Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
BRONZE silks are the latest.

LADIES who light up well at night
those who have lantern;jaws.
WHEN does farmer work a miracle9
When he turns horse TO grass
NEVER kick man when he is down,
unless you are sure he can't get up.
Why lisa pretty girls foot like the let
er w Because it is The end of beauty.
THE reason why watch is called
watch is, evidently, because it is always
on its guard.
STOP grumbling at the fruits or mis-
takes of others, and attend faithfully to
your own affairs.
AN excellent cure for dyspepsia II this.
Give a hungry dog piece of meat, and
chase him till he drops it.
JAPANESE silks, despite the many new
dress materials, retain their popularity,
especially for evening teilettes
THE old maxim that imam proposes" is
fatty contradictcd by Massachusetts
spinsters, who only wish he did
THE railroad train that is run into by
another is telescoped; the man who is
run into by Texas OK IS steer-oscoped.
A CURIOUS fact in natural history, inn
portant to tea-planters, has been discov-
reed, namely, that locusts will not eat
tea-leaves.
Now that the cold weather has really set
in, prudent people appear at entertain
ments smelling very strong of camphor
and tobacco.
A KEEN observer of human nature and
the human countenance says that that
woman looks older who tries the hardest
to conceal her age.
DON'T hoard your money; but loan it
or use it to relieve the needy, on the same
principle as you would give bread to the
needy in a day of famine.
WASHING machines will be more fash
ionable than ever this winter, and many
young ladies will take their first lessons in
this household accomplishment.
AVOID having confidants. The most
difficult thing in the world is TO keep a
secret; and if you cannot preserve your
own, how can you expect that another
person will.
OF the 164 country banks in Massachu-
sets, only nine suspended currency pay
only temporarily. All have since re-
sumed.
A LOUISIANA man puts two-ounce can
of nitro. .glycerine inside of a chicken,
tosses the chicken to an alligator, and the
bayou which once knew that alligator
knows him no more.
THOSE little tin pipes for propelling
spit balls and dried peas have got around
again. They come in the time of the
greatest pressure upon the brain of the
young student, and afford incalculable re-
lief
WE are pretty good at matrimonial
mathematics, but we confess that head
line in the indianapolis Sentinel, -Four
weddings in n single night-ten hearts
made happy" gets away with us-so to
speak.
! DIR. HoLBRooK tells everybody to wear
white undergarments, as people some
times die from the effect of the dye in the
colored articles. 4 man must be careful
how he clothes his person or he may close
his life.
AN essay on Centrifugal Force and
Gravitation," by John Harris of London,
takes exception TO the theories of the in
clination of the earth's axis to the elliptic
of the suns axis, and of the orbital path
of the earth.
IT HAS always been held that only
bodies of salt water have tides, but obser-
vations of the last few years prove incon-
testably that there is very slight tide in
large bodies of fresh water such as Lake
Superior.
A WRITER in Nature, arguing from the
thickness of the stalagmitic floor of cav
ern at Torquay, England, beneath which
rude works of art have been found, con.
cludes that man must have been on the
earth half million years ago.
"A PHILADELPHIA paper of recent date
furnishes the startling information that
".Aurius Manlius Severinus Bethius, a
celebrated Latin philosopher, was be-
headed by King Theodoric thirteen hun
dred and forty-eight years ago yester-
day"
IT is now definitely settled that the tele-
graph wires in Germany are no longer to
be affixed to poles in the open air, but are
to be buried in underground tubes. The
lines on which the principle is to be first
| introduced are those requiring a large
number of wires.
A VERY superior quality of champagne,
| it is said, is now fabricated with petro-
leum as the chief ingredient 1t is rapid
! ly taking rank as native wine, and the
oil regions of Pennsylvania bid fair TO be-
come the champagne district" of Amer
lea at an early day.
ACCORDING to phrenology a broad fore
head is indicative of corresponding de-
velopment of the intellectual faculties
at the same time the men with the broad
est brOws are not necessarily brilliant, or
even so gifted as many to whom nature
has been less bountiful in this respect.
ANOTHER dreadful warning to snuff
takers comes from Columbus, Ohio, where
may be seen the man whom snuff sent to
the penitentary. One night, when rob.
| bing bank, yielding to depraved appe.
tite, he took pinch, and the fatal sneeze
| betrayed him. That sneeZe, too, was his
last, for in the penitentiary he is denied
snuff
DIR JOHNSON gives the philosophy of
marriage in a few words: "a married
man, >" SAYS he, "has many cares; but a
bachelor has no pleasure. Cutting him
self off from life's purest and most eXquis-
ite enjoyments for fear of some trifling an
nOyance, he emulates the sagacity of the
wiseacre who amputates his leg to secure
himself from corns"
A Lively Imagination is by no means
inconsistent with capacity for deep
thought. There is sufficient proof of this
in Millions Paradise Lost, which is the
result of the liveliest and loftiest of i'm
aginations. The word is often confused
with fancy, which is a lighter exercise of
the same general power-the plastic or
creative faculty.
REFORMING inebriates in Maine, publish
cards like unto this; 81, George b.
Farrin, being now sober and earnestly re-
solved TO reform my evil ways, forbid any
person from selling or otherwise furnishl
ing me with intoxicating drinks of any
kind ;and furthermore do solemnly de.
clare that l will prosecute any person or
persons who shall do So" tFk
Nor long ago the pretty sisterin-law of
a facetious young doctor insisted upon
accompanying him when, as she suppos-
ed, he was starting upon his afternoon
round Of professional visits. 1t was of no
use that he protested she would not enjoy
the ride he was TO take. Yielding at last,
with such apparent reluctance that the
young lady never suspected joke, he
folded the carriage blanket carefully about
her, for the day was chilly, and drove
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