Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-14
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
LEv1TY is the soul of wit.
I,ET imnrnqa;opabIe voung

LET impressionable young men be on
their guard. It's leap year.
LONDON now eats Texas steers and Yer
mont potatoes, and finds American hair
in its hash.
MAN at Binghamton, N. Y, cured
himself of consumption by chewing oak
bark
AN old maid in Reading married a
tramp because, as she said he smelled-
just like an Italian count whom she had
once met and loved.
SO, MADAME, you yearn to be an IN
ventof, do you? Go and invent apocket,
so that you needn't carry your "pocket'-
book in your hand r. Graphic
No MAN ever got married without some
body calling him fool. -Rtehm0nd En-
qutrer. Yes, and nine cases out of ten it
is his wife that does it.-Br0Oktyn Arqus.
A BALTMoRE lady wouldn't buy, after
tumbling goods over for an hour, and
when the shopkeeper scowled at her she
had him horsewhipped and then arrested.
AHuGE petrifaction, formed almost en-
urely OF serpents IN various positions,
but making a solid mass, has been found
near the line of the Baltimore & Ohio
! Railroad. st-.- e
A BRUNSWICK man has begun his win
ter's economy by cutting off his boot legs
and having them footed and giving the
other part of the boots to his wife to serve
her for Shoes a-r-
DR. HALL says that "night air is very
bad" and if people will keep on breath
ing after dark they do it at their own risk,
and have nobody but themselves to blame
for the consequences.
You can judge something of how ear. p
nest Vermonters are to secure an education
by the fact that an old farmer walked
seven miles to borrow a sheet of letter
paper and pen-holder.
SEVENTEEN DOLLARS worth of dishes
disappeared from the eyes of a Richmond
family in three weeks and the hired girl
could remember breaking nothing but the
ax-handle and the back gate.
THE absurd story about the phoenix grew
out of the fact that ph9niXes always
roasted in ash trees, and hence when they
took wing they were said TO riso from Z
their ashes. ."-Chicdg0 Times.
THE Virginia City Enterprise thinks
that girls who study Latin and Greek and
botany and all that, and then marry poor
men, are certain to make good mothers
and to bring up their children right
A FEW days ago a man named Fritchie,
residing at Nazareth, Pa, while cutting
corns from his feet fell dead on the floor
A physician was sent for, who stated that
the cause of his death was heart disease
@SHE wanted her better-half to step into
the store and take just one little peep at
that lovely sealskin sacque." He hesi-
tated and was lost. When they came out
she was radiant in the new garment, and
his face was as long as your arm.
A FARMER at Montague, Mass, missed
some corn, rye, etc, the other morning,
after light snow on the previous night
Finding the track of the thief, who took
off his plunder in a wheelbaTow, he
traced him some two miles directly TO his
own house and found him-his own
brother.
A New ORLEANS paper thus discourses
If men are the salt OF the earth, women
are sugar. Salt is necessity, sugar is
luxury. Vicious men are the saltpeter;
hard stern men the rock salt; nice family
men the table salt; pretty girls the fine
! pulverlzed white sugar; old maids are
brown sugar good-natured matrons the
loaf sugar, and young men are loafers.'
THE first shipment of oil in bulk was
made from Venango County, Pa, in 1915
by the late Gen. Hays, of Franklin, who
gathered three barrels from what was
subsequently termed the Buchanan farm,
on which most Of Housewife is now STU
ated. The oil was SKINNED off the springs
| along the creek with no small labor, care
fully secured in strong barrels and sent by
wagon to Baltimore. There it was placed
in charge of a leading merchant, who fire.
quently complained Of its atrocious smell,
and after storing it for year or two
emptied the whole quantity into the
| Chesapeake Bay.
A. SUIT has been brought in New York
to restrain the Manhattan Quotation Tel
egraph Company from transmitting to
their customers the reports of the London
markets received by the plaintiff until a
reasonable time after they had been sent
around to his customers. The reasonable
time asked for is thirty minutes. 1t is not
so remarkable that the plaintiff should de-
sire to preserve his property in his news
as it is that the news should become val
ueless in half an hour. Steam and light
ming have overturned great many old
fashioned IDEAS
EMERsoN, the English chemist, shows
that it is not for the purpose of cleaning
and pluming their wings and bodies that
! flies stroke them with their feet but that
they thereby collect quantity of micro
scopic insects, upon which they feed by
means of their proboscis. These insects
are scraped from the wings, and can be
separately examined. He further proves
that myriads of healthy flies, covered with
| lice, float through impure and tetid air;
while in localities where the air is fresh
and pure only few emaciated ones are
seen, and those quite free from insects.
Accordingly, wherever there is corruption
and the living germ of disease, there
! flourish their enemies and desuOyers, and
these are our despised house-tlies.
THE Bangor Wing has this report from
! Orono, Me-: "Some four years ago Mrs.
B., living on that part of Marsh Island
now known as Webster, visited her neigh
Dor, Mrs. p, one afternoon for social
chat, and was ushered into the parlor by
the attendant to await the arrival of Mrs
P, who soon made her appearance. The
ladies conversed very pleasantly for few
minutes, when suddenly novel sight at
tracted their attention, and on stepping to
the mantle they discovered that eleven
mice had, during the preceding cold day,
coiled themselves up on the chimney, and
their tails stuck out upon the mantle,
through crack in the finish of the room.
As quick as thought Mrs p. left the
room, and, returning with acarving- knife,
deliberately cut Off the tails of every one
of them, with evident satisfaction, and
| kept them 10 show 10 her husband as proof
OF the truth OF the story, when he should
return home at night. The next day she
| performed the same operation upon four
more, and our informant adds that for the
next three years the cat would bring in,
occasionally, bob-tailed mice"
The total number of persons of 100
years Of age and upward living in New
| York State, as shown by the census taken
in June last, is 100, Of whom forty-one
are males and sixty-eight females. The
Oldest person ON the list is Sarah Hicks,
of Brooklyn, who is ia. Twenty-nine of
the centenarians live in New York city
and seven in Brooklyn Forty of the 109
were born in Ireland, six in Canada
two in the West Indies, one each
in Scotland, Spain and at sea, while
thirty five are natives of the United States,