Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-26
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gone to grass"
ADVICE TO Young WRITERs-Say what
you have to say, and then stop.
SARATOGA hotels have registered 80 ,269
visitors during the last three months.
IT is sad to see many walk in the dark
themselves who carry a lantern for 9th
ers.
THE King of the Ashantees is allowed
to have 1888 wives, but not to exceed that
number.
THE educational authorities of Zanes.
vile, O., refuse to admit colored children
to the high school.
OUR young ladies are never behind the
fashions; but the fashions are very much
behind the young ladies.
THE cable which was laid between
Kingston and Aspinwall, and been twice
lost, has been again recovered
A MAN in Griffin, Ga, was bitten by
snake seventeen years ago, and is still
drinking whisky to cure it.
WHAT is the difference between hang
man and gambler? One ropes people
in, and the other ropes people out.
THE New York Tribune cleared 5000
| during the first six months of this year.
and it's poor year for pen and. ink profits,
| too.
IT was Voltaire who said: "Ideas are
| like beard; men only get them when they
are grown up, and women never have
any"
A CITIZEN of Champaign is now living
in house with his fifth wife, seventeen
children, and three mothers.inlaw, and
yet he is not happy.
AMONG the contestants for the first pre-
l.,l1. II, g
shire State Fair will be pair of colorcd
twins, both toys They are brothers.
A FOND lover who serenaded his lady
the other night in a Southern city, was
very wet when he got through-and it
didn't rain much, either.
JACK SHEPPARD, at the City Gardens,
San Francisco, successful accomplished
walking one thousand miles in one thou
sand consecutive hours, but he suffered
extremely during the latter portion of
the walk
ONE of the English comic papers says
the present rate of taxation there bears
! equally on all classes; it hardly presses on
the rich, and presses hardly on the poor.
The Mayor of Keokuk recently dis
charged such of the Jail boys as could say
the Lords Prayer. Then a lawyer offered
to bet him five dollars that he couldn't
say it himself. He declined on the
ground that he didn't gamble.
A SHARP Toledo girl said of a gentle
man to whom she had just been intro
duced, that he would be very presentable
if the Lord hadn turned up so much of
his legs to make feet of.
HERE is the inscription on tombstone
in Pennsylvania: 'ln memory of Tabi-
l,l,, l,.,I, 3 ~, l..
Thomas Andrews, Ebeu Halsted, Edward
Murray and Charles Dean by her devoted
husband, Cyrus Morgan"
THE girl of this age is unfit to be wed
who don't understand how to make nice,
sweet bread. And the man is Ounce
who partner will take who don't under
stand cooking coffee and steak.
THE famous Libby Prison is now used
as the factory of the Southern Fertilizing
Company; and Castle Thunder, used dur
ing the war as prison for Southern de-
serters, has been converted into a tobacco
warehouse and mandatory.
THE Acknowledgement of Michigan
has filed an information in the Washte-
nav Circuit Court for mdndanlus upon
the Regents of the University to show
cause why they failed to appoint two pro-
fessors of homeopathy, as required by the
late Legislature.
IT is told of one of the "supes" who re-
moves chairs from the stage of Troy
theater with great effect, that on the death
of Edwin Forest being announced to him,
while standing on hotel stoop, he ex.
claimed with dramatic gesture; "Grcat
God another one Of us gOne!"
A FRENCH provincial paper has been
sentenced to pay so francs each to II per-
sons whose names it published on list of
pilgrims. The publication was true
and harmless, but French law fOrbids
| journals to meddle with the private affairs
of individuals.
CRANBERRY-PICKINGi is being pushed in
the large marshes in the vicinity of Ber
| lin, Wis. The crop is not as large as it
was last year, the cause being ascribed to
the severe cold of last winter. 1t is esti-
mated that many marshes will not yield
more than half the usual crop.
CHANG, one of the Siamese twins, was
recently summoned as a juror in a case in
North Carolina. Eng of course had to
accompany him, and now exception is
taken tn the verdict on the ground that a
man not member of the jury was present
in the jury-room where it was agreed
uron.
THERE is little valley in ST. Glare
County, Mo, which the people think
ought to become the new Saratoga. With,
in a radius of few rods there are no les,
than hundred springs, black sulphur
white sulphur, and fresh water. Some o
the sulphur springs are slightly tinctured
with salt.
The poplar is not ordinarily so long
lived as many other trees, but there is one
known as the 'Peuplier de pArquebuse,
now standing in the Botanic Garden a
DijOn, France, which was planted abou
the year 400, and is one hundred fee
high, with trunk forty nine feet in cir
cumference at its base.
A DANBURY man got up before dawn
on a recent Sunday morning, to see thu
sun rise, and was shot at by the eXasper
ated owner of melon patch, next door
! In May last he made a similar effort anC
was bitten on the heel by a strange dog
He thinks of hiring boy to do the earl,
rising for his family.
A MAsToDoN skeleton has been dis
covered on a farm near New Paris, Ohio
About q quarter of a ton of bones wer
exhumed, which, according to acknowl
: edged proportions of the animal, indicat
, this one to have been very large, probabl,
II feet high and 39 feet long. One tusl
unearthed is 12 feet long, and its weigh
/ 150 pounds. They hope to get the entir
, skeleton.
, MEN who haven't the cash to get squar
I. meals, are cared for at Salt Lake. All tina
, is necessary is for man to enter res
, taurant, order q meal, and after il is cate
/ walk up to the counter, and say he wi
9 pay for it when he gets the money. II
. is then straightway furnished three meal
3 per day, for shoveling sand on the chair
: gang.
SEVERAL German scientific writers prt
!, dict that nations, far from improving, wi
0 deteriorate, both in physical and mentG
g characteristics, if potatoes become prir
q cipal article of diet; and the celebrate
d Carl Voigt says that "the nourishing pot
!. TO does not restore the wasted tissues, br
i makes our peasants physically and mel