Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-08-13
SENSE AND NONSENSE.


In these days no lady appears perfectly
unruffled.
A STORY gains currency so long as it
pays TO tell it.
A ROLLING stone gathers no moss, but
how about rolling prairie?
| PROF. BAIRD says all the 400, 900 shad,
destined for the o'ershadowed Rhine"
have died on the voyage.
CALIFORNIA has an odd trouble. Thou
sands of pelicans are eating up all the fish
in Big Meadow Lake, 150 miles inland.
TRAMPs are organizing in Maine for
fall campaign. They refuse to work for
three dollars day, but go about freeboot-
ing.
DON'T use soap. A Brooklyn editor
says that it communicates disease by being
made of fat taken from dead dogs and
cats.
WHEN man lives so far off as the De-
troit Free Press man he isn't afraid to say:
I" If Tom Allen won't fight let him keep
still"
IF you won't work we can give you
no credit" is the way the retail dealers at
Fall River, Mass, talk to the striking
operatives.
DIR. RUSH in his last will and testament
aptly and epigrammatically alluded to
newspapers as vehicles of disjointed
thought"
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL thinks that
American ladies, for beauty and dignity,
rank with the most highly-cultivated ma
| tions of the world.
IT may be remarked that, while the
season of college commandments is just
ended the season of collie commandments
is but fairly inaugurated.
/ ~. l. Al
predict that next winter will not be Sc
we're one-because, they say, mild win
! ter always follows cold, wet summer.
A LAWSUIT is in progress in San Fran
cisco in which one of the questions raised
on demurrer is whether mud-scow is a
steamer, vessel or boat in the legal ac-
ceptatiOn of those terms.
"I WOULD 1 were glove upon that
hand, he murmured fondly, but the next
| time he saw her she had the salt-rheum
bad and then he changed his mind.
Tickle, tickle mani
OLD Mrs. Boulay, of Dallas, Tex, found
81 800 in gold under her floor the other
day. 1t had been placed there by her hus-
band, who had neglected to tell her about
it before he died. Boulay for the old
man.
THE boys of McDonough's school, in
Baltimore, annually have the fun of visit
ing the grave of that deceased millionaire
and covering it with flowers. This is
in accordance with John McDonOugh's
will.
A SISTER of ex-Gov. Senter, of Ten
nessee, fell into a trance so closely re-
sembling death that she was prepared for
burial. Upon revival, she said she had
been with her father, who had been dead
many years.
So GREAT is the rapacity of sunfish,
bass and pickerel in Lake George that
fishermen declare that, OF the 10000 or
80, 600 trout placed in these waters by
Seth Green, scarcely one in a thousand
will come to maturity.
THE Green Bay (Wis) Gazette was re-
Gently brought into court charged with
libeling a sewing machine agent. The
Gazette said that his machine wouldn't
sew, and he wants to prove that he can
sue if his machine can't
MORE sorrows: All the clock makers
in Connecticut have agreed to suspend
operations for four weeks. 1t would be a
pretty hard blow on the nation TO be COM
|, PEELED to get along whole month without
its regular supply of clocks.
THERE is an ominous silence just now
regarding that Keely motor. 1t can scarce
ly be possible that the water has given
out; there's water in abundance now, Let
US hear from MIR. Keely, the talented Phil
adelphian.-St. Louis Republican.
A $2,OO0-MIRRoR with 5000 gold-leaf
frame is one of the things that are pointed
out at Saratoga, and yet there are folks
who will walk right by it without being
made any happier, unless they see that
their dress hangs better than their neigh
boris.
"RENTs have risen," was the jocose re-
mark of the astute small boy when nail
caught in the previously small tear in his
coattail and ripped the garment up to his
neck. Subsequently, after an interview
with his parents, he mOaned to himself in
the wOodshed that leather had fallen"
A GENIUS in Rome, N. Y, claims to
, have invented motive power which
runs a selfacting machine that pumps its
own water and runs itself without tire or
steam. To complete his machinery he is
, desirous of a few dollars in money and a
fifteen pound balance-wheel. When com
pleted he SAYS the invention will be worth
> $1OO, 900, more or less, likely the latter.
A AFTER good deal of figuring the New
York Indepegadent has got together the de-
grees conferred by only seventy nine out
Of the 800 colleges at the recent Commence.
! ments, footing up 129 ID. DIS and 73 LII.
/ DIS. AT these strides little careless
E calculation will show that when next tbs
country has a Centennial every inhabitant,
from the bestpreserved centenarian 70 the
youngest babe, will be either a ID. D., an
, IL. D., or both,