Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-06
CLIPPINGS.


Virginia drinks $12,OO0,OOO worth of
liquor every year.
The paid choirs of Boston worship
God in song for $4,000 year.
-Seventy-eight theaters have been
burned in the United States in seventy
ive years.
The new Illinois State House will
cost over $2,200,000, and there has been
no stealing.
"A Des Molnes firm recently shipped
1,100 boxes of meat 10 Liverpool. They
were shipped on an osder direct from
England.
One day recently, 10000 bushels of
wheat was brought into Duluth on
sleighs and its local press term it the
greatest wheat market in the world.
"A white boy met colored lad the
other day, and asked him what he had
such a short nose forg "I spec so it
won't poke itself into other peoples bust
ness"
Mathematics is delightful science.
A Maine woman ate gallon of oysters
$50 for funeral expenses, how much did
she "eleary"
You can judge how cold it is around
froze to death in sleigh while riding four
miles, and her beau had his arm around
her all the time.
1t Is noteworthy that out of seventy
seven storm warning signals displayed at
United States ports during last December,
sixty-two are known to have been actual
ly justified by storm following. This
gives the gratifying percentage of S0.51.
A yOrfIxy ca, Yfa,,,ot, ornurJa1 al
into horse car next to ayoung man, who
said perhaps you wouldn't crowd in
here if you knew | had just had the small.
pox?" ooh, that's nothing" was the re-
| ply, "for this is the first time have been
out since had it myself"
! Defeat brings direful consequences in
/ Golden, Colorado. A boy had his ear
bitten off in fight, was thrown in front
of wagon that ran over him, which
scared dog that bit him, and upon going
| home his father whaled him soundly for
not winning the fight
"A Dutchman was relating his mar
vellous escape from drowning when thir-
| teen his companions were lost by the
upsettiDg of a boat, and he alone saved.
"And how did you escape their fate?"
II It'd not go in the pote," was the Dutch
mans placid reply.
! "A drunken Irishman was found by
his friends the other night lying in the
snow, with his heels upon the fence,
warming his toes by moonlight. He vjas
muttering: "What a cowld fire ye have
got, Biddy, darling; have on some carry
sane or my futs will fraze."
"A clergyman lately addressed his fe-
male auditory as follows: "Be not proud
that the blessed Lord paid your sex the
distinguished compliment of appearing
first to female after the resurrection, for
it was only done that the glad tidings
might spread all the sooner"
Milton had a most vixenish wife. 1t
might have added TO his comfort to have
been deaf instead of blind To fatter his
wife, Buckingham once called her a rose.
~ am no Judge of flowers" replied the
poet, and it may be so for"-he added,
with sigh-"I feel the thorns daily"
An English quarter of wheat is eight
bushels of our measure, so that ninety-six
millions of bushels of our wheat will be
demanded by England. Statistics thus
far gathered show that our exports thus
far this year greatly exceed those of any
previous year, in almost all of our staples.
Estimates made on the lumber opera
tions in Michigan during the past year
show that 2,120S95, 1874 feet were cut, oi
which 435 $40, 900 feet still remain unsold
OF the logs put in last winter, 523, $4,000
feet are still on hand, and the stock esti
mated to be put in during the present
winter is set down at Y14OOO,OOO.
Stamping for embroidery and braid
ing is most comm only done by means oi
a-perforated pattern which is TO be laid
on the material you wish TO stamp and q
blue or white powder rubbed over. The
paper pattern is then carefully lifted an6
a warm iron passed over the impression
on the other side Of the cloth.
"A local humorist at Brunswick, Mo
says: Parents should look more carefully
to the education of their children.
neglect in this direction is apt TO entai
endless misery upon their offspring, Only
last night youth lost three games o
seven up in Kinkhorst's saloon, solely
through his ignorance OF mathematics.
-"I suppose" said a physician, smil
| ing, and trying to be witty while feeling
, the pulse of a patient, who had reluct
antlY submitted to solicit his advice, 81
suppose you think me bit Off humbug.
Sir gravely replied tbs sick man, -
was not aware that you could discover |
mans thoughts by feeling his pulse"
: "A love.smitten gentleman, after con
, versing awhile with lady ON the sublec
OF matrlmony, concluded at last with tn
: emphatic question, "Will you have met
II am very sorry TO disappoint you," re
, piled the lady, "and hope my refusal will
! not give you pain; but l must answe
no" well, well, that will do" sal
, her philosophical lover; ''Gald now supp0s
zoe change the subject"