Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-06
ALL SORTS.

ship of peaceS When she drops her
rancor.
Why is house-painting like high
jumping9 Because it is done in the
spring.
The daily current expenses of the
Centennial Exhibition are said to be
about 1880. 5u s.t..l..f.
-" Excuse me, sir" was the remark
of burglar caught opening safe in a
Whitehall store.
Miss Susan Dickinson, sister of
Miss Anna Dickinson, edits newspaper
in Luzerne County, Pa.
The seeds of love can never grow
but under the warm and genial influence
of kind feelings and affectionate man
uers.
The President of the Keokuk Board
of Health is DR.. G. N. Seidlitz The
propriety of holding the Office is quite
aperient.
The largest library in Prince Ed.
ward Island is owned by wealthy cattle
dealer named Webb, who can neither
read nor write.
Milk is slow stuff to steal when it
has to be taken from the COW. Adam
Greimer, of Kentucky, got shot in the
leg the other night while doing it.
The President of France is well
paid, for in addition to several palaces,
rent free, and large retinue of servants,
he receives a salary of $4,000 per
annum.
"A disciple of Ike Walton, who has
just returned from trip to the seashore,
says he caught only one fish in seven
days. That must have been week fish,
of course.
Israel s. Love, Beloit Justice of
the Peace, met Miss Elizabeth Hoseman
at the Chicago Exhibition. 1t was a case
of love-at tirst-sght, and they were mar
ried next morning. ...I
Santa Cruz, Cal, complains of the
singular infiction of too many shade
trees, and by the advice of the physi-
clans of the city a considerable number
are being cut down.
"A little boy having broken his rock
ing-horse the day it was bought, his
mother rebuked him. He silenced her
by inquiring, What's the good of a horse
till it's broke?"
An old bachelor, having been laughed
OF by party of pretty girls, told them:
You are small potatOesl We may
be small potatoes" said one of them,
"but we are sweet ones" rl..
There are thirty-seven very unhappy
mothers in Iowa. They took their babies
to the Des Moines Fair the other day to
compete for a premium for the best baby,
and the thirty-eighth took the prize.
When you come to think of it, there
is but very little difference between a
postage-stamp and boy hanging on be-
hind cab. The first you have to lick
to make it stay on, while the latter you
have to lick to make him stay off.
"A California lion eight feet long was
lately poisoned at TETON, Cal, where he
had been stealing sheep. A dose of
which was left alone in the fold. Next
morning the lion and the lamb lay down
together, and didn't get up.
"A soldier, on trial for habitual drunk
enness, was addressed by the.president
of the court martial: "Prisoner, YOU
have heard the prosecution for habitual
drunkenness; what have you to say in
your defense?n " Nothing, please your
honor, but habitual thirstr
The following is a store sign, as
copied verbatim from the original, in a
remote mining town:
Bibles, Blackball, Butter;
Testaments, Tar, Trcacle;
Cody Books and Gimlets;
Condensed Eggs and Castor Oil
For Sale hear
"A nephew of Mr.. Bagges, in ex-
planning the mysteries of teakettle, de-
scribed the benefits of the application of
steam to useful purposes. "For all
which, remarked Mr. Bagges, "we have
principally to thank - what was his
name?" "Watt was his name, l believe,
uncle" said the boy.
An Englishman was recently boast
ing TO Bostonian that they had book
in the British Museum which was once
owned by Cicero. ooh! that amt moth
in" replied the Bostonian; Sin the mu-
scum in our city we have got the lead
pencil that Noah used to check off the
animals as they went into the ark"
"A great number of the articles in
the Philadelphia Exposition are sold. and
will be removed by the owners Nov.
10, the time set for the close of the show;
and most of the exhibitors will exercise
their privilege of then taking away their
property. Consequently the display, if
prolonged, would be very meager.
In Pennington, N. H., on the site of
Vice-President Henry Wilson's birth
place, has been placed large bowlder
from neighboring mountain, weighing
ten or twelve tons, on which is the fol-
lowing inscription: Henry Wilson, Vice
President U. s. A. Born here, Feb. 16,
1912" This monument has been erected
by Martin L. Hayes, shoe manufacturer
of Pennington.
"A witness for the prosecution in a
murder case was thus questioned by His
Honor: g. You say you saw the man shot
at and killed." " Yes, SIR" " You said,
l think, that the charge struck the de-
ceased on his body between the dia-
phragm and the duodenum" Witness
:" No, sir; l didn't say no sich thing.
l said he was shot between the hog-pen
and the wood-house. Cincinnati Ga
zette.
The first stage-coach in America
started from Boston, from the site of No.
80 North street, in 1861. The first line
of stage.coaches between Boston and
New York was established in 1889, a
coach leaving each city once month.
Fourteen days were required to complete
the journey. In 1902 the mail stage
started from Boston for New York on
Monday at eight a. m, and was due in
New York at noon on Friday.
North Carolina rejoices now One
of the girls in the Bethesda Sunday
school, Johnson County, committed to
memory, in June last, 2,367 Scripture
verses. In one week she learned and re-
cited 1905 verses. This is said to have
been done without the stimulus of
promised reward" How we'll the girl
might have done under stimulus" we
can only conjecture.
They have year-old lying society
in Colchester, Conn, one of whose laws
is that, if the word of any member shall,
under any circumstances, be construed
by any other member as bearing any re-
semblance to truth, the offender shall be
expelled. They are in trouble now, for,