Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-04-30
SENSE AND NOnsE0sg

matY A step farther.
The standing army averages one com
missioned officer TO twelve men,
1t is a saddening spectacle to see peo-
pie squandering money, and know that
you can't help them do it.-Ddnbuy
Neos
-" Isay, Pat, whatare you about-sweop.
ing out the room ~ "No," answers Pat,
/ am sweeping out the dirt and leaving
the room"
Come now Are you ever going to
stop talking about that "shot heard round
the worldW Shoot that shot
1t is easier to bear up under our mis-
fortunes than to survive the comments of
our friends on them,
Twenty sophomores of Dartmouth
College are afflicted with that cheerful
and picturesque complaint known as the
mumps.
The Rochester Democrat proposes to
date the origin OF the Genesee Falls 100
years back and have a centennial.
Nov that II is learned that the fruit
buds are destroyed, all the small specu-
lators will go into the fruit trade.
"A lady in Lexington, KY, who is 10
years old persists in putting her young
life away through the stem of a tobacco
A cruel and unusual punishment is
inflicted on the prisoners in the Bangor
(Me.) Jail, in allowing the students from
the Theological Seminary to preach raw
sermons to them.
The Tulare (Cal) Times resents as an
outrage the conduct of some parties who
are cutting one of the big trees in the Tu-
lare grove, thirty feet in diameter and over
200 in bnirht for nvbil,itiop Of tho No,
tennial.
"A Detroiter is to be married on the
Fourth of July. Few men care to invite
at such an early stage in the matrimonial
career the blowing up which is at some
time sure TO come.
-Epitaphs were discussed before a fel.
low of twenty-five, who thought they were
too complicated and gave the following
as what he would like to have on his
tomb:
JOHN THOMPSON, fs50-1950"
"A Virginia widow refused to marry
bald-headed man, though he was mill
ionaire. She explained: 'We'd have a
family fight some time, and he has no hair
to catch hold Of"
Think what destruction would have
been caused if the spelling-school fever |
had ever struck the Aztec Empire. Why, |
when they were at their meals and want |
ed bread they had to ask for totauquitlax- |
callillaquelpacholli
1t is cited by the New York papers as |
curious fact that while the filthy, tum- |
ble-down markets of that city are crowded |
from morning till night no one can sell |
anything in those which are handsome |
and spacious.
Louisville has had a sensation. A
bulldog belonging to a prominent citizen
attempted to chew a "spoon" fish-hook:
one ofthe prongs entered his upperlip and
the other the lower. No one dared to take
1t out until chloroform was administered |
10 the furious animal.
A quiet, peaceable gentleman in Phil |
adelphia has recently given up business. |
sent his family into the country and calm |
lyannounces his determination of devot- |
ing the remainder of his life to discover |
ing the man who sent him a paving-stone |
by express with seventeen dollars charges |
on it.
1t was Jones who got mad at his wife
the other night when he thought he heard
burglars in the house. She wouldn't let
him go down in any more than the single
garment he had on, lest if he should get |
stabbed she'd have to mend a hole in his |
pants.
The Italian geographers have made |
considerable progress in the interior of |
Africa, and claim by letter to have dis
covered one of the Nile heads. They |
have not yet come across Stanley, but he |
will find them before they get through
Those unfortunate persons who have
been discounted at the spclling-matches |
may, perhaps, derive some consolation |
from he fact that two great writers of the
English language, ATtemus Ward and |
Chaucer, had very insufficient acquaint- |
ance with photography.
The age of heroism is not entirely run |
out. There, for example, is Mrs. Bib |
kins, who says it's too hard times to buy |
new bonnet this spring." and she has re- |
solved not TO do it. A more remarkable |
instance of heroic self.denial on the part
Of modern womankind can scarcely be |
imagined.
The beTetta, an article to which allu- |
sion has frequently been made in connec
ton with the investment of Cardinal Nc |
Closkey, is the usual square cap worn
when in church by all Catholic priests |
who are not officiating at the altar; only |
IN the case of a Cardinal its color is scar |
let instead of black
st. Louis scientist read a paper at a |
scientific gathering the other day TO prove |
that the winters are growing colder and the |
summers warmer. 1t does not need an
argument to prove the first part of the |
statement; a look at the bottom of the coal. |
bin settles the fact.
According to Drake, the Boston his |
torian, there was in that city in 1925 a
seventeen-year- boy with all the traits
of Jesse Pomeroy, who enticed three little
children into by-places and tortured them. |
The penalty inflicted upon him was thirty |
nine lashes at the carts TAIL twelve at the |
gallows, thirteen at two other places, and |
hardlabor in the Bridewell for six months. |
We have a child in this Office who is |
five years old, weighing thirty pounds,
and who can set a half column of type a
day. This is the youngest compositor on
record. Those who doubt this assertion
can be satisfied by giving this office a call,
and we will make Ned" put up the type
in good style.-COUingtoa (Ga.) Eate,prise
Peter Tyce, of Scotch Plains, Nj,
woke his wife up at two O'Clock in the
morning, laid a pocket-book on the table,
saying: There's money enough to bury
both OF US, and then committed suicide,
but his wife didn't initiate his example,
and probably spent her share ofthe money
on an attractive mourning dress with
frills
AT Cedar Keys, Fla, real pirate
has appeared-an aged Spaniard, who
calls himself Rios de Ralfo. He once
assisted in the burial of a large amount of
treasure at Cedar Keys, which he has re-
turned TO unearth, and has actually sue
ceeded in discovering an iron box con-
tanning many precious stones and old
Spanish coins Of an estimated value of
$4,000
Last season P. was attacked with the
cholera, and his friends and physicians
gave him up as lost case. As he lay
there, apparently upon his death-bed, the
doctor asked him If the medicine he had
taken had in any manner affected his
teeth. =" dOntknow, " family whispered
p but Won can gee thnu nin n, ~, -,