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

FRuITs of the season-Rob berries
at JOHN b. GoUeH has lectured 7 900 times !
In thirty-one years.
BETTER be upright with poverty than |
bewicked with plenty.
WRITER wishes to know why people |
always spell fms without an n.
WHAT Is the proper age for ptIsonP
Why, the parson age, OF course.
~ III AMAINE woman sued a saloon keeper |
for 1.-THE loss of her husbands society"
ONE of the last stage lines in Maine
between Portland and Gray, has been dis
continued.
OVER one hundred Eastern people with
consumptive tendencies are wintering in
Los Angeles, California.
TYPHOID fevers and pneumonia are
said to prevail largely, this winter, in the
northern counties of Kansas.
eH THE st. Paul Board of Health considers
n 10 unhealthy to allow steam pipes to be
discharged into the sewers.
q Miss HARRIET AUGUSTA SMITH, of Wis
consin, is added to the list of heroic
women who have shot bear.
AN AUGUSTA (Me) minister refuses to
perform the marriage ceremony for per-
sons who have been divorced.
WHAT three authors would you mention
in commenting on an extensive confiagra-
tionP Dickens, Hewitt Burns!
THIRTY. SEVEN persons were killed last
year by other persons playfully pointing
supposed unloaded guns at them.
VIRGINIA is getting so many English
settlers that it will soon be the correct
thing to call her the hold Dominion.
A POOR family in Green Bay had to
mortgage their six dogs, recently to get
barrel of flour. The case is pitiable.
si A BALKY horse in a double team may
ALWAYS be started by tying his tail to the
whiffetree and starting the other horse.
RED BANK, n. j., farmer boasts that
his hens lay eggs that can't be beat. That
farmer ought to be taken into custardy.
The girls of Syracuse, N. Y, amuse
themselves by blsekenng their faces and
going about in disguise for umbrellas to
mend
AZ. 81. A MOTHER and her ten children, living
= at atNewburyport, Mass, altogether weigh
ton. The "baby" tips the scale at 15O
pounds.
January, the anniversary of the battle of
sea New Orleans, passed by this year with
out any especial notice.
AeAssIz used to claim that II was Just
as proper to say "pint of milch" as to
say "a milch cow" His head was popu-
larly supposed to be level. a
al THE London Morning Post declares
that Mark Twain, as a hmnOrist, Is a
fraud, not fit to be mentioned the same
day with Artemus Ward. aa
A GREAT drinker being at table they
offered him grapes at dessert. "Thank
you," said he, pushing away the plate, 81
don't take my wine in pills"
ScHULTZ's chronscope, used in estimat-
ing the initial velocity of a cannon ball,
measures an interval of the time to within
one fifly-thousandth of a second.
A LENGTHY article is in circulation tel.
ling how to make good mustard plaster.
An article telling how to successfully
dodge one is what smitten people want.
A LATE convict in the Iowa State Prison
has sued the warden of that institution to
u recover damages for being kicked in the
stomach while incarcerated. He wants
$4,000.
ONE of the latest fashions is to trim a
plain black skirt and waist with black
velvet to simulate redingote. 1t is a
clever idea, and is being extensively car.
. ried out.
geo SOME thoughtful person says at is
unkind to ridicule those items in the pa.
pers about centenarians. 1t is no easy
thing to become centenarian; several
have failed"
a- The world is an old woman that mis-
takes any glittering farthing for gold
coin; whereby being often cheated she
will heuceforth trust nothing but the com
mon copper.
THE Archbishop of Canterbury says
speaking of the Mission of the Church
that it is no part of its business to make
inroads upon dissent but rather to make
inroads upon ungodliness.
THE estimated cost of the continuation
of the Illinois & Michigan Canal across
the State of Illinois, from Hennepin tG
the Mississippi, is $4000000. A survey
has already been made.
A NOTED leader of fashion in New York
wore on New Years a dress of purple
velvet trimmed with white feather trim
ming and lace. 1t was most beautiful and
uncommonly effective.
ACCORDING to recent issue of the
Jacksonville (Fla.) Union, a large tiger
cat was killed by a boy eleven years old
few days before, near that village Cor
don, the tiger killer, is vanquished.
DR.. LYNCH, in the Sdnitartdn, recon
mends the entire prohibition of the use o
spring and we'll water in cities He thinks
the use of water of this kind is fruitful
source of disease, particularly of typhoid
fever.
THE Intelligent contraband" and tn,
"reliable gentleman" of war times have
80 successor just now in "the experienced
banker" who is loaded to the muzz
with schemes for the relief of our finan
cial ills.
WHERE books are liable to becom
mildewed, they may be preserved b.
brushing them over with wine. A fey
drops of any perfumed oil will secur
libraries from the consuming effects Q
mold and damp.
THERE is an editor in Troy who proud
shows a lead pencil that he has used cor
stantly for nine years, and it is not hal
done, yet. He has worn out several pair
of scissors, however, since his editoria
career commenced.
OF the people who die in our cities
trife more than half are children unde
five years of age. The diseases that caus
this infant mortality are many, but thei
causes are few. Roughly stated they ar
bad ventilation, defective drainage, an
adulterated milk
ONE Mrs. Law, of Vermont, called he
husband a liar eight years ago, and he ha
not spoken to her since, though he ha
remained in the house. In this he ha
done. right. The practice of marie
women calling their husbands liars ougl
TO be discouraged
WHEN California wants desperad
she sets about securing him with an ea
nestness which could be proftably i'm
tated'elsewhere. The Legislature Of ths
State has just passed a bill authorizin
thgGovernor to offer reward of $500
for the capture of the notorious Vasque
and his band.
eF. Try lT.-Whep there is not breath G
ar stirring and you are in danger c
e.. sitting, attempt to light a cigar out G
doors, and you will be surprised at tn
breeze that will start up We have seel
a man trv This In q daad oaI,,