Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

broil.
THE press that printers like-A press
| of business
| ANY young miss would rather have her
corsets tight than her "feller."
SOMETIMES coal docs not burn as well
of an evening, because it's slate.
| BAsHFULNEss is often like the plating
on spoons-when It wears off, IL shows
| the brass.
| THE plainest woman alive, IL she
reaches the age of eighty will be pret-
ty old one.
| MODEL wives formerly took a stitch in
time; now, with the aid of sewing ma.
chimes, they take one in no time.
| Those Detroit ladies who bleached
their hair to blonde are bleaching it
back again. Fashion is u tickle jade.
| THE labor of the body relieves us from
the fatigucs of the mind, and this il is
which forms the happiness of the poor.
| SOME of the students at Eastern col
| leges can board themselves for thirty
| five cents per week, but they don't feel
like tearing around much
LOUISVILLE wants an ordinance to pre-
vent her citizens from throwing guilds of
| tobacco in the street. One quid will
| oftentimes blockade street
THE man who has not had anything to
boast of but his illustrious ancestors is
! like potato plant-the only good be-
longing to him is under ground.
"Do YOU get whipped at school now?"
asked mother of young hopeful who
had recently changed his place of in
structioD. "No, mother, have a better
teacher and Pm better boy"
DRESSES are made to fit the figure
like glove" and the great majority of
New York fashionable women have dis
carded corsets in order to bring about
the " eternal fitness of thlngs"
A LAMP-CHISiNEY may be made almost
indestructible by putting it over the fire
in vessel of cold water and letting it
remain until the water boils. 1t will be
found that boiling toughens in this case.
RECREATION is not idleness. 1t is alb
solutely necessary at times that man
should get out of the routine grooves of
work, that ho may grow mentally and
physically and become nearer perfec-
ton.
A CALCULATING machine on two legs,
and with black skin, who can mentally
add, subtract and multiply large num-
bers, is Memphis curiosity. The negro
cannot explain how he does it, neither
can he perform the operations with
pen.
THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GEN.
BARBER, who has given the subject much
attention, expresses the belief that the
Government is annually defrauded out
of 81 100000 or per cent of the amount
of stamps sold, by the use of washed
postal stamps.
Fuss kills more than fever. The pau
pers of the New York alms-houses,
though entering at an advanced age,
average twenty years of easy life there
after. All from being free from worry,
fret, trouble, anxiety, disappointment
and botheration generally. Such obsti-
macy on the part of poor-house inmates
is very provoking to the taxpayers.
81 AM an old fellow" says Cowper, in
one of his letters to Hurd, "but | once
had my dancing days, as you have now;
yet could never find that | could learn
half SO much of woman's character by
dancing with her as by conversing with
her at home, where could observe her
behavior unobserved, at the table, at the
fircside, and in all the trying circum-
stances of life. We are all good when
we are pleased; but she is good woman
who wants no fiddle to sweeten her"
SECRETARY BRIsTow has officially de-
cided that journalism is profession, un-
der the following circumstances, An
American Journalist, who was returning
from Europe, bringing with him con-
siderable quantity of books for his own
library, held that the books were entitled
to be entered duty free under that Sec
ton of the customs laws which makes
provision for the free importation of
books for the use of a library of physi-
clan, a lawyer and a clergyman The
Custom-House officers at Baltimore,
where the books were entered, decided
that journalism is not a profession and
that the books must pay duty. An ap-
peal was taken to the Secretary of the
Treasury, who has reversed their decis-
ion.
YESTERDAY morning, about eight
o'clock, little two-year-old child of Mr..
Webb Calhoun, living two and drhalf
miles north of the city, fell into cis-
tern, and the mother, who happened to
see the child fall, jumped in after it.
Mr.. Calhoun, who is dealing in stock,
was away from home at the time of the
accident, and there was no one on the
place, and Mrs. Calhoun, being unable
to get out, was compelled to stand in the
water waist deep from eight O'Clock in
morning until five in the evening. The
unfortunate woman probably would
have had to spend the night in that dis
tressing condition, where, no doubt, she
and her child would have perished be-
fore morning, if, by her screams, she had
not attracted the attention of some chill
dren who were returning from school.
The school children heard her cries for
help, but it was some time before they
discovered and rescued the almost ex-
hausted lady. Indeed, she was so much
chilled and fatigned that it will be fortu-
nate if she escapes severe illness. DR..
Sibly was sent for about seven o'clock
last evening, and it is to be hoped the
lady will escape serious consequences
from her long bath.-Decatur Magnet.