Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

DISEASES of the nerves appeared to be
unusually prevalent just now.
NERVOUS people are beginning to shud-
der about their next summers ice.
NEW York has tried horse flesh and |
pronounces il superior to venison.
LET every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once, if it is possible.
AN old definition of salt--the stuff that
spoils potatoes if they don't have any on
THE Boston Post records an entire alb.
sence of sunstroke for the month oil De |
cember
RED OAK, Iowa, pays q bounty of two
cents for every rats tail delivered to its
Marshal.
LIGHTNING. BUG piety" is described as
being bright while it lasts, but cold and
soon out.
SOMEBODY say. "The woman who is
Indifferent to her looks is no woman"
Find the woman
DEAL fairly, leniently, and cheerfully
with all persons who owe you or are in
pecuniary trouble.
A HARVARD professor has decided that
"higher than Gilderoy's kite" is anything
over a mile high.
DARwINIAN-If the races of men are
uGSCGuuCu lIOlll DlOHhGlS, lTOul WudL nave
horse races descended?
BALD-HEADED men take a joke more
easily, because they are not at the trouble
of getting it through the hair.
THE latest humor in the way of clubs
is that of the Springfield, Mass, dentists
who join for NUT lal improvement.
ONE of the neatest toasts ever given:
"Woman, the last words on our lips, be-
al lx..AN.
hearts,"
WHISKY is undoubtedly good thing in
its proper place, but unfortunately no.
body has ever found out where its proper
place Is.
A NEW weekly paper, called The Jim
and EJtzG Journal, has been started in
Mississippi. Jim and Eliza are the editor
and wife.
A GIRL at Vienna, Ind lately swallow
ed a wasp, which stung her in the throat,
and she died from suffocation on account
of the swelling
THE lady who lost the $4,000 in bonds
at Dubuque, generously thanked the BOY
who found and returned them, but then
times are so hard, you know.
THE Dundee (New York; Record says
that you can't fling a brick in that town
worth from $4,000 to $4,000.
AT Japa, in Southern California, the
miners pack dirt to water on their shoul-
ders for mile and half wash out the
gold, and make fair profits.
THE Dubuque people, after much
wrangling have decided that society has
no reason to look down upon woman
because she wears muskrat furs.
Uo,-x-c L =.
aries to send him no women over thirty
years of age. The man must be crazy.
Who ever saw woman over thirty years
of age?
IF you are out of debt, thank the Lord g,
and then go round among your friends,
and enemies, too, if you have them, and
render them all the assistance in your
power.
A VERMONT man mortgaged his farm
for $500, and invested it all in a lottery,
which returned him $50 and brass
watch. Then he wound up his career by
lying down in front of "a buzz-saw.
THE one-hundred-year almanac saws the
year 1874 will be very unhealthy one.
"There will be an open, moist winter,
which will give rise to fevers of low
type, and much sickness during the sum-
mer months"
"WELI, neighbor, what is the most
Christian news this morning" ?" said gen
tleman to friend Il have just bought
barrel of flour for a poor woman"
"Just like you! Who is it you have made
happy with your charity this time?" ''My
wife"
WOMEN can do a great deal for each
other if they will only stop fearing what
other "peOple will think" and take q
hearty interest in whatever is going to fiji
their sisters and themselves to deserve
to enjoy the rights God has given them
l.. NJ. ALcOH.
PERHAPS this Is what Mark Twain tried
to say at dinner in London the other
day, and couldn't:
OF thine own to answer forl Thou art the author
or such book of follies in a man
That 1t would need the tears of all the angels
To blot the record out?
THE daily bath should not be neglected
by either adults or children. In the win
ter season the skin is naturally shrunker
by the cold, its pores liable to shirk duty
therefore the skin should be kept active
by suitable bathing. Mix enough ho
water with the cold to take off the chill
and rub thoroughly dry Immediately after
ward.
SOME of the Cincinnati saloon men arr
advertising to "give the entire receipts o
their business" for one day as a benefit t
the workingmen. Perhaps if these char
itably.inclined people would shut up thei
shops altogether for a month or two, tn
working men might stand in less need o
benefits. 1t is little strange that tn
thing never struck them in that light.
A CURIOUS machine, lately invented, i
the pulsometer. 1t is a steam pump, op
Grating without cylinder, piston, piston
rod stufing. boxes, glands, cams, eccen
tries side valves, cTanks or fy.wheels
The steam and water are brought directl
in contact in certain chambers, where tn
alternating vacuum and pressure eXerte,
by the steam is simply utilized to lift AM
force the water by a species of pulsatin
action.
ACCORDING to Mr.. Alexander Delmal
the utmost capacity of population t.
consume grain in the form of food
eight to ten bushels per capita per an
num- The grain product of the CONNER
cial world, however, amounts to eighteel
bushels per head, giving an excess of SUI
ply which necessarily makes agricultur
Improbable In 1849 Indian corn wa
worth sixty-seven currency. off this,
says Mr.. Delmar, "does not demonstrat
ONSl-oupplys pplltlSdi CSOilOhiJ 10 va
ueless science, and observation in matter
pertaining to breadstutfs must go 70
for nothing"
OLD friends are like old boots. w
never realize how perfectly they wer
fitted to us till they are cast aside, ant
others, finer and more stylish perhaps
but cramping and pinching in every COZ
ner are substituted, Then we are oftel
forced to hunt up the worn articles iron
the attic where they have been thrown
and for a little season, at least, rest ou
weary feet by wearing them. With ou
friends it is the same; after trying in val
to fit ourselves to the peculiarities of neV
ones, how often we go back with sig
of relief TO the dear people whose yer