Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-19
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

IF man wants 10 learn what " true In.
wardncss" means, let him try some early
Cucumbers
IT is the most sympathetic and intelli.
gent minds which are the most delighted
with simple scenes.
SUPERFICIAL knowledge is like oil upon
the watcr-it shines deceitiully, but can
be easily SKINNED off.
NOTE FOR DARwIN.-In time the null
berry-tree becomes silk gown, and a silk
gown becomes woman.
BECAUSE you have a cavity in your
wisdom tooth, do not suppose you can
pass yourself off as wise.acre.
THE violet grows low and covers itself
with its tears, and OF all flowers yields the
sweetest fragrance. Such is humility.
THERE is this difference between hatred
and pity; pity is thing avowed, seldom
felt; hatred is a thing often felt seldom
avowed.
The parent who sends his son into the
world uneducated, detrauds the commu-
nifty Of a useful citizen, and bequeatis
nuisance. Chancellor Kent.
The agricultural editor of the Rochester
Democrat, in reply TO the question, " How
long should cows be milked?" says:
Not more than two hours at time"
THE Supreme Court of Missouri has Just
decided that the promissory note of mar
ried woman is charge upon her estate
without containing any express words to
that effect.
PIGEONS are unusually long this year:
An exchange speaks of "a flight of pig
cons twelve miles long" But this is the
Centennial year, and that probably ac-
counts for it.
IT 10 impossible TO make people under
stand their ignorance, for it requires
knowledge to perceive it; and therefore he
than can perceive it hath it not.-Jeremy
TAYLOR.
OvER-DREss leads to false expectations,
and confirms a deccitful vanity which
prompts to pretense of wealth, and all the
iniquitOus means by which it may be
supported.
If man must slave all his life away to
accumulate a fortune, and die Just as he
gets TO be lone of the richest men in
America" what comfort has he taken or
what good has he done the world?
WHAT a mother lacks in skill she makes
up in enthusiasm when she cuts her boys
hair. The back of his head may look
like thunder, but every scollop is a bright
vision of devoted affection to the under
standing mind. .--Erchange.
A WAC, who had wrapped a piece of
cloth having the word centennial" on il
around an egg and then boiled il so that
the word appeared plainly on the she'll
sadly deceived a Portland Conn J farmer
who took it out of nest where It had been
placed, and exhibited it at the office of a
local newspaper as a wonderful manifesto
tiOn of the hens intimate knowledge of
the history of the United States.
The startling headline announcement
in a Chicago paper that Cincinnati was
" cleaned out" caused many a thrill of Joy
as the readers thought of the mighty trans
formation wrought in prosperous but
dirty city; out the joy must have turned
to sorrow when it appeared that the sig
niticant announcement had no other
foundation than the defeat of Cincinnati
base ball club by the stalwart foreigners
whom Chicago employs to do her Ma
tional game" for her.-Detr0H Free Press
TIE Pottsville OhrDntclS says that a
man named Hoffman is now in the aims.
house of Schuylkill County, Pa, who
has painted in oil picture of the build
lngs and grounds, not emitting the famous
barn. The picture is well executed in
bright colOrs, and hangs in the office of
the Institution, and is shown to visitors
as the handiwork of an inmate He was
formerly an inmate of the Berks County
and is said to be foreign no
bleman, travelling iRc01., and spending
time in different almshouses in order to
study different phases of human nature.
A wELL-KNowN gentl eman of this city
was lately the subject of an exhibition OF
"cheek" which discounts the proverbial
canal horse. Crossing the lower bridge,
he was stopped by stranger who crossed
from the opposite side, and asked if he
had lost relative recently. Being told
that he had lost a sister some time ago,
the fellow proceeded to say that he no.
ticed that he wore weed on his hat, and
he wished to call his attention to new
he was agent for. Adrummer
who goes about soliciting people who
wear weeds on their hats is a new variety
of abomination.-OStoegO (N. ~ Pal
lddium
THE Silver City New Reporter tells of
a singular petrtfaction which was found
by Hank Blanchard near his limekiln in
FL Dorado Canon. The perifaction is the
stump of tree which could not have been
cut down more than sixteen or twenty
years ago, as the mark s on it are such
that none but good chopper could leave;
so it is fair to conclude that il was felled
by an American, and none, 10 the best of
our information, ever passed through that
section prior to that time. The stump is |
petrified, even to the roots.
Blanchard intends to have it dug up and |
present il 10 the Pacific Coast Pioneers for |
their cabinet. The Reporter further states |
that Mr.. Blanchard will excavate tunnel |
and deposit therein another stump and |
close il up for few years, believing that
twill shortly petrify.
THE Commercial Office was visited yes-
lerday by Samuel E. G.. Nixon, the "in. |
iant Matchmaker" in charge of his grand. |
Iather, Mr., Edward Gillian, of Allegheny.
The child Is only two years and seven
months old, and has developed most re-
markable mechanical skill and dexterity
for one Of his tender years. His grand |
ather is one of the oldest watchmakers in |
he country, and II was at his bench that |
he child first exhibited his precocity. BY |
very little training, he learned the name
md use of every tool, and he can now
AXE apart and readjust the works of a
watch, putting every pin and wheel In its
proper place. The operation was per.
ormed In this office, under the direction
II MIR. Gillian, in the presence of a num-
YER OF spectators, much TO their surprise
md qualification. Little Samuel seems
destined 10 make his mark In the world.
-P'Hsburgh (Pa) Commercial !