Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22
SORTS.

admission to Cornell University this year.
All things perish except virtue, and
old blue army overcoats. Rocktand
| Courier. h'r tr
The coming cotton crop in the South
is estimated at from 4,250,000 to 4,500,-
600 bales.
An English company has purchased
the water power at the great falls of the
Potomac.
The Niagara Falls extortionists have
killed their goose Visitors are scarce,
and lay no more golden eggs.
Rufus Choate said of a woman: "She
is sinner-no, not sinner, for she is
my client, but very disagreeable saint"
"A man was found dead in Georgia
well, and local newspaper rashly con-
lectures that he either fell or was thrown
in. -,,-7 ,g
The Evangelical Union in Scotland
is composed of eighty-three churches
that do not admit liquor-dealers to men,
bership.
The largest sea turtle ever seen on
the northern coast has Just been caught
in the Vineyard Sound, near Woods Hole.
1t weighed 900 pounds.
"A Saratoga correspondent wants to
bet that there is more love made to the
square inch at Saratoga, during the sea-
son, than at any other place in the coun-
! try
-Oftentimes man ransacks the whole
house for a pin, and, not being able to
find one, drops into chair with disgust,
and is Immediately rewarded for the
! search.
Mr.. Gladstone is opposed to preach
ing from manuscript. Hesays the preach
ers ought to regard the audience as one
| person who is to be addressed, rebuked,
/ encouraged and won,, ,fY,,.-.sr
\ la lovely female writes to the Hart
ford Times: "Down at Long Branch the
other night it actually felt good to pull
about three blankets over the still beau
tiful form of yours truly"
"A grasshOpper was found in Fill
more, Neb., on the 2Sth of August with
paper tied to its neck on which was
written Custer City, Aug. 10. Custer
City is 100 miles from Fillmore.
Minnie Japp, servant girl in
Davenport nowa) bOarding-house, was
burned from her feet to her hips by
lamp exploding which she was carrying
downstairs the other night. She may
possibly survive. .rs.It,
There is hermit at Greenwood Lake,
New York who lives in "A hut. that is
hardly large enough to allow a. man to
lie at full length or stand erect. His
only article of furniture is apowder-keg
"A nurseryman ADVERTISED that he
would supply allsorts offruits and plants,
especially pie-plants of all kinds. A
gentleman thereupon sent him an order
for one package Of custard.pie seed and
dozen mince-pie plants. Z -
The Rev. DR.. CuEler, who has been
to the Adirondacks, complains of sign
board that he saw there, near the grave
of John Brown, which said: 'FTo John
Browns Home--fresh trout, chickens and
lodging always suppliedp
Mr.. Sullivant, an Illinois farmer
who may well be called "great, if the
size of his farm--40,000 acres-be con-
sftfered is about to sell half of it, 1t is
efght miles square, and d'2o, 600 acres of
it are now covered with corn.
"A Paris letter says; q False hair will
be drug in the market when frost
comes. Short eurlsA and natural hair,
such as the pictures of Nine. Recamfer
anu NSutCh llOIbOitSC nave ulduG
to everybody, will be all the fashion,
'l--'' We wish 10 understood y says the
Quitman (Ga.) Gem, "by any party de-
string the Gem who have not the cash to
pay for it, that we will take country prod
uce, such as chickens, eggs, etc., even
vegetables, as we have no garden"
"A Western lawyer, who was defend
ing a man on trial for wife murder,
sought for some euphonious and inno-
cent phrase with which to describe his
clients crime, and finally said: 'He
winnowed her into paradise with fence
rail."5 5000 s.a
= Polite Youth" Excuse me, sir, but
you've dropped your cigar ash on your
trowsers. Crusty Old Gent" Well,
sir, and what then? You've had fuse
burning in your sleeve for the last quar-
ter of an hour, and l never interfered
with YOU" ......,..,. -,
During these cool, breezy mornings,
when the air seems fresher and the fields
are bespangled with dew-diamonds, when
all nature seems to invite man to play
romp, how pleasant it is, just as the first
streaks of daylight steal through the
shutters, for the refreshed, reinvigorated
sleeper to turn over in bed and take an
other nap. ns vuo ~
During the recent T" oecultationi. of
Saturn by the moon, or, in other words,
when the moon passed between Saturn
and the earth, several astronomers, who
were watching the phenomenon with par.
ticularly strong telescopes, say they dis
tinctly heard theape0ple of Saturn yell
ing d" Down in fFOntp to, the man in the
moon.7' ss5r2a.) D. .ausII -or.f 80
"A hotel-keeper posts at his door this
notice: q English, German, Italian and
Spanish Spoken Here" Arrives an En-
ghshmana and in fantastic French asks
for the interpreter, Monsieur re-
plies the waiter, there is none"
:, What, no interpreter? And yet you
say on your sign that all the languages
are spoken here@ " Yes, sir--by the
travellers"
There is at New Albany, Ind, what
is called the Church of Science, which
gnores creeds, and bases the qualifIca-
ions for membership onp0nl honesty,
virtue and morality Meetings are held
IN each, Sunday afternoon, when, anyone
who desires may address the assembly,
'u5ject to criticism by the hearers.
"A London woman with babe in her
lrms provoked her husband so much
hat he SHE'D a knife at her II killed
he baby, entering two inches deep into
he head The jury acquitted the father
~ rendering ~ verdict of accidental
leath,p and severely reprimanded the
mother for having aggravated her hus-
,and.
Count Pac. who died in 1885, be-
ueathed two-thirds of his personal
state TO be divided among Poles then
wing in the United States who had been
a military service. No application has
cen made, and So, 400 are awaiting dis
Applications must be sup
o-ted by certificates from the nearest
'rench Consul, and may be addressed to
Iaitre SECOND, Rue Laftte, Paris.
An ingenious New York youth un-