Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-07
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

VEsUvIUs insists on another Interrupt
ton.
THE editors of the oil regions are taunt-
ing each other with poverty.
THERE were eleven earthquakes in the
United States during last year.
IT is estimated that an outfit for an
actually fashionable woman costs $4,000.
A WESTERN man says that figures won't
lie unless they happen to be on gas
meter.
WEEK. German, proposes 10 erect 100
Centennial lodging houses" in Phila-
delphia.
THE proposed new Constitution of Texas
permits nine jurors in apanel OF twelve to
return verdict.
ONE of the curiOsities now on exhibit
ton in Hartford is a Iwo-legged horse.
He has no fore legs.
The Rochester Chronicle insists that
small boys have a constitutional right to
skate on the sidewalk.
In California the Governor has the op-
ton of awarding capital punishment or
imprisonment for life.
XMAS stands for Christmas and not for
cross mas, as the little folks thought the
day after the Christmas dinner.
THE fond father who bought his boys a
tin horn and a drum for Christmas has
already repented of his rashness.
To THOSE anxious to know what Ed
mund About is about ii may be stated that
| he is about TO visit these shores.
THE Rothschilds could pay our national
debt and then be the richest house in the
world. Bet you they won't do it.
A CHRISTMAS festival in behalf of
Jewish charity s a sweet and touching
novelty lately presented by New York.
THE reduction of the wages of telegraph
operators is not particularly electrifying
| to them. The magnet draws the wrong
way.
THE age of the persons who waste their
precious time guessing the years of a
noted spinster is dotage. Rochester Demo
crdt.
SOMEBODY asks in a New York paper:
" Who let Tweed go9' but is it not
more important question, who's going to
catch him?
CHARLOTTE CUsHAiAN is nota woman's-
rights woman; if she were she would
weep countless tears over the last syllable
Of her name.
! A NEW YORK man has discovered a
| chemical process by which worthless to-
bacco is transformed into fine looking
and fair-tasting cigars.
| WE are told of California woman who
claims to be 130 years old but she eX-
poets to be 500 and accordingly regards
herself as mere child.
How MANY young men scattered all
over the country are trying 70 get word
| to rhyme with Centennial" is a problem
that will never be solved.
SIMON MORGAN, Secretary of the Weav-
ers Committee in the late strike at Fall
River, has applied to the 0yerseers of the
Poor of that city for relief.
THE poem entitled Beautiful Snow"
! has reappeared as original in Montana
paper and credited to poor but intelli-
gent young man named Tompklns, who is
tending bar.
A BAPTIST clergyman in Waterloo, N
Y, recently stopped in the middle Of his
sermon to reprove a member OF his con-
gregation for taking notes, saying that it
disconnected and annoyed him.
A MAN living in Bucks County, Pa,
going home the other evening, stopped at
n spring by the wayside TO drink. In the
morning he was found dead, with his
mouth and nose just under the water.
WHEN the truly erudite person is asked
regarding his health he says, in a spright-
ly manner: Uml uni Yes, to be sure.
Excuse me a moment. must see what
Aristotle says about it. it."-Roeasstar ChgOn-
icle.
Six attempts have recently been made
to set fire to the city of Evanston, Wy. l..
II will be hardly necessary TO remind the
citizens of that place that eternal Wig
ilantes is the price OF cheap insurance
rates.
Lucy STONE writes to the Boston Tran
script that Banker Hill Monumentwas un-
finished till Boston women raised the
money, and that Fanny Ellsler gave the
proceeds Of an exhibition for the cap
stone.