Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
In favor of the Dog law-Cats.

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Because it makes pa pay.
WHY is life the greatest conundrumY ?
Because all must give it up.
SAILORS are not very observing men,
although they are continually going to
sea.
THE difference between d. DIS and
M. D.s-The former preach and the latter
practice.
WE give the women nothing to think
about but dress, and abuse them for
thinking of that.
A MAIDEN lady says that if single life
is bad 1t stands to reason that double
life is twice as bad
"TwENTY-sIx Years Disgrace" is what
the Philadelphia CITY Item styles the un.
finished Washington monument at the
National capital
OvERsKIRTs appear to have finally re-
solved themselves into simple apron
fronts, all the putting and looping being
concentrated at the back.
WAsHoE CITY, New, has been taking
its census, and finds its population to
consist of "eight men, two boys and a
dilapidated squaw."-N. Y. World.
WHY should man pay thousand
dollars to go round the world when by
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take him the same distance for nothing?
A "MIxED TRAIN THE train of an
elegant dress on promenade dragging
along hatful of shavings, strips Of
paper, cigar stumps, and tobacco guilds.
A SOUTHERN paper considers that the
discovery of the fact that the Russian
river steamers run races draws that ma
much nearer to the great American
Heart.
T. LIGHT-BLUE wooden costumes are all
+ the rage. They are usually trimmed
with lighter or darker shade of the
same material, or with a light en-
broidery.
WHAT is even poverty itself that a
man should murmur under it? 1t is but
as the pain of piercing a maiden's ear,
and you hang precious jewels IN the
wound d-RSchter. a
RECENT morallst has ais@ed aG that 5S tbs
can only judge of its purity by what
comes out of it.
ONE who makes human nature his
study says that when a. girl takes her
handkerchief and moistening it with her
lips wipes black spot off young mans
nose, wedding between the parties 10
inevitable.
AN orator, warming with his subject,
exclaimed: There is not a man, wom-
an or child in this house who has ar
rived at the age of fifty years but has
felt the truth laundering through their
minds for centuries.
A GIRL in Clinton, Conn, twelve years
old, has just fallen victim to love. Be-
cause he backed out, she undertook to
carve herself to death. A couple of
days fasting and whipping changed
her mind and her feelings.
So COMPLETE is the base ball furor
that even the Connecticut River shad are
taking a turn at the national game. We
see that at Holyoke, yesterday, three
shad that were in the river were caught
out on tlies.-HdrI0rd Times.
PRIDE takes an early start in San Fran
cisco. When a lad breaks loose from
his mothers apron. strings and secures a
nTst tuInS me- uUUs dIveI vi.s"~ 49, -
Chinaman to run errands for him.
IRA CURTIss, of New Haven, while dig
ging for clans, brought up pocket-book
containing several gold and silver coins
and roll of bills, probably amounting
to 81 900. The pocket-book looked as If
II had been under water for eight or ten
wears, and the bills will have to be sepa-
rated very carefully.
A YOUNG widow at Whittingham, VT,
recently engaged herself to marry Charles
II. Clark, young man who came to the
town and called himself carpenter. He
died lust before the day appointed for the
wedding, and, on investigation, it was
found that he had several wives in differ
ent parts of the country.
LOUIS LEMEREAUX is in custody al
Nashua, N. H., for brutal cruelty to a
horse. Lemereaux became angry because
the horse would not back, and pulled his
tongue nearly out of his head, twisting
it with fiendish cruelty. The tongue be.
came so swollen that the animal could
not get it into his mouth and had to be
killed.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
speaking of the death of Mr.. Hodge, OF
Granville, who was killed by lightning a
few days ago, says that the most remark
able incident connected with his death is
the fact, verified by several witnesses,
that on Mr.. Hodges side is plainly pho,
tographed the tree under which he stood
at the time he was struck.
One day recently a young couple went
to a Justice of the Peace in Osceola, KY
and were married. On the way home the
groom took occasion to lay down the law
to his young wife, and informed her wha'
she must and what she must not do. A
row ensued and "the bride of an hour
returned to her fond parents, while thu
groom started West, to grow up with thu
country.
TIE " Excelsior Magazine" one of th'
choicest and most artistic of monthlies
is published at $3.50 year New sub
scribers are offered $3.50 field croque
, set and the magazine for $40, only 8
cents additional. A handsomely-illus
. trated Fashion and Etiquette supplement
!, goes with It. Rare inducements to get
ters.up of clubs in money or premium!
: Sample copies % cents. Office, Room 6S
q No. i67 La Sale street, Chicago, Ill.
4 PRoF. BAITD writes that the fish caugh
|. in Lake st. Croix, and on which wa
q claimed the reward offered by the 5
n Paul Chamber of Commerce for the mrs
). shad caught in the upper waters OF III
a Mississippi, is not shad, but belongs to til
# herring family, of the species known
}. "tailors" on the Potomac, and allied
~ the blue fish of New York. He says Il
- Young shad placed in the river near Il
falls, by Seth Green, could not be c!
n pected to return from the Gulf of Me.
% leo before next season, three years fro
a. the time they we're placed in the river.
in THE disease known as the cranberl
ID "scald" has made such ravages duriII
lg the past few years among the cranberri
o. of New Jersey that the growers ha'
It, applied TO the Government for an inve
be tigation of the cause thereof. Rev.
n. f. Brown, in company with Represent
in tive Robbins, recently called upon =
he Commissioner of Agriculture and stat
es that the company with which he W
ct. connected lost 100000 from this eau
NO last season, and there were serious app
no tensions that unless some remedy W
ge found the cranberry interest, represel
in ing capital of more than million q
es. lars, would be utterly destroyed i
microscopists of the department exa
of ined a number of berries in the preser
M of the gentlemen named and foun'
ed species of fungus growing through q
an through them, penetrating their cells q