Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

nent sward is a deep soil.
OLD PRoB. hit It eighty eight times out
of every hundred, last month
Your bonnet Is TO be worn nearer your
nose this winter, my dear.-Boston Globe.
WHY are ladies thievesY Because they
steal gentlemen's hearts and hook each
others dresses.
A Missouri agriculturist tells story
of his having corn thirty-three feet high,
and expects the public to give carte it,
/ A RECENT combination of Mrs. Peters,
of Jersey City, and lighted kerosene
lamp has resulted in serious damage to
both.-N. Y. Telegram.
THE Canada thistle has got such q foot
hold in Missouri that the Legislature is
called upon to take immediate measures
for its determination.
JOHN FORK lent stranger dollar at
Richmond in 1866, and the other day the
stranger paid him back $4,000. Step
this way, trangers.-Detroa Press.
A VERMONT paper recently closed an
obituary of young lady by remarking
that she had an amiable temper and
was uncommonly fond of ice-cream."
THE strongest propensity in womans
nature, says a careful student of the sex,
is to want to know what is going on, and
|
HARRIs LEWIS says he has found as
high as 30 per cent. of cream in the last
pint of milk drawn from a COW, when
the first pint from the same COW had
only 81 per cent
Nor long since a juryman in making
terms with a lady of boarding-house in
Lowell, Mass, wanted a reduction made
in his board bill, because, he said: "He
didn't use sugar in his tea"
In repairing the Norwalk Comm hotel
the workmen found large quantity of
honey stored behind the front cornice, by
a monstrous swarm of bees which had
been at work for some years.
The shingles upon the roof of the
First Congregational Church in East
Haddam, Conn, says the New Haven
Register, "were placed there seventy
nine years ago, and the roof is still
tight"
IT is altogether too absurd to say that
"man is not perfect" Who is there
who has not met with many who were
perfect strangers and some who were
perfect rascals, and not a few who were
perfect fools?
A WASHINGTON belle has forty y-eight
pairs of shoes. Some curious wretch
calculates that if they were arranged,
heel and toe, in straight line, the
shortest possible length would be frac-
tion over 10 feet WilltdmspOrt Register.
PALMER, Mass, has wild man sensa-
ton; man entirely nude, except when
he covered his head with white cloth,
being seen near the village recently. At
times he would walk on all fours, and
then starting up would run wildly about.
1t is supposed he is an escaped lunatic.
IT is strange, but nevertheless true,
that the oldfashioned cloak-the regu-
lar affair, reaching to and sometimes be-
low the knees-is to be revived in all its
ancient and modern glory They are
made of quilted silk, cashmere and vel
vet.
THE Springfield Republican calls upon
Massachusetts to believe that it knows q
black-and-tau terrier that, being troubled
by another dog, summoned a canine friend
to his assistance, hid him behind tree,
and then enticed the enemy up to be
| killed.
SOMEBODY having excused frequent
pardons because 1.-THE States Prison is
very crowded." the Congregationali&
thinks that the next thing may be
justification of reprieves of men SEN
fenced to be hanged because the Com
monwealth is out of roper
GIVE a man the necessaries of life
and he wants the conveniences. Give
RRhfm RRhfm NE hfg6eP6f piien neGIGeganGdsh he DeEaKfd
have the elegancies and he yearns for
the follies. Give him all together, and
he concludes that he has been cheated
both in price and quality of the articles
RECORD is made of the preternatural
sagacity of horse in Lockport, N. Y.
He trotted alone into smithy where
the day before he was shod. He was
lame, and in pulling off one Of his
shoes it was found that u cruel nail
had been driven into his foot. 1t is not
every man who is wise enough to go to
the doctor when it is necessary, or to
keep away from the doctor when 1t Is
unnecessary.
A MAN eighty-four years old, who
left Weymouth, Mass, thirty-seven
years ago for parts unknown, has Just
! returned to spend the remainder OF his
days The cause of his abandonment of
; home was the loss of his property
through his love for drink. He left
wife and eight children, taking with him
woke of oxen belonging to neigh
Dor, and it turned out he has been at
, work in the West all this time.
' Ir's Boston lawyer who tells this
: story: Twenty years ago, just after |
4 was admitted to the bar in Maine, L
n called one evening on the young lady
who has since become my wife. l mdde
= friends with her little brother, Addie,
Z and when he ran out of the room heard
him ask his mother, contidentially
Q Mamma, do you think angels wings are
=, strong enough to carry lawyers to
) heavens? The good womans answer
', was lost in the Hush, dearP but in the
I battle of lite since then the question has
q come back more than once"
A. A PRISONER in the State Prison Al
N Charlestown, Mass, has just been de
n tected in an imposition which he success
il fully maintained for two years and
/ half, hoping to get pardon. lie took tC
# his bed nearly three, years ago and has
" lain there ever since, stating that his
le lower limbs were paralyzed. A few days
i'd ago the prison surgeon, who was by ne
IS. means satisfied with the fellows state
r. ment, administered ether to him, whel
I'd he got out of bed and danced around th'
n room. When the effects of the ethe
so passed away the prisoner got into Dc'
We again, where he still remains
IT. A SINGULAR fish is found in great mum
ie- hers in the coast rivers of Alaska. 1t l
rs. about eight inches long, transparent, an,
m the fattest OF all the nnny ulOe. TIA
IN fat, however, has not the oily, ranci
ell, taste of other fish, but is like fresh lart
ed When these fish are dried the Indian
lg- often turn them to novel and practlc'
ed account-burn them instead OF candle
X They give clear, brilliant light and Al
he not liable to be blown out by the win'
,p- Mr.. Manson, Superintendent at Fo
ire Simpson, says that the tail should |
we lighted instead of the head, and each fiS
xet viii burn about fifteen minutes
cts WORKING men are apt to consider tn
My their occupations alone are laboriou
ny but in that matter they are mistaken. l.
S Dor of mind is generally even more fatig
art ing than labor of the body, and It
ned quite erroneous to suppose that othe
My do not work as well as we do simply b
orV | .a..,o a, o;r ,,yorly Il diffarent from on