Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-31
SENSE AND NoNsES.

Piper case Is awfully encouraging to muir
derers
DIpuTHERIA is making terrible havoc
among the little children in West Point,
Nebraska.
A BRITANNIA. WARE mandatory at
Meriden, Conn, pays $4,000 monthly
for wages. ,- a
A RICH lead-mine has been discovered
in Kansas, on the line of the Fort Scott
Railroad @4@
SOME one has remarked that the times
are so close just new that even the days
are short"
A MAN in Galloway County, KY, is the
father Of twenty-five children, only four
of whom are girls.
THE Mississippi River where II leaves
Lake Itasca, is, by actual measurement,
twenty.three feet and four inches wide.
cir you don't believe times are hard,n
says Flora McFlimsey, "just feel my
muff; it's stuffed with rags instead of
cotton"
A FUND of $4,000 is being raised at
Meriden, Conn, to enforce the non
license law. One man has subscribed
| $40, 900.
A MAN in Nebraska City wants to wager
| anything reasonable that he will make
$25, 900 in three years in growing and
feeding hogs.
A LAD who had Just finished reading
the Bible through announces the discov.
cry that the words boys" and girls"
occur in it only twice.
AN irrepressible female who owns three
or four houses and large lot of real
estate insists upon receiving aid from the
Virginia City Relief and Aid Society.
Tuu of,flnf af aL n wa, ii, - A.
weirs has frozen completely over this
season, an occurrence that has not hap
pened before for more than fifty years.
| A GEORGIA man borrowed horse to
tend farm, and after the crop was in
he had the cheek to charge the owner for
what the horse had eaten while in his pos
session.
THE look a man gives his wife when ne
suddenly awakes in the morning and
finds her going through his vest pockets
is not studied expression, but is excel
lent in its way.
A RAILROAD brakeman in Texas found
| a wallet containing s., 900 and restored
| it to the owner. Within forty minutes
after that the brakeman fell off the cars
and was killed. The moral is plain
enough.
In the Twenty-ffth Regiment of United
States Infantry there is a First Sergeant
who is a Circassian. He was born in the
town of Chamara and is twenty-six years
of age. He keeps the companys books
and papers.
A SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF
BIRDS is called for in some districts of
| Germany, where worms and insects have
| taught the agriculturists that bird in the
bush is worth two in the cage or in the
sportsman's game-bag.
PEOPLE would be much healthier, we
learn from Hdns Journal of Health, if
they ate more onions. The American ma
ton has one leading trait. They peril
their health out OF respect to other peo-
| pies noses.-FTee Press.
On the 22d of November the 1000, 900
people of London lived twenty -four hours
| without there being a single arrest for any
offense whatever. Such thingwas never
heard of before, and the Londoners begin
to think the millennium is approaching
A WOMAN near Bergen, N. j., dubbed
three hunters off her farm, and clubbed
them so well that they needed an am-
bulance to get back to New York. She'd
be splendid to get up club for news
paper.
els THAT friend of yours?" asked
gentlemen, pointing toward party who
was sailing rapidly down the street.
Cant tell you till next Saturday." re-
piled the individual addressed. I've
just loaned him five dollars. ."-BrookIu.
Argus.
A BOY named Thomas Scott had an arm
and a foot taken off by falling beneath a
coal-car at Scranton, and for hours before
he died he kept up a continual whistling,
only ceasing few moments before he
breathed his last. He paid dear for his
whistle.
WooDFoRD, VT, has natural curiosity
in Aurjck Cressey, who neither reads,
writes nor understands figures, yet if you
give him the dimensions of stick of tim
Der he will give you the number of cubic
feet, and perform other mathematical
gymnastics.
1T is contemplated to change the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
400 miles long) from broad to a narrow
gauge. The four feet eight inch track
! would necessitate the taking apart and
changing to suit the narrow-gauge about
1900 coal-cars.
You can't get dinner at the Briggs
House, in Chicago, now. The chief rea-
son is because the walters broke all the
dishes in revenge for being kept out of
their pay, and one of the smaller reasons
is because other creditors stripped the
/ house of furniture.
The Indians imprisoned in the old fort
at St. Augustine, Fla, had a war-dance
the other night. Fires were started with
in the fort, which burned briskly, and
lighted up the scene for mile around
The Indians in full war array came forth
from dark dungeon and danced for two
hours.
THERE is man now in Jail here for
six months, and is to remain six months
. longer. His board is sixty cents day.
This for year costs the city $219. His
OtfenSe was stealing a cotton umbrella.
a II serves the thief right, but is rather ex-
. pensive on the people.-LeriRgtOR (Ry.)
3 Gazette
, A MINER working near Virginia City
the other day fell about 100 feet down the
! shaft, striking on platform Of two.inch
planks and crashing through them to the
p. bottom of the shaft, few feet below. In
f spite of all this he suffered no more than u
cut on the head, few bruises and three
[ broken ribs.
A DEPUTY-SHERIFF near Hampden,
, Conn, lately brought thief whom he
was pursuing to halt pretty suddenly
and without harming him in the least
The two were evenly matched as to run
l ming powers, and the officer, though close
: upon the culprit, could not gain upon
I him. Suddenly the officer threatened to
shoot, and throwing hard piece of snow
9 at the man fired his revolver in the air.
The lump of snow hit the thief behind
> the ear and he instantly fell, believing he
was shot, and remained perfectly quiet
until he was captured
WHETHER hogs require sulphur as an
] essential to their health, or whether 1t is
sought by them as a cOndiment, may not
be discovered. But one thing is true /;
they devour il with greed whenever it is
f found. Itis for this purpose that they eat
large quantities of soft coal, which con.
S tains a large amount Of sulphur, Per
haps this is the most economical method
of supplying hogs with sulphur during
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