Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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A MODEL lodging.house-Th Patent
Office.
BEADED and embroidered sacques are
very fashionable.
SMOKING may discolor but it prevents
decay of the teeth.
CocKF1aHT1Na is the little game of
Montana just now.
A MICHIGAN editor calls another ga
snivel.headed IDIOT"
EuTHANAsIA was the sensation year
ago; now 1t is cremation.
AND now the base voice of the umpire |
is balling DER the land
A MAN weighing AIT pounds recently |
died in Somerset Mass.
How TO shorten ocean voyages
Lengthen the ships.--M Y. Mdtl
A ST. LOUIS boarding. house martyr is
in favor of cremation-ln his coffee.
A HARTFORD paper returns its thanks
for 100 bottles of cough medicine.
WATERS waist deep have made tue low
lands of the Mississippi a waste OF wa
ters.
WHAT sort OF saint would convert
ed sailor maker Why, an anchorite, prob
ably.
THE Buffalo street railway companies
clip their horses, and think 1t good
thing. -,...
WRITERS trouble themselves TO amplify
what their readers trouble themselves to
abridge.
THE American Car.list war-The rail-
road fight for who shall carry the most
emigrants.
THE belle of an Ohio town is named
Duty, and naturally where Duty calls
there you'll find 'em.
MIR. ROBERT BONNER last week rejected
an offer of $100, 600 in gold for his horse
Dexter.-Neao York Sun.
On, the earnest love of woman! Little
for itself it seeks; it is not thing uncom'
mon for its flame to last six weeksl -
"SUIcIDE now within reach of all
kerosene only fifteen cents gallon" is
the Joyous announcement of Titusville
paper.
A CIRCUS has already left so many un-
paid bills tout West" that an editor
ventures to hope that this world is not all
!" fleeting show"
A DERANGED lover, living near Louis
vile, committed suicide by taking hold
of the edge of pond and holding his
head under water.
BRoTHERLY LOVE is not the only kind
they cultivate in Philadelphia. For 15,-
1882 fond hearts were made to beat as u
S91 in that city last year.
THE King of the Sandwich Islands has
been appointing certain journalists and
authors to Office in his dominions. But
what can be expected of savageS
1T is estimated that there are 800 600 life
insurance policy holders in this country,
he amount they are insured for being
qua to the national debt.
A CONTEMPORARY mentions that near
sighted hen which mistook sawdust for
Indian meal ate heartily thereof, then laid
nest full of wooden knobs.
"WELL 'spose the burned stuff got
Mixed" was the sad reply of Missouri
druggist when he killed woman by
giving arsenic for salts.
ONE of the arguments against crema.
tion is that in cases of suspected poison
ing it will be impossible to detect the
presence of poison by chemical analysis.
A BOY eleven years old was recently re-
ceived at the express Office at Springfield
Mass duly labeled and tagged from an
Illinois village, the charge being $3.50.
A VERMONT court is trying a young
man for stealing eighteen years ago
Justice may sometimes be tardy, but she's
always aching to get her paws on the
guilty.
LoNGsTREET undertook to thrash &
New Orleans reporter the other day
but when he found his head in chancery
he mildly apologized, and the fight was
declared "off."
THE st. Louis Republican tells us that
the strongest glass will sustain 2,0OC
pounds to the square inch. 1t also ha
been known to twist mans legs so tina
he couldn't walk.
THE Lima bean is native of Lima
D South America, and requires some three
years. nursing to acclimate it here. Many
that are sold for good are really badly
mixed and degenerate.
PoTAToEs contain when sound and ript
20 per cent. by weight of starch, whea
contains about 60, while wheaton flou
contains about 20 and rice about so PEI
cent. by weight of starch.
THE book trade is at present duller thai
it has been since the first year OF the war
Nothing will sell now, and publishers re
frain from putting any books that will
keep on the stagnant market.
LYNCH law is probably based on the
spirit of an old saying. When despera
does abound, honest people surrender t.
their leaders an "ynch," and then they
take an "L" and make a code callet
Lynch Law"
"AND so they CO." one of the Portlan'
School Committee is reported to hav
said; tour great men are fast departin
first Greeley, then Chase, and now Sum
ner-and don't feel very well, myself
Boston Globe.
A KENNEBUNK (Me.) man, who assault
ed his wife with intent to KILL was fine
$40. And yet if he had failed to MARI
her after having promised to do so sh
would probably have collected severa
thousand dollars damages.
THERE is farmer near Flushing, L
l., who owns a Kentucky-bred mule tha
has, within the last thirty days, kicked i
seventeen barn doors, unroofed a doze
chicken coops and trampled the life Gu
of four of his favorite pigs.
"WHAT time is itP" asked William Cas-
as he sat in a Kansas City hotel. Th
clerk told him, and Mr. Case continued
"Then it's time to die!" and he shot hin
self through the heart. Why can't a
suicides dothe matter up in highfalutin
style like Mr.. Case?
MOST rogues fail to get their deserts,
few get about what belongs to them, bu
it is rarely that one gets such an abuI
dance of the article as did Julius SpeTO 6
] ,rsey City, who, for receiving stole
goods, got seven years on one count an
three each on fifteen others, making fifty
two years imprisonment
In the Arctic regions sermon can b
heard at the distance of two miles. Thi
is a wise provision of nature, which eni
bles the dwellers of that chilly country [
hear the preached Word without risin
from their beds. How comfortable, an
withal how superior to the way our peopl
are compelled to sleep during services
A BosToN bride received among othC
presents horse and coupe. 1t was th
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