Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-02
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
THE LATEST rrLE-A new hat.

THE LATEST TILE-A new hat.
JOHN VARIETY, Of Detroit, claims to be
the spice Of life,
IL you wish for money, send a postal
card to the man who owes you, and the
thing is dun.
Rev. Mr.. MURRAY says there are two
beautiful wcrds IA our language--horse
and heaven.
IT is not etiquette for lady to peruse
an ice.cream sign aloud while walking
with gent.
VERY few seem to wear calico. Several
print mills have shut down because the
price is 80 low.
SILVER was fiat in the London market
at last accounts. 1t just commenced to
get 'round here.
THE Christian Witness speaks of
burglary where the burglars used a
James" to pry open the door
In announcing the marriage Of Miss
Mary Hoops, the Boston Adgertiser pre-.
sumes that she will continue to wear her
maiden name.
A LANDLADY heard an impecunious
lodger jiugling silver, and she wondered
how such roomer gained currency
Ne,o Orleans Republican.
A Boston PAPER; noticing the pride Of
young men entering business life, says too
many of them wish to retail high-toned
strawberries instead of peddling plain
goldfish
They say an average Philadelphia man
has so much quiet and deep-seated conceit
about him nowadays that travellers fre-
quently mistake him for Chicagoan.-
Boston Globe
A PISTOL TO shoot marbles with has
been invented. Now for patent for
something to take the place of the boys
and the marbles. This is an age of pro-
gress By-and-by things will be so nice
and complete that nobody can have any
work or any fun.
The indifference ofthe people of England
to education was painfully illustrated the
other day in a Yorkshire village. A lee
turer on the Feejee Islands offered to
show the native manner of preparing food
II any lady present would lend him
baby. No one offered!
A CLEVELAND lady objects to the new
silver quarters, for the reason that the
Goddess of Liberty wears the same old
clothes she had on when the war caused
her temporary retirement from society
some years ago. Miss Liberty should by
THEY sat in the parlor, and he squeezed
her hand. "Oh, would this hand were
ininep' he sighed. Why?" she sim
pered. " Because, ifit were mine, could
knock bullocks down with itbetter'n with
sledge- e-hammer." The last seen OF that
young man he was trying to climb on the
top of the house by means of the water
spout.
He was going to see girl who was
about his own height. Sunday afternoon
they measured, and she claimed to be the
taller of the two "Oh, WE'LL" said he,
elf you stand on your toes l reckon you
are at least two feet taller" She fitted
from the room, and has notspolIen TO him
Eincc. Silently they are drifting apart.
Two more lives made miserable by words
thoughtlessly spoken. (HO.)
NeDS.
THE girls at the Washington seminary
at LeaTcnwDrtb, play football in the
groves at the rear of the institution. They
kick the ball and cry "hail' as loud as
the boys A neatly-written, girlish-look
Ing challenge was on the bulletin board
at the college, offering to play match
game of football one afternoon in thesem
mary yard. The freshmen were afraid to
accept, ana have incurred the disgust of
everyone in consequence.
! THE Coroner, in summing up recent
case, pointed out to the jury that there was
no evidence whatever that the deceased
had come to her death by foul play, and
| therefore there was nothing for them to do
but to return a verdict of Death by the
visitation of Cod The jury, however,
thought it dignified TO retire for consider
alton. They dared not, of course, give a
tot ~ in "a of N =,
| summing up, and so, after long consid.
| Grafton, this is how they satisfied their
own consciences and the demands of Hs-
tice: 1--WE find that the deceased died by
the visitation of God, but under the most
suspicious circumstances.
IT is hardly possible to believe that the
mustang race was not purposely lost. IL
was more test of the riders than the
horses endurance, and the former was
| totally unprepared for the work. j. NJ.
! Graham, himself a rider, writes to the
Sun. Parker" says Mr.. Graham, "is
far from ignorant in the art of riding, but
totally so in keeping himself in trim for
such a fearful task as he expected to go
through. To say he is wonderful rider
does not express it, and his endurance was
marvellous. But how on earth can man
expect to go through such an ordeal and
drink tumbler of water every five min
utes? He ate twice during the eleven
/ hours and twenty seven minutes he was
riding, and, tD my surprise, he each time
att half mince pie. He seemed TO moi
understand himself, and had no advisers
| attribute his losing the race to improper
management; and believe, with good man.
agement, in good hands, he can success
fully do what he undertook. "-ROcheSte1
DtmOcrat.
POPULAR sayings are generally errone
Gus, For man to part his hair in the
middle and to write the first initial and
the second name in full are thought t.
imply imbecility, regardless of the fac
that Napoleon always parted his hair IL
the middle and that Caesar wrote hi:
name c. Julius Caesar. No lover o
flowers can be a thoroughly bad man,
says Emerson but Dolan's las request tC
his wife was, " Place pot of flowers on
my grave" and Piper leases for roses and
vioets like u dog for his dinner. Miss
Dickinson likes diamonds, whcreupon the
World constructs an apothegm upon thu
fact, implying that of course she canno
act. A fop is never intelligent and brag
gart is necessarily coward are among
the cOmmonest of popular delusions; il
face of the circumstance that many of tho
worlds heroes were, like Murat both iopi
in dress and braegarts in speech. Before
hanging up maxim it were well TO es,
tablish some connection between premise
and conclusion.-N, y. Gralhtc.
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