Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-19
Fractional Currency,

A good excuse for borrowers-its Lent
Jokes are like nuts, the drier they are
the better they crack.
Poor men and hens are Obliged to scratch
to get along in this world.
A dressmaker's apprentice speaks of her
cross-eyed lover as the fellow whose looks
are cut bias.
The best preparation to keep lady's
hand free from chaps" is a report that she
has no more money.
at is ensy enough to make the acouaint-
ance Of apple dealers. Buy their fruits
We shall know them.'"
Money is so scarce in Indiana that the
farmer who sells hog is trailed home bv
burglars enough to make respectable eau
Gus.
~. Gray-Pack with my box five dozen
quills" The only thing remarkable about
this sentence Is that it contains the whole
alphabet.
Some of our exchanges are very desirous
ot having ground hog day abolished. We
move that 1t be referred to the Committee
OF the hole.
Yes sir when man gets up and predicts
late spring, it il your duty to hit him
with hitching post. Come, ethereal mild
ness, come along
Moses Jackson, of Indiana. remarked
Pass that ere butter" and he fell back and
died. Butter at thirty cents a pound is
matter not to be trihed with.
The Boston Advertiser has found loyal
Indian who will not steal and who doesn't
drink whiskey, lie is at present occupying
a prominent position in front of cigar
stand.
Ii old Uncle Watkins hadn't been trying
to split wood and talk about Beecher az the
same time, he might have not chopped off
his big toe. There are things in this world
which must be done separately.
Josh Billings says: Yu kant find CON
tenIment laid down on the map, it is an i'm
agnary place not settled yet; and those reach
It soonest who throw away their compass
and go it blind.
A Bellefountane school master thus de-
scribes a money-lender: Gle serves YOU
in the present tense, he lends YOU in the
conditional mood, keeps you in the subiec-
tive and ruins you in the future tense"
And so Mrs. Woolhull published the
scandal story for the purpose of affordinc
Filton an excuse for leaving Elizabeth that
he might marry Woodruff. Well, the fell
low who found that out il no slouch.- --BIade.
"What is your name ?" asked census.
taker. John Coneoran." "Your age ?'
Twenty-one." What nativity ?" "Well,
that's what bothers me-" "Pll tell YOU and
may be you can make it ont. NV father
was Irish, but is now naturalized Ameri-
can citizen; my mother English; and was
born on dutch trigate, under the French
flag, in Turkish waters. Now, how is it,"
This is the way one choir sings the first
verse OF Jerusalem, my happy home;"
Yi@'u-sah. long. Yie -lu sab .lepg,
DINING jih bln pao pc;
Ling cong z-'eo Xii we tao,
Pen ngo Hin gyi en-we7
The choir to which we now refer is COM
posed of Cainamen; but there are plenty Of
American ehoirs that can sing just as bad.
ly, if they try.
An innocent conductor on the L. f. Al.
r. r., who resides in this city, was inter
viewed by handsome Young lady who
was passenger on his train. She asked
the conductor "whether he thought that
Mr.. Beecher aud Mrs Tilton were euilty?"
Judge how the lady's feathers wilted when
tho modest conductor replied guilty OF
whatY II would have been cruel ii he
had said 80 50. - Fremont .Nssssgir