Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


ICE-Water that stayed out in the cold
and went to sleep.
ALINE of steamers will run up the Red
River this season.
UNDERsKIRTs should be two inches
above the sidewalk
COMPULSORY ducation-Learning a
trade at the State Prison.
No MEAL is considered complete now
adays without dictionary.
THE photographic tournamong" is the
shape 1t assumes among the Boston
girls.
ELMoRE, Vt, has neither lawyer,
doctor, town debt nor newspaper, but
has money in its treasury.
AMAN in the South recently ate, for
wager, pound of sawdust. This is a
new way of taking board.-Arcddian
THE item for wine and cigars alone
in the bill for entertaining Kalakaua
eight days in New York was 81, 1855.
tahed that tRe aappicati69ne Il hSSh %ShiteiR itiR
iron to the human body is absolutely
painless.
ALWAYS feed your hands as well as
you do yourself, for the laboring men
are the bone and sinew of the land, and
OuBut W Ue M6ll u6dteu
WHAT is the difference between Noah's
ark and a Mississippi fatboat2 One
was made Of Gophir wood and the other
was made to go for wood.
TAKE your time and make calculations.
DOu't do things in hurry, but do them
at the right time, and keep your mind as
we'll as your body employed.
A HANDKERCHIEF of William Penn is
to be on exhibition at the Centennial,
and curious correspondent writes TO ask
if it is the original Penn wiper.
SPRING brings joy to the heart of a
Wyoming editor, who sings: "Soon the
dusky squaw will be seen straining
maple-sugar through her winter stock
ings."
A Boston father is telling everybody
who will listen to him that his little girl,
two years old, brought his pen back to
him and said she wanted some Juice
put into it."
THE editor of the Savannah NesOs
comprehensively states that 1--WE cannot
possibly return rejected manuscripts
indeed, we won't undertake to return
borrowed money"
A COLORADO tombstone remarks:
He was young,
He was fair,
But the Iniuns
Raised his ha'r.
ALL the new black grenadines have
patterns on them-checks, stripes, dam
ask, or matelasse. They will be made
up with the plain canvas grenadines SO
much in vogue last summer
AN excessive mortality prevails among
the colored population of Washington,
due mainly to damp Easements and ILL.,
ventilated lodgings. The matter is en-.
gaging the attention of the health au-
thorities of the District.
AT Cedar Springs, Ca, q clergyman re-
cevied dog and an accordion in lieu of
money as marriage fee. There was
music, vocal and instrumental, but il
didn't hath power to charm his savage
breast under the circumstances.
WHEN q naH aohocIn,a,am annears in
| some of the Territories the marriageabIe
men look to the printing of their revolv.
ers and go abroad. The one who at the
| end OF week OF two has fewest bullet
holes in him generally takes her.
A YOUNG lady requested permission OF
| an editor to contribute some lines to his
magazine. The accommodating editor
| replied that few good fishing lines
would be acceptable, as he intends to &c
with fishing party next summer.
THE doctor set the bridge of his nose
all right, sewCd up the cut on his cheek
and Ornamented his demoralized coun
tenance with stripes of sticking plaster
an inch thick, and then he went home
saying: "ThG fellow is an internal liar
but Pll never speak to him again upor
that subject"
1T was in one of the best Boston High
Schools that the Principal the other day
requested young man who was de
| claiming a wide.awake selection TO re
peat the first line; and the lad, mistaking
the request as calling for a repetition
of the opening line of the last para
| graph, beloved out, in stentorian tones
in reply to the masters request, the stir
ring and impressive sentence: mo
blockhead, moi" The effect ON teacher
and pupils needs no explanation.
"SMALL TALK" of the Louisville Con-
rier-J J0uradl, read and acted upon the ad
vice given in a paragraph stating tina
gum arabic mixed with the starch woulC
give an appearance of newness to ole
shirts. The gum arabic turned his shir
yellow, and for four days he remained {
restless prisoner in bed, with no othel
occupation than to gaze out of the win
dow and watch the yellow garment
bleaching on line, while the ruthless
wind snapped its swallow tails into rib
bons.
SOME of the household recipes givei
in the papers are calculated to do NOR,
harm than good. Mrs. Hopson's servant
girl recently read in the paper that "po
tatoes should be of uniform size TO cool
evenly" 1t was more than two days be
fore she found the meaning of "uni
FORM" and then she went to work OF
half a bushel of potatoes. AS sh
couldn't make the smallest the size O
the largest she pared down the larges
ones until they were as small as tn
smallest, and as the latter was about tn
size of a walnut she had weak lot o
potatoes by the time she had made then
of uniform size, and a quart measure
would have held them all. The potatoe
were "short" for dinner that day, and, a
an explanation and some very shar
words followed, Mrs. Hopson's servant
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