Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-21
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

A REGULAR boarder-he who pays every
Saturday.
CENTENNIADELPnIA" is new word,
and its application is easy. q.
THE Fredericksburg Herald claims TO
have found a lottery ticket signed by
George Washington.
A FATHER at Reading, Pa, wants his.
daughter arrested because she paradcs the
streets in male attire. @
A BOY was nearly gored to death by
mad bull in New Orleans the other day.
The animal was killed by a police officer.
THE difference between a dandy and a
ragged man is only a difference in degree
one has his trousers tored, and the other
has his trousers torder.
THE Centennial folks prophesy that the
settlement of the dead-beat question will
be almost as formidable an undertaking
for the commission as the erection of the
buildings.
The present yearly municipal expendi-
ture of Boston is greater than that OF the
United States Government in the year the
present Boston city charter was adopted :
1922.
RoBBERs in the rural districts of Berks
County, Pa, are so numerous that farm
ers are employing private watchmen to
protect them against the depredations OF
thieves.
THE bill before the Ohio Legislature
making the forcible entry of poultry
houses in the night time burglary elevates
the sneaking chicken-thief to an equality
with the bold burglar.
THE privilege of selling beer at the
Centennial has been sold for $50, 900; the
pretzel, the Dutch bread and mustard and
the hard boiled egg Interests have also
been disposed of at good round figures
THERE is a man in the German Reichs
tag who called Bismarck :" a cOnceited ole
ass" The other members thought mar
that was bold enough to say that was no
exactly the proper person to contradict, OF
| else they concurred with him, as the as
sertion was not contradicted.
THE English think that, if America hai
reason TO be proud that this is the centen
NAL year, they have reason TO point witt
! pride to a chancery case, just about to b'
| finally adiudicated, which had its origin
forty-five years before the Independence
bell rang out in Philadelphia. .s.
THE st. Albans folks frankly admit tha
they have made dreadful fools of them
selves in this Jimmy Blanchard business
but the Messenger takes consolation in tn
reflection that their conduct has furnished
8" one of the grandest manifestations o
human sympathy the age affords"
Mrs. BAKER, widow lady living som
five miles west of Acworth, Ga, becam
frightened few nights ago at what sh
supposed to be an approaching storm, an
attempted TO descend into the cellar fo
safety, and fell and broke her neck. He
little daughter gave the alarm and a:
! sembled the neighbOfs, who found the oil
; lady dead. Ff- |-ra.. rerr--
The steep timed roofs in Quebec d,
light the Coroner. On New Years Day
widow named Laprise was killed by a
|. avalanche of ice and snow from hou'
9 in Des FOsses street, and a lady who WI
J paying visits was knocked senseless an
suffered a dislocatiOn of the hip by sin
D liar chute. She was put into cariole al
!, driven TO her home, but Just as she W
\ being lifted out of the vehicle another a
alanche fell on her and again reduced h
n to insensibility.
a A GENTLEMAN called into our Off
/. Tuesday evening and left pair of GLOW
/, on our table. The gloves are not wor
u anything to us, and not worth much
= anybody; but Ii the owner will call |
d them to-day he can have them, otherwi
n we shall throw them into the vast
u basket-Syrdcuss Standard. OF cours
n after such an exposure, the owner
:, ashamed to call, and that shrewd edit
a. will have warmer digits during The II
n Of winter.-Uticd Herald,