Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

| A YOUNGSTOWN (Pa) girl declares that
| il Just doubles the value of kiss TO have
10 borrow it from under mustache.
ENGLISH courts hold that there is such
thing as a broken heart in love affairs,
and award fifty pounds damages for it.
| A MONTREAL medical student helped TO
dissect his grandmother before he knew
who it was, and he feels rather mean
over il.
An oyster.bed was recently discovered
on the New Hampshire coast which the
fishermen think has been growing for a
century.
Nor content with stealing $4,000, 600
Tweed must need lay himself open to
further censure by " stealing march, on
his keeper.
MEETINGS are being held in the South
to devise plans for raising an endowment
fund for Julia, the only child of Stone
wall" jackson.
A MASSACHUSETTS mother took her
daughter from school because the girl
said she had been given some knotty
problems TO solve.
A MONTREAL paper says that they did
have three or four days of summer there
few months ago. but the women used 'em
all up drying clothes.
A NEW York journal takes the ground
that all murderers arc insane. Put II this
way and let's have hanging as a penalty
for insanity. Detroit Free Press.
THERE are forty-three Italian Counts
who are marked as having incomes of
only fifteen dollars per week, and they
want to find rich American wives dread.
full bad.
AN Oregon man pounded his wife be-
cause she couldn't explain the word "hex-
agon." The paragon of Judge gave the
husband a triangular sentence to an octa-
gonal cell.
PUTs and calls" in stock are so
called because you first put your cash
into such investments and then "call"
yourself blasted fool" forever after
Boston Globe.
A TRAIN of cars on a Florida railroad
passed man on horseback, and there was
great hurrahing among the passengers un-
til they discovered that the horse was tied
to the fence.
AT West Sumner, Me-, there is youth
full prodigy, aged twelve years, who has
mastered algebra without assistance from
a teacher, writing equations and explain
ing them as easily as most persons of
mature age.
lHE UlOSJ III lUC
world is the bridge of Mrs. j ohm Camp
bells nose. She lives in Virginia, and
she has been suing "a railroad company
for the last thirteen years to get damages
for broken nose.
A LONDON seamstress lived for two
years on two shillings (English) week.
She never complained for fear of the work
house. At last she was found dead in her
room, having perished for want of warmth
and sufficient food.
WHEN you are on the way to your mar
: riage, young man, there is no necessity of
, looking as though you were on the way
, to bank you know had busted. A brave
man meets misery with a smile.-Hdy-
fed fhv.) Monitor.
On, I'll make you hate the whole
seXp said Virginia New woman to her
rowing husband last week And then
she carved him with the bread knife to
such an extent that he is not likely to leave
the house for weeks to come.
THE dental colleges are wrestling with
the problem of why women's teeth give
way so much sooner, as a rule, than mems.
But when you stop to realize the immense
amount of linguistic friction they have to
go through, it is no longer mystery
Cincinnati Times.
A MISSISSIPPI doctor personated Gen.
Beauregard in a sleeping-car at Milan,
| Miss, for the purpose of securing a berth
after all had been engaged. There was
some confusion when the real General
who was in the car and overheard the con,
: versation, revealed himself.
3 If you will carry business problems in.
I to the bosom of your family, dream ovel
7 them at night, and get absorbed in them
3 again while making your morning toilet
if you iotU do this, why, don't expect
your wife to sympathize with your efforts
. to sharpen your tooth brush on your razor
strop, that's all.
, THE London College for Working
Women is meeting with great success. Il
: has been attended during the past year 10y
431 students. Of this number about 35(
, were employed during the day in shop,
and various trades which afford occupa
tion for women. The college is open il
the evening only.
l ADOLF HERMANN and Miss Anna Petz
a old, of New York, could not, if they haC
a tried, have selected a more unpleasant 10
{ cation for their betrothal than they did
They were both passengers on the i'll
[ starred steamer Deutschland AdOl
A saved Annals life by carrying her into the
: himself alongside, and. it was while il
II this position that they pledged each other
Il their lives and their fortunes.
!. A MASSACHUSETTS lady writes: "Thi
7 morning early, as sat by my open win
! dow looking down upon the busy street,
saw woman-bu butcher jump from he
8 wagon and take a piece of corned bee
: round to the side-dOor of the residenc'
across the way. How neat and tidy sh
looked, with dark calico dress, blu
checked apron and white over-sleeve
Q which came to her elbows, with BROW
That and red scarf tied carelessly abOu
her neck. She came out, jumped briskl
/ into the wagon, took up the lines, at tn
il same time putting her foot upon tn
n brake, for it was a down grade, and drov
Il off like any other butcher"
q AN old gentleman residing between thi
o place and lcksburg had a large locust tire
cut and the trunk taken to "a saw-mill an,
i cut into 214-inch planks about twelv
il years ago, The planks he put in dr.
i place to season, where they remained unit
about a month ago, when he delivere
them to cabinetmaker to manufactuT
into coffin for himself, which was az
cordingly done. Last week the coffin wa
delivered to the old gentleman well fir
o ished and neatly made. He admired
= very much and placed himself in it to see
10 it was "good fit" He ordered the Ii
% to be put on that he might see how
% goes to be shut up in coffin. He the
% gave orders that they should bury him
so a secluded spot in the woods where til
20 devil could not find him. After markin
% % out spot and blazing the trees to til
:" place, he pronounced himself ready
. die, saying he had made ample prepars
y y tions.-NeicDOrt (Pa.) Meas.
% A SAD story was developed in one of I'll
~ police courts this morning. On Wedne
70 day night young man slept in the Sixt
80 Precinct Station House, and, on leaving
oooo oo the morning, told the Captain that he WI
q out of work, could get no employment
- - had no money, and was determined