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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-25
CHAPTER TX.

NEMESIS. s.-THE FATE OF THE DODGE"
Enter the washerwoman. Nobody
had expected her. If she had bee
Nemesis herself the family could nc.
have surveyed her with more dismay.
With what was she to be paid? The
young inventor looked at the disturbed
face of his mother and gave great
gulp. .a.
"How much is it, mamma? There is
the dodge you know" and Mamma
Mullen felt the two dollars thrust into
her hand Yes, there it was, and there
was the washerwoman. The Mulleins
looked at each other incredulously.
Their last hold on their one loved holi-
day was slipping from them, and they
hardly knew how to believe it, after all
the toll and the patience, and the self
sacrifice and the planning If the wash
erwoman had but known it, sheswas being
paid in dramas, in concentration of
much that was precious. But it looked
to her poor-enough note, unaccoL-
panied by an extra fifty cents or SO in
honor of Christmas. She thinks they
have forgotten itl--forgotten it, poor
souls Stand stands her ground. Mamma
quakes before her, and answers her
teebly. Still she stands viii she never
gog An awful silence. Convicted
felons might wear the open and cheer
full expres sion of the Mulleins. The
Nemesis of the washtub tosses her head,
fiounces, makes remark, to the door
knob apparently, about the poor returns
of stinginesss to stingy people in the
long.run-but she goes! Mamma Mullen
is free to cover her face with her hands
and the young inventor to press a soft
cheek against hers and call her his dear,
good, lovely mamma
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Answers to Correspondents.

Pdncdke.-To yure long letter ov three
pages and two postcripts, in which yu
ask me if horse-trotting and horse-racing
haz improved the breed of horses, L an
swer out loud, don't think it haz.
- No man kan prove to me that the horse
kan plow more land, draw more stun to
one load, or travel faster ON less feed,
than he could siXty-tive years ago.
If he kant prove this he kant prove
that horse-racing haz been Ov emmy ad-
vantage to horses OF to men.
Speed that yu kant use, only to gamble
with, il the same kind ov improvement
that marked kards and loaded dice are
over the old plan,
like sports Ov most kinds, but / insist
upon calling them bi their right names.
BGtna5ds-I send yu bi to-daY's post
the following sayings for yure album.
hope they will meet yure views and
make yu feel better:
"Az long az a man can escape death
he allwus fears it.
,"When it is fair weather don't fail to
take an umbreller with yu. When it
rains do just as yu pleaze about it.
IN. ban old Shaker told me this
long ago.
swine quite often makes man a
crate bore, and when 1t does he is the
most nauseating dose we are obliged to
take.
"The 'ded sure things is what has
allwuss beat the world.
4"I never knu man who allwuss lived
bi taking the chances but when he cum
to die had to be buried at sumboddy
else's expense.
"Whisky makes CRATE menny wize
men to-day and phools tomorrow.
knowing men understand that whisky
amt judgement, '''
"Most every boldly thinks that they
are ov CRATE consequence in this world
