Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-17
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

WE know all about shooting stars, but
we often forget that this world of ours is a
revolver
! THE small farmers In the South and
Southwest are said to be prospecting this
year as never before.
A MEMBER of the ST. Louis Board of
Education proposes to establish school
especially for adults. A good idea.
A LARGE whale stranded on the beach
at Rockaway, L. l., has been one of the
sights there, but lately has become one of
the smells.
THOUSANDS of people who have gone
down to the New Jersey resorts this sea-
son all pale and lifeless are now coming
back home all rosy with mosquito-bites
and active with the ague.
GAIL HAMILTON thinks she has found a
clear case of genius in little Cambridge
| boy, who, the other day, closed his list of
exports of Massachusetts with "many
learned men from Harvard College"
THE researches of the British Royal So
clety, extending over 200 years, fail to
show single case of sudden change of
color in human hair, and, although the
popular belief is strong in the affirmative,
men of science doubt that it ever occurred
outside the pages of novels or poems.
| AN elderly lady who, with her daugh-
ter had Just returned from rather a rapid
journey through France, part of Germany
nd Italy, was asked the other day if they
had visited Rome, and she replied in the
negative. La, ma, yes we did, ;" said her
| daughter; "that was the place where we
bought the bad stockings"
A GIRL near Utica, N. Y, few
days ago mistoOk the meaning of Young
man who was looking up pickers for his
fathers hop-yard and when asked if she
was engaged, sweetly said: "NOt yet, but
always thought it would be pleasant" "
The young man rode home quickly and
dreamed all night of breach-ofpromise
trials.
SOMEBODY is writing for the Buffalo
| Commercial AdUertiser a series of articles
on the" carly music of Buffalo" AS the
early music of that place was principally
furnished by the frogs it is well if these
primitive artists are at last receiving the
recognition so hong withheld from them
through the Vaccinations of the brass
band.-LOuisuilIe O0trier-Jotun
A VERY small boy is more modest than
larger one. While the latter directly
asks the peddler for peach, the former
will stand by and bashfully explain several
hundred times: Il like them, ! do
peaches is what likes, peaches is" And
if the peddler is confident he cannot kick
the child's head off without being seen, he
gives him peach.-Ddn6ury Necs.
THE most perplexing thing in youths
life is when his girl gets mad and returns
the numerous trinkets that he has bough
for her. He hardly wants to sell them
he can't palm them off on his pet choice
for new goods with any degree Of satisfac
ton or safety; they're probably things tina
he can't wear himself; and he's left will
them on his hands, and so he can ONLY
stare at them and count up how much the!
cost.
THE mistress of summer boarding
house in an interior town finding hersel
one day quite at leisure in consequence
of the absence of her patrons on an ex
cursiOn, repaired to a noighbor's for
chat. 81 should think you would fee
lonesome 10 have your boarders away so,
said her neighbor "Wall," she replied
lido feel kinder lonesome; but it's
good lonesome. 1t seems jest as it di'
, when l was tust widder."
GONG up Abbott street, yesterday,
man saw a boy about eleven years of ag
seated on the sidewalk, bareheaded, il
the full blaze of the scorching sun. "But
you ought not to sit therepr said the mar
"Whyr' " Because you'll get all tarne
up" Makes no difference to me whethe
} l sit in the sun or the shade" sadl
answered the boy. "Mother tans me u
three or four times day, anyhow.-Dc
, troit Free Press.
A GENTLEMAN named Hill, living i
Lower Gold Hill, has little black,and
tan dog that accidentally fell into hol
about twenty feet deep, near his house,
few days ago, He shortly began barking
and his MASTER being attracted to the spo
thought he would by an experiment sc
! how much the dog knew. He procured
rope, tied a knot on the end, and lowere
it to the dog, who shortly seized it wit
J his teeth and hung on until drawn out {
the hole.-GOId HiH (NeU.) Neaos.
| A COUPLE of "gentlemen" entered
5 friedrich store in Akron, N Y, the othe
day, while the proprietor was absent, an
informed the clerk that they wished I
purchase some fire-brick. While one {
! them was being shown around the plaC
4 looking at the bricks, the other, who ha
q requested leave 10 write letter while HI
: companion was absent, busted himse
within the Office making two checks, on
for $400 and the other for 5000, signin
G the proprietOr's name TO both, and affixin
b the regular Office stamp as was the Gu
a tom. That the checks in every respe,
were perfect limitations of the genuine ma
= ! be known from the fact that both wei
cashed without question at the Nations
e bank. The whereabouts OF the forgel
. have not been discovered.