Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-09
MIsCELLANE0uS ITEMS.
Jon boiled over when his patience gave

Go to work.
THERE are many who can't read who
know bee sees.
LADIES are not called 'tmum" because
they talk so little. H
"A bushel of wheat weighing sixty
pounds contains SOC, 600 kernels.
IT is said that if gun is fired over
recently-caught lobster both his claws
will drop off.
TIeHT gathering, says the Boston COu-
rier has killed five women in this county
in the last six months
THE vibration of the big St. Louis
bridge from passing trains, and even
teams, is exciting considerable comment
in that city.
A CONTEMPORARY thinks that sky blue
is pretty color for ceilings, but not so
DdRbury Ne,os.
AT Harrisville, in the northern part of
New York, there is an adipose youth
named Fisher, not quite seven years old,
whose weight is 146 pounds.
A PAPER box has been sent in the mail
to Norwalk, Conn, and one cent paid on
it. The lid having come of, 1t was dis
covered to contain letter.
A BosToN woman, in good health and
of middle age, has engaged an undertaken
for her own funeral, arranging with him
the style of coffin, cost, etc.
AN Alabama girl slid down rope lad
der, stole horse, rode twelve miles and
paid the parsons fee, rather than not
have the marriage ceremony come OIL.
In single county in Vermont there are
ninety-tive farms vacant and l36 aban-
4. II IL Of rnfl IL
facilities is the cause assigned for this
wholesale exodus of farmers.
A JURY in Los Angeles, Cal, examined
man as TO his mental condition and
pronounced him sane; the same jury then
tried him for an attempt ut homicide and
decided that he was insane.
A CINCINNATI man having lost his stu
alton last summer, his wife took some
money she had secretly saved and
started grocery store. She succeeded
at once, and now employs her husband
as clerk at good wages.
A CHESTER (Pa.) man says he can
smoke cigar until it is entirely con-
sumed without emitting any smoke from
his mouth or nose, can follow this feat
by eating a hearty meal, and afterward
emit all the smoke through his nostrils.
X. GROCTOR, bu6 10
ing the adoption in England of our sys-
tenn of the publication daily of predic-
tions of the weather, and says that in his
lecturing tour in this country he only
knew these predictions to be wrong
twice in three months
CARNTvoRoUs animals have the upper
jaw projecting, while those of n gramniv-
orous nature have the lower jaw pro-
jecting. In man with projecting upper
jaw will be found large destructiveness
and love of animal food; when the lower
jaw projects, then the love for vegetable
food.
THE beauty of keeping a goat is that
he isn't particular what you feed him
on. A billy got into house in New
Hampshire the other day during the
family's absence and managed to make
respectable meal off Panama hat, three
linen bosom shirts, and part of a new
bonnet.
JOHN SMITH of Bath, Me-, has lived in
one rented house for thirty eight years
and never asked his landlord for cent
of repairs and never has been day be-
hind with his rent. Only one thing is
needed to make him an angel and that is
wing along his spinal column.-Wooa-
| socket Patriot.
A RHODE ISLAND clergyman says that
meeting good woman soon after
great railway horror, she exclaimed:
"Oh, Mr.. -, such a terrible thing has
happened! The engine and cars on the
- road collapsed, and before they
could eXecrate the passengers twenty OF
them were sophisticated"
A DELIGHTED old lady in Pennsylvania,
suddenly enriched by coal oil, remarked
| to a friend that she believed she should
! buy real estate because it was such good
property to leave to ones ancestors; and
upon another occasion remarked that she
should have her new garden laid out
with great many terrapins terraces).
THE flame of the gladiolus in our door
yards has nearly burned out. The lady's
| Slipper is getting much run down at the
heel. The portulaccas find it hard work
to make up fire early in the morning.
The china asters, with star on their
vest, do police duty at the funeral of
fowers.-Ne0 York Commercial AdUer-
tiser.
A REPENTANT bride recently wrote to
her parents from across the seas: The
motion of screw steamer is like riding
a gigantic camel that has the heart dis
ease, and you do not miss single throb.
! know of nothing to compare with 1T
for boredom, unless it be your honey
moon when you have married for
money"
A CURIOUS incident occurred at Mag
ara Falls the other day. A lady acci-
dentally dropped her parasol into the
swift current that hurries under Luna
Island bridge. OF course it was quickly
whisked away over the precipice. Later
in the day the lady visited the Cave OF
the Winds, and, strange to say, she there
found her parasol whirling around in u
swift eddy.
ISAAC JOHNSON, of Bozrah, Conn, re
Gently exhumed from a depth of some
eight feet from the surface a live frog
It was found in earth so hard that it was
with difficulty removed with a pick-aX
and the entire form of the animal was
plainly imprinted in the hard pan. The
ditch was being cut through an old pas
ture, where probably no mortal being
ever dug before.
"WHAr is this for?" asked the colorec
porter at Long Branch hotel the othc
day, holding out twenty-five cent nott
given him by the gentleman ADDRESSED
for carrying up his trunk. THAT" sal'
J the gentleman, taking the note and put
ting it back in his pocket, "was Tor you
| trouble, and this is for your impudence,
, and he kicked him eleven feet nine inche
, and half into the hallway.
A Boston firm having written to
: debtor two or three times without elicit
: ing any response, sent another epistlc
quietly querying whether there was no
/ a little lack of commercial courtesy
E in not answering letters. Promptly b
e return mail came check forthe account
c and the terse and comprehensive reply
: mo lack of commercial courtesy, but
lack of circulating medium here
f THE Postofiice Department is abou
e substituting for the old mail locks nov
e used upon the street boxes of the fire
Z delivery system new combination lock-
2 Each city or district will be furnishe
v with locks upon different combination
4 | so that the keva Of one citV will be of II