Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

No MANNERS are so fine as the most
awkward manifestations of goodwill
toward men.
A ooMPosrToR en- st. Louis paper
made an editor say that "this war-cry is
the keyhole of victory"
MRS PARTINeToN says that on Thanks
giving days she allows Ike to " fill him.
self to his utmost rapacity."
WEDDING fees are said to rank low this
year; in prudent remembrance, doubt
| less, of the high price of divorce.
RELOCATED to the quietude of his own
residence" is what they call ii in De-
troit when candidate is defeated.
A MIssoURIAN offers $3.50 and three
mules as a bridal gift to any woman who
will marry him and love him for himself
alone.
In riding on the "rail," alw ays take a
scat Just in front of fat old gentleman.
In case of collision he breaks the hurt
wonderfully.
THE Agricultural Bureau estimates the
average value of horses in this country at
$71 AS head. Wen take pair at that
| fgure.-Boston Post.
DoCToRs now claim that it is healthy
to eat two whole mince pies and hunk
of cold beef just before going to bed.
They know how to get practice.
ONE THOUSAND shingles laid four
inches to the weather will cover 100
square feet of surface, and five pounds
of shingle nails will fasten them on.
BECAUSE man deserves success is not
the best reason why he will achieve it.
If men we're to get all they deserve in
this world too many of them would be
hung.
THERE is probably not an unexplained
| young rascal in the world who does not
at times feel that his mother is a con-
venience which he could not possibly
| dispense with.
You thought that the word "honesty"
was hollow mockery, ehI Know ye, then,
that a San Francisco car driver grieved
himself to death because he was charged
| with stealing.
Now NOBODY can deny to his fellow
man the luxury of scratching 1t is in
cluded in that pursuit of happiness"
for which our Revolutionary fathers
| fought and bled.
THERE is demand on genius for the
invention OF power-accumulating wind.
mill, by which the power can be stored
up when the wind blows, to be used con-
tiuuously and regularly.
OF course woman does't want her
plants to freeze, but still one can't blame
a man for raising a row when he hops
out of bed in the morning and finds a
geranium plant in each trousers leg.
| A SOLUTION of pearlash in water
thrown upon a fire extinguishes it in
stantly. The proportion is quarter of
pound dissolved in hot water and then
poured into bucket of common water.
This test" says the Practical Farmer,
is considered infallible: No COW with
| a deep yellow skin has yet been known
to give poor milk" Yellow skinned cows
and yellow-legged chickens are the right
kinds.
| A CINCINNATI woman used to think
paralysis a dangerous thing, but since
her husband comes home twice a week
with such a stroke of it that he has to
be carried up the steps she rather scotts
at paralysis.
THE fact that the elephantic race is
dying out suggests the awful question
When the pachydermatous animals are
extinct what will the little boys care for
the circus2 or big ones for the billiard
tournament?
WHILE ten men watch for chances, one
man makes chances; while ten men wait
for something to turn up, one turns
something up; So while ten fail, one
succeeds and is called man of luck
the favorite of fortune. There is no luck
like pluck aud fortune most favors those
who are most Indifferent to fortune.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer says: Bon
ner, of the New York Ledger, is respon'
sible for much of the prevailing distress
For years young people have been read
ing his delusive romances and his advice
to marry young, and now there are thou
sands of people with large families on theil
hands and nothing to eat but New YORK
Ledgers."
THERE is more human nature in thi
remark than is often found in so brief
space: Determined beforehand, W,
gravely pretend to ask the opinion ant
thoughts of friend; should his diffe
from ours on any pretense, we pity hi
want both of judgment and sense; bu
if he falls into and tlatters our plan, Why
really, we think him sensible man"
, THE only thoroughly blighted being i
the young man who has been deceived il
a meerschaum. When he has eXpende,
: his money in purchasing the costly com
( fort, when he has consumed tobacc
1 enough to unsettle the nerves of a rh
A noceros, and the stubborn pipe still rt
. fuses to color, demonstrating to him tn
{ fact that he has been sold, then does tn
| hollowness of this world and all tina
e therein is become fully and disgustingl
apparent.
: IT is said that a good sizing, whic
e will make an old wood building loo
G like new, and makes good body fo
S paint, can be made as follows: TIE
e pounds glue, twenty-five pounds whiting
: one gallon soft soap, three gallons watel
r boil gently till all is dissolved. Appl
g hot with large paint brush. By lea
d ing out whiting and substituting an
It earth paint you get any desired colo
n This of itself will last for years, but b
d giving il good coat of paint you have
c building as good as new outwardly,
. A FEW brutal remarks by fashiC
,, critic: Fancy fashionable gentlemS
i with mess of greasy, filthy false ha
4 hanging over and soiling beyond Il
h limit of decency the collar and shou
n ders of a 5000 coat t-supposing for Il
u sake of illustration that it would be pc
i sible to find one costing so much mon'
q or with his trousers legs trailing
~ the dust and mud, making his hosie
4 and underwear so abominably wet al