Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| "A POUND OF nesh'-A prlZe-hght.
THE Californians are in favor of crema-
tion-for Cinnamon.
THE tallest man is he who rises latest,
because he lays longest
As A CHAMPION failure, says the Cleve-
land Herald, Weston is an established
| success.
He fell dead and expired in two min
utes," says Georgia paper on the death
of negro.
WHY is a grain of sand in the eye like
a schoolmaster's cane? Because It hurts
the pupil
BETTER try to kindle fire with pow
der-can, well filed, than with the contents
of your kerosene can.
| THE autumn bonnets are to have strings
this on the authority of milliner fresh
from the other side"
AN Indianapolis dog goes mad when he
hears piano played, but there's hun
| dreds of men who do the same thing.
COLLINS GRAVES is, in the estimation
of the Washington CbrOntcLs the first
milkman who ever ran away from water.
THE fashionable mosquito is larger
than ever this season, owing doubtless to
the wet and disagreeable spring
THE superfluous blossoms on a fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the large
way in which God louos to do pleaoont
things.
KATE FIELD says that "Spain is the
mother of all dust. 1t is the whitest,
lightest, heaviest, stickiest dust on the
earth"
| WHEN a member of the Boston Com
mon Council talks too long the bored
hand him a card inscribed: Hire
hall !"
THE Nashville man who broke his leg
| in pull on his boot has broken the
same limb again. He did it in turning
over in bed.
| AN ostrich does draw the line some
| where He stops at gate hinges. The
| grasshopper will eat the shoes off an eX-
| hausted mule.
THE Christian Register announces that
"a woman who cannot in any emergency
make or repair garment, has one art less
| than Pottawatomie's squaw."
THE New Albany Qnd) Ledger prays
to be delivered from the "maudlin fools"
| who criticise man because he puts his
| food into his mouth with knife.
ONE of the great and increasing evils
| of imperfect mastication is decaying
teeth. 1t is a law of all vital organisms
that every structure or post must do its
own work or die.
| TENNYsoN says that Miller is the great
est American poet, and Miller says Ten
nyson is the greatest English poet. A
man couldn't improve on that if he sat
up all night.-DetrOb Free Press.
A MEMPHIS man mourns recent land
slide which proved his stable to be very
unstable, carrying it and mule into the
| Mississippi River to say nothing of
| large part of his real estate.
THERE are three classes into which all
| the women past seventy that | ever knew
| were to be divided: First, that dear old
soul; second, that old woman; third,
that old witch.-COlerfdge
LET us all strive to live so that the
local paper may say of US as of Philip
Burns, of Delaware: "His hat wasn't
always cooked over the left ear, but he
didn't owe butcher in town."
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
notion in tinware they will procure
| Danbury Mems.
A HARTFORD man keeps a spade close
! by his kitchen door, and whenever
tramp comes along and begs for dinner
he is requested to earn it by digging four
feet square in the garden, but the tramp
! invariably refuses to pay this price.
LONDON is famous for its fogs, Paris for
its frogs, Madrid for its togs, New York
for its dogs, Cincinnati for its hogs, San
Francisco for its grogs, Northampton for
its clogs, Portland for its logs and all
Ireland for its bogs.
AMERICAN cast-Iron is the strongest in
the world. 1t has an advantage of
25 per cent. over German cast-iron
in strength and is nearly 16 per cent.
stronger than English cast-iron. So
the export of agricultural machinery has
become prominent feature Of American
trade and is susceptible of still further
development.
THE visit of the Emperor Alexander to
England has led to the issue of a new
and veXatiOus press regulation in Russia,
the newspapers having been forbidden to
publish any news about the journey. 1t
is true that according to law no news
paper is to take any notice of the doings
or intentions of the Gar before the Gov
ernment Messenger speaks of them; but
hitherto it has been the universal custom
to publish all accounts of an imperial
tour or festival after the Messenger had
once announced that it was about to take
place This was the case when the Car
went to Austria, when he met the other
marriage festivities at st. Petersburg.
A RETURN recently presented to the
British Parliament shows that 1000 more
seamen were drowned in 1873 than in the
year previous. The deaths in the mer-
chantmarine were in the ratio of two by
drowning to one from disease or natural
causes Fourteen men were drowned in
The merchant service to one in the naval
service. For every man of the home
population who suffered violent death,
eighteen seamen were killed or drowned.
While 1921 sailors were drowned by ship
wreck, no less than 1,032 were washed
overheard or otherwise drowned without
the loss of the ship. 1t is curious that
sailors can be found to man the shipping
of the seas when their lives are subject
to such an excess of peril and hardship.
A PROMINENT oculist says that the con-
tagious Egyptian or granular inflamma-
ton OF the eyes is spreading rapidly
throughout the country, and that he has
been able in many, and, indeed, in a ma
jority of cases, TO trace the disease to
what are commonly called rolling towels.
Towels Of this kind are generally found
in country hotels and in the dwellings of
the working classes, and, being thus used
by nearly every one, are made the car
riers of one of the most dangerous and,
as regards its symptoms, most trouble
some diseases of the eye. This being the
case, II is urgently recommended that the
use of these rolling towels be discarded
and thus one of the special vehicles for
the spread of a most dangerous disorder
of the eyes-one by which thousands of
workingmen are annually deprived of
their means Of support-will 40 longer
exist.