Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-27
Singular Gifts.

woman for the church, showed her devo-
tion to the establishment by presenting
DR., Sacheverell with dozen of larks
when she made her yearly visit to town.
as singular token of appreciation as
the gold snuffbox Mdlle. Busy, sweet
girl-graduate, received from the hands of
Cardinal de Phlignac, upon winning her
doctors degree at the University of Po-
logna. Possibly the Cardinal believed
that lady who, at the age of twenty
two, held forth for an hour and half in
opposition to the Professor of Anatomy's
contention that the bones of the human
body had their accretion by means of
certain juices, would in time develop q
professional capacity for snuffing; other
wise, he would as soon have thought of
giving Quakeress pair of his own
stockings. John Dalton would have
seen no impropriety in that Thinking
to please his good mother, who was ac-
customed to wear honest homespun,
color-blind John bought her beautiful
pair of stockings which had taken his
fancy as they hung in shop window.
Upon unrolling them, Dame Deborah
lifted up her hands in astonishment, then
quietly observed: Thou hast brought
me pair of grand hosen, John; but what
made thee fancy such bright color? l
can never show myself at meeting in
themp John saw no reason why his gift
should offend friendly eyes, for to his the
stockings appeared very nice drab, and
Brother Jonathan, on being appealed to,
declared himself of the same opinion;
although Mrs. Dalton persisted that they
were as red as cherry, and her neigh
bors, when called in to decide the ques-
ton, pronounced them "vera fine stuff,
but uncommon scarlettly." The Ameri-
can Bible Society once received, as a do
nation, live bull, which the anonymous
donor explained had been won in bet
that Logan would be elected to Congress
by fifty thousand majority. OF course
the comical contribution was converted
into cash without delay. Not so readily
turned to profitable account was the tract
upon the wickedness of gluttony, for
warded to q Kansas famine relief COM
mittee by some ill-conditioned wretch,
who must have been own brother to the
benevolent creature who sent the suffer
ers from Wisconsin prairie fire framed
photograph of himself Not much more
sorriooablo, althnngh possibly the ont
tunate, was the Detroit worthy's gift of
cast-off clothing, which ELECTED from one
who benefited by it the following ac-
acknowledgements; "Sir, the committy
man Civ me, amongst other things, wat
he called pare of pants, and 'twould
make me pant some to wear 'em. l
found your name and where you lived in
one of the pockits. My wife laffed so
when showed 'em to her that l thot she
would have connipshun fit. She wants
to no if there lives and brethes a man
who has legs no bigger than that. She
said if there was he ought to be taken
up for vagrancy, for having no visible
means of support. / couldn't get 'em on
my eldest boy, so / used 'em for gun
cases. If you hev another pare to spare
my wife would like to get 'em to hang up
by the side of the fire. place, to keep the
tongs in." A catalogue of the tokens of
respect, love, and loyalty presented at
one time and another to Queen Victoria
would be a work of formidable dimen-
sions, and many curious items would be
fo0n1 thorSiA, hut mono atrannar than
the gold box delivered to Sir John Bow
ring by the King of Slams own hands,
with special injunctions as to guarding
it carefully, since it held in its keeping a
few hairs of the sacred white elephant.
Travellers, besides seeing many strange
things, are liable to have very strange
and embarrassing tokens of friendliness
proffered to them, impossible to accept,
however risky 1t may be to offend by re-
fusal. An African chief sent Living
stone handsome girl of sixteen, and
upon the scandalized doctor sending her
back with an intimation that he could
not accept such a present, the we'll
meaning savage, supposing the damsel
was not exactly to the travellers taste,
forwarded him bigger and plumper
black beauty. When Sir Samuel Baker
was taking his leave of Kamrasi, King of
Unyoro, the sable Prince asked him to
leave Lady Baker behind, a request to
which the Englishman replied by threat
ening to shoot His Majesty if he dared to
repeat it, while the lady concerned gave
him bit of her mind in choice Arabic.
Surprised that his proposal should create
such excitement, Kamrasi said; Don't
be angry; / did not mean TO offend you
by asking for your wife. / will give you
wife If you want one, and / thought
you would have no objection TO give me
yours. Don't make a fuss about it;
If you don't like it, there's an
end to it." One of his hearers, no
doubt, thought Kamrasi's custom any
thing but good one; and the other must
have been inclined to indorse Lady Mar
ney's dictum, that of all silly things IN
the world, the silliest is gift that is not
wanted. All the Year Round
Tho man U ovarhoradO mas on I'D