Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New BEDFORD has but one whaler left
"a schoolmaster
THE more mans purse weighs tie
more persuasive is his eloquence.
You can get good rhinoceros now for
$4,000. Rhinoceroses are coming down
and will soon be in reach of the humblest
families.
IT is predicted that at an early day
Kansas silk will be offered for sale at
lower figures than that produced in any
other country in the world.
A YOUNG lady in Kentucky swallowed
eight percussion caps the other day.
She is an old maid, but her mother thinks
her likely to go off at any time now.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING, who fails to
find instances Of invention by women,
has strangely overlooked the ! ,001 tales
told by Sceherezade in the Arabian
Nights"
CENTRAL NEW YoRK farmers estimate
that, with average culture, good soil and
manure, the cost of producing wheat is
seventy-fve to seventy.eight cents per
bushel.
A CALIFORNIA boy scorns to ask the
corner fruit-dealer for banana; he
slaps his money down on the counter
and proudly exclaims: "Look yer
gimme a big bananzer?"
A MATTRR-oF-FACT doctors wife at
tempted TO move him by her tears. "Ahp'
said he, "tears are useless. have ana
lyzed them. They contain little phos.
phate of lime, some chloride of sodium
and water.
GREAT SALT LAKE is frozen over, and
the pious Elder, standing on the shore,
points with admiration to a dozen or so
of sylph-like forms gliding gracefully
over the ice and proudly exclaims
"Them's all mine"
THE Cherokee Aduocdte asserts that the
Indian Territory has suffered proper
tionately greater losses and has proper
tionately more destitute families from
drought and grasshoppers than either
Kansas or Nebraska.
THE report that New Haven proof
reader is about to be married is ex-
planned by the paragraph in paper
published there, beginning with the
words: "While a merchant was Iinsing q
plate-giass widow in the store"
UNDER the act of Congress offering
160 acres Of land to any person who
would plant forty acres of it in trees
and cultivate them for eight years about
1,100 persons had taken up about 10000
acres of land in Minnesota up to Jan
uary.
A POPULAR disease prevails among the
Indians in Humboldt, New, and the
medicine men of the tribe do not under
stand it, 1t is someting like paralysis,
as those who have been stricken with it
are unable to move their limbs, which
are stiff and at times painful. Rheuma-
tisml
A GIGANTIC swimming bath, composed
of iron and rooted in with plate glass,
has been moored in the Thames at Lon
don. The water that is admitted to it
flows through thick bank of charcoal,
and is so effectually filtered that it
sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn
from an artesian well.
THE body should not be confined to
one position in sleep more than when
awake. Variety is essential; still, gen.
orally, it is best to sleep principally on
the side, varying it to partially on the
face and occasionally on the back. The
head should be even with the body. If
sleeping on the side, a thin pillow will
be necessary to bring the head on line
with the body.-HeraId Of Health.
THE other day aseedy-looking old chap
entered wholesale house in this city,
leaving the door open behind him. A
clerk noted his carelessness and called
out: "It's ten degrees below zeror'
"I did think of buying about $4,000
worth of goods" said the stranger as he
halted, "but if this is the way you treat
-" "Hold on! hold onl" exclaimed
the clerk, walking forward, ats only
| five Y--three-two-it's way
| Ok ya1r kIok 4
open or pull our coats off! Right thii
way, sir. Now, then, what is it?"-De
troSt Free Press.
THE Pittsburgh Commercial reads IN
a contemporary that hlghly-esteemed
citizen of Franklin, Pa, who has dwell
upon this subluDary sphere for the term
OF seventy years, and in that time hac
the mingled grief and pleasure 10 lay
three wives where the flowers of spring
could grow over them and the dews oi
summer sparkle like robe of diamonds
about them, recently took TO himself
fourth partner of his Joys and sorrows il
the person of a charming widow who ha
deposited two matrimonial ventures in
place of perpetual security and gaze
on the blushing roses of seventy-tiv
summers"
| IL NOrthcEONDhsNIO vi tilC A1llC ~ 1[te
patch writes; Yesterday horse, mount
ed by young man, was seen to slip ol
the frosted street, stagger and fall
throwing the rider to the ground. Be
fore two seconds had elapsed the hors
was up on his feet again, and the ride
hanging by one foot, which was fastene
in the stirrup. The horse, though frigh
ened, discovered the uncomfortable pos
tion of his rider, and after one or tw
steps to one side, as though not to trampl
the man, came to dead halt and stoo
still as a statue until man passing o
the sidewalk approached and pulled tn
discounted riders foot clear from tn
stirrup. was delighted to find the ma
entirely unframed, but found that tn
stirrups were both wound with carpe
evidently tC keep the riders feet warn
or with desire on his part to have b
brains dragged out on some occasion lik
the present. The incident is more II
markable from the fact that the horse
one of fine blood, imported to Erie for
trotter, and costing some thousands G
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