but the fakt IL that when the most ov
them cum to die they slip out ov life az
noiseless az rat into hiz hole, an nobod
dy knows and nobody kaTes WHARF they
hav went to.
"Awkwardness IL allwuss an evidences
to me ov sum kind ov merit.
"Genius seq in paragraff what tht
man ov talent wants page and a hat
TO tell in" 11'
Thare IL one thing lucky about 1t
those people who git snubbed the mos
are the ones who kan stand 1t the best
Josh Bttlings, IN ~ y, Weekly.
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theli came down smiling and got a letter
about&he "Carol." A letter A blow In
the face. N" -
= "There was something Theological in
the Carol,'h the letter said, and truly.
Mamma Mullen was a devout woman,
and it had slipped her pen without in.
tending 1t. "There was always danger"
said the letter in handling the theolog-
ical porcupine, even with gloves; and
the paper declined to take the risk, And
so-with thanks" etc. ...... ..--..
"Christmas comes but. once a year."
and to make all these slips and stumbles
henl A Protestant pilgrimage barefoot
to the Stock Exchange or some other
temple of Mammon and solemn vow
never again "to call spade a spade"
would have relieved Mamma Mullein's
overweight feelings as she subtracted
forty dollars from her calculations. Then
the tide turned in letter sweetcr than
any love.note, inclosing check for the
Preach About Babies" twenty dollars,
Another letter and another check for the
Review" fifteen dollars.
FIFTH Week--Appropriate articles for
the Ohtgn0n not eturned--they had been
specially ordered, but gone into bank
ruptcy The paper had fallen into finan-
cial collapse. Broken reeds that pierced
her side. Mamma Mullen had scarcely
the heart left to subtract forty-five dol
lars more from their calculations. II was
all over now. She kept bright face for
the younger Mulleins; but, though there
might be still some scanty shreds and
patches of Christmas, there could be no
Christmasrose for them.
St;rh Week.-The day before Christmas.
Returned, the prose version of "The
Cow Jumped Over the Moon," with
thanks. "The editor would have used
it, but he had accepted an article before
receiving it, on precisely the same sub
ject, which would appear in the present
number" Singular, and yet more sim
gular that the article on the same sub
ject proved to be written by the editor
in person. But Mamma Mullen had for
her consolation the adage that great
minds think alike.
By the same post arrived Skiggs' bill
for twenty-five dollars, Quiggs' bill for
eighteen dollars, Haggs' bill for twenty
dollars; total. sixty-three dollars. And
the Mullen receipts had been thirty five
dollarsl Mamma Mullen finds diff
Guilty in summing up. Something is the
matter with her eyes. And the winter
clothing and the Christmas -rosel The
''dodge" had accumulated two dollars
in spite of the "law." The littlewoman
had brought six cents out of trade. The
young inventor and the little woman pro-
posed to invest the two dollars and six
cents after supper by means of com
mittee of twoAvhich mamma was not in
vited to join--for reasons common to
Christmas.
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CHAPTER w.,
THE CHRIsTlIAs-ROsE

