Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

! NEW lOhh HlIlS dTt Shlu W nave Dyb-
teIics in the most able-bodied manner.
COLORADO has peat-bed 100 miles
square, and wants some State to peat
| that.
A GENTLEMAN in Pottsville, Pa, has
named his dog Penny" because 1t was
one cent To him.
"THE Rowing Wild Cats of Tiger Val
ley" is the impressive name of military
company in Nebraska.
ANOTHER triun phi for the female sex
A man has made his escape from a Geor-
gia Jail by the aid of a hair-pin.
A NASHVILLE man broke his leg while
trying to get No 10 foot into No. 8
boot, but he says he'll do it or die.
GREEN BAY has decided that a widower
ought to mourn at least three weeks be-
fore shying around for a second wife.
A ROCHESTER, boy didn't believe that
boiled tar was AS hot as boiling oil until
he dipped his fingers in it, He will now
bet on it.
Now that so many people are getting
married by telegraph. there ought to be
some speedier method of Obtaining di-
vorces.-Detroit Free Press.
A Troy servant girl tried to commit
suicide because she accidentally broke a
lea cup and her mistress reproved her.
Such sensitiveness is rare.
MoHAIR suits are quite fashionable,
gray being the most popular color. They
make up very handsomely and will be
found durable and substantial.
A CINCINNATI professor has demon
strated that man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on raw turnip alone as if
he had feasted at kings table.
A Missouri Judge has decided that a
woman is not an " old maid" until she is
thirty five years old, and all the women
are singing songs in his praise.
A cENTURY.PLANT is blooming in Talla-
hassee, with center stem which the re-
| liable editor of the Tallahassee FI0ridian
says is growing twelve inches per day.
MANY of the ladies are disappointed
with the new bonnet. 1t Is a monde
script sort of an affair, and it is diff
cult to tell which is front and which is
back.
IT has been frequently observed by q
number of facetious Southern papers that
there is good deal of watered stock'
floating on the surface of the raging
| floods.
INDIANAPOLIS boasts of versatile di-
vinity student who breaches in English,
prays in Armenian, sings in Turkish, and
holds his tongue in eleven other lam
guages.
A FEMALE ciIcus-rider told Baltimore
reporter that jumping through the hoops
did not prevent her from trying to do gnod,
and that she was member of church
and in good standing.
CHILDREN's note paper, with envelopes
to match, having flower, kitten, or other
fanciful ornament instead of monogram,
has lately been successfully introduced
by ,everal English houses.
THE Troy lawyers have decided to
shave clean hereafter. It's their faces, of
course-every body knows that they shave
their client clean without having any
general convention to pass resolutions.
! In game of whist at Boston, recently,
according to the Globe of that city, in one
hand the dealer held the ace, king.
queen, knave, ten, eight, seven, six, five
and four of spades, which was the trump.
A YOUNG man at San Jose, Cal, bet that
he could get billiard ball into his
mouth. He succeeded, and hereafter will
get the ball in quite easily. The doctor
had to rip his mouth little to get it
out.
In about month more the boy OF the
period, who ran away from school and
went in swimming, will be seen on the
sunny side of the barn waiting for his
hair to dry so that he can bluff the old
! lady.
| THE worsi feature about this cremation
bGsiness is that some winter morning, in
fit of philanthropy, your widnw's second
husband may empty your ashes on the
icy pavement for the benefit OF pedes-
trians.
A FLORIDA correspondent saws that al
| though many persons suffering from con-
sumption in other States have gone there
and been restored to health, there are old
established Florida families fast dying of
the same disease
A TEMPTING inducement-CheeTfu
agent 70 life assurance company: "The
advantage of our company is that you do
not forfeit your policy either by being
hanged or by committing suicide! Pray
take a prospecius!"
"MRs GRUNDY," we are told, decided
| ly objects 10 cremation, for, if there is
anything she does like, it's a nice, re-
spectacle funeral" But why wouldn't
nice, respectable burning do as well? 1t
would certainly be more narrowing, and
hence interesting.
In Phenixville Pa, is a young man
who is responsible for producing six little
chicks from as many eggs, and ali this,
too, without Madame Hens aid He
wrapped them in cotton and placed them
on a mantel.piece near warm stove, and
prestol it was done.
NICELY trimmed mutton chops put In
a covered jar, with a little water, pepper
and salt, and cooked in slow oven for
three hours, form, it is asserted, ex-
cellent food for an invalid or delicate
child, as the meat is not so hard as in the
ordinary ways of cooking.
No MORE buff or gray kid shoes are
worn by little girls, black being firmly
settled as the favorite color, or rather no
color. Wee things in their first short
dresses, and BARNS just trying independ-
ent locomotion, wear dainty buttoned
shoes of pink, scarlet or blue, without
heels, and fastened with pearl buttons.
SOME boys in Salem, Mass, recently
borrowed two eggs from a neighbor's
hennery, and after boiling them in cal
leo bag returned them to the nest The
boiling process left the eggs covered with
the figures of the calico, and the excited
owner exhibited these curiosities far and
near, and sought in vain for an explSna-
tion of this "curious freak of nature"
In Davenport, Iowa, there resides a
most interesting family. The father,
Charles Il. Putnam, is prominent law
yer and the mother is daughter of the
late Gov Duncan, of Illinois. TIE
family consists of ten boys and one girl,
and is little nation in itself The boys
are natural-bOrn scientists, artists and me-
chanics Besides cullivaiing farm they
publish magazine, build boats, prepare
specimens of entomology, manufacture
toys, teach school, and conclude the cata-
lOgue OF their industries by writing for
the papers, The publication is hand
somely printed magazine of twenty-four
pages, and contains many interesting
! original articles, most Of them being
from the pens of the Putnam family. In
their last issue they gave notice hal The
sistrr Bessie Putnam, is admitted 10 the
partnership, aud tina, hereafter tho firm
| mama will ha Dnfnaun Rrothara g Sister