Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

JESSE 1OMEROY says ne II DC nangeQ ii
he knows whether he will be hung or not.
THE first election of the Centennial year
will be that of New Hampshire, in March.
MANUFACTURING whisky by moonlight
is not so popular in st. Louis as u was,
says the Boston Post.
The man who works night and day in
ord er to leave handsome inheritance to
his children is a foolish man.
IT is evident that spelling-matches will
not be popular this winter. They spelled
a spell and will now rest spell.
THE motto upon which William B.
Astor worked, in massing that immense
fortune, was +" Ad Astor per osperd."
KRUPP, the German gunmaker, is to
make a cannon larger than the famous
English "Woolwich Infant" or spoil a
heap of iron.
ANDREW JOHNSON, son of the late ex.
President, was recently married to Miss
Bessie Rumbaugh, of Warm Springs,
North Carolina.
A LITTLE girl in Harrisburg, Pa, was
killed the other day by blow from
base ball club, accidentally given by her
brother, who was knocking stones.
A KIowA Indian recently created a sen
satiOn in Clay County, Tex, by offering
to trade even with Mr.. Stratton-his
pony for the farmers young daughter.
WE can't all be President of the United
States, but any one of us can throw ashes
on the icy spots and help human nature
along unruffled by a sudden sit-dOwn.
A FARMER in the neighborhood of
Springfield, Ky, raised a hog this year
that weighed TAO pounds. 1t was MKT
ure of the Woburn and Berkshire breeds.
IT is one of the rules of the Supreme
Court that no one save the attorney or
clerks may put pen or pencil to paper
anywhere within its precincts.-COr. ".
Y. Tribune.
The New York Commercial AdDertiser
says dogs tail is a great novelty al be-
cause no one ever saw it BEFORE" but the
real cause of the novelty is that 1t keeps
Vaughn going without wheels.
BLANKETS" of brown paper of "supe-
rior quality, perforated in such a manner
as to permit free passage for the exhala-
,tions of the body without diminishing the
warmth, are advertised in London.
THE Cuban Junta at New York have,
since the commencement of the struggle
in Cuba, issued and actually sold over
800, 900, 900 in "Cuban bonds" in this
at very low rate.
You can't depend on Kansas flour. A
| loaf of bread passed into Leavenworth
! Jail contained two files, knife, bottle of
| acid and roll of money. A country
which grows such wheat as that cannot
expect to get ahead very fast.
Mr.. SwoPE, of Maryland, wanted to
| teach school, and when he was declared
] ha
| down. That didn't make him any the
more competent, however, as he admitted
while they were taking HIM to Jail.
IT doesn't pay to fool with Scranton
| (Pa.) street-car conductors. An eX-Alder-
man playfully slapped one of them in the
face the other day, words followed, the
! ex-Alderman hit his man again and was
in turn knocked senseless by blow with
albilly.
In Russia the winter appears to have
set in with unwonted severity. AS early
| as Oct 20 the street traffic was conducted
almost entirely on runners, the snow
! being deep enough and hard enough for
sleighing, and travel by tramway had be-
come well-nigh impossible.
! ISN'T it funny that a woman who
! broom m-sticks her husband and lets him
wear buttonless shirts should think him
an irreparable loss as soon as he is killed
in railroad accident through the care
lessness OF a company which she can sue
for damages ?-DetrOit Free Press.
A NEW YORKER has patented machine
| to freeze murderers to death in four min
utes, and he hopes that all respectable Sher-
| ifs will adopt the idea and the machine.
Detroit Free Press. That will enable
/ the weakest kneed murderer to meet his
death with tie greatest coolness.-ChicagC
Times.
THE important harbor of Boulogne has
been blocfaded for nearly month by the
sinking of vessel at its mouth. Th'
people of this country would laugh at sucl
an obstacle and in less than twenty-foul
hours after it Obstructed the commerce OF
any port of importance itwould have beer
removed.
THERE is at Winston, Ala, an aged
couple, Buckner Walker and his wife
Seliva, the former beiLg G 104 and the latter
103 years old. The man runs flour mil
and the wife does her own cooking. They
have 102 living descendants: twelve chill
dren, sixty-two grandchildren and TWEEN
ty-eight great grandchildren
A MAN whose identity is not positively
: known fell into large tank in ROemmel
Il Leicht's brewery, at New York, a few
days ago, and before his predicament wa'
discovered was scalded TO death. Tht
tank was ten feet deep, and its sides per
fectly smooth, so that the man could no
possibly make his escape without aid.
| MASSACHUSETTS has an old custom o
pardoning certain number of prisoner
In the Penitentiary every Thanksgiving
This year Gov. CASTOR pardoned four
The intense eagerness with which tn,
convicts awaited the reading of the name:
of the favored ones, the Joy of the par,
doned and the disappointment of the 9th
ers, are represented as being affecting in
cidents.
THE Boston Saturday E0eniRg Gdzett
says that young lady asked OF the poe
Whittier his autograph, one day recently
and he responded by return OF mail will
the following lines:
Our lives are albums, written through
With good or i'll, with false or true;
And as the blessed angels turn
The pages Of our years,
God grant they read the good with smiles,