Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-10
SENSE AND NONSENSE.y


A C-sICK man-One who has been fined
500
ALL money is hard money these times
hard to get.
" PAY UP' is what they call silver
mine in Idaho
THERE are 100000 wagcs-carning la
borers in the United States
THE tailor is thepoor mans best friend,
inasmuch as he settles the rents.
A NEW HAVEN boy would have been
killed by the kick of a horse had il not
been for stolen apples in his pocket.
" WHAT do you take for your cold Y'
said lady to Mr. -. Four pocket
handkerehiefs a day, madam" was the
answer.
THE women OF New England are arm
ing and becoming expert shots, the laws
being Intellectual for protection from
tramps.
THOUSANDS of people in Arkansas, says
the Helena Ark World, will be out OF
debt this fall who haven't been in similar
condition of freedom for many years.
SCHROEDER and his balloon are things
of the past. The money for constructing
his air-ship to travel $50 miles an hour
against the wind was not forthcoming.
SINCE 1870 the number of sailing YES
sells has greatly diminished, steamers at
that date having taken the seas as never
before. England, the United States and
Italy are now the first great sailing powers.
M. RoHING n French chemist, insists
that buttermilk will prolOng life. The
Tactic acid in it clears the cartilages, ar
terics, and valves of the heart of the de-
tritus, corresponding to SCOT, found in old
persons
In Woonsocket, X. l., they have "mOs-
quitOes OF the genuine Demerara (West
Indies) species, striped like zebra, with
ears the size Of a mules, and with Il bill
two and half, or two and three-quarters
or three and quarter inches lOng-Or
thereabOuts."
A LATE issue of the San Francisco
Chronicle contains this item: "a man
possessed of presence of mind, crossing
Market street AT the corner of Kearney, on
Saturday, induced the driver of a beer
truck TO refrain from running over him
by the prompt presentation of formida-
ble-lOOking pistoln
A TENNESSEE railway company has
had to pay $3.50 damages for running over
bulldog which was in the habit of rush.
ing at and seizing hold OF every passing
train. II it had been boy engaged in
the same kind Of practice the plea of
contributing negligence" would have
saved the company even the lesser value
of the human animal.
A TORONTO (Canada) merchant adver-
tised few days ago for a boy TO run er-
rands. Besides large number of boys,
no less than eighteen middle-dged men were
applicants for the vacant situation on be-
ing told that boy was required, the men
offered to take the job ut the same wages
that would be paid 10 the youth. ID.
SPEAKING of the fast mail train the De.
troit Netos says that it "will be composed
of an engine and tender and four postal
cards, or more if the present or growing
demands of the service require it, Now
who hereafter will say that postal cards
are insignificant things. The greater part
of the correspondence of the country will
only require four of ofthem.-Chicdg0 Times.
A NoRRIsTowN man has invented a
shell which deserves the immediate atten-
ton Of Secretary RObeson. 1t is filled
with small shells, and when il bursts
among 10000 soldiers these smaller shells
are scattered in all directions, and, burst
ing in turn, send out still smaller shells,
which travel around reeklessly, and by the
time the miniature shells contained in the
third size explode the army is nearly
wiped out and the few men remaining
want to go home.
In Paris there is very wealthy misan-
thrope who never smokes anything but
the yilest oigars-thOse which are sold for
sou. The other day friend asked the