Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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A Troy widow has maintained lawsuit
for twenty-one years, and is still full of
pluck and determination.
"HE handled his gun carelessly, and
put on his angel plumage," is the latest
Western obituary notice.
| A GHOST that haunted a Massachusetts,
house has been effectually exercised by
means of rat poison.
ELYToN, Ala, schoolboys have a pleas
ant way Ct locking their teacher in school
and taking a holiday.
| THE Boston Globe wants to know If
street sprinkler can be properly called
sweet harbinger of spring.
| WENDELL PHILLIPS says that wife
who can cook a good dinner will never be
without fashionable bonnet.
! THE last plea of stingy husband is:
"How can / contribute to the Washington
monument if you are so extravagant ?"
! DANIEL GRAVES, an Alabamlan, was
praying in church the other day, when his
revolver went off and shot him in the
leg.
| WHEN cremation comes in vogue it will
be only natural for widower to refer to
the dear departed as an "old flame" of
his.
THEY can sell milk at three cents per
quart in Brooklyn and still make profit,
though they have to steal thBir water and
chalk.
A CROWD Witnessing row in Detroit
was dispersed by the announcement that
collection would now be taken up for
poor widow"
| MARRIED masculine praying bands to
conduct crusade against dry goods deal
ers are proposed in Memphis as a meas
ure of retaliation.
! ACCORDING to Kansas decision, hus-
band and wife can enter show on
| ticket reading "admit one." Most
righteous Judgel
| A LADY correspondent of Western
! journal thinks there ought to be statute
of limitation against the temperance of
| long-lost husbands.
BoARDING-HoUsE keepers are among the
most consistent believers in cremation.
Do they not invariably turn their re
mains'' into "hashes"
CONSUMERS in Toledo, Ohio, urge that
the local grocers should be compelled by
law to dilute their sugar with some sub
stance less gritty than sand
A PROJECT for building cheese factory
having resolved itself into the original
atoms the Kennebec Journal says that it
has gone the whey of all the earth.
A LADY in Carlisle, Pa, has pair of
geese that Clipped the shell in 1888, and
therefore have only four years to wait be-
| fore they will be fit for any boarding
house table.
AND now Icelanders are beginning to
seek homes in the United States. They
are said to resemble the Scotch in appear
ance, and are bright, cleanly, healthy
looking class.
THE editor of the Crescent City Courier
claims to publish the most westerly paper
in the United States. He says the water
of the Pacific Ocean at high tide reaches
within ten feet of his Office door.
THE Chicago Tribune thinks that the
detective system all other the country
should be knocked endways at once, and
thinks just as many thieves would be
caught if there were no detectives.
AN Iowa Judge has decided that it is.
more of sin to steal a horse than to
elope with another mans wife, because
there are 5000, 900 women in the United
States and only 100000 horses,
Four professional gamblers of Omaha
recently killed four days time in a con-
tinuous game of "draw." During the
time one of the party won $1,000 and
then Jumped" the disconsolate crowd of
three
A HUNDRED years ago there were no
railroads, steamboats,, telegraph lines, gas
burners, furnaces, sewing machines, pho
tographs, friction matches, revolvers, per-
cussion caps, india-rubber shoes, free
schools.
A FARMER living near Glasgow, Del,
has a mad horse. The horse is penned in
stall by himself and keeps up contin-
ual kicking and knocking his head
against the partition. He was bitten by a
mad dog last summer.
THE papers are opening a crusade
against the large class of persons who go
cousining. Many burdened house
keeper has said: We are often visited by
persons to whom we are under no obliga-
tions-persons who want to go some
where"
A VERY extraordinary child died re-
Gently in Memphis. She was only two
months old, and yet we are told that she
"rose star, and beamed lucently with
meteoric resplendency along the horizon
of her parents, lighting their pathway
with a sheen of hope"
A COUNTRY lad, eleven years old, lately
, visited Dubuque, bringing with him the
scalps of nine timber wolves-a mother
! and eight young ones-all slain by his
! Juvenile but potent hand. He received
$45 dollars bounty from the county, and
, went home rich and happy.
THEY have good joke on certain
, gentleman in Chicago who is a great land
operator as well as a most successful ply
; sician. The doctor prescribed some pills
for lady. She asked how they were to
be taken. "a quarter down." said the
doctor, land the balance in one, two and
three years."
THERE is something very sensible in
the impromptu remark of a pretty girl
"If our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to live single when there was not
o a woman on earth, how criminally wrong
, are the old bachelors, with the world full
of pretty girls"
= ONE who has tried it says that spirits OF
A turpentine will extract ink from cotton,
I silk and wooden goods Saturate the spots
with the turpentine, and let it remain sew
{ eral hours; then rub it between the hands
a 1t will crumble away, it is said, without
E injuring either the color or the texture OF
r the article.
e 1T is said that one of the editors of a
t New Orleans paper, soon after commenc-
4 ing to learn the printing business, went
t to see preachers daughter. The next
{ time he attended meeting he was consid.
D erably astonished at hearing the minister
: announce as his text "My daughter is
a grievously tormented with devil"
q A GENTLEMAN in Lafayette, Ind, being
e asked "to take drink" declined, but
!; said, if no objections were made, he
! would take a loaf of bread Tor his. The
I party went to bakery, the treater bought
, a ten-cent loaf of bread, had it done up
4 and his friend took it home. The loal
. was afterward sent to needy family.
THE Alabama State Journal says: "As
7, freight train on the South g North
/ Railroad was going through cut thirty
/. feet deep and twenty-five wide, yesterday
4 up near Sand Mountain, a hunter, with q