Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A NEW girl sweeps clean.

THE favorite animals at funerals are
black kids.
THE Path of Duty-Througb the Gus
tom House.
THE editor of the Cape Ann Adcortiscr
| says that clean shirt is one of woman's
best gifts to man!
GRAPES are so plenty in Connecticut
that they are being fed to hogs There
is absolutely no market for them.
A CALIFORNIAN has been accused in a
| will case of dying under an assumed
name" Perhaps he only dyed his own
heir.
THE detectives of the country count
that day lost whose low, descending sun
brings not record of another Ross boy
won.
THIS is the latest form of wedding in
vitations: "Come Sround and see me
capture mother-in-law at eight o'clock,
sharp"
SOMEBODY observes that when six
young ladies sit down to talk about dress,
a small boy with a tin horn is refuge
for the weary
A st. LOUIS man says that it makes no
difference to him whether Columbus or
Left Erickson discovered America so
long as money is so scarce.
THE 10000 or $4,000 acres of Manhat-
tan Island are said to contain assegssahlee
that of the rest of New York State put
together
AN editorial notice of woman's gro
Gerry store reads as follows: Her toma-
toes are as red as her own cheeks; her
indigo is as blue as her own eyes and
her pepper as hot as her own temper"
a COUNTY Treasurer in Alabama can't
read or write, but he has put $1,000
where no one but himself can find it,
That shows that collegiate education
isn't essential to the requirement of
wealth
"WrLL you please insert this obituary
notice?" asked an old gentleman of an
editor 81 make bold to ask it because
know the deceased had great many
friends around here who'd be glad to
hear of his death"
NEW YORK claims the largest pie
baking establishment in the world. 1t
has an invested capital of $l50,000, and is
a consolidation of seven of the largest
pic-bakeries in the city. The buildings
cover six-and-a-half city lots.
A HATEFUL paragraphist says: When
ever a person sitting alongside of a
woman in the street car gets up to leave,
in nine cases out of ten the woman will
Immediately try to spread herself so as
to cover the vacant seat as well as her
own"
THESE are the days when the fond hus-
band says, Honey, get my winter un.
derwear ready for me, will you?" and the
single man tears his hair and says he'll
be dashed if he wouldn't like to know
how it is that he has to buy whole raft
of underclothing about twice a year.
THE Central Ohio Methodist Confer
ence has $50 ministers and about % 600
members. The amount contributed for
the support of the pastors during the
| year was $S5, 500; for building churches
and parsonages $l01 900, and for benev-
olent objects SIS, 400.
IT is said that every letter written to
| Ben Butler is filed and preserved. After
| he has learned it's contents he dictates a
reply to his photographer, who briefs
the contents of the letter and the reply
in shorthand ON the back. Butler under
stands photography, and reads this
record without assistance.
THE Dallas (TeX.) Commercial says
"Boardcrs, as a class, are too much in
clined to fault.finding. There is one at a
boarding-house on Elm street who
| growls because he can't spit against the
wall behind his bed, and on account of
the landlady's querulous objections he
has been obliged to abstain from the use
of tobacco after retiring"
RECENTLY German by the name of
Hellinger and Frenchman by the name
of Cune took solid gold nugget weigh
ing five pounds out of their claims on
Bowlder Greek, a tributary of Spring
Creek, which empties into the Sacramento
| 20 nh al
nugget was found near where Rochon
took out $4,000 nugget about two years
ago.
MEssRs. LACEY AND FERGUSON, who re-
Gently made voyage to New Haven in
a boat drawn by large kite, have con-
structed another and larger one. This
is 12X20 feet, and will take Il larger boat,
containing three persons. The party
will start from Seaside Park, Bridgeport,
and will endeavOr to make direct trip
to New York city, landing at Castle
Garden.
In twenty years from this time, says a
Philadelphia paper, Chicago and San
Francisco will both rival New York.
And it adds, with surprising forbearance
GAS to what Baltimore and Philadelphia
may do, we are neither of us communi-
ties that deal in futurities. We live in
the present. What we propose to do we
do at once. And what we are we make
the most of when we can"
A MOST extraordinary days work has
been done in the rail mill of the Penn
sylvania iron works, Danville, Montour
County, Pa. There were heated, rolled,
sawed, hot-piled, Strengthened and
punched and IN all particulars made
ready for use, 1856 tons of rails, a feat
that has never before been accomplished
in the world inside of twelve hours
through one set of rolls and the usual
force ofmen.
HARRIET TURNER, of Boston, forty
years, more or less, of age, and worth
$50, 900, was fined two dollars recently
! for violation of city ordinance. Being
an anti-taXation-without
person, she defied the law which none Of
her sex had had a hand in framing, ant
refused to pay the fine. So they tool
her to the House of Correction, where
in cell and in tears lin these places thu
cells are always in tiersl, she passed thu
r night but as soon as she could pay tn
bin in the morning she did so, and retired
from public life.
r AMONG the prisoners in the Maine Pen
!. itentiary is a former practicing physician
I and contribute TO several high-tone(
, literary periodicals. For several year
he corresponded on intimate terms wit
+ Edgar A. Poe, who had a high estimation
Q of his literary Judgment. At one tim
he acquired some celebrity by announc
{ ing his dissent from the NewtOnia
! theory of gravltation, and also from tn
nebular theory of La Place, both
+ which he combated in a public lecture
r He was much esteemed in private life a
y genial, scholarly and modest gentle
man.