Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-08-20
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

NEVER lend money to genius.
QUEENS of 'Arts-female graduates.
BEAN-EvoLENT nterprise-soup-hous
MERCY-NARY fellows-tenement land
lords.
ALL the colors of the 'spect-rum-a to-
per's nose
ACADEMY of Design-a young ladies'
boarding-school.
PROF. TICE says we will have warm
winter, and he knows. you know.
The Chinese Interpretation of going to
law is: Losing COW for the sake of
cat"
How TO make the largest census report
with the smallest number of people is the
study Of the age.
"GooD enough in some respects, buttoo
stuck up to bet on dog-fight," was the
eulogy on Nevada man.
PEOPLE with the collie may not be anX
ious to know it, but there are Ovel 2,700
varieties of apples in this world.
IT was the grasshopper in the West; it
is the tramp in the East, and it is hard to
tell which is the greater plague.
THAT silver mine at Newburyport,
Mass, it turns out, was " salted" with sill
yer for tricky speculation in the land.
THEY have got to calling Old Probabili-
ties names, and one newspaper disrespect
fully refers to him as "Old Perhaps"
THE church at Bethlehem Heights, N.
H., occupies the highest point of ground
of any church edifce in the United States.
A Miss HANKE, of Allentown, Pa, has
six grandmothers, all living. The Hankes
take in good deal of this tangled skein
of life.
THE time has now arrived when the
average youth starts out of an evening to
hunt coons and stops in the first melon
patch he comes to.
THE saying that reforms never GO
Backward does not hold true of ladies
fashions, as witness the change from the
hoop-skirts to the pin-back.
BANK burglars have had such a poo
show of late that they are downcast anC
discouraged, and some of them talk o.
studying law in order to get living.
TENNESSEE talks of building mauso
leum ON the Capitol grounds at Nashville
and of depositing therein her three deaC
| Presidents, jackson, Polk and Johnson.
MEMPHIS is preparing herself for anOth
er visit from the cholera. Some one count
ed 112 dead dogs in her alleys the othel
day, to say nothing of old boots and few
cats.
DON'T lie awake fidgeting all night
thinking burglar is in the house; eithel
get up and see about it or go to sleep. Tn,
! burglars of the imagination never stea
anything nor hurt anybody, and are there
fore not worth lying awake for
A POET in Coneyville, Kan, has pro
duced the following statistical verse
"Should millions into millions multiplied
be, With ten million times ten millioI
more, 'Twould scarcely express milliOntl
of tie grasshoppers that pass our door"
ONE of the Siamese ambassadors, on re
turning home from Europe, gave the fol
lowing description of a piano forte, or, a
he called it, "a great trunk set upon legs.
He said A woman sits in front of thi
and, tickling a sort of tail it has with he
toe, produces variety of sounds by beat
ing rapidly with her fingers on a numbe
of little bits of ivory in front OF it,"
A PHOTOGRAPH has been forwarded :
| England which has aroused the astOnisf
ment of their distinguished men. 1t
! taken of branch of pears grown from
tree on the ranch of MIR. GhOlson Kerche
J val, near Sacramento, Cal. The branc
| was four feet six inches long, carried 20
pears (most of which were about five incl
es in lengthy, the whole weighing abou
10 pounds.
WHEN we look around and see tn
large number of able-bOdied men VIII
spend their money and their time at tn
beer saloons, while their wives are stitch
ing at home, or go out washing TO ear
money 10 keep themselves and ehildre
from starving, we naturally wonder VIII
> more young men don't get married-an
: marvel more that so many young ladie
, do.-N0rTistO,o (Pa.) Herald.
! IT is stated that Of the present Congress
composed of 1886 members, 200 are lawyer
I fifty merchants, and the rest editors an
farmers. In the United States there al
i 10000 lawyers and 100000 farmers
1 therefore, there is one lawyer in Congre.
|. for every 200 of that profession, and onl
o one farmer for every 1870, 900, as the lattt
n class in reality only number eighteen
e our National Legislature WdshSagtC
! Chronicle.
e BAsoUEs are more trimmed than the
IS were last season A collar of some kin
y reaching low down on the breast is set
d on most basques; this may be only apla
a revers, either round OF square cornered,
Is else it may be formed of small pleats la
If the whole length of the collar and edg'
IS with pleated frill this fashion is We
.e pretty in grenadlne. Another fancy
p that of making the front like vest, co
/, cred with very narrow pleats reachil
,r from the throat 70 the end Of the basque.