AhAA NAaf0 ANN'f'Ah' Z.
To begin; 1t had happened a, month
or two before that they found them
selves in possession of "a surplus two
dollar note. That is, Of two-dollar
note which need not be paid over at once
to landlord or shoemaker This note
was deposited by aoclamation in the
" "Sixpenny 9sayihgs'' as beginning
toward growing the Christmas-rose.
Henceforth the. family leaned much on
it, and it often came up in compensation
little plan for growing Christmas rose.
Master Mullein invented what he
called the Sgdbdge," as this There, are
certain transaotions in business so much
matter of course that you are, startled
to reflect ON he'numbeT OF PERSONS who
earn a living in these very departments.
Who thinks how notes, bills and messages
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THE MARKETS.
DECEMBER 10, 1874.


CoTroN.-Middling upland, 141s@14Hc.
LIVE sTocK.-Beef fCattle--S1O.O09l3.00 Hogs
Dressed, 3s5oGs.621i Live, S7.OoG725 Sheep
Live, sh.O00650.
BREADsTUFFs. s.-Flour-Good to choice, 5000
$50; white wheat extra, $5.60lS6O0 Wheat--No.
Chicago S1.Os11.O9; No. Northwestern,
81. .09O1.lO; No 2 Milwaukee spring, $l.12G
Lib. Rye-92G95c. Barley-$1 .45@1.5O. Corn
Mixed Western, ss@9ti1c. oats-Mixed West
ern, 67169c.
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork-New Mess, $9062GG
eo.75. Lard-150159sc. Cheese-lsh G15Ac.
WooL.-Common TO extra, 43165c. t.-t
CHICAGO. rtf.trt
LIVE STooK.-Beeves Choice, S5.5096.0O;
good, sf2505.O0; medium, s3.75lb425; butch
ers' stock, s2.7504O0; stock cattle, s2.5O9
$50. Hogs-Live. S6.s0G700 Sheep-Good
to choice, $4.7505.25.
PRovIsIoNs.-Butter-C Choice, 31@37c. Eggs
Fresh, 24G25c. Cheese-New York factory,
14h@15c; Western, 14@141ac. Pork-New
Mess, 1s9O0l9OO. Lard-S13, ,sO01S.25.
BREADsTUFFs.- winter extra,
s4s506.5o; spring extra, siGOG4.6O. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, ss9ss1sc. Corn No. Q, 7G1a
ORC. Oats-No. ?, 52&05sSc. Barley-No,
2, S1.1901 30. Rye-No. 2, 941aQ95c.
WooL.-Tub-washed, 45t957c.; fleece, washed
4O0147c.; fleece, unwashed, crosse.
LuMBER.-First Clear, $520O055.0O; Second
Clear, S46.OO05gO0; Common Boards, $1,000
1900; Fencing, $12OO@13.00; "a" Shingles,
$3.OOG13.25; Latb, S2.OO62.25.
CINCINNATI.
CHARACTERIZATION 5.OO05.5O. Wheat Red,
81. .1G01.4. Corn-New, 7O@72c. Rye-S1.1091,12 ,12.
Oats-5sa62c. Barley-No. 2, $i.27@l.27h.
PRovIsIoEs.-Pork - S1s75G19.OO. Lard
is914c.
LIVE STooK.-Beeves-Fa to choice, S4.251
SIS. Hogs-Live, S6.sO07.0O.
BREADsTUFFs. Fall, $4.75t49O
wheat--No. 2 Red Fall, S1.0sD1.OSA. Corn-No.
q New, 6s@69hc. oats-No 2, 5sG6Oc. Rye-No.
/, 96h@97c. Barley-No. 2, 81. .25G1.30.
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork-Mess s1ss7ll @19.Oo. Lard
-13013l4c.
MILWAUKEE.
BREADsTUFrs.-Flour-Sp Xxx, $5.25G5 80.
Wheat-Spring No. I, 92l4@92Ac; No. g, 97Ii6l
s7%c. Corn-No. 2, 6sH@69c. oats-No. y, 500
5ohc. Rye-No. /, 96h@97c. Barley-No. Q,
$1271S91.2S.
BREApsrUFFs. -Wheat-Extra, S1.15lD1.15A.
Corn--731l@174c. Oats--56ylGb57Hc.
TOLEDO.
BREADsTUFFs- wheat-Amber Mich, $1.Osh
G1.O9; No. Red, S1O7h91.Os. Corn
High Mixed, New, 7Oh0uc. oats-No. 2, $50
56hc.,
BREADsTUFFs-Wheat-N 1 Red, S1.10h0
1.11h; No. 2 Red, S1.O5H11.O6. Corn--New,
726D72Hc. oats-57l0 059c. n a-
BUFFALO.
LIVE SrocK.-Beeves S45O05.s7M. Hogs
Live, S6.6sIl@715. sheep-St5Gl05,5O.
EAST LIBERTY.
LIVE SToCK.-Beeves-Bes S6. .256t7. 90; me-
dium, S5.OO95.5O. Hogs - Yorkers, $6.6O0
$50; Philadelphia, $7.4O07.5O. sheep-Best,
| as 511l5 75: medium, RbO0Gl5.50,
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CHAPTER ~.
PARASITES AND NuIaANCEa.


Hitherto have introduced these peo.
pie as They" That was from cowardice.
Seldom has q writer more Objectionable
personages in hand. The Mulleins were
three: mother, daughter, and son.
have read recently that women without
money we're very nearly in the position
of parasites" !" also, that "a woman's
business is to amuse and serve man, and
make his life agreeable, and when not
so engaged she is nuisance" The
mother and daughter in question were
without money, and there was no imam"
as an excuse for their existence; and not
even the entireness of love, in which
they lived with the Boy and he with
them, can altogether atone. i assure
you 4 feel il bat then what would you
hayeS This is not q Christmas story,
but storyof aggravation. -&-F4
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Sit and Set, Lay and Lie.


