Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-05-07
Fractional Currency.

Before states came into use people null
tiplled on the face of the earth.
al guess I'll take this book" remarked
lady in one OF our book stores. "Ifs got
twice as much gold leaf on thecover as any
of the rest"
Louisville Courier-Jouradl: "A CORES
pondent asks us where we get the word in
congruvial.' Caught it at the North Pole
wiping its nose with SNOWFALL"
The Ohio canals have gone into disuse,
cost the State about 100000 annually and
it is proposed to lease them to private indi-
viduals at yearly rental of $2l 900.
Mark Twain says that with the poor
whites along the Mississippi. "chills are a
merciful provision OF the All-Wise Provi-
dence, to enable them to take exercise with
out exertion."
A rural friend thus ruralizes: "You
may talk about your bugles and hddles and
sich, but for right up and down telling
music, give me the old-fashioned bass
drum"
The Memphis AUuldache says that it is diff
ficult to decide whether Susan B. Anthony
is older or younger than her brother, Mark
Anthony, who allowed Cleopatra to bam-
boozle him.
1t is said that sometime during the pres
ent year party of one hundred English
men is coming over to this country on a
grand buffalo hunt. 'Istl 'Ush! Ark
| The 'orn of the 'unter is card OH the ill.
"Spell defendant" said Prof. Sprague a,
the last spelling match B-e-e-c-h-e.r,'
whispered little school girl, but the audi
| ence did not hear her and so the precious
child wasn't presented a copy Of the great
trial in book form.
Brooklyn Argus: at is an interesting
fact that those bed-bugs which have beer
grated flourish best Graft 'em on a bed
post, says the almtnac, at the beginning OF
winter and they will come out of their owr
accord, frcsher and stronger and bettel
than ever, in the spring"
A party who was looking at house il
the Sixth Ward the other day, said h,
couldn't afford to pay so much rent. "Well
look at the ncighborhood," replied the wo
man. "You can borrow fiat-irUns mex
door, sugar and -four on the corner, cofie'
and tea across the street and there's biz
pile OF wood belonging tn the school hous'
right across the alley.-Detroi Free Press.
Bill Snikes came home mellow the 9th
er night, aud when his wife asked hin
what allied him he sud he had been to tn
spelling school and had (hic) got foul o
hip-pip-poppo-poppo hip -popty- hip pop
p-pityhop-hi-mn ppimns-hip- -hip-hip
hip-pity-mus hipopytimus-or some sucl
(h.c) con(ouldsd wori and il had givel
him one OF his spells"
The present rage Of spelling schools II
wives an anecdote of Gen. Scott. lie ha
drawn up the rough draft of an order i
which the word "wagon" occurred. TIL
General inserted one ''g" too many and hi
clerk, on discovering it, timidly asked o
what authority he spelled "wagon" wit
two "gs" con the authority OF Lieut.
Cien. Scott, commanding the armies Of tn
United States, sir thundered the pomI
ous old General. The clerk, at leas
thought the authority suhcient.-Bosto
Globe.
We don't know who wrote it, but it
funny; "The reporters were not admitte
to the late lecture on drsss reform, by Mi
4 Agnes Burke, at the Unitarian church. {
eorset's all right, but as the plblie pan
I; for information on such subjects, Il ";
natural that the knights Of the quill shnul
endeavor 10 CLEAN some knowledge Of a
proceedings. We learn that the lectui
was sew-sew and the lady did not hang Q
" the outskirts Of her subject, but struck Il
trail at once and followed il up. She al
: braided tight-lAcers and--a-heni-sugge
!. ted suspendess for-Hose businessis it, an.
how ?"