Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-24
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

| SENSE AND NONSENSEs
LYING IN wAIT-False scales.-N. Y,
Express. f-....
THE Treasury girls are called the pretty
possibilities of Washin gton. bIl
No EVIL is honorable: but death is hon.
orable; therefore death is not evil.-Zen0.
THE most fashionable spring bonnet fol-
this year will probably be the old winter
bonnet fixed over.
WHAT would this world he without a
woman "A perfect blank-like sheet oi
paper--not even ruled err ~ Q
TRE English language stands no show
beside young lady who wants TO "talk
big Shell call it" Cape Oawd" if she
dies for it,
o. A New ENGLAND check for two cents,
after passing through twenty hands last
week, finally landed safe and sound in q
leading Norwich bank. " ~ y fJA
TWEED is trying to figure up what
he II haze when that $4,000, 900 is paid
and the quolient thus far is that there's
got TO be new arithmetic.
ONE of the English. galway COMPANIES
has decided TO paint its cars different col
ors, the tirst-class yellow. the second
brown, and the dtird blue.
q "AYHY do we liver asks a Western edi-
Tor. BY Jove! there's a puzzler. Stay
however! Are there no drug stores in Youl
! place ?-R0clester Deaaocrdt. q fat =
PAwNBRoKERs have never been de.
scribed as the pioneers of progress, al
| Though il must be admitted that they are
always ready to make an advance.
HONESTY mod desty economy; these
are good words for these tines, expressive
of the coantryss greatest needs, political.
ly, commercially, socially and individu
\ ally eY-s sg9-vaE-5- rrssvrr -rFsHr
| The English courts have decided that a
wife divorced from her husband for cruel.
ty'csnnot sue him for damages. The law
presumes that she has received damages
enough already, D. I'D F.rF... ..
| AMONG the art treasures recently brought
to light at Pompeii is silver altar, or
which were deposited two silver cups and
spoons, the latter of which are precisely
similar in form TO those now in use.
MANY woman whips her child terribly
! because it wants its own way, and then
! gives her husband Hail Columbia because
! she cannot have hers, no matter whether
he can afford it or not.-I'0merOy's Demo
crat. 2 rNFTf oI1T Az Z
STRIPED stockings are poisoning chil
dren in Albany and Troy. Singularly
enough, we have yet heard of no grown
persons being poisoned in this way, anc
they celtainly wear the striped stockingl
as much as ever. AEt ~ ~ III q -f
THAT was wise professor who an
swered his daughters question; "Wha
is mind:'' briefly by saying, No mat
ter" and to the other question, What il
matter:" Never mind" Not mucl
more can be said on either point.
How MUCH are We paying that sales
man? ~ asked the senior of his junior
partner. " Fifteen hundred dollars year
sir" was the reply. "Ah, yes, tiftcer
hundred hadn't we better, as a matter
OF economy, take him into the coucernr
A WOMAN in London struck her hus
band in the face with an umbrella becaus
he said her heels were too high; and thi
simple incident thrusts the question upo
us rs TO whether il is not better to b
kicked somewhere with high heels than
be hit in the face with an umbrella.
THEY'VE got the laugh on a Cincinnati
railroad man Just returned from Florida
The story is that he and two or thrc
friends, after days fishing off the Al
lantic coast spread all sail on their smac
for home, but after standing three hour
before the wind and making no headWay
they suddenly remembered that the ancho
had been down all the time
GOOD NATURE IS that benevolent an
amiable temper of mind which dispose
us 10 feel the misfortunes and enjoy IN
happiness of others, and consequently ly
pushes us on to promote the latter an
prevent the former; and that without an
abstract contemplation on the beauty {
virtue, and without the allurements {
terrors of religion. Fielding.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Joui
nal says: Passing down Washingto
street, near the Old South, / saw a woma
having two bundles on her arm One
them fell Just as a well-known gentlema
of this city came out OF store. II
stopped and picked itup, carefully brushe
OF the slush into Which II bad fallen, an
handing it to the female with polit
bow, passed up the street. said to hel
Do you know who that polite gentlema
wasg No. indade, she replied, Wei
that was the Governor of Massachusetts
'Indade, he's a perfect gintleman, on
e way was her reply.
A DETROIT lady was trading at Woo,
ward avenue dry goods store the 9th,
| day, when she ran short of money an
asked the clerk to put the balance on IL
books He cheerfullY agreed, and said |
would send the bill TO her husban,
gYou'd better send IL to me-" She said, /
he figured up the cost. Tive got p
, culiar husband. If that bill reads $11 t,
sugar, coffee and tea, heNl give me Ii
money without a word. II it reads I,
) balance on dry goods, he'll see you
Texas before he pays it. Make it out f
groceries. 1t is my duty as a good wi
to pander to his feelings. ."-Detivit Fr
Press.
THE Centennial Legion, which is
e parade at Philadelphia on next lndepen
2 ence Day, us escort of the President of Il
, United States, Is cnmposedu of one lita.l
company from each of the original thf
, teen States, which will he represented
follows; New Hampshire, Amoske,
! Veterans; Massachusetts, Boston Lig
) Infanuyi Rhode Island, First Light Il
tantryi Connecticut, New Haven Gray
!; Now York, Old Guard New Jersey, Ph
Kearney Guard; Pennsylvania, State Fee
! cibles; Delaware, American Rifles Mar
, land, Fifth Maryland Infantry; Vfrgini
: Norfolk Light Artillery Blues; &oE
4 Carolina, Fay ayetteville Rifles; South Car
, hna, Washington Light Infantry; Georgl
. Clinch Rifles. Each command will We
! ius own uniform, and carry the flag of Il
{ State il represents. A medal commem
rative of the occasion will be presentt
: to each member Of the legion.-FT0vfdea
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