The two words sit" and "set" are
too often mistaken for each other. When
a grammar class is asked, for the first
time, if it is right to say "hens set" the
"court sets,p ne.half of them, perhaps,
will vote one way and the other half the
other. The court means the Judge or
Judges; the Judge sits, court sits, the
jury sits, hens sit, birds sit. "Setting
hem is wrong; hens are not "setters" or
pointers. Set requires an objective case;
we set chair, but we sit in it. There
is a similar difficulty in the use of liep
and clay" In families whose hens " set"
everything "lays," and all clay abed,"
The quoted words are wrong. Lay means
to place, and requires an oblective, as
+" the hen lays eggs" snow lay me-"
We should say the book lies on the table I;
he lies abed; lies low; everybody lies, If
you please, but nobody lays unless he
has something to lay e.a u-
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CHAPTER VII
THAT TWO DoLI.ARs'-HopE LONG DE


The little woman went into trade. She
sold the old newspapers for six cents.
The orange peel speculation resulted in
failure. Nobody would buy.
Meantime "that two dollars, you
know" was drawn from the bank per-
force, to paylthe washerwOman--a poor
old woman who needed the money, on
which Mamma Mullen felt a sinking of
the heart, and was obliged to do that
sum about the "Idyls," etc, twice over
before she could quite recover her usual
cheerfulness. nH re- ~TTF tt
Also the "dodge," though in splendid
working order, was so continually tripped
up and circumvented by the law" that
its young inventor might almost as well
have spared the car-horses the shame of
their defeat. " The Christmas rose will
be a very small GROWTH they told each
other. - u
One-two-three--fo weeks Such
weeksl The hours in them had feet of
lead and were lame besides. Darkest of
all came to be that hour known as the
postman's. No such heart-shaking hour
in the year, as, If you are mullen per.
son, or like those who Joined David in
the cave of Adullam, and you are at the
crest of the wave and letter will tide
you over or dash you down into its CULTS
you very well know. The "Hour'
quite overshadowed the Mullen family.
When it began, everybody grew nervous
while it endured, everybody started al
each tinkle of the bell and watched sly
Ily'out of window. When II ehded-oh
the miserable blank: worse even than the
torture of mspensel and wien the q mem
ber from outside7-who had been absent
meanWhile--ret there was another
trial, The vague expectation, the quick
glance at the table and into the faces Of
the stayers,at- home, the pathetic attempt
at indifference on the part of everybody
and the determination, of everybody t
show no anxiety, and TO see lpohel-a
let it pass! 1t is easier o.write than tC
witness. .ebhs7 7"1HF
| 'r--E'F sfr. a-.LI -g.sasr
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One Hundred Florins for Hair.

A young and poorly-clad girl entered
BARRIERS shop in Vienna andtold the
proprietor that he must " buy her head. I"
The friseur examined her long, glossy,
chestnut locks, and began to bargain
He could give eight guiden and no more.
Hair was plentiful this year, the price
had fallen and there was less demand,
and other phrases of the kind. The lit
tie maiden's eyes filed with tears and
she hesitated a moment while threading
her fingers through her chestnut locks.
She finally threw herself into chair.
"In Gods name," she gasped, "take it
quickly" The barber, satisfied with his
bargain, was about to clinih it with his
shears when gentleman who sat half
shaved, looking on, told him to stop.
My child" he said, "whyd do you want
to sell your beautiful hairS' my moth.
er has been nearly five months ill;
can't work enough to support us; every
thing has been sold or pawned, and
there is not penny in the house" (e,ad
klein kreutzer i'm k1Ls). "No, no, my
child" said the stranger; "if that is the
case will buy your hair, and wjll give
you a hundred guiden for it." He gave
the poor girl the note, the sight Of which
had dried hen tears, and took up the bar.
ber's shears. Taking the locks in his
hand he took the longest hair, cut it of
alone, and put it carefully In his pocket
book, thus paying one hundred forms
for single hair, He took the poor girls
address in case he should want to buy
another at the same rate. This chart
table man is only designated as The CHIEF
of a great industrial enterprise within
the city.-FrestOn Lloyd 20 ~ Af
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CHAPTER Y.

