Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

of lucifers
A LEATHER braid for binding dresses
Is in the market.
A DoCToR's motto is supposed to be,
Patients and long suffering.
WHAT is that from which IL you take
the whole some will remain? Whole
some.
SAN Francisco now pays women
teachers In the public schools the same
salaries as men.
How many troubles might mankind be
spared II they would only stop to hear
each others explanations.
PUBLISHING nonpareil paper in
long primer town" was what did the bust
ness for Kansas editor.
THE man who went to sleep on the raj
road track found his rest was good deal
broken-and his leg, too.
THE man who invented the buzz saw
has done more TO depopulate the word
than did the ancient Caesar.
A MAN in danger of being hanged said
that of all games of his childhood skip
ping the rope would be most agreeable.
A CALIFORNIA hotel has water-tanks in
the attic and is proposing to cultivate fish
there in sufficient quantity to supply the
boarders.
OF forty schoolma'ams not one could
tell what an abstract question was, but
every one of them understood the mean
ing of pop the question.
A MAN in Maine committed suicide by
locking himself into his house, setting
fire to it, and suffering himself to be
burned alive in it.
WHEN you see a man bend forward
with woe upon his face, and hand upon
his stomach, you may know that early
watermelons have arrived.
THIS reads like base ball item, but il
isn't any such thing: In clearing out an
old house at Americus, Ga, the other
day, 475 bats were captured"
SOMEBODY observes that when six
young ladies sit down to talk about a
new dress pattern small boy with tin
horn is a refuge for the weary.
A PHILADELPHIA girl called a young
man thief, and when requested by the
mother of the accused to prove the
charge said he had stolen several kisses
from her.
"FM not in mourning" said young
lady, frankly, to guerist, "but as 1he
widows are getting all the offers nova
days we poor girls have to resort to ar
tifice."
NURSES now frighten the children by
telling them how little Charlie Ross was
stolen by bad men. Pity they cannot tell
them how those bad men were skinned
alive.
MIR. HENRY STEPHENS, the well-known
agriculturist and author of the famous
work, "The Book of the Farm" died on
the 5th of July at his residence at Bon
nington, Scotland. in the eightieth year
of his age.
THE Sacramento (Cal) Union is respon
sible for the statement that the Sacra-
mentans are now obliged to carry six
shooters to protect themselves from the
mosquitoes.
THE Paducah Kentuckian is authority
| for the statement that snake was re-
Gently killed near that town and twenty
four young snakes ran out of the mouth
of the slain reptile.
THE Worcester (Mass) Palladium is
| edited by two sisters, daughters of the
former editor. They are desirous of
making it an art journal, and have able
writers engaged for that purpose
A TEAMsTER in Maine says he can start
the worst balky horse by taking him out
of the shafts and making him 60 round in
circle till he is giddy. If the first dance
| of this sort doesn't cure him the second
will.
In New York city during the past year
| diphtheria has prevailed to quite an alarm
| ing extent. Since July, 1878, the Times
says, about one child in every twenty in
| the city has been attacked by the dis
ease.
THE grasshoppers made clean sweep
The valley ia usually une' VI Siv IIrosS fer-
! tile and prolific in the Territory, but the
pests have eaten "every green thing"
this season.
THE Detroit Free Press processes to
have discovered young lady who
bushes, goes to bed at nine, eats hearti
| ly, speaks plain English respects her
mother, doesn't want to marry lord and
knows how to cook.
A CONNECTICUT girl twelve years old
tried to starve herself to death because
her beau deserted her, but at the end of
the second day was induced to give it up
by the promise of a slice of bread and
butter with sugar on.
A LOCAL journal states that the bears
arc plenty in the vicinity of Midway,
Me. They seem to know that the boun-
ty has been taken off, and are great deal
more neighborly than they have been in
years past. Several have been killed
lately.
A GREAT many landowners in Pike
County, Ind, dig their own coal from the
veins that crop out along creek bottoms
and along hill-sides. They find it much
cheaper to burn coal than wood, not
withstanding over half the country is
still native forests.
BLACKwooD says that " the act of mat
rimony or baChelorship is written so legi-
bly, in aman's appearance that no ingenu'
ity can conceal it. Everywhere there Is
some inexplicable instinct that tells us
whether an individual (whose name, for
tune and circumstances are totally un-
knoWn) be, or be not, married man
Whether it is certain subdued look,
such as that which characteriZes the lions
in a menagerie, and distinguishes them
from the lords of the desert, we cannot
tell but the truth is so, we positively af'
firm"
Personal unselfishness covers multi
tude of sins. What a cloak for all
weathers, all journeys, is this splendid
garment! How the wearer of it is sought
as companion for a walk or for voy'
agel How delightful is he in the family
circle! What reflex of our own moods,
be they grave or gayl Such characters
informed and ennObled, become the rea
: saints of the world; weakened or debased
they are still dear to us; an unselfish per
son, be he saint or sinner, in palace oil
prison, has friends and lovers, which the
self-conscious person fails to gain, even
though in his determined walk in his pre-
meditated course he may move our re-
spect, our admiration and even our envy
he does not gain our love.-Apptet0n't
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