Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-02-04
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

| dogs as well as turks,
THE men who always tell good stories
generally tell old ones.
THE Prince of Wales went to Ceylon.
| He should have waited for Lon 10 come
and sec him.
IT puts a man on his metal TO say that
what he calls self. possession is only brass
-NtD Orleans Republican.
CHINA asks for 1000 square feet on the
Centennial grounds. China always had a
weakness for square feet Worcester Press.
ONE thing is certain, we can never have
| easy times, as nation, soI long as our
| five-cent men persist in smoking fifteen
cent cigars.
ROBERT TooMBs says that he has no
| doubt that tobacco shortens some mems
lives. He said so just after seeing a negro
crushed by hogshead Of tobacco.
BRIGHAM You've denies that every one
Of his wives jumps for closet when he
is heard wiping his feet on the doorstep.
He says love rules his household.
BISMARCK says the German journalists
| are too apt TO draw on their imaginatiUns
for sensational articles" 1t is Fortunate
that the evil is confined to Germany.
WHAT'S the use of trying to cultivate
! facial expressions? When the dynamite
fiend lay dead he looked the image OF
some steady Ge erman philosopher"
JOHN PANCAKE, who got rich in Neva-
| da, has come home to New Jersey and
changed his name to Brown. Correct.
A pancake is always brown after ii is re-
turned
New YORK has troubadour who wears
white kid gloves and sings under ladies'
windows o. nights. Some evening some
yellow house dog will have a meal of nice
soft veal.
A SAN FRANCISCO man recently offered
| to exhibit headless hen. 1t was found
upon investigation that the apparent mon
stlosty had been produced by the most
diabulical and cruel operation.
IT is proper during leap year for young
ladies to loaf around church doors and
steps, and spit all around, and talk about
how pretty the blushing young men look
as they mode silly 60 in,-ROme Sentinel.
A LONDON physician has caused some
alarm by delivering lecture on the pros
pect of n temperance of the plague which
ragged on the Continent and in England in
! 1865. The lancet SAYS alarm on the sub
| jcct is unnecessary.
A NEW YORK dentist says that tooth.
brushes make business for the dentists. II
people would let their teeth alone, he
says, there wouldn' be repairing epough
TO keep one dentist busy.
WHILE Legislatures go on framing laws
concerning the tramp nuisance, the thrifty
granger loses no time, but buys brindle
bull-pup and trains him. If there is any
thing tramp dcspiscs 1t is a brindlC bull.
pup.-,St. Louis Republican.
QUIZ, who took trip to the country
yesterday, remarked, after a night Of
serious contemplation, How closely a
farmer, who has big load TO pull, re-
scSnbles locomotive. He puffs, and
blows, and gets up his eam."-Oinctn-
natl Times.
THE Boston Trdreller says: "Centen-
nial woolen checked cloths with the fig
ures go" woven in each square are now
being worked up at some of the large
clothing. houses of this city Some of the
fashions of the centennial year are likely
10 be wonderful if not fearful.
THOSE Kentucky papers do well enough
once in while Here, for instance is the
LiringStOn Era remarking: "How often
have we seen the blooming maiden upon
whose face smiles danced like sunbeams
upon the bosom of the sea, and whose life
gave promise of happiness unallOyed and
hope unrequited, sitting with a huge wad
Of gum in her mouth and her beautiful
chin rising and falling like wave upon
the ocean,"
AN important decision has Just been
rendered in New York court A prop
erty owner had brought suit to restrain a
street railway company from clearing
their tracks of snow in such manner
that the accumulation was piled up in the
IatfN Ia, 1,
rightful access to the street. The Court
decided in favor of the complainant, and
expressed the opinion that the street-car
company should be compelled to cart
away the snow when it became an OBJ
struction to travel.
FATHER MCLoUGHLIN, of ST. Aloysius
Catholic Church, Pottstown, Pa, hearing
that some of the females of his congrega,
ton were given TO flirting on the street,
disguised himself and went out TO try it.
He drew out his handkerchief and, wav.
ing it, soon had the pleasure of receiving
number of flirting signals in return.
Then under the light of a gas-lamp he re-
vealed himself to some of the girls, caus-
ing them to flee from the wrath which they
did not escape in his Sunday sermon. He
thinks he will be able to break the men,
bcrs of his congregation of flirting,
THE caution manifested by insurance
companies in paying losses is frequently
in sharp contrast with the zeal exhibited
in inducing parties to insure but it is
probably sharper contrastin in New Hamp.
shire than anywhere else, unless the Bos-
ton Neios shamelessly misrepresents that
State in story ittells Of Concord. There
was fire insurance company there few
years ago." says the NeuS, "Oflicered
mainly by retired business men. Insur.
ance policies had to be approved by three
directors, and The rules gave each of these
a fee of ten cents. There was as much
competition for this work as there is
among Massachusetts coroners for corpse
| Several directors had keys to the post.
office box of the company, and there was
considerable strife for the letters. A wag
, got hold of blank, one day, an6 filled
out carefully an application for insurance
on a powder mill. One lucky director
got it from the Office, and at once approved
, 1t without reading. Two others followed
happy in the thought that they had each
earned ten cents rs we'll as served the
company. The laugh that weEt around
3 when the story was told will not soon be
! forgotten"
Nor many years ago, when nearly
every country family grew and made
their own pickles, in Westchester County
N. Y, that now yields the largest quan
tity, not 5000, 900 cucumbers year wer,
produced; at the present time, when tn,
; manufacture of pickles for sale has be
come an immense business, Westcheste
averages yearly yield of from 20, ,00O, ,0O
: to S0,0O0,000, and the product of Othe
sections has increased in like proportion
a DURING the five years ending Decem
. Der, 1875, says the New York Times, ther
Q were 281 homicides committed in the cit
G of New York. Some of them were pre-
c meditated, many of them were unpro
a voked, and large majority were utterl,
D without palliation. Nevertheless, out 0
r all this appalling number of man killers
. the perpetrators who suffered death wer
only SeDen. Only twenty -four were sen
TO prison for life. And reviewing thu