Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-24

"A well-known Justice of the Peace
in Watertown, Mich, being hunted up
with some difficulty by photographic mes
senger with dispatch announcing his
fathers death, refused to pay the charge
of one dollar for delivery. He said: "I
amt agoin' to pay for that news, for I've
bin expectin' the old man TO die for some
time" t.i 4ii4H ia .s a, .........
| "A Philadelphia lady recently paid
sixty dollars fora piece Of jewolry in the
Centennial, purchased as a souvenir,
which she afterward ascertained was
worth about seventy-fve cents. Being
SO fortunate as to have an acquaintance
in the commission she recovered her
money, but how many others have been
thus swindled without recovery will prob
ably never be known. 'i
"A California trapper will give the
next President D chair made of bear
skins with claws curling over the arms
and around the feet, and a spring con-
cealed in the back, on touching which
the head of grizzly, with fiercely glar-
ing eyes and wide-open mouth, springs
out from under the chair, and, after max
ing several vicious snaps with his jaws,
retires as suddenly as it came.
Mr.. Hartman, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
evidently reader of dog stories, took
the family and went to the Centennial,
leaving his faithful and sagacious mastiff
to take care of his property. When he
returned he found that his house had
been ransacked from top to bottom; that
$500 worth of goods had been stolen,
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broken.
"A step. mother at Lewiston, Me-, be.
cause her STEP daughter was in the habit
of biting her finger-nails, ordered her to
wear gloves to school. One day the
child returned without the gloves on,
whereupon the step-mother, after beat
ing her, put the gloves on her hands and
sewed them on through the loose flesh
of the child's wrists. The child's aunt,
hearing of the matter, had the woman
arrested and put under bonds.
Some years ago minister wascalled
in to see man who was very i'll. After
finishing his visit, as he was leaving the
house, he said to the mans wife: "My
good woman, do you not go to church at
all?" go yes, sir; we gang to the Bar
ony Kirk" "Then why in the world
did you send for me? Why didn't you
send for DIR. Macleod" INA, ma, sir;
deed no. We wadna risk him. Do ye
no ken it's a dangerous case of typhusT
Country patience is long.suAering,
/ but at times sarcastic, as the following
shows: " AT first there meanders through
this section a book agent, then a tin
cart, then a tree man, then patent-med
icine individual, then two tramps, then a
thief or two, then salve man, then hall
dozen duplicates of each, and finally
the cider-barrel buyer, the white-wire
clothes-line fellow, and the lightning.
rod demon incarnate, ,"-SprinQfeld Re
publican.
"A young man from the frontier,
stopping at one of our hotels, told the
clerk the other evening that he was GO
ing to be out late. "'Just wait min.
ute" replied the accommodating clerk,
and he rushed off, but soon reappeared
with large envelope, which he placed
in the guests breast-pocket, with the re.
mark: "That is bond for your ap,
pearance before the Recorder, properly
signed. AS soon as you are arrested for
being drunk and disorderly just give the
bond to the policeman, mention my name
to him, and he will bring you home in a
hack. Good night! God bless your
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