THE LITTLE WOMAN AS A BUYER.
The little woman, who has slipped out
quietly, comes in and sits down by the
window although it is cold. She has
been trying to buy Christmas wreath
with her six cents, but there are none to
be found at a cheaper rate than shil-
ling apiece.-LOutse II. F'urniss, IN Ap-
plet0a's Journal. .. -.
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A STORY OF AGGRAvATION.
In MuItitudinous Chapters.
CHAPTER l.
HE AMERICAN WEI VET-pI,AN

CHAPTER l.
THE AMERICAN vELvET-PLANT.
"My DEAR" said Mrs. Scrog5s, "you
must get me at once an American vel
vet.plant' have been reading its de-
scription. 1t is charming"
MY DEAR said Mr.. Scroggs, !" there
are several growing out there on the hill
Which shall transplant for you?"
"What do you nlean?" said Mrs.
Scroggs.
"The American velvet-plant' is the
mullein," said Mr.. Scroggs.. ~
"Pshaww said Mrs. Scroggs.
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THERE is a young lady in town who is
" engagedn to young man who has
more hair and comely looks than money.
She says after they are married she
wants to live in house that has no win
dows. She has heard that when pov.
erty comes in at the door love flies put
of the window. Better have house with
no doors N0rTtst0ao,a Herald.
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CHAPTER II.

MULLEINs AND ROSES. p 4l5
What has this conversation (Which, act
ually occurred) to do with the storyg
Wait a little.
This is a story of aggravation, and not
a Christmas story, for, in fact, they had
no Christmas at all, and it was impos-
sible that they should have had, and they
ought to have known better. 1t is writ
ten to be read after Christmas, when the
bills come in, and the indigestions,
and the doctors, and you aud your
wife have come 10 an understanding
about the current expenses, and the
Christmas brightness and the Christmas
snow have given way TO raw, diphthe-
ritic fog and no end of slush. Read it
them ~ ~ AHi fE
And now they ought to have known
better, as l said before, for they were
MULLEN people and there is nothing in a
MULLEN that can produce rose. AS re-
CARDS manners, morals and ideas they
might be American velvet-plants--they
were. But, as regards sterility of re-
sources and the figure they cut in the
world and the estimation in which they
were held, they were mullen people,
growing on q very bleak hillside, too.
And always haunted by the desire and
intention to grow roses! Tue ordinary
mullein accepts the situation. But these
human Mulleins!-they would behave
like roses. They were always outwitting
Step-mother Fate. However she snubbed
and twitched and set them in corners
they were reGdy for her.. Take away
carpets and they stained their floors wal.
nut brown. Deny them bureaus and
they transformed packing-box, a dollar
looking glass, two cigar,boXes and some
Il ~; ;,,tr .;t,fo N toh
them away hungry from the greasy table
of their clearinghouse and they smuggle
slices of bread, buy three, cents worth of
butter, make toast over their wretched
little fire and turn the whole into revel
which they talk of with glee. There is
cantankerous good-nature, an abomi-
nable gcheerfulness about them. They
will not accept the situation and consider
themselves disinheriled. They have
every new painting and engraving by
heart. They visit the art sales. They
know just where they would place
the a inlaidI cabinets and rugs of
Shiraz and the prints of Hogarth.
They will not see that they have no finger
in such pies. They are continually
trying to put by money for artistic treas
ures, when the ends of their income will
not meet Such stupidity As said an
altar. of-roses woman, of similar mulleins,
"They live in world of their own"
They will not see themselves as Others
see them! Talking of art, and stamped
indelibly with Poverty her mark Con.
demned forlife to fat beer, and dream
ing of Amontillado, in Venetian glassl
They could not be made to see why it
was so impossible to grow at least one
little rose from their stalk, just onel
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The Lockport Journal says: "a gen.
tleman from Genesee County told us the
other day how he managed to sell Bald
win apples for $40 per barrel Here is
the secret Take Slip OF paper and cut
children's names; then place the papers
around the apples when they begin Ia
color, and in week or two Mamie,
jamie, Johnnie'or Susie appears on the
apple in large red letters. These picked
ket." -yrr.ut,ftpr
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Immigration Statistics.

