Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


KICKING BABIES are rebels in arms.
SELF is a poor center for mans ac-
tions.
The best thing to take before singing
Breath.
WOODEN necklaces (Swiss goods) are
fashionable
THEY ar so eusy in Kansas that they
spell it II worth.
FANS are universally worn dangling
from the waist.
Duty ON DRY GooDs-That of hus
bands to buy them.
n THREE MONTHS old oyster is about
the size of a split pea.
MILWAUKEE styles Chicago her "con-
fagrationary suburb"
THE Journal Of Health says it is wrong
to get up before you feel like it.
A BELFAST (Me) girl was seized with
spinal meningitis on her wedding day.
"THE silent majority" is Junius Henry
Brownies expressive designation for the
dead.
IT is curious fact that the color of
the eyes of newly-born infants is invari-
ably blue.
NoTE-sHAvERs succeed financially be-
cause they "take so much interest" in
their business.
A VERMoNTER advertises "unprece-
dented, unparalleled, unapproachable,
unadulterated confectionery"
To SECURE scowl of perfect disgust
from woman, tell her that a caterpillar
is crawling on the back of her dress.
BLACK silk walking dresses with stripes
of beads down the front width instead
of velvet, as was the rage last winter,
will be in favor in the autumn.
A SARATOGA belle was thrown into con-
vulsions and her health seriously i'm
paired because her beau wanted to dance
with her without wearing gloves.
WHILE Georgia woman was weeping
over her husbands grave, and her son
was leaning over the tombstone fooling
with pistol, the load was discharged
and she was killed.
A "THItEE-oARD- MONTE" expert is re-
ported to have offered the Directors of
the Union Pacific Railroad bonus of
$4,000 per annum for the exclusive
right to play his little game in their
sleeping
AN inquiring man thrust his fingers
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had The curiosity of each was fully
satisfied.
THE age of miracles has not passed
An editor has just died in Vermont
whose estate amounts to lO0,O00.S7,-
Pjttsburgh Commercial. Throw off the
first six figures, please. Why be ridicu-
lOuS Rochester Democrat.
A DOG belonging to Thomas G. Folsom,
of West Epping, was recently shut up in
a room for eighteen days without food
and drink, but when found had strength
enough to stagger out, and by careful
nursing his life was saved.
THERE is one recent decision of the
Treasury Department in which thank
full public, or the adult portion of it at
least, will readily acquiesce. 1t is that
children's whistles, tin horns, etc, etc,
are mot musical Instruments"
A CONNECTICUT man who went West,
intending to settle there, has returned
disgusted He went as far as Kansas
CITY and found 100 lawyers there and the
thermometer 115 deg. in the shade. The
combination was too much for him and
he went right home again.
Two GENTLEMEN residing in Sacra-
mento, Cal, were startled few nights
ago by loud screams proceeding from a
room occupied by lady member of the
family. Inquiry elected the information
that there was centipede on her bed"
The gas was at the time turned down
quite low, but the men could see the
insect on the bed, and, doubling a towel
several times, one of them cast it over
the centipede, and clutched it tightly to
prevent its escape. One of the gentle
men was somewhat of an amateur scien-
tist, and desired ardently to preserve the
centipede as specimen. Accordingly,
the captured insect was carried in the
towel to a drug store. The druggist
poured chloroform on the towel to stupety
the creature and to prevent the possibil-
ity of its escape, and one of the clerks
stood by with an uplifted club, to strike
it should it attempt to get off. The towel
was opened, and the eXpectant lockers
on were astonished to find that all the
fuss had been made over little strip OF
calico.
Mrs. FANNIE BALDWIN, q poor but re-
spectacle woman, residing at the foot OF
Blue Ridge Mountains, in Oconee County
s. c., recently walked from her home tC
the residence of her father, near Pendle
ton, distance of thirty-four miles, carry
ing her baby, six months old, weighing
twenty-one pounds, in her arms. She
left home at about six o'clock in the
morning and reached her fathers at five
o'clock in the afternoon, making an aver
age of little over three miles an hour
| for eleven consecutive hours, over 1
mountainous, hilly and rough road, will
the thermometer standing nine ty-siX de
grees most of the time. No other motive
induced the walk than parental affection
the pleasure of seeing her parents
Considering the sex of the performer, thu
weight carried, the distance, the time
the nature of the road, the temperature
of the weather, and the absence of al
exciting motive, this walk has scarcely
parallel in the history of pedestrianism
Mrs. Baldwin is about twenty-siX year
of age, rather below the medium height
though thick set. and the mother of fou
| children.