Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


A BosToN dry goods dealer advertises
financial crash towels"
THE most curious thing in the world is
a woman who is not curious.
NEW York smokes one.fourth less
cigars than six weeks ago. and there is
great demand for clay pipes.
JAPANESE sashes are the latest. They
are gaudy and peculiar in pattern, but
very rich and handsome in quality.
A DANDY is chap who would be lady
if he could; but, as he can't, does all he
can to show the world he's not man.
ENGLISH sovereigns are now used to
compose neck-lac Who wouldn't have
an English sovereign about ones neckH
MORAL reflection for the young man of
the period-Dissipated acquaintance are
not TO be confounded with fast friends.
ILLINOIS has so little buckwheat that
not more than one citizen out of ten will
be able to get up decent rash this
winter.
Work BASKETS and bird-cages COM
bined are new. They are made of willow,
the cage hanging from an arch above the
basket.
LIGHTNING rods are to be discontinued
at Sing Sing Prison, as it is proved they
convey more prisoners than lightning to
the ground.
"YoU are never sure of your buckwheat
till you have it in your stomach" as the
chap said when he dopped his pancake
in the ashes.
A GOOD deal of charity must begin at
home this winter, and particularly on the
part of the family toward the head and
support thereof
A SUPERIOR quality of champagne is
now made with petroleum as the chief
ingredient The manufacturers claim it
is the best that has ever benzine.
IT is a constant recurring order of
| phenomena that as soon as a young
woman goes into politics her lovers all
fall off, and nobody wants to marry her.
MRS GRUNDY says, if you wish to see a
fine display of diamonds on the human
form, you must secure an introduction to
the ugliest woman to be found at a fash
ionable watering-place.
ONE of the intelligent and handsome
young ladies of Virginia City, New,
eloped with a Piute Indian recently. AS
she left her best scalp behind her, her
parents are not disposed to feel worried.
GOLD has been discovered in quantities
near the Thibert Creek, in British Colum-
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there unless he has plenty of provisions
and is prepared for hard and solitary
winter
THE old fashion of wearing beads
around the neck has been revived. Jet
beads are used instead of the large rub
ber ones as heretofore. Four times around
the neck is, we believe, the correct style
just now.
A HARTFORD school ma'am was acct
| dentally locked in, and, after attracting
the attention of gentleman who was
passing, she was obliged to drop out of a
window ten feet from the ground, plump
into his arms.
THE Des Moines, Iowa, quartette were
somewhat startled the other evening by
finding that the selection, "When wearied
wretches sink to Sleep" had been printed
on their programmes, when married
wretches," etc.
THE name of Illinois is from the Illini
tribe of Indians, who lived along the Il
linois River, and gave their name to that
stream and the whole northern section of
the State. The name Illini means ''real
men," or superior men.
THE brick chimneys of the new San
Francisco Mint are turning a beautiful
green. The peculiar color is occasioned
by using saltwater brick, or brick made
of clay taken from salt marshes, which
the acids used in the laboratory thus dis
color.
THE new London notepaper is of cof
fee color, and folds at the top instead
the side. At the head of the sheet is a
black crest or monogram, surmounted by
plain black circle. The envelope is
square, and has the same establishment
on the fold.
A PERSON who believes in dreams was
recommended by his physician just be
fore going to bed to eat two pigs feet and
a cold applepie. In less than an hour he
saw a snake larger than a hawser devour
ing light blue-haired children which had
just escaped from monster with sorre
eyes and red-hot overcoat.
SINCE removal to the new reservation
Captains Jacks widow, three of her, has
doffed her mourning, and in place of hel
widows weeds, appears in cavalry boot:
ranging from numbers ten to twelve, anC
double necklaces of brilliant glass beads
"When we are dead, are we so soon for
got?"
AN Iowa editor says: "Last season W.
could get five bushels of good potatOe
, consider ourselves lucky if we get TIVE
bushels for the same equivalent. Nov
we ask what encouragement is this for
, man with growing family?"
[ THE present style of wearing the hal
e is to have single narrow chatelaine
l braid down the back of the head, witt
two or three soft puffs on top, and a crow
, braid in front. The back is still combe'
, up from the nape of the neck, but it
r bare look is taken away by the chatelain
= braid.
THE exodus of New Workers to tn
J. South next winter promises to be uni
sually great, and will commence in carr
K est as early as next month. Florida wi
t be the rendezvous, and we understand tn
demand for board is constant A Nortt
e ern winter has greater terrors for our pee
d pie every year.
:, FULL boards have long been regarde
as defense against bronchitis and sol
d throat, and it is asserted that the sappeI
s and miners of the French army, who al
noted for the size and beauty of thei
a boards, enjoy special immunity from a
Il fections of this nature. The growth c
L hair has also been recommended to pc
s sons liable to take cold easily.
:, - JONES having heard that the courts ha
= decided that man can pick all the fru
from his tree, though it hangs over
: neighbor's land, tried it, but he found
~ couldn't be done, because he had n
n n ladder, and the branches would not bef
"a his weight. He now thinks that II
q courts are in no condition to decide whi
n n a man can do until they know how he
N situated
If THERE is scarcity of something a
- most every year in some sections of Il
ct country. Sometimes it is corn, sometim
er fruit, sometimes potatoes. This ye
S, there is a great lack of apples in the Ne
at England States, particularly in Main
lp But Maine reports also another unusu
deficiency this year, namely, falling {
s. in the number of inmates in the prison
le Thomaston This is serious. A dear
I'd of prisoners diminishes the product
at labor which, when the usual number a