Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-07-23
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

OENOE AND NUNOENOEs
COSTLY furniture-Indian bureaus.
AN air of importance-One's first
breath.
VESTED interest-Money in the waist
coat pocket
CoRTINI having been cort, the next thing
is to punish him.
AT an Elmira IN. " funeral eight Ia
dies officiated as pall-bearers.
THE celebrated Sutro tunnel in Nevada
reached length of exactly 10000 feet
July 4.
TINS is the season of the year when in
dustrious housewives can all the fruit they
can can.
THE potato beetle has appeared in New
| Haven, Conn. He probably wants to en-
ter Yale.
THE drowning season has begun in
earnest. Where's Boyton with those rub
Der suits?
| A PENNSYLVANIA man was mean enough
to hang himself with his wife's silk
| apron.
ASK Milwaukee woman her age, and
she instinctively looks around for broom
stick Detroit Free Press.
FANCY flOurishes send many letter to
the Dead Letter Office, and many mortal
to the aims house.
A BLIND man in Southern Illinois can
play checkers, but can't find the woQdpile
if his wife wants an armful of wood.
THE editor of the New Haven Journal
thinks the mosquito is much-slandered
individual. He ought to have bite.
A FARMER of Hampden County, Mass,
| freed his potato-patch of beetles by
sprinkling them with soft soap and water.
In deciding questions of truth and duty
remember that the wrong side has crafty
and powerful advocate in your own heart.
THE new motor may be big thing, but
for an impulse to send a boy off to school
give me the slipper from his mothers
! foot.
A MAN fought an army of black crickets
at Miners Bridge, on the Payette River,
Idaho, and succeeded in driving them
back.
JOHNNY 0ust from the fruiterer's)-
Mamma, if eat dates enough, will |
grow up to be an Almanac?' ?'-BOstOn
Journal.
THE chief editor of the London Times is
Mr.. Delane. Doesn't that sound like
muzzlin' the press ?-Neo York Commercial
| ZtUC6IItSbT.
A MINSTREL manager advertises for a
tenor singer "who knows how to work
up a laugh when the end man is getting
off joke"
"CHEAP labor" comes up in new form
in San Francisco, where Chinese young
lady is an applicant for vacancy in a
public school.
"FoR midsummer what could be
sweeter than a linen lawn?' asks an eX-
change, and some young ladies will an
swer, A croquet lawn
THE Peruvian Government has COM
missioned the United States mint to cop
per its pile" to the extent of three millions
of one and two cent coins.
No DOUBT the happiest dogs that ever
lived were the two taken aboard of Noah's
ark-for they had but one pair of tleas be
tween them BruaSwtcter.
"PAPA, are you growing taller all the
timer" No, my child; why do you
asky' "'Cause the top of your head is
poking up through your hair"
A CHICAGO man excuses himself fol
not going to some watering-place by say
ing that he fell into the river last May
and got enough to last him for a whole
year.
A GEORGIA Sheriff delayed an execution
fifteen minutes to let the crowd see which
dog whipped, and il is evident that human
ity vet holds tender place in the American
heart.
A BRAZILIAN bank has failed TO tho
tune of 81, 800, 900, and now where is the
boosted superior civilization of Americf
that we've all been talking about Sc
loudly?
"GARIBALDI RoBEsPIERRE MURAT SUP
PETA" is the rather hefty baptismal nam'
which the city of Naples has bestowed
upon young girl whom it recently
} adopted.
AN enterprising youth has started fo
Harney City, in the Black Hills, with tn
material for n newspaper office. The new
venture will be known as the Black Hill
Tribune.
SEVEN Arkansas Indians are to be hum
in September, and the jailer hasn't tn
heart to go in and separate them when the.
, get into heated argument involving hail
! pulling.
BISMARCK wouldn't go rod to see tn
best game of baseball ever played, but le
a circus come into town and he jumps 70
his hat and shouts for the children I
come on.
VI Mr.. JOHN JAY, late Minister to Austria
/ favors a postpOnement of the Philadelphi
Exhibition for one year, in order TO com
9 plete the necessary preparations for It's OF
! ganiZation.
5 A sHARP-TALKING lady was reproved b
! | her husband, who requested her to kee
= her tongue in her mouth. My dear,
| she said, "it's against the law to carry con
4 cealed weapons"
: THE Brooklyn Argus says that Phil'
S delphia man can be generally recognize
G from the fact that he makes il point {
l have as many buttons on his coat as ther
l are letters in centennial"
WHEN 600 people will pack themselve
into freight cars and ride twenty miles 70
! ! the sake of eating cold lunch in some oil
u pasture, it is not for any journalist to fiin
y insults at the game Of baseball.
: The 18th of July, by the Roman Catl
d olic calendar, was Swithin's Day, OF whic
, il is written:
/ st. swithin's Day, gif ye do rain, for fort
O days 1t viii remains:
7 st. Swithin's Day, and ye be fair, for fort
4 days twill rain nae mair.
It THE fro!icsome boys in the MiddlebuI
Il Vt) College recently stole the bel
il Weighing nearly half ton, procured
n team and carried II about half mil
Is where they dumped II IN sand bank,
70 was SOME time before the bell could
70 found