Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
IT is death to breathe steel dust.


.PRoF. TyNDAIB says O man can't
breathe after ascending over %, 500 feet.
EcoNoMy is very good thing parsi-
mony is economy run to seed.
The greatest truths are, the simplest;
and so are the greatest men.
8n The woman who couldn't say boo to a
goose is now trying II on agander. Quite
right ..-.
AS usual the Inevitable fly is said to
be committing excesses in chewing Vir-
ginia tobacco. 'f
VIRGINIA CRY, New, is beginning to
arrest its citizens for violating the Com
pulsory Education law. t
lF women would spend less time in
making ruflles and tucks and more in
making fiower-beds, they would look
handsomer .....
THE potato-bug is playing prominent
part down South. What the overflow
has failed to destroy, these energetic lit
tie fellows are sweeping from the face of
the earth.
A PROSPECTIVE mother-in-law up in Knox
County, KY, joined issue with a young
man who declined to fulfill his marriage
engagement with her daughter. When
she got through with him there was no
THE smallest circular saws In use are
those employed in the manufacture of
gold pens, and are half-inch in diameter
1t is said that some of the sarcophagi of
ancient Egypt bear the marks of having
been followed out with tools of the crown
or cylinder saw order.
AS bride and bridegroom were about
to leave Cleveland, constable stepped
into the car with new attachment and
seized the bridegroom's beautiful plug
hat. The dishonest groom went on with
his matrimOny barehead. y,yr
OLD PROBABILITIES is unusually pig
headed this year, sending rain where il is
not wanted and Withholding it where it is
thought to be needed. Not long since
there was an uninterrupted rain for four
teen days on the Atlantic Ocean.
A MEMBER of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature was shot and killed the other day
by a man between whom and whose wife
he was endeavoring to make peace. At
tempt to part a man and wife who are
fighting, and the basest mgr attitude inev-
itably breaks out to reward the effort
Co,trteT-J Journal
A STORY comes from Fairfield, Herki-
mer County, N. Y, of music-loving
dove. 1t is said that when the piano is
played in the house of the doves, owners
it will fly into the heuse and perch on the
head of the performer, where it will re-
main until the piece is played, when it
will jump on the keyboard of the instru-
ment and hop about the keys, thus pro-
ducing souiats it seems to enjoy. Friends
of the family frequently visit the house TO
witness the birds strange antics. e.-
THE ex- Chief Of Police in Terre Haute,
Ind, married under rather unusual cir
His son, less than a dozen
years old, suggestedthe desirability of
change in the domestic arrangements, and
the lady he would accept as step
mother. The eX-Chief sought the lady,
told her what his son had said, and init
mated his desire to crafty his sons wish.
The lady heard with respect, awakened
herlittle daughter, received the daughters
and then gave her own. The
took place the next day
WHEN Southern Mayor wishes to re-
sign his Office he writes letter which
leaves little doubt in the minds of his
of his sincerity. Here is
what the Mayor of Floreyville, Miss,
wrote to Gov. Ames: "I herewith
beg leave respectfully to tender my res
gnation as Mayor of Floreyville, to
which Office l was appointed by your
high headed predecessor, which, with the
Internal greediness for office so charac-
teristc of the American people, l was
green enough to accept. In thus draw
ng off the judicial ermine am governed
alone by the haunting of being inordi-
Iatol,- rich II L cOnuIuuv i.oII
,rative position. Perhaps some other
nan and brother may be inveigled into
he acceptance of this position, but your
humble servant prefers to retire to the
gushing serenity of private life"
AN experiment in order to test the
strength of stones to resist compression
las been made by placing a cubic inch
If each between two steel plates and
it with increasing weight until
t is crushed. For convenience sake
his weight is applied by means of
ever so as to obviate the necessity of
actually handling the hundreds and thous-
lnds of pounds required-one or more
sliding weights on strong beam being
sufficient. The results of this expert
nent, as given by an exchange, are cop
ed below. The number of pounds noted
s that which the substance will bear
crushing: Inferior pale brick,
900; common gold brick, 1000; hard
prick, 4,500; pressed Philadelphia brick,
1000; New England granite, 1890;
italian marble, 12,600.
THE Troy T tines tells this for fact:
: A ludicrous scene was witnessed on
Rensselaer, nd Saratoga train the other
1ay. A newly couple entered
he car and took a seat. The husband,
" wanting to 'moke, left his wife and went
into the smoking-car. The bride began
20 doze, and while she slept stranger
entered the Car and, as it was crowded,
luietly took a seat beside the young wife.
Shortly she began to nod, and, doubtless
imagining that her husband was still in
The seat, gently reclined toward the
stranger, and soon her head fondly nestled
on his breast At this juncture the
husband returned. He stood in mute as
in the aisle until the lady
awoke, and, realizing the situation, drew
back in amazement, suffused with bushes.
Stranger explained, husband was salts
fed, and wife tried hard to appear un-
THE remains of a woman, which had
reposed in grave in the cemetery near
Wheeling, W. Va, for six or eight years,
were recently disinterred in order to re-
move them TO another place. Much diff
Guilty was experienced in raising them,
the weight was so excessive. On open
ing the coffin the body was found from
the neck to the feet to be perfect spec
linen of petrifaction. The form was full
and sound; the feet, which were incased
in CATERS, filed them as completely as n
living subject, and the hands and arms
were plump and hard as a rock. The
was in an excellent state of
fabric proving, when
tested, to be quite strong. The head,
however, had suffered the decay incident
to the period of time it had lain in the
ground. None of the bodies which
rested in close proximity to this had un'
dergone similar change.