Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A CONNECTICUT paper proposes TO fine
every man $500 who adulterates liquor.
ARE highwihes so called because they
make him high who drinks them?
NEEDLE-GUN walking canes are the
latest playthings for New Workers.
MEN are always philosophical when
they have lost their pocketmoney.
A Missouri man offers to live forty
days without food if any one will give
him $500.
cure heartburn. Eat two or three q day
till relieved.
In Arkansas when a man walks into a
house and shoots the proprietor and
others he is styled San intruder"
THE moth that holds a motherly rela-
tion to the cotton caterpillar has arrived
in Georgia in large numbers.
AN incoherent gentleman living in New
York has built a shed over sun-dial in
his garden to protect it from the weather.
Mrs. E. CADY STANTON does not in
dorse "peripatetic praying" and calls
those of her sex who indulge in it "a
mob"
A MAN at Cheyenne was shot dead be.
cause he wouldn't chip in and help buy
gravestone for some man who had been
hung.
A HORTICULTURAL genius of Columbus,
Wis, has made cherry branches blossom
this winter by thrusting the ends into
lemons.
AN Oswego IN. " woman says she
cannot pray in the saloons, but she will
shoot the first man who sells her husband
liquor.
BATH, N. Y, has entered a protest
against one of its clergymen attending a
masquerade in the character of Mephis-
topheles.
JOHN MCNAMARA went into New
Haven saloon, sat down and began to sing
song. Before the first verse was finished
he fell dead.
A PAIR of German woodcocks, cata-
logued at the recent poultry show at Osh-
kosh, Wis, turn out TO be a couple of
beer faucets.
A PROVIDENCE Or. L. boot dealer has
been sent to Jail for ninety days for selling
blind man two odd boots of different
sizes as pair.
A MAN in Kennebec, Me-, having pur-
chased a COW, has petitioned the Legisla-
ture toi incorporate the cow and himself
as cheese factory.
AN exchange says: "The wave on
which many a poor fellow has been car
ried away is the wave of lace-edged
cambric handkerchief"
THE largest dry goods houses in Boston
have decided to send out no drummers
this season. What they make in the
volume of trade they lose in bad debts.
THE question of the legal right of
woman to be Justice Of the Peace in
Maine is at issue, and the Governor has
asked the Supreme Court for decision.
THE California State Prison don't pay
expenses. There are 931 convicts, Of
whom 691 are engaged in cabinet making
for a contractor at forty cents per diem.
The agents of the Society for the Pre-
vention, ETC., have brought man to trial
in Providence for throwing a cat from a
four-story window and breaking her hip.
A BLAST in which !, 1,175 pounds of pow.
der were used was recently fired in
quarry at Bolton, Conn, and 1t was esti.
mated that 5000 tons of rock were lifted
from the earth
IT is an honor 10 wOmanhood that not
dollar has ever been missing from the
department of the Comptroller of the
Currency, where the women exclusively
are employed as clerks.
IT Is always we'll to bear all ordinary
troubles with composuTe, but when
mans supply of gas is cut OF 1t can't be
done. That's trouble which 1t Is i'm
possible to make light OF.
"A stingy husband accounted for all
the blame OF the lawlessness of his chill
dren In company by saying his wife al
ways gave them their own way. Poor
thingsl It's all have TO give them,"
was the prompt reply.
A CLRRaYMAN with keen eye 10 busi-
ness recently attended a funeral In How
land, Me-, and before the corpse had been
taken TO the grave made out bill OF nye
dollars for his services and gave II into
the hands Of constable for collection.