Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-10
ALL SORTS.

"A lock that burglars cannot pick
Wedlock.
"A malicious enemy is not 80 bad as
clumsy friend.
Lee, Mass, has seventy citizens over
seventy years old.
"A flock Of quails was the strange
sight on Boston Common, a few days
ago.
=" II you know a mean thing of YOUR
neighbor, get II copyrighted. ."--DGn6ury
NeWs
--Chicken-pie sociables are popular in
Wisconsin-not among the chickens,
however.
"A stump-speaker boldly announced
the other day that the country is drift.
ing into arnica."
-" Time works wonders" as the
woman said when she got married after
q thirteen-years' courtship.
"A wealthy Baltimorean, who died
the other day, left all his property to his
wife, on condition she should not re-
marry.
Boss Tweed regrets that he should
be the cause of general European war,
and offers to go back to Spain If it will
promote harmony.
Not drop of intoxicating liquor is
allowed in the Nevada mines, where
serious disaster might easily result from
drunkenness.
"A message that knocked operators
of their stools in several offices passed
along telegraph wire in Nevada. 1t
was stroke of lightning.
"A tall man having rallied friend
on the shortness of his legs, the friend
replied: My legs reach the ground;
what more can yours do2"
Mrs. Jane NJ. Walker, President
Folks sister, who died at Columbia,
Tenn, few days ago, left just 100
grand and great-grand children.
The Smith sisters, of Glastonbury,
Conn, and their COWS come to the front
again, the Attorneys being advertised
for sale for non-payment of taxes.
No we'll disposed female can be
truly devotional at church when her i'm
mediate neighbors are harshly criticising
the way her back hair is done up.
"A hearse drawn by two gray horses,
wearing black blankets, attracted much
attention the other day as it passed
through the streets of New York.
BY some inadvertence an adver.
tisement for harness-mskers appeared in
the matrimonial column of New York
journal the other day.
Some of the stylish Beacon street
girls at Boston are giving dinner parties,
which they prepare themselves, fairly
outdoing the late Prof. Blot in some
! lines.
AN extra-sentimental Nevada youth
killed himself, leaving this as a reason:
My Annie is dead and must be with
her, lest some rival angel should win
her affection"
"A Newark IN. J.) clergyman who
married fourteen-yearo miss to
youth of eighteen, few days ago, is to
have an opportunity to explain his con-
duct before court of law.
-" Yesterday being a pleasant Sun
day." says the Norwich Bulletin, "most
of the boys who attended Sunday. school
brought home good many chestnuts
which kind man had given them"
"A Paris manager offers Adelina
Patti, in the event of her not going to
Russia this season, 81 400 per night for
100 nights, besides paying the expenses
of her entire suite. Patti, dear Patti
"A gentleman who rather suspected
someone was peeping through the key
hole of his office door investigated with
syringe full of pepper-sauce, and went
home to find his wife had been cutting
wood and a chip had hit her in the eye.
-"If you can't keep awake" said a
% 1f IL
you are drowsy, why don't you take
pinch of snuff" 81 think" was the
shrewd reply, 1.-THE snuff should be put
in the sermon"
The rush of Centennial pilgrims to
Mt. Vernon has so enriched the associa-
tion as to enable it to pay all it's debts
and to leave handsome sum for further
improvement of the grounds and sur
roundings WGshin gtors Chronicle.
"A man with large family was COM
planning of the difficulty of supporting
all of them. But" said friend, " you
have sons who are big enough to earn
something for you" "The difficulty is"
said the man, "they are too big to
work"
The charge is made by the Music
Trade ReUie0 that the Centennial Exhi-
bition Commissioners have altered the
reports of the judges on pianos. A case
is given in which report seems to have
been changed in the interest of manu-
facturer.
"A Boston policeman swore that he
had seen the man on trial prowling
around the street late at night for over
year; thereupon the prisoner had the
policeman arrested for perjury, he prov
ing that he had been discharged from a
term in the State Prison last June.
AN Indiana matchmaker made
marriage between disconsolate wild
over and an inconsolable widow, and
then sued the former for fifty dol
lars. But the cold-hearted jury
pared the damages down. to nine dollars,
and now the matrimonial broker repents
that he didn't marry the widow himself.
"A young girl, now living in the Rue
Voltaire, in Bordeaux, France, who was
born without arms, uses her mouth in
the most extraordinary manner. She
can write with the greatest facility, can
thread the finest needle, embroider, knit,
do crochet work, mark linen, etc., with
marvellous regularity, and can even
with her mouth tie sailors knot.
"A prominent New York woman
clairvoyant, who tells Z" all secrets" and
"reveals the abiding place of absent
friends" for one dollar, invariably in ad-
vance, lost her own daughter few days
since, and Immediately went weeping and
begging to the Police Department, ask
ing that she might be found.
"A lady, whose husband has an un-
pleasant habit of railing at her, has hit
upon the plan of calling in her servants
when he begins to let out his temper,
and then turning to him and saying,
sweetly; "Now, my dear, please go on
with your remarks" He doesn't go on
at least not as he began.
The motto for the week on a little
girls Sunday school card was: "Get |
thee behind me, Satan" There were
gooseberries in the garden, but she was
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