Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-07-02
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

AND now let the weather put head on
each cabbage-plant
"OH, my dear wife" said John Henry,
as he paid the milliner's bill.
THERE are sixty-seven patent cough
medicines and yet the world coughs.
IT is not advisable to go out of doors
without anything on your head, nor into
society without anything in it-Terre
Hdate Mail
THE advance of education has even
spread to the feathcrcd tribe. "A Partisan
bird-seller advertises to teach parrots to
talk sensibly."
Mn j. BLACK, of New York, whose
very name is suggestive of mourning, con
fcsses that he has served 232 on COroner's
juries within year.
NEVER call man sunflower in Con.
necticut. Two little boys who applied the
horticultural title to William Armstrong
were fined one penny each.
TENNESSEE lightning went for a Ten
nessee mule few nights since, but after
fOOling around for while it was satisfied
with melting his shoes off and leaving him
unhurt.
THOSE sailors who earned prize-money
in 1862 and haven't received it up to 1870
have come to the conclusion that it's bet
ter to WORK for low wages aud get their
cash every Saturday night
ANsoN GOODWIN, q Rochester rough,
lifted quarter lager beer cask filled with
water above his head several times to ex-
hibit his strength recently, and moment
later he fell dead.
THAT singularly limpid oil drawn from
the iaw-bones of blackfish, which is used
by watchmakers the world over TO oil the
works of watches, almost all comes from
Provincetwn, Mass, though the total con-
sumption is only 200 gallons yearly.
TENNYsoN wrote of the grasshopper:
What hast thou to do with evil?
Shooting, singing, ever springing
In and out the emerald glooms,
Ever leaping, ever singing,
Lighting on the golden blooms.
ONE of the Chavez gang of banditti,
having resolved to lead an honest life,
| hired out to herd horses in Tulare County,
Cal Shortly afterward his dead body was
| found, having been lassoed and dragged
over the plain until his neck was broken
and life extinct.
A MAN who had saved the life of a
| daughter of a Boston millionaire received
| two dollars and half from the grateful
|
magnificent bounty that he paid out every
cent of it to seventeen organ grinders tc
serenade his benefactor.
"WHAT shall we do" said Mrs. Par
tington, "if this astonishing trepidity in
the increase of population continues
Isaac says there were over 400 births in
the steamer that he came over in" And
then the old lady fell into a placid con
temptation of the internal condition O
that unfortunate vessel.
CAPT. JAMES b. EADs announces the
beginning of work on his system of ietties
for opening the South Pass of the Missis
sippi River. He says that at least one
mile of the east line of jetty work will be
built before the middle of October, and
that much larger force of men ant
machinery will be put on the work mex
fall.
THE great army of potatob bugs from Col
oradO has invaded the East and in Penn
sylvania, New York and New Jersey tht
devcuring hosts are marching on. As ;
larger acreage was planted to potatoes il
those States this season than heretofore, /
is believed that the bugs will be able L
live well during the summer, and possibly
leave few tubers for the farmers. Pari
green is being imported by the ton.
LARRY BELCHER sat in an Arizona hote
a short time ago with a big jack knife il
his hand, and, while industriously chew
ing tobacco, he was also busily engaged il
whiting the chair; but when the land
lord came shuffling into the room with
bowie-knife in each hand and slit his ca
Larry piled out of the window, while tn
boss of the rancho stood in the door ant
yelled I'll teach ye how to carvem
IT has been for years the custom of tn
life companies to mark off us lapsed al
policies on which the overdue interest O
premium notes remained unpaid. A vas
number of inSprances have been lost il
this way; but it appears that pluck.
party in Cincinnati has appealed to tn
law for protection, and that the Superio
Court of that city has decided in his favor
This court, following the example of tn
Appellate Court of Kentucky, held tina
the note was evidence of loan made by tn
company to the policy-holder, lien upo
and secured by the value of the policy, bJ
none the less a JOdn, and though the not
was given for premiums the interest upo
the note was not premium, and that fai
ure to pay such interest did not legal
= vitiate the policy or cause its lapse.
In the Sixth District Court yesterda
AFTERNOON, Wllllc DlslIlCt-AIOIncy oohN
was making the opening argument in tn
Rudolph Davidson murder case, Mr.
/. Rudolph, mother of the accused, who WI
> present with other relatives and friends
becoming excited by the earnestness wit
: which the attorney was putting the cas-
before the jury, sprang from her seat an
/. = exclaimed in thrilling tones: "Oh, Nj
- J0nesl oh, Mr.. Jones don't talk that way
: For Gods sake, have mercy on my poo
g g boyi my poor boyl For Gods sake. !
; mercifuln' and fell back swoOning int
! ! the arms of friend. She was remove
from the courtroom, and the Distric
Attorney urged her friends to prevent be
further attendance, saying that the pros
cution of such "A case was at all times III
pleasant, and in the face of such seer
If as that just presented extremely painful
v but it was necessary for him TO perfor
/ his duty under the law.-Sdcrdmen
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