Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-30
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

him 100000 apiece. Dear, dearl
A SAN F'RANCIsco servant, assaulted ly
the family cat, has brought damage suit
for $1,000
A CONSCIENCE STRICKEN New Yorker
has just returned to the Treasury of the
Empire State $43.50.
PARIS has had an unusual abundance
OF asparagus. this seas on, and hundreds Of
car. loads went to England.
MANY people have been lately poisoned
In London by eating mushrooms, and
tnere Is panic among the housewives.
THUNDER is certain death TO holsters
All the live Holsters in the New York
markets were killed by thunder the other
day.
In the Arctic regions, if bca, strikes
the edge of field of ice, the seals,N i'll
raise their heads for miles around TO soc
what's up.
SOME of the Philadelphia hotels still
adhere to the rate of five dollars per dav.
They also adhere to the rate of about FIVE
guests per day.
SOME people are like telegraph wires.
They set Themselves high up in the air
and congratulate themselves upon their
subtlety, their tine.drawn sympathies.
THE philosophy of sntezing has never
been fully explained There Is tickling
sensation in the nose, moment r. sus.
pension OF respiration, a cold shivcr, and
heaven bless you, the thing is done.
SAYS the Norwich Bulletin: "The man
who is fortunate enough TO win a bet with
a lady usually gets il in slippers. The
common device is blue silk rhinoccros
roofing up yellow satin mOrass."
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coinage is contemplated. The principal
change VIII be the substitution of classic
head of Liberty in place of the sitting tig-
ure on the diverse of the silver coins.
"MAMMA," asked a precocous young.
ster at the tea-tablc the other evening,
alter long and yearning gaze toward a
plate of doughnuts, "Mamma, do you
think l could stand another one of those
| fried holes?"
A CAPsIzE.-" What size do you wear,
sirg" blandly inquired the halter. al
think" " said the customer, about"
just, then, in backing toward the mirror,
he stepped on piece of orange peel and
atdown suddenly" about a cap size,
think"
A NEW trouble threatens the country.
says the Danbury Netos. The scarcity of
help is already being felt, especially in
the West. Nearly everybody is being
withdrawn from the field and shop TO fill
vacancies in the family of the late A. T.
Stewart
THE Springfield, Mass, school-marm
who recently thought to subdue the ram
pant spirits of small girl by keeping her
two hours after school, was rewarded.
when the term was up, with a motto loz.
enge bearing the pathetic inquiry, I" Must
we partr'
TINE! Mr.. Keely. The 1st of June is
gone by like tale that is told, and your
motor has not startled the world, accord
ing to promise. If it won't rup on tenn
perance principles, mix little whisky in
your water. Perhaps that's what's the
motcr,-NoTrtStOioR Heyald
NOTHING can be more injurious 10 vour
peace of mind than to have TOO many |
confidants. You live in abject slavery
every day, as you are constantly fearing
that some OF your numerous confidants
will reveal secret you would not have
anybody know for all the world.
BLoop has been shed, in old times. for
smaller insult than the New York |
Herald puts upon Boston in calling it " a |
town which is known in history main |
ly because it puts molasses into its |
baked beans.' Moreover, the statement |
is untrue as well as insulting. The mo. |
lasses IS put in before the beans are baked. |
A COUPLE Of vultures have made Vul. |
ture Mountain, at Gaysville tStockbridge, |
Vt,), their home for years, and the other |
day party of men went up there and, by |
the aid of ropes, made their way down |
the precipice $50 feet, where they bagged |
four young vultures. Meanwhile the old |
ones scared above them, Just out of reach |
of rife balls.
81 CANNOT marry you, "she said; "I
do not love you as wife should, but l |
could always love you dearly as broth.
er." And then he said, Il do not come
from the city of Brotherly Love-" and
lett her to repent. But he went there, and
is now member of the Centennial guard,
while she is pining at home because she
cannot go to the Exhibition. Thus every
day are mistakes of lifetime made.--St,
Louis Republican.
THE wife of Mr.. 10 McClusky was
awakened the other night by something
passing over her. Passing her hand
around and feeling nothing, she was about
to go to sleep, when ringing sound ar
rested her attention. She sprang up,
struck light, and, coiled up by her pill
low, she beheld large rattlesnake. AL
hOSt pai aiJ Ecu at INC SlSnI, sne IOr mo-
ment knew not what to do; but the moth
er's love overcame her fear, and she
speedily dispatched him. AT the time her
baby and two little children were in bed
with her, and the wonder is that some of
them were not bitten by the intruder, as
her movements had angered it, and, when
she discovered it, it was balanced for a
suoke.-Cun6erland (Ry.) Courier.
FROM Vermont comes the following
story of the Inishaps of baby: Last
Thursday Mrs, W. J. Boyce, of Wood.
stock, placed her baby, nine months old,
in baby cab standing on the portico, to
wheel it in the street. She left it for a
moment and stepped into the house, when
the cab started, rolled four steps to the
driveway, across that and piece of
ground some ten or twelve rods in width
70 the banks of the Quechee River, thence
down bank some fifteen feet high into
The river. The mother had started after,
but was unable to catch up. She dashed
into the river and caught the child, but
being in deep water was obliged TO let GO
he babe to save herself. The housemaid
had followed after and reached the river
N time to save the mother. The baby
was carried by the current some twenty
i've rods, when gentleman who had wit
npSsad the affair rnaahad tho cfraann aad |