Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

w HEN Is u lONCI llk6 IdllOTg M0G0
he presses his suit.
ALWAYS tell the truth you will find it
easier than lying.
FLESH for fuel" is the way they head
kerosene fires now.
EXPERIENCE is torch lighted in the
ashes of our delusions.
while waiting Tor late Tfiffli" /" 'n''"r lod,'
THE most original phase of society life
in Washington is the card announcement
of birth.
In Philadelphia it is now considered
proper to speak of dentist as an odont-
ologists.
THE Cincinnati Volts6lddt styles the
ladies engaged in the whisky war "corset
dragons"
PoLITENEss is like an air cushion;
there may be nothing in it, bat it eases
you wonderfully.
ACCORDING to the experience of pawn
brokers, the past was the hardest winter
known in many years.
"THE insurrection of prayer" is what
the Graphic calls the operations of tenn
perance women in Ohio.
A SUSPICIOUS wife, on being asked where
her husband was, replied that she was
very much afraid he was Missing.
A JEwELER labeled some diamonds in
his window as being as sparkling as the
tears of young widow, and more last
ing.
THE Chinese have saying that an I'M
lucky word dropped from the tongue
cannot be drawn back by coach and six
horses.
THE New York papers now favor kill
ing criminals by an electric shock, which
is easily administered and produces in
stantaneous death.
WHEAT seeds can bear for several
hours q temperature as high as the boil
ing point of water without losing the
power of terminating.
ONE cause of coal Oil lamp explosions
is said to be using too small wicks, by
which space is left at the edges for the
communication of explosive elements.
SINCE the ladies of Ohio have begun
their raids upon the bar-rooms some pla-
giarist has remarked that Solomon in all
his glory was not raid like one of these.
THERE is a man in Kentucky who has,
for several years past, been drinking coal
| oil. He takes teaspoonful at dose,
and he says it has cured him Of consump-
ton.
SOMEBODY says, queerly enough, that
Boston, having swallowed various other
nelghboring towns, lis now greasing the
ears of Maiden, preparatory to degluti-
ton"
THE sand blast is now used for cleans
accomplish the removal of the dust and
SCOT without injuring the ornamental
carvings.
A PHILOSOPHER says that "a tue man
never frets about his place in the world,
but Just slides into it by the graYitation
of his nature, and swings there as easily
as a star"
BECAUSE the indianapolis Coffin Com
pany propose manufacturing 10000 cof.
fins annually New York lunatic wants
to change the name of indianapolis to
Deathopolis.
A DELAWARE physician some time ago
| grated piece of his own skin (white) on
the body of negro. 1t grew, but at the
end of three months was as black as the
surrounding cuticle.
THE Boston Journal tells of gentle
man in that city who has been brought
from a condition of ill-health to robust
ness by simply drinking half tumbler of
warm bullock's blood twice day.
WHEN the brave women of the Missis-
sippi Valley sing hymns all of cold
winters night before village bar-rooms in
order to scotch the snake in the glass, and
then throw calcium lights upon men who
wander toward the prescribed places of
drinking, it is safe to believe that men
will attend lodges less frequently than
usual.
HALF of all the ordinary diseases would
be- banished from civilized life, and dys-
pepsia become almost unknown, ifevery-
body would eat but thrice a day at
regular times, and not an atom between
meals, the intervals being not less than
five hours, that being the time required
to digest full meal and pass it out of the
stomach.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois, in a re.
cent decision, has affirmed the principle
that an express company cannot be held
for the value of package Of money lost
while in its possession as common car
rier, unless the value of the package be
truly stated before the contract for car
riage is entered into
JONATHAN TALeoTT, the well-known
potato-grower of Rome, N. Y, tells the
Boston CultipdtOr that repeated expert
ments have taught him "that early sorts
require richer land to give their best
yield, as they grow in less time, and con-
sequently must be better fed, or they are
of course small, and the crop will not be
remunerative."
THE Galveston (Tex.) Nesos says: Our
interior exchanges report trichina pre-
vailing in many towns of Texas. This
strange disease has appeared in Northern
Central, and Western Texas Simultaneous
ly, and, although but few cases are
reported in each locality CONSERVATION
has followed its appearance everywhere.
AS generally believed, the disease is
caused by eating infected pork"
DEAN SwIFT's recipe for courtship;
Two or three dears, and two or three sweets,
Two or three balls, or two or three treats,
Two or three serenades, given as lure,
Two or three oaths how much they endure,
Two or three messages sent In one day,
| Two or three times led out from the play,
Two or three tickets for two or three times,
Two or three love letters writ all In rhymes,
Two or three months keeping strict to these rules
Can never fail making couple OF fools.
THE Winnipeg ManitObdn says: "a
large covered sleigh some twenty feet in
length, belonging to Mr.. Davidson, of
Moorhead, Mimi, arrived in town this
week, laden with apples, pears, grapes,
eggs, butter and other luXuries. There
was stove in the sleigh which kept the
fruit from freezing, and we are glad to
learn that the enterprise will prove re-
munerative one to the proprietor. He
has already sold out all pears at 90 cents
each; apples are going fast at three for
ten cents, and eggs at 70 cents per doz."
A RUMoR had been current for several
| weeks that upon the farm of |. Finch,
near Janesville, Wis, were found unmis-
taxable evidences of the presence OF an
J thracite coal. This decidedly ungeolog-
ical fact-if II were fact-excited wide
, spread remark, and couple of Chicago
, al-dealers paid visit to the locality, and
, after days examination arrived at the
/ conclusion that somebody had been
, sailing" that coal.mine,