Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-04-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

1T helps to show what great country
this Is, that we are beginning to raise our
own volcanoes.
| A MARYLAND farmer has q goose which
has passed its eighty-first birthday, as
near as can be figured. 1t is great
goose for living so long.
LEATHER on the bottom of street skirts
is a failure. 1t cracks, collects consider
able dirt, and cuts through the dress
material
| A STRONG solution of carbolic acid and
water poured into holes kills all the ants
1t touches, and the survivors immediate
ly take themselves off.
"WuL the coming man steal ~ queries
the New York Commercial, and likewise
answers: ave believe he will-if there
is anything left when he comes"
THAT North Carolina vesuvius don't
amount to shucks as a fireworks exhi.
bition, but still it's something TO have
mountain which groans and rumbles.
PROF. H. r. PALMER of Chicago, Prof.
L. o. Emerson of Boston, and other noted
teachers hold four weeks Musical lnsti-
tute at Dunkirk, N. Y, beginning July 19.
THE latest way of expressing It: "You
might as well try to shampoo an elephant
with thimbleful Of soapsuds as to at
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tising."
A KENTUCKY paper apologies for hav-
ing spoken of "the red-headed, malig-
nant mule who dispenses the county
money" by saying that 1t wrote: Big
hearted, valiant SOUL"
A DEAR old lady being asked if she had
ever had her ears pierced by the wall of
distress, said she couldn't Just exactly re-
member, but she believed it was done
with shoemaker's .awl.
OvERsKIRTs are made very long and
come from the waist TO the edge Of the
skirt in front and puffed into the side
seams so as to be looped very high on the
hips. This is the latest style.
NEVER burn kindly written letters, the
mute utterances of those afar yet dear,
whose faces you may never look upon
again. Remember how many little no.
ton in tinware they will procure.
| A WESTERN man, says a contemporary,
relieves his choked cattle by simply
taking up hind foot and hitting a few
smart blows on the bottom with a ham,
mer or stick, or whatever comes handy.
A NEW BEDFORD man found a gold
ring in the shell of clam he dug the
other day. 1t is supposed to have been
lost by one of the many persons who have
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| fats.
| "ARTIFIcIAL OYSTERS are the latest
shellfish. They are made of jelly, tapio-
ca, salt and water, placed in genuine
shells. They can be eaten in any month,
With or without the consonant. But they
don't count.
THE new fashion in hair, which shows
us stumpy braid hanging down lady's
back, is a rude imitation of the Heather
| Chinees pigtail, only nothing so like and
symmetrical. Besides, it is false, while
the Chinaman's is not.
APRoPos of the many remedies proposed
for preventing boiler explosions, the
Louisville COurter-JOurB1l says the only
absolutely sure way to keep them from
exploding is to fill them with ice water
and set them in cool place.
THE Massachusetts Legislature talks of
a law prohibiting the catching of trout
less than three inches in length. When
anglers feel bite, will they have to wade
in and measure the trout before they land
him?
WHAT could more effectively appeal to
ones pocket linen than to receive an invi-
tation to masquerade party on heavy
mourning paper. A Pennsylvania widow
sent out hers in this way before the late
lamented had been inurned week.
THE newest Partisan handkerchief has
a center of linen and is about twelve
inches square. In the four corners is a
simple tulip, embroidered in white, and
the brown square is edged with the finest
round point lace.
FROM various American and English
data concerning an9sthetics, it seems that
ether is regarded as far safer than chloro-
form. 1t is stated, as the result of expert
ments and the comparison of facts, that
chloroform is eight times as dangerous as
ether
TooTHACHE.-Nearly everybody has a
cure tor the toothache. Try this recipe:
Take equal parts of pulverized alum and
salt. Saturate a piece of cotton with
hartshorn, cover with the mixture, and
put in the tooth. Sometimes hartshorn
alone will give relief
THE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says lady
belonging to Sagadahoc County, now Wis
iting Lewiston, has head of remarkably
fine hair. The average length is seven feet
and five inches. When unbraided and
falling loose it trails for quite distance
on the floor
THE editor of the Golden (Col) Globe,
in closing his first volume, says: "I If we
have hurt any ones feelings or prospects
the past year, we're sorry, and if they
will come around back OF the office some
night we'll take it out of them and be
friends"
A FASHIONABLE" christening party
was recently postponed in consequence of
the non arrival of steamer from Europe
having on board the lace dress (made to
order) in which the baby was TO have ap-
peared. The clergyman engaged was dis
gusted.
He writes: "There they stood together,
them two young women. l don't know
which is the 'andsomest l coodn help
comparing them and coodn help COM
pairing myself to certain Hannimle I've
read of, that found it difficult to make a
choice betwigst two Bundles of A."
ONE night recently the Cashier of the
City Bank of Kalamazoo, Mich, was ut.
tackled by burglars severely beaten and
nearly killed. His cries attracted the at
tention of his neighbors and frightened
his assailants, who were forced TO leave
without securing the keys of the safe.
THE Principal of the Des Moines High
School is wrestling with the measles.
That shows the evil results of putting of
till tomorrow that which might be done
today; and if he had had his measles
like good little boy when he ought to
have had them he would not be laid up
/ now.
SOMEBODY came into the Office of the
ST. Louis Globe, the other day, and said
that he had seen a bluebird, and four
different men sat down and wrote para
? graphs about the fowl, all of which ap-
: peared in one column. The readers Of
1 the Globe thought they had bought the
OrnithOIogistS' Journal by mistake.
: A SERIES of forgeres perpetrated by
. G.. ". Brooks, provision dealer of Rock
! port and Gloucester, Mass, which have
been going on for the past two years and
: now amount to $4,000, have just been
discovered. Brooks reputation has
I hitherto been good, and he was led to his
crime at first by being obliged to pay q
:, note when he had nothing to pay it with
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