Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-29
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your charity.
"A Wedding Trip-Stumbling over
the brides train.
The maidens of Flint, Mich, have
got up cooking club.
Barbara Frietchie's home is slowly
turning into-Canes.
The best and worst thing you can
say of marriage is that it is a tie.
One of the streets of Sandersville,
Ca, has been christened Silk Stockings
The law office of Thaddeus Stevens,
Der shop.
An eel is not as slippery as politi-
clan, but it can live longer on water
Exchange.
"A worn.out parent has named his
first baby Macbeth, becuse he has "mur-
dered sleep"
The man whose voice was taxed to
its utmost is requested to can around and
see the Assessor.
The cost of maintaining ,021 con.
victs in the Virginia Penitentiary was
about seven cents per day per head.
Never mind the high price of coffee
this winter. The courting season has
setin with unusual vigor and tease cheap.
Churches at Troy, N. Y, give prizes
to the young men who bring the greatest
number of women to the church socia-
bles.
-Brickmakers die very young; not
because the gods love them, particular
ly, but because there's is such kiln
business.
"A child's pretty saying: "What
will you be when you grow up?" "a
baker; then I can sell the bread to man.
ma cheaper"
=" Is your voice SOPHOMORE in
quired a country music committeeman of
young lady who applied for position
in the choir.
An editor wishes no bodily harm to
his subscribers, but he hopes that some
of them in arrears will be seized with a
remittent fever.
Only 100000 bushels of peanuts
were raised this year. The failure of
several circuses last year dealt severe
blow to this industry.
The Pekin Gazette is one thousand
years old. The editor is never bored
with visit from the man who has "taken
your paper since it started"
The young lady who wants to drown
herself about these days should be care
full to bundle up warm and take along a
hot brick, as the water is very cold.
"A Philadelphia shoe merchant wrote
to his wife chat he had become a convert
to cremation, and she said: go ahead;
have your ashes returned G. o. D. to
me-"
When Tom Thumb voted at the last
election, three year-old Connecticut boys
stood around and looked disgusted be-
cause that little shrimp could and they
couldn't
The Chinese are the most silent of
all the races of mankind, and account
for this taciturnity on the ground that
they never mind anybody's business but
their own.
w. ]. Mcdonald, Chief Clerk of the
Senate for forty years, says that William
L. Marcy and not Andrew Jackson orig
mated the motto, "To the victors belong
the spoils."
"A youth was recently tried in En-
gland for breach of promise, who had
written to his sweetheart 227 love-letters
since 1857. Those letters cost him e100,
not including the stationery.
"A church in Kentucky is reported
as thus rejoicing over a new pastor:
"We have secured his services for the
ensuing year at a salary of 800, and are
looking forward to great blessings"
"A son of Brigham Young has re-
signed from the United States Naval
Academy, desiring to seek another Oc-
cupation. He stood well in his studies,
which he had been pursuing for over
two years.
There's a girl in this city that
whistles. She practices it for self-pro-
lection. "Suppose, said she, 81 mar
ried man that couldn't whistle, who
would call for the dog, if we had ones"-
50. Louis Times.
Waco, Tex, was convulsed with
laughter at the sight of young man in
beaver, and broadcloth, and kids, driving
an OK team and loadof cotton into town.
1t was mild bet, though, compared with
some that were invented for the cam
paign.
Nelson's paroquet has just died at
the Jardin des Plantes at the ripe age of
115 years. He was with the great Ad-
miral al Trafalgar, and after the battle
was never able to say anything but
bomb, bomb, bomb" ...
--Rev DR.. G. F. Deems of New York
and the late Bishop Cummings of the
Reformed Episcopal Church were play
mates in boyhood and associates in col
lege; they both fell in love with the
same girl and she married neither.
"A hint to mothers: Begin as early as
possible to teach your infants to gargle
their throats. The work will be diff
cult, but the value of it would be ap.
parent in case of visit from diphtheria
or scarlet fever.
"A boy of eight summers has been
arrested at Terre Haute, Ind, for burg
larizing a store and then setting fire to
IT, His name is Garvey, and he promises
to become, under the ripening influence
of Reform School, an accomplished
rascal. If.
--Thres.year-Old happened 10 have a
want to be attended to just as his moth
er was busy with the baby. $50 away;
J ! can't be bothered with you now"