Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-11
MIsCELLANEOUs ITEMS.
Do A little we'll and you do much.

n FIihlAAlON IL llht dtt-DONuNIg Dt-
cause 1t brightens spoons.
THE Brooklyn Ar0us says that the
song of the mosquito is Hum, sweet
hum"
CoGeIA's comet is now visible at Mel
bourne, Australia, and presents brilliant
appearance.
OuT of the 10,0OO,OOO women in Amer
lea there isn't one who won't scream at
the sight of a rat
An old cynic says: "With many
women, going to church is little better
than looking into bonnet-shop."
TOAST at a railway dinner: "Our
mothers-industrious tenders, though
they often misplaced the switch"
A New HAMPSHIRE clock was struck
| by lightning the other day, and, instead
of hushing itself into silence, 1t struck
for fifteen minutes without stopping
A NEW York cook says he defies the
world to tell quails' legs from frogs legs
after they are cooked-and now let's
have another civil war.-DetrOH Press.
AN inexpensive way of making indeli-
BILE ink is to put iron filings or old nails
in strong vinegar and let them stand for
about ten days. Before using filter the
liquid. d.
A NEW editor on an exchange, on see
ing a military company pass his Office the
other day, was constrained to remark
that tn ere must be a lightning-rod man
in town,
AN agricultural journal maintains that
alum water is quite as destructive to in
sects as Paris green, and, unlike the
latter, is not at all dangerous to leave
about house.
WOMEN" says an experienced West
ern editor, care the best subscribers in
the world to newspapers. We have been
editor for forty years and never lost II
dollar by female subscribers"
TRINITY CHURCH organ has the repu-
tation of being the largest American
built organ in the United States. 1t is
undergoing extensive alterations by
which it will be further enlarged. Two
new stops-the trombone" and the
"vox humana"-will be added.
THE transition from depressing sad
ness to exuberant joy is often very short,
and this revulsion of feeling is eXpe-
rienced in its most powerful form while
reading a long and narrowing account of
the violent death of somebody, and find
ing at the close that the victim was u
book agent.-Neoo York World.
THE engineers stationed at the central
shaft of the Ioosac tunnel, in the em-
ploy of the United States coast survey,
have recently been making experiments
for the purpose of ascertaining the dens-
ity and gravity of the earth; the vibra-
tiOns of the pendulum are counted at
the top and bottom of the shaft, and the
difference noted.
SIXTEEN horses attached to hacks at
the Providence depot in Boston started
on runaway the other day, and as they
all went up the same street things got
awfully mixed very soon. Two or three
of the foremost were stopped, however,
and placed across the street as barri-
cade, and very bad accident was pre-
vented though some of the hacks were
smashed up.
THE new mode of collecting on the
Hudson River Railroad, which went into
force some time ago as far up the road as
Spuyten Duyvil, has been extended to
Poughkeepsie. Collectors meet all
through trains at that depot and pro
ceed north and south with them. The
conductors on these trains now simply
go through cars and punch the tickets,
while the collector follows and takes
; themup-
THE Lancaster (Pa) Eramtner tells
what it knows about the height OF
meanness. 1t says: There are things
in human shape whom, through fortui-
tous circumstances alone, ii becomes
obligatory to class with humanity. One
of these despicable blots of creation the
Z other day emptied bucketful Of potato
| bugs on Cyrus Kleiser's lot at Lebanon
This lot had escaped the ravages of the
pest, but that, it seemed, constituted the
offense.
THE pride of mankind is great a
= night or two ago family in New York
5 was awakened by unusual noises in The
G house, and, on turning out, saw the eld
G est hopeful rushing about in his sus
t penders, brandishing a new Wesson, ano
: shouting: There's a man in th'
c housem A long search failed to show
: anv foundation for the young mans
warlike demonstration, when he midi,
|. informed the breathless and exhausted
o tribe that it was his birthday. He wa
r twcntY-one.
d THE Excelsior Magazine, a very choice
G and entertaining monthly, is published
: at $3.50 year. Every effort is bein!
IS made by securing the services of tn
o most brilliant contributors to periodical
a literature and the best art critics an(
II essayists, to furnish highly desirabl
family paper. A handsomely Illustrate
fashion and etiquette supplement accom-
, panies it. Subscribers are very easil
=" obtained, and rare inducements in none
or prizes are offered to getters up G
N clubs. Sample copies twenty-five cents
Office, Room 50, No. 157 La Sale stree
o Chicago, Ill.
t. t. TWENTY old New Bedford (Mass
!, rats were recently seen marching dow
- -, the roof of hotel to drink from the wate
- - in the eaves-trough. Among them was
70 mother who led five little rats by a stra'
90 which she and they held in their mouth
-, Reaching the edge of the trough sll
amS m placed them in row; then the old on
'o m took the first one, winding her tail aroun
~ it, letting it down to the water, and the
w " placed il to the right in the row of sma
% rats; then she took the left, and lettin
is it down to drink placed it to the rlgi
10 again, and so on with the whole; alt'
~ ~ which they all took hold of the stray
-. ~ and the mother, with the straw in h'
o5 mouth, led them back to their hole
hc THE Pottsville (Pa.) Miners Journal
er responsible for the following story:
he Phnnixville maid, quite old, becomlr
n anxious about her matrimonial chance
nd recently conceded n plan to deceive
he Young fellow rs to her age. This WI
b. ihe way she tried it; The old fami
rd Bible contained a faithful record of q
births marriages and deaths. IN
st, volume the maiden took TO her chambe
w and, selecting tho birth-page, she ma
he aged, by dint of scratching and writin
er TO change the date of her birth to aperit
a eleven years later than what it had Leg
ms imately been recorded Then the Bib
inn was placed on the sitting-room table in
N conspicuous manner. That evening can
lis along the lover He soon began to fling
nd the Bible pages, and finally reached &
he birth-record, where and when he disco
lit cred, to his surprise, that his Angelil
ng was just one year younger than he. !
So thought it strange, as she appeared old'
ng He kept his mouth shut and continued
he tumble over the pages. Next he peg
les reading the death-list, and mace