Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-12-19

vanas.
WHICH travels quickest, heat or coldP
Heat, of course, because you can catch
cold.
The burglars jimmy is curious boy /;
he is always prying into other peoples
business.
COLORADO will be "knocking at the
doors of the Union" again, for admission,
this winter
THE Boston Chief of Police exhibits
the likeness of man who paid a bill on
| presentation.
MANY have withstood the frowns of the
world but its smiles and caresses Rugged
them to death.
IT has cost $10,OO00OO in cash and one
hundred and thirty.six lives to bore the
HOOsac Tunnel.
Capitol at Albany has been suspended for
want of funds
IT is remarkable that men with hardly
any head at all, often have an immense
amount of face.
COMMERCIAL drummers are as bad off
as mechanics. New York alone has dis
charged 5000 of them.
THE highest salary paid to any lady
|
81, 800, or $40 an hour.
IT is astonishing how the weed flourish
es since the root of all evil has been put
into chewing tobacco.
THE English market is now supplied
with pins made in Connections, and Anne
rica makes the needles.
| THE man that bit another mans nose
off in an atfray is said to have taken a
prominent part in the fight.
A KENTUCKY COW was cured of snake
bite by whisky. She spends most of her
time looking for snakes now.
A NEVADA Postmaster has written to
Washington to know if he can rent part
of the Office for faro bank.
| If we waited until it was perfectly con-
venient, half Of the good actions of life
would never be accomplished.
STUFFTNG his dressed turkeys with corn
| is the way Muscatine Iowa) farmer is
disposing of his surplus grain.
PEOPLE in Massachusetts who read the
| newspapers are beginning to regard the
Hoosac tunnel as blasted bore
CONNECTICUT threatens war unless Mas
sachusetts stops shipping her paupers into
the land of the wooden nutmeg.
A CYNICAL lady, rather inclined to t1irt
says most men are like a cold, very easily
caught, but very hard to get rid Of
THE handkerchief scarfs worn by the
ladies', and so popular last season, have
oeen revived again with great success
The Supreme UourJ Of massachusetts
has decided that election bets are invalid,
and that man is fool who pays one.
Busy Dubuque editors improve each
shining hour by calling each other
Glars" "scoundrels," and "perjured vii
lains"
THERE is double ignorance, as the
late Mr.. Mill once observed in Parlia
ment, ignorance of the fact that we are
ignorant.
IT is with narrow -souled people as with
narrow-necked bottles, the less they have
in them the more noise they make in pour
ing it out.
IF California winners can profit in sell
ing their wines at thirty cents gallon,
how do the poor agents live who sell 1t at
! $18 dozenP
CoNUNDRUM.-Saida a boy: "That chap,
| yonder, is my brother, and this girl is his
sister, and yet she is no relation of mine. I"
Answer-The boy lied.
Or the last thirty-three commissions
| issued to Second Lieutenants in the United
States army, thirteen of the men were pro-
NOTED from the ranks
| A NEW York manager advertised for
supernumeraries, and had 1000 applica-
tions. Two-thirds of the number were
respectable young girls.
The herring catch in England this
year represents a money value of mill
ion and half sterling and total Of 7GO,-
100000 individual herrings.
AN Ohio jury the other day acquitted a
thief who stole fifty pounds of flour and
made up purse of fifty dollars for his
family, to keep whom from starvation he
committed the theft.
ONE of the most successful farmers in
Kentucky is gentleman who has been
blind since he was eight years old. His
farm of two hundred acres always looks
in thriving condition.
THE wedding cake Of couple recently
married weighed forty pounds, and was
in the form of a three-story brown-stone
front, with sugar bride and bridegroom
coming out of the front door.
UNTIL every good man is brave, we must
expect to find many good women timid-
too timid even to believe in the correct
ness of their own best promptings, when
these would place them in minority.
THE saddest result of the panic is that
thousands of the shop girls are out of en-
ployment with a long, hard winter in
prospect, and they will starve, poor
things, rather than wash dishes and dc
housework.
No wonder the editor of the Minneapo
lis Times is mad about it and wants to
wallop the Dons. "The saddle.colored
butchers Of ofSpain," }" he says, shave spit in
our faces, and we coolly wiped it off with
the American flag"
Two pork barrels in Concord, N. III.
made of pine, have been in constant use
: for 143 years If properly hooped they
will last another century. 1t is estimated
J that $4,000 pounds of pork and othel
: meats have been packed in them.
: "A topper the other night got at thu
yeast Jug and took a swig. Putting
down he called out to his wife, "Say
, Jane, | wish. you wouldn't mix tina
chicken feed over the cider jug, it's nut
, TO make hog sick" The yeast mad
> him hop soon after. ~
; THERE is an opening for likely younI
} doctor, as medical adviser TO the Tular
/ tribe of Indians In California. The lat
!. incumbent had turned over TO him TO
= cure lot of sick braves, all of whom
unfortunately died, whereupop q gram