Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
AoTIyE oorpses--Dead beats.


THE tea.kettle is the only singer that
never gets cold.
LOVE at two-and.twenty is q terrible in
toxicating draught.
In Florida the people are eating green
peas and new potatoes.
WISDOM is sometimes nearer when we
stoop than when we soar.
Do ALL the good you can in the world.
and make as little noise about it as posi-.
BILE.
"Too many broths spoil the cooks" is
the way poor oppressed belle of the
kitchen put 1t.
NATURE provides no reserved seats for
the rich and daintily reared When there
is no ice on the pavement, they sit where
they can.
A DISTINGUISHED preacher says piety Is
the best cure for scolding wife; but he
doesn't tell whether the wife must have il
or the husband.
1T WAS an expressive remark of prac-
tical man regarding the woman of the
period recently: "She don't know enough,
sir, to bile water"
Our of 100000 eggs a Goldfish has been
known to spawn in one year less than
hundred survive. This must be discour-
aging to the Goldfish.
/ THINK the first virtue is to restrain the
tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods
who knows how to be silent even though
he is in the right-Cdto
THE shad season is expected TO open
early this year Owing to the mildness
the season, shad are already coming north
ward from southern waters.
A FAITHFUL brother in a Fairfield
(Conn0 church recently prayed for the
absent niemUers "who were PROSTATE on
beds OF sickness and chairs "a wellness"
THE astronomer who can predict the
exposition of planet in the heavens
thousand years hence knows not what
may be his own state of health to.mor.
row.
EVENING silks are now quilted on the
bottom on the inside, instead of being
faced with paper muslin or buckram. It
is said to enhance "the hang of the
thing"
AN editor sat down and wrote, "White
pique costumes are now popular" and
the compositor set itup, "White pine cof-
fms are not popular" which of course
they are not.
USEFUL industry does not so much con-
sist in being continually busy as in doing
promptly those things which are of the
first importance, and which will eventu-
ally prove most profitable.
A CYNICAL writer says: Take com.
pany of boys chasing butterflies; put long.
tailed coats on the boys, and turn the but
tterllies into guineas, and you have a
beautiful panorama of the world"
A BACHELOR says if you hand lady a
newspaper with paragraph cut out of
1t, not line of it will be read, but every
bit of interest felt in the paper by the
lady will center in finding out what the
missing paragraph contained.
GARLANDs of pink rose-buds are the
prevailing fancy for trimming thin
dresses, whether of white tulle, green,
blue, or the pretty gray and lavender
tulle dresses that are among the most re-
fined of the season.
PRoFANE swearing is abominable. Vul.
gar language is disgusting. Loud laugh
ing is impolite. Inquisitiveness is often
sive. Tattling is mean. Telling false
hood is contemplate. Ignorance is dis
graceful. Laziness is shameful.
The MontGnidn says it has information
that the Government has about deter.
mined to proceed against the Sioux next
season, possibly before spring, and give
them thorough thrashing-whip them
into complete submission.
Two DATA are given from which to esti-
mate the value of fowl for the table or
market. A table fowl should be all
breast, with short limbs and small bones /;
also, fowls are in perfection for the
table only before they have attained ma
turity.
IN one old German volume skating is
said to have originated in the "n0rth
country" about two hundred years after
Christ In the same work it is stated that
the art of sliding on snow.shoes is still
older, and belongs also to the north
people"
A KEoKUK Qowa) dandy rubbed his
hands with glycerine to make his New
Years gloves go on easy. When he had
concluded his calls he was delighted to
discover that he had mistaken liquid glue
for the glycerine, and all that night and
the next day he sat refiectively holding
his hands in WATERFOWL of warm water.
A MILWAUKEE tailor tells in his adver.
tisement the story of the old man of
Oberfranken, who was transformed into
a royally-garbed youth by a flash of
lightning, and adds: "Thus it is to a
great extent with those who shed their
old 'duds' at the famous establishment of
Smith, and march out in new suits"
The instincts of the ant are very unim-
portant, considered as the ants; but the
moment ray of relaxation is seen to ex-
tend from it to man, and the little drudge
is seen to be monitor, a little body with
mighty heart, then all its habits, even
that said to be recently observed, that it
never sleeps, become sublime.
Turr
says: "We started out to print all the
paragraphs from our South Alabama ex-
changes concerning the negro exodus, but
cannot keep up Every paper received
from that quarter tells of droves of them
going to Mississippi, Florida and Texas,
where wages are much better than in
Alabama"
1T HAS been demonstrated that the heat
OF the sun nowhere penetrates the ocean
more than 600 feet. AT depth of from
one to two miles the temperature is every
where about four degrees below the
freezing point, caused, probably, by the
ice water poured into the ocean from the
Arctic regions.
A NEW YORKER has invented "blush-
producer" and we are told that "any
belle wearing it in her hat can, by touch.
ing spring, produce blush at pleasure"
We should think that with many of the
bellies up that way the best blush-producer
would be or ought to be the conundrum:
"How did your father make that large
young fortune of his?"-O0urterJ0 Journal.
THERE are now but twelve of the
Rothschilds, and tits said that their aggre-
gate stock in trade amounts to scarcely
more than $940,000,000. 1t is very painful
to contemplate the poverty-stricken con-
dition OF the descendants of old Anselm
Meyer, while there are thousands around
us who are indulging in riotous living
on a salary each of twenty-five cents a
day.
WHITE heavy English paper is the most
fashionable stationery, though some tint
ed paper is always used. Repped paper,
corded like faille, is the choicest design,
and next this is the royal Irish linen pa
per- made of cuttings of linen from the
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