Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-17
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

TWEED is an of'un.
Faro is licensed at Elko, Cal, for $400
n quarter.
GREEN turtles" says the Boston Trdr-
elLer have been successfully canned"
They must have been green.
THE Italian expedition for exploring
the interior Of Africa is to set out in jan
uary, to be absent three years.
WESTON has sailed for England Now
If he would only get to walking some
night in his sleepl- Cincinnati Times.
THERE were four nuns among the lost
passengers of the recently-wrecked Ger
man steamship Deutschland, on the En-
glish coast.
Gov KEMPER, of Virginia. recommends
the exemption from taxation, for limited
time, of the property of immigrants and
of capital invested in manufacturing.
JOAQUIN MILLER was once member of
the bar. Now who knows but joaquin,
if he had let scribbling alone, might by
this time have been Judge Of Police
Court Cincinnati Times.
1T is said that some people have what is
called spontaneity," and some haven't;
but nobody ever sat down on pin-cush-
ion yet without manifesting something
surprisingly like it.-EDchange
IT Is, perhaps, not irreverent TO remark
that the Creator never sees cruel master
maltreating his horse or dog without feel
ing sorry that He didn't skip the man and
confer His Immortality on the brute
Globe Democrat.
A BIG black bear, fresh from the mount
aims, walked into Milford, Pa, lately,
and, coolly trotting down Water street,
an thn ipa
appeared. There were plenty of folks
around, but they all gave bruin a wide
berth.
THEaE was a kind Sheriff named ConnOr,
Who said: Among thieves there is honor;
Get livery hoes
And coupe for the Bose"
In an hour VIM. NJ. was gOner.
". Y. Graphic.
THE two nephews of an old colored
man named Jones, at Portland had some
difficulty with him the other night, and
forced him to sit on hot stove-so the
old gentleman claims-holding him there
until he was pretty well fried.
THE Oldest lady in California, probably,
is Dona Lulalie CULLEN, who is now sup
posed to be 140 years of age, who recently
moved to San Jose Valley, near Pomona,
for her health. 1t is thought that the
Pomona climate will enable her to live to
a good old age.
A scHooL-BoY twelve years of age at
tempted to commit suicide at London, re.
Gently, but was found by his mother in
time to save his life. On recovering con-
sciousness he could give no reason for
what he had done. The police magis-
trate before whom he was taken remanded
him, refusing to take bail.
LITTLE Johnnie Singley, of Moulton,
Iowa, got tired of living alone, and so he
besought little Alice Mclaughlin to take
pity on his ngle-wretchedness and mar
ry him, which she did. The youthful
bridegroom had seen 104 years Of vanity,
and the blushing bride had walked in this
| earthly pilgrimage eighty years.
THE other day new Funeral Reform
Company in London got up mock
funeral, hearse, sables, mourning coaches,
mutes and all the other trappings of woe,
and paraded the streets, while men on the
footway distributed handbills calling at
tention to the superior way in which you
might be buried
| THE citizens of Oswego, N. Y, can
| have fish for breakfast by simply turning
the water-faucets. A collection of over
| fifty young perch, averaging two inches
| in length, which came through the water
| pipes of the water works was recently on
exhibition in one of the stores OF that city.
THE Paris Figaro says that an American
lawyer who had been retained to defend
desperate character on charge of MUIR
der has just taken out an insurance policy
on the life of his client; and that this
showed such confidence on the part of the
company in the ability of the lawyer to
secure an acquittal that the Office of the
latter has ever since been over.crowded
with clients.
FROM San Francisco comes the story of
a youngwoman who, becoming displeased
with a professional gentleman living
there, visited her wrath upon him by
systematic espionage upon his actions,
which she, by frequent letters, reported to
an intimate friend Of his. For three years
she eluded detection, and it was only by
mere accident that the victim recently
discovered his remorseless prosecutor.
A MARRIED woman in Decatur, H.,
whose husband spent his time loafing at
Saloons became tired of supporting the
family, dressed her child in its best gar
ments, took il to the saloon where its
father was, and said ~ want you TO take
care of this little child" and so saving
she sat the little one down upon the floor
and left. The dumb founded benedict sat
a few moments, when he got up and left
the saloon and has not been seen since.
BEHIND che bars of Auburn IN. W
Prison there pines veritable genius. His
name is Mitchell, and during his term of
Imprisonment he has busted himself in
cutting out of wood various fancy arti-
cles. The entire collection is said to be
beautiful, and the workmanship is such
rs to excite the wonder and admiration of
all who see it. Skllful mechanics have
placed the value of the collection at
81 900. Mitchell's sentence was for ten
, years but for good behavior his term has
been.shortened and he will be free in the
spring of 1877.
A WHITEHALL IN. W minister lately
married a couple, and the happy bride
groom, in the generosity OF his heart, on his
departure, crushed into the delighted par
sons hand a crisp hundred-dollar bill. The
circumstance fairly took the good man s
breath away, and in the joyfulness of an
honest heart he straightway went forth
and settled with the greenback long
standing and troublesome debt to that
amount. But the sleep of peace which
the just man slept that night was his last,
J for the next day he received telegram
} from the bridegroom, and it read: Mis-
take. Meant to have given you fee ten
! dollars. Please forward the ninety dol
lars"
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