Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-12-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TWEED is much worn just now.
TREAT everybody we'll, but not too Of
INDIAN MEAL-Scalps with Uranium
sauce.
"GoNE where the woodbine twineth"-
Sharkey.
PREFERRED CREDIToRs-Those who
don't dun.
WE can do more good by being good
than in any other way.
SowING wild oats would be very fine
thing were it not for the crop one has to
reap.
THE editor of the West Point (Georgia)
paper alleges that hanging is 'barbar-
ious."
ARIzCNA is improving A man has
been indicted for flourishing a deadly
weapon.
THE Western girl who spelled euchre
"you cur" was evidently thinking of the
bow-wow-ers.
The two best rules for a system of rhet-
oric are, first, have something to say, and
next, say it.
TwEED's conviction will induce great
many other gentlemen of his style to steer
wide of the penitentiary.
THE river of extravaganza this year
leaves many people on the bank remark
ing that they can't ford it,
A VIRGINIA husband opened his wife's
letters to see who was writing to her, and
he was sent to prison for ten years.
THE crisis of 1857 brought about
shortening of credits, and if that of 1878
will do the same great advantage will
be gained.
ARISTOTLE, who is high authority on
many points, treats seriously of puns,
classifying them, and recommending their
Dse by orators.
BE constant in what is good, but be-
ware of being obstinate in anything that
is evil; constancy is virtue, but OBJ
stinacy is sin.
THE society that is free from manner
ism is always agreeable to itself, whether
'ough or refined, as Nature loves her own
atmosphere best.
MIKE loo, the pugilist, was so insult
ing to justice of the peace at Red Wing,
Mimi, that the magistrate knocked him
down with chair.
THE colored Baptists of the Southern
States have resolved to practice "feet
washing" as a token of humanity apd
love for one another.
THE London Times says that life is
lived so quickly in the United States that
man who has been five years in public
life is almost veteran.
THE English courts have just decided
that railway tickets marked "good for
this day only" can be used by the pur-
chaser on any other date.
THE obituary notice in an Eastern paper
contained the touching intelligence that
the deceased "had accumulated little
money and ten children"
WIT in its proper place, and in a
proper theme, is refreshing. Rude
slang, devoid of feeling and careless of
private right, is intolerable.
A YOUNG lady in Indiana was rescued
from drowning the other day, and she
sent the young man four quarts of butter
nuts as token of appreciation.
In Ceylon, the marriage ceremony is
performed by tying the couple together
by the thumbs. In this country they are
usually coupled together by the ears.
VERMONT talks of increasing the
wages of her Governor above the rate of
$2.75 per day, so as to raise him nearer
TWENTY persons were fined for drunk
enness in Providence in single day. A
little providential interference might
help to improve this condition of things.
AN English school girl recently wrote
composition on the provisions of Magma
Charta, one of which, she said, was that
the rights of the church should be pre-
served "in violet"
THE forests and mines of Turkey are
to be turned to greater account than hith-
erto by throwing open the concessions
for working these productive sources of
wealth to public competition.
THE Patrons of Husbandry have
adopted one practice as rule of their
order worthy of imitation by the unre-
generate, which is never to go to law,
and to have all disputes settled by arbi-
tation.
AMEMBER of the st. Paul City Council,
believing that towns should dispense
with such luxuries as parks these hard
times, moved the other day that the city
sell out 100000 plat recently pur-
chased for park, and the matter is now
pending.
THE Terre Haute Express says;
"TheTe are at least one thousand men in
this city willing to enlist as field officers
in a war TO conquer Cuba. There is
also a right smart sprinkling of martyr
souls willing to go as suffers and quar-
termasters."
DIR. BURDoN.SANDERsoN, In making
some experiments on the electrical phe-
nomena which accompany the contrac-
tion of the leaves of sensitive plant,
found the currents produced are subject
in all respects to the same laws as those
of muscles and nerves.
A PARENT who found that the rod
didn't keep his boys from spelling, con.
fidently imparts, that when all else had
failed, he found no difficulty in keeping
them at home nights by simply provid.
ing them with patched breeches. And
now also they are reformed billiard.
players.
Mr.. MILL says in his Autobiography;
A person of high intellect should never
20 into intellectual society unless he can
enter II as an apostle" To this the Sdtur
G1y RepisD rejolns that "a grazier, with
an insuperable objection 10 the sight of
oxen, would not be more capTicious than
psychologist who secluded himself from
an unintellectual world"
The word panic arose out Of the battle
of Marathon. In that immortal fight a