Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-05-07
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
A DOCTOR Of music--A fiddle d. d.

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TIE first iron steamboat built in st.
Louis was recently launched.
A NORTH CAROLINA householder dis
covered that the burglar he had killed
was woman in male attire.
"Is THAT clock right over thereY'
asked visitor the other day. Fright
over there?" said the boy, "'tain't no
where else"
II you write down the figure five and
twenty-one ciphers and call the units
tons, that is, they say, the weight of this
world of ours.
CALIFORNIA papers roughly estimate
that the agricultural products of that
| State for this year will crowd hard on to
the value of $lO0,000,000.
A ONE-EYED San Francisco girl adver-
tises for husband afflicted in the same
| way. She don't mean 10 be twitted on
her deformity after the honeymoon.
WHENEVER you read this sentence,
Being man of means he escaped pun.
ishment," make up your mind that il
shall never be so again if you can helpit.
To AN ordinary Massachusetts man his
home is now as nothing unless he has
hanging behind the stove "the 'riginal
| flintlock that grandfather fired the first
shot o. the reverlution with,p
"Now let us talk about your business
| affairs" said a sharp Connecticut girl to
young fellow after he had proposed
marriage to her in long address filled
with expressions of passionate love.
ONE Westbrook, of New York, bought
barrel of sugar from his grocers, and
finding it eighteen pounds short pub
lished circular styling the grocers the
champion lightweight firm of the
| country" Whereupon the aggrieved
grocers brought suit, and Westbrook is
under bonds.
AT church in Reading, Pa, recently,
"young men inlerfered with the service
and blasphemed the name of God to such
an extent that policemen were called in,
a terrible fight took place, ladies tainted,
young girls screamed, and terrible
scene followed. 1t was necessary to
stop all services for the evening"
THE gold in the Black Hills is of
Siouxperior qualitv."-I Egp-ooo.l but
the hunters must take their Oheyennces
of finding it, Burlington Hack Eye |
Cheyenne 'em up."-T Cincinnati Times. |
Come into the ring, gentlemen, and
evince your further Ingenuity. There's
abundant room.-St. Louis Republican,
THE signs of the times point to rapid
increase of immigration to Alabama from
abroad, and also from other portions of
the country. Two large German colonies
have been already established in the
State, and numerous inquiries are coming
from all quarters from parties desirous
of settling in Alabama.
Do NOT allow grindstone to stand in
water when not in use. Clean off all
grease from tools before sharpening as
grease or oil destroys the grit. When
you get stone that suits your purpose,
send sample to the dealer to select by;
half-ounce sample is enough, and can
be sent by mail
THIS is what comes of eXhausting the
supply Of body servants and women who
handed him glasses of water: Joshua
Warne, of Denmark, Tenn, shook hands
with George Washington. Think of
thatl Shook hands with himi Where
is the man who owned hole that had
once been in the heel of the Father of his
Country's stocking?
IT WAS dumping day" at Treyor
Hall, and the boarders were fast appeas-
ing their inordinate desires, when one of
them discovered a long hair issuing from
his dumpling. He tried quietly to re-
was no loose appendage. ethen handed
it to the waiter with Please remove
this and give me bald-headed one"
A REPORT of an Omaha spelling-match
says" The audience felt greet interest
in the spelling of Mrs. Fisher, who,
| though nearly seventy-tive years of age,
was among the last to go down, and
when she did miss murmur of regret
was heard all over the house. The word
that she missed, however, was spelled
correctly according to her dictionary"
JOURNALISM in Mississippi is conspicu-
GUS by reason Of its ability to make two
bites Of a cherry. A prominent citizen
of Vicksburg recently disappeared mys-
! teriously, and the newspapers noted the
lapse of a few days they began to speak
of the mule that mysteriously disap-
peared at the same time.-St. Louis Globe.
THE second annual report of the Phil.
adelphia Centennial Directors says
"To fully complete the work and bear
its expenses to the end we need to raise
| So, SOC, 900, and it rests with the people
to supply the necessary means. If the
number of paying admissions TO the
exhibition at fifty cents each shall reach
! 10, ,00O, ,0O0-a number but little exceed
ing the admissions to the Paris Exposi.
ton of 1S67-the Board will be. able to
return every dollar to the stockholders. !"
THE Baltimore Gazette, in rather crit
| icising spirit, says: "We of Maryland
rather rejoice, in this day of centennial
effusion, that we have no particular spot
or date to commemorate" This is not
paying high honor to the memory of the
fathers and martyrs of the Revolution
and reminds us of the man who thanked
the Lord that, although he had been q
member of the church for twenty years
it hadn't cost him h cent.-N. Y. %
ScrUer.
MIR. L, w. CUTLER, of Denver, Col.
was recently rendered the nomination oi
city sexton and in his letter of declina
tion says: "The idea of cropping amt onl
tombstones and communlng with gh osti
and goblins for livelihood causes ,
cold chill to run down my back. No
gentlemen, | must refuse. i would
rather be toad, and live upon the va
por of dungeon than wait for my fel
bowman to die that / might grow fat
Please leave me to pursue the quie
walks of private life.p ab f-Fa e
THE Philadelphia Times does not be
lieve the stories about the failure of gar
den "sass." 1t says: "The Jay Gouldl
and Vanderbilts and Daniel Drews o
the market gardens. who deal in sucl
) stocks as green peas, spinach, lettuce
turnips, kale, new potatoes, green corn
, asparagus and the other delightful vege
tables for which the mouth waters a
} this season, have got up corner and ar
} making cat's-paw of Gen. Meyer, o
the Weather Bureau, to pull their ches
) nuts out of the kitchen fire."
CARDINAL McCLosKEY has the insid
track on marriages in New York hig
life, aud will reap a harvest of greer
backs thereby, Poor, unknown fellow
like most ministers may dig along an
spend all Of their time thinking of wha
, they shall eat and wherewithal the
: shall be clothed, but when a church take
4 hold and hoists q man along up toa Cai
. dinalate, or some such thing as that, h
1 1 need give little more thought to ten
8 poral affairs, and instead of an anxiou
may begin to cultivate a henign expre
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