Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-10
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
A CRAFTY set--boatmen.

n CRAFTY Sel--DOuJuleH.
CHINESE bakers are hung when they put
alum in their bread.
ONE.RuNNER sleds are used in Nevada
by practiced coasters.
IT is said that all men should live on
fruit-that is, the fruit of their industry.
THE Khan of Khiva is sick, and 1t is
feared that he Khant reKhiva Boston
Post. ..a
A DIsTILLER in New Hampshire makes
all his employees sign the temperance
pledge
AUSTRALIAN papers say the large fishes
are disappearing from the waters of that
country.
A BELMONT IN. " man dislocated his
jaw in yelling fire" and the conflagra-
ton had to go on without him.
WNsLow's liabilities are set down by
his creditors at over $500, 600. Besides
tins there is his liability to go to State
Prison, which is also very large.
"WLL you have me, SarahY" said a
young man to modest girl. "No,
john" said she; +" but you may have me,
if you will"
THE Centennial managers are making
efforts to have a court for the summary
trial of offenders, held upon the Exposi-
tim y-aInde
IT is singular that mineral waters are
only beneficial TO the wealthy. Who
ever knew physician to advise poor
man 10 go to any watering-placeS
SAMUEL CALVIN, of Adamsburg, Craw-
ford County, Pa, has a dark chestnut
mare, four years old, the hair Of which is
two inches long, and as curly as possible.
A JAwBoNE sixteen feet long is to be
exhibited at the Centennial by Massachu-
sets. If any one has lost it, let her come
forward now, or ever hereafter hold her
peace.
THE New York Commercial Aduerttser
says: "On the silver half-dollar coined
in 1895 there were fifteen stars; on the dol
lar coined in 1900 but thirteen stars. Can
the numismatists explainf"
A MAN tanned dog that somebody sent
! him, until the docile little creature would
eat off his hand. AT least it ate off about
three quarters of his thumb, but died of
conclusion of the brain before it could
finish the hand.
! GEORGE ELIOT says that girls are deli
| cate vessels in which is borne onward
through the ages the treasure of human
affection. Girls are delicate vessels which
require a small fortune every season to
keep them in sails
A WOMAN called at the registers Office
yesterday, asking for q marriage license,
got it and paid for it. 1t is felt that this
establishes precedent that will Oblige
most of our best young men to take to the
woods. .-No7Uich Bulletin.
A GENIUS in New Bedford is fitting up
| steamer for the purpose of towing ice
bergs to India, where they sell for six
ceuts a pound. Another proposes to do
still better--to fit screw in the iceberg
| itself, and thus avoid the expense Of ship
building.
AN Albany On. " ice firm applied to
the Shakers, at Lebanon, wishing to pur-
chase the ice on a small lake. The
Shakers declared it to be against their
! principles 10 sell water, air or ice, and
gave permission to cut it free. Queer
fellows, those Shakers.
ONE of the most eXtravagant things
that Jupiter ever did was to chain Vul-
cans mother on Mount Olympus to cure
her of her loQuaciousnesS. The outrage
created such indignation among the sex
that the succeeding generations of women
were all patterned after Hulcan's mother,
and by constant study and practice most
of them have succeeded in surprising the
pattern Chronicle.
A STUMP speaker, in dealing with the
"modern physical degeneracy of women" l."
exclaimed: I'VE must take good care OF
our grandmOthers, for we shall never get
any morew 1t is so with mothers, also,
as Connecticut merchant was surprised
to hear, the other day. His pastor was
visiting him and his wife, and, after
warning her that she must take better care
of her health, he concluded thus: " Re
member, my dear madam, your family
Your husband might replace you, hui
your children never couldw-N. 7. In
DEPENDENT
AsTAGE accident that would have over.
! thrown the presence of mind of most ar
: fists was converted into the most exquisite
bit of stage business, the other evening, by
Miss Clara Morris, at Baltimore. On the
night of her Camille" cat intruded it
self into one of the most pathetic scenes
and wandering around the stage, caused {
! little litter of amusement The lady
caught the situation at a glance, and i'm
provised suitable lines, took the cat il
her arms, and, by her caresses and frag
, mentary sentences, intensified the patho
of the scene she was acting.
CHEAP Chinese labor is raising another
row in California This time the discus
sion is whether the road to the site of thu
; lick Observatory, on the summit of Noun
Davidson, shall be built by Cinnamon
the contractor to whom the work wa
awarded being hardly able to keep to tn
h terms of the contract without employing
cheap labor. The white workmen of Sal
: Jose, many of whom have come from lon
e distances in hope of job, are naturall
: disgusted with the idea, and Mr.. Lick ha
: sent a dispatch to San Jose to the Boar
= of Supervisors of Santa Clara County t
e the effect that if a aChinaman was employed
: in the construction of the Mount hamil
ton Road they would not receive dolla
u from him.
g THE London Pictorial World says tn
II story of Cinderella is not the invention c
: some imaginative genius, but that it
y founded on fact. 1t cites Strabo as its aU
n thority. The story is as follows: One da
6 lady named Rhodopis was bathin
e in the Nile, and the wind carried one {
= her sandals and laid it at the feet of tn
: King of Egypt, who was holding coul
IS of justice in the open air not far awaJ
. His curiosity was excited by the singular
ii ity of the event and the elegance of tn
}. sandal, and he offered a reward for III
a. discovery of the owner. Rhodopi
d claimed it, and it was found to fit her e,
s. actly. She was very beautiful, and til
m King married her. She is remembers
i: IN history as the "Rosy. Checked Queen
6 of Egypt, and she lived 1000 years befoI
9, the Christian era.
le The Buffalo Courier correspondel
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