Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-04-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
OK the CONTEMPLATING mule.
IT is an i'll wind that blows snow goC

On the contrary-klding mule.
IT is an i'll wind that blows snow good.
For spring costumes, round waists with
tight sleeves are the rule.
THE shape of the new bonnet looks as
though 1t had been repeatedly kicked.
NEXT to finance the back.hair question
most occupies the public mind.-Boston
Post.
A BALTIMORE man advertises IS reward
If anyone will return him the 81, 100 he
lost.
A HOPEFUL spinster finds consolation
in the proverb It's never too late to
men(0."
MosT of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by our stand
ing in our own light,
AN Indiana baby has six toes on each
foot and can toe the mark with prompt
ness and dispatch.
WHEN Jones heard that there was
touch OF malice in certain great authors
smilc he said he took sugar in his.
ONE lead pencil lasts a Dubuque editor
three months, but he has to have new
rivot in his shears every three weeks.
THE stage driver who was arrested the
other day for bigamy might have pleaded
that he only wanted to collect the fairs.
If the various wives of John Irwin, of
Virginia, should gather around him there
would be group of six, all married
within the last two years.
AN Alabama man has invented plate
which prevents boots from running over
at the heels, but can't find shoemaker
who will use them.
AN Indianapolis father shot six times
at a supposed burglar, and was astonished
to hear the fellow ask "Whazzer mazzer,
faZzer, whaZzer doing"
A CINCINNATI professor has demon
strated that a man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on a raw turnip alone as if
he had feasted at a Kings table.
In recent trial in Baltimore it was
shown that patent medicine men can get
almanac certificates Of the wonderful vir-
tues of their medicines for fifty cents per
head.
SIXTEEN years ago Tom Kenyon went
to Kansas City without cent, and the
other day he signed check for $4,000.
He signed it with another mans name,
though.
THE GREEN BAY girls, having heard that
certain young men would not marry q
woman who could not do housework, can
now be seen every morning sweeping off
the doorsteps.
TEXAS has two new legal holidays, the
I'd of March and the 21st of April. The
first is the anniversary of Texan inde-
pendence, and the second that of the bat
tie of San Jacinto.
MooRE's Rural Neao Yorker speaks of
the Metropolis of the Eden of America"
and then explains in parenthesis that it
means Rochester. 1t is always safest to
label pictures.
WE haven't any balmy brcezes to speak
of in this section so far; but their sure
precursors, their gentle messengers, are
with us. We refer of course to qualmy
sneezes.-ROcteSter Chronicle.
A C1ScfNNATf man who was charged
with being a dead-beat and swindler has
obtained seven cents damage. Let this
be a warning to men of impulsive natures
who want damages.
THERE is nothing so tends to shorten
the lives of old people and to injure their
healibslss the practice of sitting up late,
especially winter evenings. This Is espe
cially the case when there is grown-up
daughter in the family.
In the Yuba County Hospital, California,
interesting experiments have been made
with magnet for the cure of rheumatism
and paralysis. A large horseshoe magnet
is used, and one case of paralysis has been
almost cured and several cases of chronic
rheumatism relieved.
THOSE who dread the approach of sum.
mer, because of it's thunder-showers and
death dealing bolts, will take courage, nc
doubt, when they learn that the statistics
of death by lightning and by suicide
show that man is six times as likely to
kill himself as to be killed by lightning.
New York, with a million inhab.
itants, uses about as much water every day
as London docs with $4,000 people; in
other words the average New Yorker
consumes three times as much as the av.
erage Londoner. The daily supply in
London is 110,S74,000 gallons. In New
York it is 104, 100000 gallons.
give from five leaves how manyr
asked the teacher of little girl OF. some
in modern arithmetic. After moment
she answered, Five" How do you
make that outP" said the teacher. Hold
ing her little hand out the child said
"Here are five fingers on my right hand
and here are five on the other. Now II
take the five fingers on my left hanc
away from the right won't five remain :?
OF course there was flaw in her reason
ing-but where was itS
THE flight ofriches and the folly of thost
who lavish money wastefully were nevel
better illustrated than in the case of thu
late Legrand Lockwood's splendid mar
BILE palace at Norwalk, Conn. Their
are forty acres of fine ornamenteC
,, grounds, in the center of which is a state
" structure costing $4,000, 900. On tn,
premises are three other handsome build
ings, porter's lodge, Conservatives, sta
! bles, and so on. The house is replenden
with polished marbles, frescoes, inlai'
woodwork of the most costly kind; door
which cost $4,000 each; a billiard-roon
on which $4,000 were expended; an,
there are forty-nine rooms thus gorgeous
! W decorated, no two of which are alike
It is estimated that between 100000
and 100000 of cash were sunk i
! this monument of extravaganza, and yt
the entire establishment is now on tn
market for less than $350,000.