Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A CHILD with two tongues is the latest
in Wisconsin. Need it be said it is a
female.
THE men who do the most for their
kind are generally forgotten in giving
out rewards.
WHY does the sting of bee carry con-
viction with it? Because it makes you a
bee-leaver at once.
WHEN you hear a man say the world
owes him living, don't leave any hams
lying around loose.
"AU REvoR" is a French phrase, pro-
nounced 80 revwar," and means farewell
Tor good by) till we meet again.
WHAT disposition of the butcher of
Santiago de Cuba would best please the
Cubans? His Burriel,o course.
SAN FRANCISCO has hotel equipped
for twelve hundred guests-with a gen
tlemanly hotel clerk in proportion.
REVERSIBLE Elizabethan ruffles are the
latest. They are worn with any costume,
and are lined with light-colored silk.
NEVER keep anything from your bet
ter half-Brooklyn Argus. Quilp says he
never has, and that is the reason he is so
poor
A SUFFERER suggests an improvem ent
in the Orthography of the word panics.
He thinks it would be better to spell it
pay-niS!
INFLUENCE, good or bad, comes not
from the opinions man possesses, but
from the character he has formed, and
the life he leads
In the assurance of strength there is
xUa
| strong, who have no faith in themselves
or their powers.
A NEW material for sacks has Just been
introduced, called seal-skin cloth. II
equals in appearance the seal-skin, and is
very much cheaper
A NEW style of collar, said to be intend
ed for gentlemen, is the nearest approach
to the Kind worn by lend men" in min
strel companies we have seen.
ADMINISTRATORS have a definite time in
which to settle estates, but the courts
have the power to lengthen the period.
The time varies in different States.
CALIFORNIA agriculturists are going
largely into ginger. They haven't got
much beyond the first syllable yet, but
hope to do so when their plants germi-
nate
The Titusville girls have voted not to
purchase any dry goods where the stores
keep open in the evening. They think
the clerks can find some better business,
and more congenial, too.
1T is to be noted that out of the list of
complaints made by ladies about servants
one complaint is universal, and is almost
always made in the same language, "They
will have the last word" This is pecu-
liarly feminine grievance.
THE american University of Philadel.
phia," which has the reputation of supply
ing bogus medical diplomas to applicants
therefor, is to have its business examined
by the State Supreme Court at the next
session. Many grave charges are made
against the University.
THE latest physiological discovery is
that the human liver distils alcohol from
the food as it passes through the system.
This is something new in these parts, sure
enough. We know of several distillers
who are good livers, but we never heard
of liver that was good distiller before.
-BranlJ0rt YeOman.
CHEERFUINEss is an excellent wearing
quality. 1t has been called the bright
weather of the heart. 1t gives harmony
to the soul, and is perpetual song with
out 1ords. 1t is tantamOunt to repose. 1t
enables nature to recruit its strength /;
whereas worry and discomfort debilitate
it, involving constant wear and tear,
LOUISVILLE has unwittingly committed
itself to grand temperance reform, by
voting to send drunkards home, instead
of to the lookup. The worst cases are
cured in this way. The men come out in
a day or two with somewhat less capilla-
ry adornment and chastened look which
tells of the refining influences of home.
ELECTRICAL GAS LIGHTINa-A novel
device for lighting gas by electricity, late
ly patented, is made as follows: A glass
cup is immersed in liquid, and when the
gas is turned on it enters under the cup
and lifts the same, thereby establishing
connection with battery, which heats
platinum wire placed over the burner, and
thus ignites the gas.
"whether more virulent poison was ever
infused into the veins of a nation than
that infused into the veins of the Ameri-
can nation by such school histories as are
used in the United States" and wants to
know what can be expected eff people are
fed through their childhood ON such stim-
ulants OF national vanity and malignity."
WHEN storm is approaching we see
lightning but do not hear thunder, be-
cause there is a limit to appreciation of
sound by the human ear, while there is
none whatever to light to the human eye.
Sound will travel mile in six seconds,
while light will travel 10000 miles in a
second. No one ever heard thunder with
out seeing the lightning that caused it,
unless some object, like mountain, for
Instance, intervened.
WHEN we have to treat with those who
spy blot everywhere-uncandid men,
but yet men Of capacity-we must not
say, what signifies the opinion of that
manY That man can never be pleased"
True that man can never be pleased, but
il does not follow that he tells you no
truth. His edge may be too keen for can
dor and sound judgment; yet if it lays
open to me what | could not otherwise
see, let me improve by its keenness. The
best hints are obtained from snarling
people.-OscR'
LIGHT is generally considered by men
of science as consisting in the propaga-
tion of vibrations or fluctuations In