Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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| EMBROIDERY representing ivy leaves is
the latest, and very handsome it is.
THE taste Of poetry, like that for po.
tatoes, is different in different individ.
uals.
| A WISCONSIN man has sued his wife
for SANDER, and he wants $4,000 dam
ages.
ARTIFICIAL wants are more numerous
and lead to more expense than natural
wants.
The National Republican says that
Washington City is Comparatively sim
less city"
CARL BENSON says that the proper TEN.
perature for bedroom is about sixty
degrees.
WHEN your antagonist is getting the
better of you, the best way is to "strike
out'-for home.
A CONNECTICUT clergyman, who had a
donation party lately, has beans enough
to last thirty-seven years.
A New York paper says that a bald
headed man will marry three times to
any other mans once, all things being
even.
A WORD TO prosy lovers-It is not only
those women who wear earrings whose
ears are DOTeu.
If the average modern lecturers wit is
not always clear, it certainly isn't for
want of straining.
CANNIBALrsM flourishes in America.
Here, for instance, is an advertisement
for "a good girl to cook"
THE man who still thinks there are
only twenty.six letters in the English
language is not connected with the post
office.
COP made man to go by motives, and
he will not go without them any more
than boat without steam or balloon
without gus
LADIES carry to parties nowadays bou-
quets of wax flowers, heavily perfumed,
and so adroitly arranged as to pass for
natural flowers.
"HE was good man." says an Iowa
paper of deceased citizen, "but then he
sometimes bet on the wrong horse, the
same as the rest of u.s."
JUDGE CHRISTIAN, of Lawrence, Kan
married couple the other day and took
his fee in butter. The parties belonged
to the cream of society.
A LARGE meteor fell in East Nebraska
City, Nebraska, recently. l was about
one foot and a half in diameter and nearly
six feet in circumference.
THE Je.oish Messenger says Christmas
trees are religious ceremony in which
Jews are not interested, and considers that
"they promote a venial error"
IT could not have been so in the days of
Vigilantes; he still lives-the San Fran.
cisco man who advocates tight lacing be-
cause it prevents waist-tullness.
THERE is said to be vigorous conver.
satiOnalist in Livingston County, KY,
who will hang his hat on gate.po and
talk to it ten hours on stretch.
THE only infallible method for discov-
ering what the weather is likely to be on
any given day is to wait until that day
arrives, and find out for yourself
AK "vhorter out West recommend tho
Christian religion to the ungodly, because
he had been a church member fifteen years
and it hadn't cost him but 10 cents.
THE first marriage at Hebron, N. H.,
within a period of fifteen years recently
took place. 1t is said to have excited
much interest among the inhabitants.
ZIBA DARLINGTON of Chester County,
Pa, recently discovered tortoise marked
~. d., 1920" which he recognized as the
work of his hand tifty-three years ago.
STEBBINs says: Elderly people ought
to retire early at this season of the year.
1t is better for their health. Besides it
gives the young folks better chance"
A DUBUQUE young lady gave up the
man she loved and took the one her parents
favored in consideration of the sum of
three dollars and sky blue merino dress.
PERSONS with small capital are advised
to take a three-acre sand patch in Virginia
or fhnnSanA If
peanuts on it. 1t has been tried with sue
cess.
A POLICE court Judge at Biddeford, Me-,
has decided that Confederate money is not
counterfeit, and so discharged woman
who had been paying her debts in that
way.
The President appoints all postmasters
whose salaries are above $1,000. The
railroads pay for the delivery of all mails
at terminal points. At other places, the
government pays.
THE Golden Age says Prof. Agassiz
"took the island of Penekese from Nature
and gave it to science" The prevalent
opinion hitherto has been that he took it
from John Anderson.
A TOUCHING feature of the Boston tea
doings was "A group of sentimentalists,
who stood for an hour, in the chilling
fog, looking contemplatively into the
water of the wrong wharf.
THE Smithsonian Institute at Washing.
ton was founded through bequest made
by James Smithson, of London, England.
1t was formally accepted by Congress in
an act passed Aug. 10, 1915.
THE quotation "GOd tempers the wind
to the shorn lamb" is not found in any
part of the Bible, as is so often erroneous
ly supposed, but occurs in Sterne's cele-
brated work entitled "Tristram Shandy."
AMONG the curiosities at Fort Yuma,
Arizona, is gigantic "prairie schooner"
of 20, 900 pounds capacity. Said vessel is
drawn by fourteen mules, the smallest of
which is fifteen hands high, and weighs
1850 pounds.
The baneful habit of opium eating is
increasing in this country. From three
to five years of indulgence wrecks the
finest constitution, the eyes are sunken,
the frame is emaciated, and death ends
the wasted life.
THE officials of village near Wethers-
field, Connecticut, have forbidden one
WeatherwaX to raise onions on his cem-
etery lot. For this unwarranted restric-
tion of his rights he has determined to
shed no more tears
GUN flints are made by chisel and ham,
mer-the flint being easily converted into
its peculiar form, when freshly quarried.
A skillful workman can easily produce
1000 well formed flints in three days.
Made principally in England.
AN instance OF the tyranny of men was
exhibited at woman's rights meeting in
Titusville, where gentleman entered and
told his wife, one of the officers of the
meeting, TO come home quick, Gas the
baby had the collie" She went.
VISITING cards fer this season are of the
finest unglazed Bristol board, and little
larger than formerly. Some are in deli
cate tnts. The shape is more oblong
than square. The London styles for gen.
tlemen are very small-those for ladies
very large.
ABSOLUTE purity of soul, is, perhaps,
never seen here upon earth. There is so
much all about us impure and unclean,
that wa cannot mass unSulliad Onr SOulS