Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MlSCEld4ANEObo llEmSs 90
Mexico also has chinch bugs in the
grain.
LOWELL Mass, has female hack
driver who weighs twenty-eight stone.
MoTTo for the tea merchant Honest
tea is the best policy.
ENGAGED in "taking stock"-Mer-
chants and Indians.
THE tenderest heart loves best the bold
ana courageous one. .-s.f.a 80
New ORLEANS is trying to raise 1925, 600
to pay Mrs. Myra Gaines.
WATER forms nearly three-fourths OF
the entire weight of the body.
THE wisest of men arrive at week con-
clusIons on Saturday nights.
IT IS now alleged tnat Jne UdOrs of the
allanthus stihe the mosquito.
A. MAN was drowped recently in tho
Boston Common duck-pond.
BUILDERS Of the period-Burst of Mill
/ River and Crash of Syracuse.
RECIPE for hot Notwithstanding
| your landladys new bonnet.
THE San Joaquin Valley, Cal, is to be
planted with eucalyptus trees.
THE Maine Editorial Association have
been having high times in the noun
tains.
A MAN in Kentucky named Slaughter
made another man the victim of a cha
rade on his name. r.-r scat
"IN point of comfort the London cab
stands Just above the ewheelbarrow," says
the London Echo.
WE might have known that Chicago
would have been the first city to run into
the comet-Bost0n Post
THE Dey of Algiers talks of visiting
the United States, but as yet no man
kneweth when that Dey will come.
In London churches they are giving
notice that " five minutes after the bells |
shall cease to ring all pews are free"
THE lemon prospect is rather sour, so
to speak. A failure of the crop along the
coasts of Spain and Africa and Italy is
reported.
A Troy clergyman went fishing the
other day but had no luck. On his re-
turn he stood his pole and line up against
the house and in a short time caught
hen.
GERMANY has sold her needle-guns to
China, not because she has no more need
of them, but she has found another kind
which can kill twice as many French
men.
CALIFORNIA housekeepers have disOov-
cred one little objection to Chinese cooks.
When John gets out of spirits and dis
contented he is apt to poison the whole
family. .r
UNTIL recently there was horned
tree in Michigan. Somebody had placed
! the horns of an elk in the crotch of the
tree and the wood had grown around
| them.
Mrs. LAURA FAIR has announced her
| intention of emigrating to Japan. After
] ol,o hoa hot NilroHn nr w there
they'll learn to love her as we Ameri-
cans do.
THE publishing firm which does the
largest business in the world is the firm
of Messrs. Hachette & Co., Paris. The
! total of their business annually exceeds
$3,000,000.
SAID conscientious auctioneer La
dies and gentlemen, there is no sham
about the carpets; they are genuine tap
estry carpets. l bought them of old
Tapestry himself"
HENRY thinks the reason the fish didn't
bite, Saturday, was because he had no
bait to suit them. He will put bill of
fare on his hook next time, and let them.
call for what they want. --.a'
"WHY are you so precise in your state-
ment-are you afraid of telling an un-
truth?" asked an attorney of female
witness in police court. No, sir,
was the prompt reply. o. . =:
IT is said that DIR. Mary Walker now
carries pistol for newspaper men, We
have always spoken of that beautiful and
accomplished physician with the highest
respect.-LOuiSgiHe COurier1JOu 49,
LINCoLN's tomb at Springfield, Ill, was
recently opened to allow his remains to
be viewed by a number of prominent
gentlemen. The body, according to re-
port, is as the day it was inferred
SUMMIT STATION, Cal, was at last ac-
counts still surrounded by five or six feet
of snow on an average, and in places the
drifts can be sounded to depth of thirty
feet without reaching terra tirma.
In a recent murder case in North Car
olina, where there was strong suspicion
that the prisoner was feigning insanity
one of the jurymen wanted to stick a pin
into him to see if he Jumped naturally
AN autograph letter of George Wash
ington was sold in Boston lately for
twenty-five dollars. The young man
who wrote it gOtsbu seventy-tiye cents.
There is very little justice in this world.
A METEOROLOGICAL wolf cannot be an
:, agreeable creature to meet in the depths
of the wilderness. In Texas, it seems,
the wolves go mad more commonly than
dogs. One of these mad creatures once
got into a military encampment and bit
six dogs. There were twenty-four at
that time in the camp, and it was deemed
prudent to shoot every one of them.
TINS harnessed electricity occasionally
, kicks up and breaks its traces, and, just
, to show that it is not wholly underfull,
, control, sometimes knocks a telegraph
! operator off his stool. This has been
quite common occurrence during the
' late storms throughout the country, and
/, at Rutland, VT, it seriously Injured the
i operator and smashed things generally,
. including special order forbidding
q Unauthorized meddling with the. lines
t Mr.. THOMAS CHEvIEs, Of -PNiggs
4 County, Ca, aged sixty, being a very
/. methodical man and feeling thai the day
/. of his departure was at hand, went TO an
c undertakers shop and bought beauti-
s full coffin. Then he provided himself
s with burial suit, aud attended to the
It purchase of lovely monument. Then
d he went home and died peacefully, with
!; the consoling consciousness that in the
r. post-mortem arrangements there would
= be nothing contrary to his personal
tastes.