Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Miss ADDIE LAKE, of Hamilton, called
it cowcumber," and her enraged moth
or hit her with "The History of Canada"
and broke her collar bone.
THE Cincinnati Commercial has an idea
that the national debt. could be paid in
cornstalks during the next twenty years.
That would be cornfscation of private
property, wouldn't itY
IT rs estimated that 100 young women
stand ready to do copying at two dollars
per week where one is willing to do plain
cooking at double that sum.
THERE'S nothing like sticking to ones
country, and this was why William
Tompkins, of Tennessee, sent to England
to get rollingpin and pair of tongs.
A CHICAGO paper says that no gentle
man or lady will leave an opera house
until the curtain is down and all the au-
dicnce has passed out" An lrishman
couldn't do better than that
A SCHOOL, MISTRESS in Frisco, by the
dexterous manipulations of friend in
Consolidated Virginia" has realized
$500 900 from $500. That ought to altar
her condition in life.-Neoo Bedford Ner-
cury.
LITTLE JOE CARNEY, of Savannah, told
his mother that he would drown himself
if she insisted on combing his hair, and
she was Just obstinate enough 70 insist,
anu ne w. jurt uetcrniIneu enough TO
do as he threatened.
WHEN a woman viii she will, you
know. Elizabeth Trowbridge, of Con
necticut, made 7S5 distinct threats of sui
eide, covering period of seven years,
but at last hung herself the other day
and gave Trowbridgc rest.
a SINGER, applying for an engagement,
wrote to an impressario as follows:
am good musihan, | pla all music at
| furst site" "Well," remarked the i'm
pIessario to a friend. 4" she may play by
note, but she certainly spells by car"
You can remove the much-worn gild
ing from your old china by taking eight
parts of soft water, eight parts nitric
acid, four parts common salt, sal-am
moniac one part. Mix, let it boil, put the
china into it and rub with stitt brush
TALKING of doctors bills the Medtcd
Times urges that they be presented
monthly, inasmuch as they would be
paid more willingly when the memory Of
the recent peril and the physicians skill
is still fresh than when time has worI
away the vividness of the impression.
LIEUT.. Col. LcHG, formerly editor of {
newspaper in Maryland and now an OH
Ger in the service of the Khedive o
Egypt, claims to have discovered the tru
source of the Nile, in south latitude deg
80 min, and between Urondogani ant
Uganda.
THREE Chicago girls are about oper
ing BARRIERS shop in that city. One 4
! to do the lathering, another the shaving
while a third, a beautiful blonde, is t
sit on Il sort of q throne and play on
harp and sing. The outfit of this estat
/ lishment, it is said, will cost 12,OOO.-
I Cincinnati Commercial.
I KING KA AKAUA perpetrated joke g
! the MissouIi House of Representative
u The legislators insisted upon speecl
: and he declined they persisted. The
: selling the gayel he said it reminded hil
: of the council In his own island hom'
/ and he would take the liberty to adjourn
: This he did with loud rap.
: SAYS tln Titusville Courier: TW
: thousand Pittsburgh glass blowers al
n constantly employed in the manuiactul
3; of lamp chimneys for the trade. The
% chimneys are warranted TO break quick'
l. by sudden changes of temperature ths
y any others turned out elsewhere, III
u thus the trade is benefited"
THE National Brotherhood of Loc
n motive Engineers has inaugurated T
IN form whose beneficial effects may, 1t
to be hoped, presently be felt throug
ID out the entire country. Engineers wi
d. are addicted to the use of intoXicatil
~ liquors when on duty are to be fort
a with expelled from the society.
W A Mrs BUSHNELL, living in Pi
a County, Pa, had fierce encounter wi
he a wild deer which ran and hid from
u, pursuers near her house the other dt
no NJ. She bravely seized the animal by
rs horns and held on until its furious strr
la giles broke the antlers off, and 1t III
id, leaving them in her hands. r
OF WHEN Edward Irving was asked If
zee conversation with Coleridge he col
ever get in a word, the great preacl
re- answered: "I never wish to get one i
he And II is related that at the inn in VIII
ng Coleridge was sojourning just before
he marriage the landlord was so struck W
OF his conversation that he offered b
in board and lodging free if he would Of
ap- stay in the house and talk.-COrlhtH,
ws A WASHINGTON correspondent writ
the at saw Gen. Fremont in the lobby
the the House yesterday. He is now
au- and bent. His face is deeply chiseled
9re the furrowing hand of time. His e
hre are slightly bleary; his cheek DO
MS ns stood out as prominent as those o
I5Iv' 5Iro Sioux chief. irongray whiskers, sh
ing and stubby, closely trimmed down fl
,es; the base Of his jaw bone, grow upon
the thin neck, His hair is yet a dark u
lpi;, gray, and is worn quite long, 1t
PA combed well forward, and hangs &c
in front of his ears. A well'worn bea
the set well back upon his head bri
lpeI scarlet comforter; a gray tweed j
NAL overcoat and dark suit OF under cl
the ing made up the general articles OF
bill attire" %.