Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-05-28
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

HARD misunderstanding ice.
CIVIL rights-Obliging answers.
DRY goods-Salt fishes and crackers.
THE Hindoos have no word for
friend" in their language.
IT is said sheep never dies in debt
Its pelt will pay the price of common
sheep.
TAME says: "What if your nails be
pinkr That is no reason why you should
scratch your nose in public"
A VEIN of solid gold three-fourths of
an inch in thickness has been struck in
the Osceola mine, Sunshine, Col.
DEAF men claim immunity from legal
punishment on the ground that none can
be condemned without Il hearing.
IT is said that not single new boat
was built in the numerous yards along
the Erie Canal during the past winter.
A MAN has read the Lancaster tPa.)
IntelLigencer ever since 1927, and pays
for it now out of pOcket-book 102 years
old.
FLORIDA is the only State in the Union
which is shown by the United States CEN
sus not to have raised bushel of either
spring or winter wheat.
A YOUNG man of the village of West
over, Beverley, Canada, was tarred and
feathered few nights ago for being a
nuisance and refusing to work.
GAIN may be temporary and uncertain,
but expense is constant and certain; it is
easier to build two chimneys than to keep
one in fuel
! LITERARY women are said TO be long
lived. May not this be natural result
| of the fact that the pen is less efficacious
than the tongue in the rapid expenditure
of vital forceY
| For ingenious cruelty the Frenchman
who hanged himself in the presence of
his paralyzed wife, and compelled her to
witness, without the power of prevent
ing, his violent death, deserves the
palm.
! A CIRCUS with eighty horses was ar.
ested while crossing the frontier from
! Germany into France a few days ago.
| The proprietor of the concern tele-
graphed to Bismarck that his horses were
for the exclusive use of women to stand
upon and cut up, and he was told to pass
on.
MANHATTAN ISLAND is thirteen and a
half miles in length, and its average
width is one and three-fifths miles, al
though in its widest place (diagonally
across to Corlear's Hook it is fraction
over three miles. 1t contains twenty-five
square miles and 90, 1926 square yards
over, or, say, total of 20, 1896 square
yards, or about $4,000 acres. The dis
tance from the Battery to the City Hall
is about three-tUurths of a mile, and
from City Hall to One Hundred and
Fifty-fourth street about nine miles.
A CROWD of infatuated uptown boys
met at Troy, n. Y, the other night to
secretly organize party to go to the
Black Hills, kill the Indians, and seize
II cir fabulous gold mines. The Chair
man suggested, in a practical way, that
as at least one of the party would un'
doubtedly be killed by the Indians on
the way, it would be well to carry nice
coffin, covered with blue velvet, and
with silver handles and screws, with
the rest of the luggage. This threw a
GOODNESS over the meeting. 1t didn't
seem to take very well, and after talking
the matter over very seriously one
after another finally decided that il
wasn't eXpedient to go To the Black
Hills. The boys then organized a de
batting society, and it was resolved tC
discuss at the first meeting the question
that it Is advisable to exterminate the
Indians in our country"
A YOUNG lady of about sixteen sum
meTs called for glass of soda water
When asked what sirup she preferred. SHE
glanced her lovely eyes over the variou:
names which appeared ON the faucets OF
the fountain. She read over the name:
of strawberry, cream, lemon, etc, unit
she reached nectarine. Nectarinew ex
claimed the beauty. What is that
What does il taste likepn The soda MAJ
looked meekly at her and charmingly
replied that it tasted as sweet as IA younl
lady's lips. "Then will take glass
sir, with that sirup," said the charming
creature, He Immediately prepared
glass OF the delightful mixture anc
handed II over TO the young lady, who
raised it to her lips, which bewitehingly
parted to receive the contents. She
sippingly quaifed the cooling beverage
and, handing back the glass, she limo
Gently remarked that now she knew why
the young gentlemen found so muei
) lplea. UIe in kissing her SO often