hs WASHINGTON, Dec. IA.
The report of the Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics hast following table, containing
a comparative statement of immigration by
| countries ethnologically grouped for the four
fiscal years from July l, 1870 to JuneS0, 1874:
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IT's easy enough to be contcnted with
your lot if the price of land is rising and
yor bought it cheap.
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GOOD NIGHT

w$ss \ yshS$s q n rid eOsd-night, III y
Oft, till the taper's light
Is spent once more
All the days deeds we do,f r. ~ -,
With Joy or pain; tfE r
All the days mirth and rue
Comes back again,
While the dim taper's light
Wanes more and more,
And we have said Goodnight
And shut the door. III
Now the Year says Goodnight,
And shuts the door;
Fades the fire, wanes the light,
Wanes more and more. ~
HarlsI Observation-Disclosures, g es sgla
Tolled nQufnfWly ~
Moan ont thefrlast farewells, ~
Old Year. to thee;
Once they with great delight
Hailed thee before
Now thou must say Goodnight, -r--
go, Andshpt the door. arr t4
A iOnce we shall say Goodnight L
And shut our door,
While, as the taper's light
Wanes more and more, p
just ere asleep we fall n B.
ITO dream of day.
e. We shall retravelsa all II. ~ a ra
" The Years long way, eh "a 7.
While the dim tapers light Es., kfr
70 Wanes more and more, ~ -aa. D =. :
When, with our last Goodnight
We've shut the door.
But, when we've said Goodnight, y
And shut our door,
OF dream we what delight p V ta ..
Morn hath in store;
And, when the Old Years done,
We, ere we sleep,
3 Trust that the New Years sun
Better doth keep
Than aught Of true delight
We knew before.
Glad, with our last Good night.
"a Wen shut our door i
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CHAPTER III.

THEIR cHRIsTStAs-FEVER! " r
Now that you comprehend them, you
will not be surprised to hear that these
people, vino were in want, had resolved
to Keep Christmas.
And you will add, almost of yourself,
that these are precisely the sort Of peo-
pie who are sure to take the Christmas
fever, and to have it hard, and to whom
its Wreaths and tapers and carols are full
of meaning and delicious charm-and
you would be quite right.
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Miss MIaGs' beau told her che loved
to court the muse, and because he could
not tell her plainly who she was" he
can't swing on her gate any more
Y0nkers Gazette.
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A MAN paid his first visit to Baltimore
a few days ago, and invited lady ac
quaintance to visit a theater with him
The lady accented the invitation, and the
young man, following the crowd, walked
up to the ticket.otiice, laid down fifty
cent note for his ticket, and turning to
his companion said to her, The price is
fifty cents" The lady happened to have
her porte -monnaie with her, and, appre.
ciating the situation, drew from it fifty
cent note, and her gallant companion
passed it in with his money, and, obtain
ing two tickets, handed one of them to
her, which she quietly accepted, and
passed in after her beau.
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floAihnce., ....-i a.. a.. ',.. Sof W
to be expended for winter clothing, and
for the Christmas-rose-ten dollars might
be spared for that; and there was that
two dollars, you know"
After this calculation Mamma Mullen
wrote with more spirit than ever; 4. and
the inventor of the dodge came out in a
new character, as "The Filial Fib." He
discovered that all wellregulated boys
spent their evenings in unceasing,e efforts
to attain good writing hand. ~
Also, that his only hope of achieving
that desirable result was in copying each
evening till bedtime numerous pages of
his mothers manuscript.
Whereupon he acquired his title of the
Filial Fib, and, let us hope, the good
writingha
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-25

gWINNINs smiles are mantlipg The face
of 'coal-dealers, and they seem guile
happy as they remark, Chilly sir. -
~ Y, HAL ila z AAf , i4 f.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-25

Total Immigrants s3l ,s5Ol4Oi so6459 sOs 3ls. s3f
*l6,O42 Of this number were reported as from
Great Britain, not specified"