
OAMUEL JENNY, EsV., r,aivuI, la,
among his relics, has the trowel used by
Daniel Boone in building his first log
cabin in Kentucky.
GEORGE s. KITTREDGE, of the Old Mis-
sion, has California mocking. bird that
whistles with artistic grace the air of
"Ten Thousand Miles Away"
AN artesian well in Lincoln, Neb., is so
magnetic that it will draw a tin cup to-
ward it. That is nothing, though, for a
small black bottle will often draw whole
crowd toward it.
/ A DRUNKEN man applied at druggists
| for something to drive away rats. The
druggist advised him to stop drinking,
, and then he wouldn't be troubled with
them.
! WHAT Londoners call beer-that is,
: porter-was known in England as early
. as 1892 Ale was brewed fourteen centu-
: ries before the Christian era it was known
! to the ancient Egyptians and Hebrews.
I. AN old sailor recently refused to ship
T. on Lake Erie schooner, because he had
: seen rat swim ashore from it. Curious
e ly enough, the vessel was foundered the
: next night, with all on board.
4 ''bRIU1Er, tUlu you to have my hot
e water the first thing in the morning"
l. ''Sure; sir" replied Bridget, "didn't
o bring it up and leave it at the door last
e night, so as to have it in timer"
y y A CONNECTICUT editor, having got into
= a controversy with cotempOrary, con-
, graduated himself that his head was safe
: from a "dOnkey's heels" His cotempora-
ry astutely inferred from this that he was
> unable ito make both ends meet"
: GIVING lady away at wedding is SIM
ply farce. The old proverb says: "Where
!. there's will there's a way" Consequently,
as the world knows that every lady has a
!, will of her own, giving hera "way" seems
+. quite superfiuous
., "JoHN, where have you put my steel
, pen" asked an editor. Haven't seen it,"
said John. "You know better sir" said
: the editor, producing the desired nipple
l. ment from drawer, you put it here your
# self. That's your scissors, sir" "Well,
i that's my steal pen, isn't itS"
O "WHAT is the matter hereY" inquired a
u man coming upon group of excited peo.
e pie about a we'll "a woman has fallen
n to the bottom of the WELL" was the re.
!. ply. "Ahl" returned the inquirer, shak
y ing his head sadly, 'always woman al
., the bottom of it."
Il A DRUGGIST recently received the fol
lowing prescription, with request to put
= it up; eur Kramps -Tinct. kamfire
a won ounce; tinct lodenum, little; tinct
n kyan pepper, two pen'orth; klouform, q
d little, but not much, as it is dangerous
medicine. Dose, half teaspoonful when
the kramps come on"
y A GENTLEMAN handed up ten dollar
u bill in one of the Red-Line coaches, from
i , which one fare, five cents, was to be tax
II en-. "Look a here" said the driver down
s through the hole, (which of these horses
l. do you want to buy with this $10P
!, : "Well," coolly replied the gentleman, 81
y y thought | might get both for that-BoS
s ton IfaCeIer.
4 A MAN was awarded premium at the
cattle show and fair in Northampton,
Mass, for a two.yearuld colt, when the
animal he entered was horse eight years
u u old The owner had colt in pasture
u :, and sent man to bring it to the show;
II the man made mistake and took the
Is eight'year-old horse, which was in the
. same pasture, and the committee "put
,, him through"
l. AT Banchory, in Scotland, lately, the
y parish schoolmaster, out of curiosity,
put the question to the scholars, "What
is nothing2" A pause ensued until an
It urchn, whose proCivities for turning a
1t penny were well known among the
D, school'fellows, got up and replied; "Ips
a. when man asks you to hold his horse
g and just says thank ye." The answer has
l. since earned considerable notoriety.
'e THe most remarkable engineering feat
,e now in progress is to be the crossing of
the Andes by the Lima Oroya Railroad.
The mountain chain will be crossed at an
y altitude of $4,000 feet by tunnel {, ,00O
le feet in length. The grades are the steep
e, est known on any ordinary railway. The
workmen employed are Cholos Indians,
the only nnOPotiUac uyhO nan andura for q