Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-13
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L "A Iudu WAS kliiou III 0cOTRlH IOf
stealing a Kicking mule. The mule was
the exeoutioner. ri i.4l yiiru99s i3uu
If your uncles sister is not your
aunt, what relation is she to your Your
mother, ,,t .r.i, s-ss,v r.i ..,.,y.-,.f ...,.
"A Cincinnati fiend .advertises for
men with fever and ague to shake car
pets.
"A member of the class Of 1s7e, Yale,
is conductor of palace car on Massa-
chusetts railway. buaM 40 3iad lr1i.
Lord Houghton says there is nothing
to grumble about in America Except
the expense of the hack carriages"
Newfoundland expects this season
to send to England 1,250,O00 gallons Of
cod-llver oil, valued at 100000. i1"'a
Just two centuries and q half ago
Mahattan Island was purchased of the
Indians, with trinkets, valued at twenty
four dollars.
Mr.. Haight has spent SIC, 900 on a
mausoleum at Goshen, N. Y. 1t is the
work of Haight, but nevertheless move
ment of love. ..... .... qaN 4
"A sensitive old bachelor says that
pretty girls always affect him as orna-
mental confectionery does-they give
him the heartburn.
"A Deadwood City jury 4" honorably
acquitted" murderer who killed man
whom he mistook for the one that he in
tended to kill. .......... .-f....
My client is no more guilty of
stealing that hog than frog amt got no
TAIL" was young Kentucky lawyers
address to Warren County jury.
|. "A lawyer at the bar was held to be
in contempt for making motion in
court. 1t was ascertained, however, that
he made motion to throw an inkstand at
the head of the Court. .s.g. .a..
Ladies are wearing tiny bows of
ribbons for earrings now, and we are
told that it is the very latest Paris
fashion. The effect is odd, and, of
course, the fashion will rage.
"A Norwich Comm clergyman
preached on Sunday on Joshua. He
opened by stating that Joshua was dead.
1t was great shock to the congregation.
~. Y. Commercial Ad0ertiser.
The author of kathleen Mavour-
neen," Mr.. James Crouch, is living qui-
etly in his Southern home. He served
in the Confederate army. and before the
war was a music teacher in Washington.
=" Why do the butterflies watt their
wings?"-a twenty-five verse poem, by
Esmeralda"-is respectfully declined,
with the information that they have to
do it or walk.
-" The Centennial boot" is the latest
wrinkle for the ladies. 1t is especially
adapted for the exposure Ofthe exquisite
ly embroidered white and colored silk
stockings now selling for twenty-five
dollars pair.
Wendell Phillips told the woman
suffrage meeting at Faneuil Hall that
seven-tenths of the husbands are frauds.
He didn't say what the other three.t .tenths
are, and nobody had the courage to ask
him. "
MAN." says Victor Hugo, "was
the conundrum of the eighteenth cen
tury; woman is the conundrum of the
nineteenth century" An American ed
itor adds: 1--WE can't guess her, but
will never give her up. No, never"
-Sealing.wax is no wax at all; nor
does it contain u single particle of wax.
1t is made of shellac, Venice turpentine
and cinnabar. Cinnabar gives it the
deep-red color, and turpentine renders
the shellac soft and less brittle.
The company of San Francisco
variety theater intended to take the re-
mains of comrade from the hospital
in which he had died and bury them;
but they got the wrong body, and made
touching public demonstration over a
Mexican horse. thief.
The monument in process of erec-
tiOn on Captains Hill, Duxbury, Mass,
in honor of Capt Miles Standish, has
reached the height of tifty-nine feet.
The work is massive, and already can be
seen twenty miles away Pilots along
the coast have entered it on their charts
as landmark.
Twas but breath
And yet the fair, good name was wilted;
And friends, once fond, grew cold and stilted,
And life was icorSe than death.
One Ue,ton,ed tcord, Nft'ffIt
That struck its coward, poisoned blow
In crayen whispers, hushed and low N
And yet the ,cide lOorld heard.
Mrs, Christy's good deeds were so
well regarded in Cahokia, Mo, that the
Roman Catholic Bishop of st. Louis gave
her a heavy cross of gold. After her
recent death the cross and costly chain
were buried with her, and on the same
night robbers broke into the vault and
stole the valuable articles.
Mrs. Hiram Powers is now in Gin
cinDati. She has been absent from
America thirty-nine years. When she
left her home Cincinnati contained but
80, 900 people; now il has nearly 200,-
600. She intends to return to Italy in
November. Six of her children are liv-
ing, and two of the sons are following
the profession of their father. 'innssi
1t was at the funeral Of the head of
a family. A neighbor in the yard, while
the service was going on inside, was
speaking of the deceased, and took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to observe in
a tone of subdued sympathy: can had
just got in his7coal and potatoes for the
winter. 1t is a. sad case - Dan6ug
Ne1os.7 a8 '.aa.a7Q ..,al.a-d -l,r
The English have just completed the
longest bridge in the world, in their East
India possessions. 1t consists of sixty
four spans of 142 feet each, thus $500
feet, or more than mile and three.quar.
ters long. 1t is all built of brick and
iron; the masonry amounts to 5000, 900
cubic feet, while the iron girders weigh
5000 tons. 2H'if
"A Boston tea firm have adopted the
idea of giving to every one who pur-
chases anything at their establishment a
cup of fine coffee with rich cream. An
other Boston firm, probably fayorably inn
pressed with the liberaIity of the first
named firm, and DESTROYS Of emulating
their example, pay their shop girls three
dollars per week, and then charge them
five cents each per week for iced water.
The Providence Star tells big story
about young man of that city, who,
years ago, spent all his money in vain
attempt to make Russian iron, went to
Russia, determined to become a life con
yict, learn the art, and, If possibleE es-
cape. For forty years a girl he had
tn marry mad .hpan vTattiu6y for