Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


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SOME lovers quarrels end with ,
smack.
ENeLANp spends $O4OOooOO year for
tobacco.
EVERYTHING is beaded now for out.
door wear.
ALBANY is going to manufacture ice by
machinery
ALCOHOL and whiting will clean silver
in any form.
A Troy man has shot another for flirt.
ing with his wife.
A FOOL is never wrong and q smart
man is always right
THE favorite song among Illinois
rogues sga"We may be Joliet"
WE govern our passions; but in gen.
eral we let the passions first have trial.
THIS year the first colored student will
graduate from the Theological School at
Yale College and also from the Academi-
cal Department
THE system of driving machinery by
large belts direct from the fly-wheels of
engines Is becoming more general in
England every day.
THE Delaware peach-growers begin to
predict a total failure of the crop, and you
can therefore make up your mind that
there will be piles of peaches.
A FORTUNE TELLER has predicted that
Mark Twain will die this year-but he
is only going to start a paper, which
IS hitting pretty close for fortune
teller.
A BEDQUnF containing 10922 pieces
has Just been achieved by Mrs. Abner
Coe, of Island Pond, Vt, and the lady
would like to hear of more numerous
quilt than that.
A KIND word spoken to husband will
go farther than broomstick or flatirUn,
says woman of experience. And the
rule works as well the other way, says a
man who has tried it.
THERE has not for many years been a
time when so many churches of the sew
eral denominations have reported reviv-
ais, or when converts have been counted
so numerously as now.
THERE is suggestion of the expert
ences to which tourists are liable in the
fact that trunks labeled "bug proof" are
conspicuously displayed by iurnishers of
conveniences for travellers.
A CURIOUS memento of the late war,
consisting of Federal and Confederate
bullets, impacted by coming together in
the air, which was picked up in front of
Petersburg in 1864. has just been present
cd to the ordnance museum.
A CINCINNATI reporter says that there
is something grand in the sight of pair
of runaway horses, but we believe that
good deal depends on whether a man is
ON fence or trying to climb over the end
board of the wagon. Detroit Free Press.
H. A. BoTsFoRD & Co., Hartford, Conn,
are receiving one refrigerator car loaded
with about 10000 pounds of beef from
Chicago every week, and have ready
market for it, their customers finding it as
good as that killed in that region, and, it
is said, good deal better than the beef
that is brought from Chicago on the hOof.
THE toothless may derive hope from
the fact that at KILN, in Perthshire, an
old man died at the age of ninety-one
years; but five years before his death he
cut six new teeth, which he said were
quite serviceable and Gas sharp as Ian
Gets"
A CHINAMAN shot an American eagle,
near Sacramento, one day recently, and
cooked and ate the deceased monarch of
birds. A few hours later several patriotic
citizens were "loyally" yelling around
newly dug trench, and there was a dead
Chinaman at the bottom of it.-Sdcrd-
naen,t0 Argus.
IT is said that rats have so great an
aversion to asphodel that, if it be grown
about the places which they haunt, or if
the plant be placed in their holes, it will
effectually Danish them. 1t does not de-
stroy or injure the rat, but is an intolera-
BILE Offense to him. The asphodel is
bulbous plant belonging to the lily
family.
A LITTLE baby lay sleeping in its crib.
Another, not much older, was looking at
it, and saw single hair lying across the
baby's lips. He had heard papa talking
about whiskers, and he thought baby was
"Tum, mamma, tum twick, baby's tuttin
minister's
A DECISION has been given by referees
against the Maine Central Railroad i'll
favor of passenger, for injuries suffered
at the hands of drunken fellOw-passen-
ger. 1t is held that not to exclude from
| the cars persons so drunk as to be noisy
and quarrelsome is negligence which will
make the railroad company responsible
for damages.
LONDON is literally built on a founda-
tion of pipes. In some places it would
be difficult to find room to lay another
pipe. One gas company supplies two
districts with nearly 400 miles of nipes.
Then there are the underground tele-
graph pipes, and $500 miles of drain
pipes, the lead and iron pneumatic tubes,
the sewers, the water pipes and the under
ground railway.
A PEORIA man arose the morning after
a snow. storm and found his dog kennel
buried under drift as high as church.
He worked half an hour to dig his dog
out, and then went down and told his
clerks what he had done, and added: "A
merciful man is merciiul to his beasts"
But after he left home the neighbors saw
his wife and daughter shoveling out
paths through the snow and carrying in
coal.
CAN it be possible that the CANNES East
; and West have a higher order of intelli
gence than those in our immediate vlcin'
ity? But it would appear so from a notice
/ recently issued by the Selectmen ofa small
town in Maine, to the effect that any dog
that did not pay his assessment of one
, dollar was to be shot by the town agent,
and from still more recent number OF q
Michigan paper, which innocently Won
ders how many of the ten thousand dogs
in Marquette have paid their licenseg-
N. Y, Krpress
A SINGULAR natural curiosity is found
at Sadawga Pond, in Nottingham, VT
consisting of 150 acres Of land floating or
the surface of the water, covered witt
cranberries, and even sustaining tree'
g fifteen feet high. When the water II
9 raised or lowered at the dam of the ponC
1 the island rises and falls with it, and tisl
2 are caught by boring hole in the crus
and fishing down as through the Ice II
: the winter. A similar island once eX
!, listed in a small lake near Bangor, Me.
9 and there are many such in Southern
Florida.
= A LudicrOus Reception,
d THE husband of a lady living in tn