Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-10-08
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

| 1HE OutrO 1unnel IS advancing at the
rate of 100 feet week. 'ii
The Constable who had an attachment
for widow was informed with dignity
that his affections were not reciprocated
THE fisheries in the Gulf of st. Law
renee this season have proved compare
tive failures so far as mackerel are con
cerncd. 20 re'rr
In n certain New York window is dis
played this suggestive notice: "Boy want
ed, that has fully rested himself and is moi
too Intellectual"
ANEwLY-CoMPLETED Danbury house has
| folding doors. The man designed single
doors, but his wife preferred the former,
She said they were so handy in case of a
funeral
Ii you see any young lady careless in
her apparel just now you may conclude
she's curtailing expenses so as To 90 in
heavy on papa when the Emperor of
Brazil comes.
The crisp weather which calls for fall
overcoats appears to have snulTed out the
sea-serpent He hasn't been heard from
for three weeks, and this is algood year for
the sea-serpents, too.
BosToN has "Society for the Encour-
agement of Studies at Home" Imagine
stubby six-year-old, with nose that
needs attending TO, a member of q society
with n name like,thatlr
In one of the large London hotels they
have introduced steam machinery for
wasnlng the dirty plates and dishes, and
also for cleaning boots and knives and
forks. 1t is said TO answer we'll.
In accordance with the provisions of
the Connecticut Factory law an officer
took eight children from Daniel
sonville Comm mill recently, and or
dered their parents to send them TO
school,
1.-TWO FERGUS FALLS (Minn.) men,
driving behind team of mules, discov-
cred glitter on the hoof of one of them,
examined it and found gold ring which
the mule had stepped on and secured with
the cork Of his shoe. ."-Romance set afloat
by designing Coroner.
THE Lynchburg (Va.) Republican reports
squirrels migrating southwark in large
numbers, saying they may be seen above
and below the city just before nightfall
crossing the river on their bark boats,
using their tails as sails when the wind is
favorable"
TEACHING the young idea how to shoot:
A son of Capt. George M. Bailey, of
Groton, Conn, was shot in the hand by
the accidental discharge of pistol which
he was examining in school the other day,
and Investigation showed that four other
pupils present were similarly armed
The Wichita (Kan.) Beacon says that
watermelon has been raised
within gun-shot of the editors back-win-
dow. THIS may be true, but it must have
been within gun-shot of the owners back
also; it would be too much to
ask anyone to believe that it was ever al
lowed to reach maturity otherwise.-ChS-
cdgO Times.
The business of selling degrees purport-
ing to be granted by medical colleges in
Philadelphia still fourishes abroad; and
there is standing advertisement of such
degrees in the English papers. The
charge for the degree of Phi. b., from the
y American University of Philadelphia"
Is e2O, which includes a handsome
diploma.
j. b. SMITH, a Boston colored caterer,
presented a check at the bank the other |
lay, and the teller asked him if he had |
anyone to identify him. MIR. Smith, as |
said: Young man, don't you |
know mer The teller confessed he did |
lot. " Thcn," said Mr.. Smith, I" it is evil |
lent that you have not moved in the first |
circles of society" i
A MAN in Oxford County, Me-, missed
lis pants in which was his wallet con-
md $ SIC dboHHtf Hf tHs Ysq qMssg t9 pf8s te
aid that the money was near some water,
md described the person who took it.
About an hour or two after he left, his |
wife, on making up the bed, found the |
PANTS tucked in between the mattress and |
Gather bed, with the money all safe.
AT Eufaula, Ala, lately, a mulatto,
bout twenty-three years of age, died from
rather unusual cause. Some time ago
le attended church, and some of the fe-
males became excited, and were surging
md plunging about, and he undertook to
lold one of the more violently affected,
)ut in so doing she threw back one of her
rms with great force, striking him a
most violent blow across his chest and |
lesrly killing him outright at the time. |
lie recovered slightly, however, but con-
inued to complain, and frequently had |
from the chest, or blood |
splitting, and died few days after.
AN enterprising undertaken in town
near New London, Conn, discovered one |
lay recently that a wealthy stranger in |
own was dangerously sick, and, scenting |
/ job, went 10 work without any orders |
making an elegant coffin for him. To his |
iisgust however, the sick man, soon after |
he coffin was done, began TO recover, and |
he undcrtaker's friends began to laugh |
1t him. The invalid, however, had a re- |
apse on account of sudden exposure and |
ell away again, but, seeing his end was
near, desired his wife 10 take him to his |
nome in Western New York TO die. This |
stirred up the undertaken and he went to |
he woman and urged her TO buy a coffin |
o take with her, as he might die on the |
way, and It was best to be prepared for any |
went. His clOquencc prevailed and the |
;offin was purchased.
A PRETTY tableau in real life was re. |
,ently arranged near Oregon, Holt COun- |
y, Kan, where young lady named Al
ce Carson encouraged the attentions of |
wo young men named Kretzer and |
Wheeler. Having agreed to marry both |
If them, she named the same day for the |
and trusted to luck to decide |
which should be the happy man. Wheel |
sr arrived first with travelling minister,
and hardly had the ceremony been per
ormed when Kretzer appeared with a |
iignitied EpiscOpalian rector Kretzer |
Insisted on an explanation, while Wheeler |
declared that his wife should not explain |
ler actions TO any other man except him |
'elf. Pistols were drawn and knives bran |
iished, so that there seemed every reason |
% expect that the lady would be left with
)ut either lover. The wrath of the |
Kretzer was finally APP
peased and he was about to retire, when it |
was discovered that the two ministers |
we're involved in a heated contest over the |
right of the outsider TO collect his fee with |
out paying royalty to the regular resident
clergyman. ar
A Brothers Vengeance.