Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-24
ALL SORTS.

bt, raul, mlnn.
Norway now ranks as the third mari
time power on earth.
In Philadelphia boss dressmaker is
called a forelady.
&c There are 1,O00 bakeries in New
York city and 5,s11 lager beer and liquor
saloons. i.'F .1H u''
Minnesota taxes liquor-dealers ten
dollars each to pay for a new State inc
briate asylum. .r.
The fret shipments of Florida
oranges are arriving at New York by
Southern steamers.
The army records show that Ken
lucky raises the tallest and Connecticut
the shortest men in the country.
Gambling in Oregon is to be totally
suppressed, If the provisions of a new
law are enforced, p g. wsH..t
If, during a frost, the moles throw
up earth, within fortY-eiglft hours the
frost will be gone.
--Pierrepont Edwards is British Vice
Consul in New York, and Edwards Pierre
pont is American Minister in London.
--"rm married now" was the excuse
a Chicago man gave florist for not
buying as many bouquets as in former
years. "u
-" Have / not, my son, given you
every advantageY" 80 yes; but ]
couldn't think of taking advantage of
you, father"
The Bulgarian fold" is one of the
fashionable styles in ladies' dresses at
the present time. Probably the atroci-
ty" hat will be the next novelty.
"A doctor recently gave the follow
ing prescription for sick lady: " A new
bonnet, Cashmere shawl and silk
dress" The lady, it is needless to say,
entirely recovered.
The London Era published this ex-
tremely funny announcement among It's
notices of deaths: Died, on the Goth
ult., George Smith, father of Miss Kate
Darlington, nee Mrs. T. Clarke.
"A colored Arkansas preacher, seven
feet high, weighing 400 pounds, and but
| twenty-six years old, has just had a pair
of shoes made at Memphis which are
172 inches long and 8 inches across the
sole.
The body of q man with the head
cut off was recently found in box float
ing in the river at Stratford, Ont An
inquest was held, but nothing elected to
afford the slightest clew as to his iden-
tity. .,
An old bachelor says that giving the
ballot to women would not amount to
anything practically, because they would
keep denying they were old enough to
IN fhnx 10 ha 70 10
any interest in politics. t... .r
-Bayard Taylor and the public have
ranged themselves on the side of the
mother-in-law. When Mr.. Taylor, the
other night, rebuked the newspaper
paragraphists for their f1ings at that
estimable relative, his audience ap-
plauded. .' 9''.. a,.r
H-+Suicide is fast becoming O fine art.
The other day New York man cut his
throat with broom handle; and now it
wouldn't surprise US at all to hear of a
man taking his life by swallowing a
cross.cut saw Norristoaon Herald.
The biggest gun in the world, Victor
Emmanuel's 100-ton infant, has fired its
first shot at Spezzia with $50 pounds of
powder and ball weighing 1000 pounds
only. The hydraulic machinery by
which the monster only can be moved
worked perfectly. .H
1T would be affectation to pretend
| that admiration, when it is openly ex-
pressed, is not very sweet to girls. Ex-
tremely few people are above the influ-
ence of vanity, and maidens, as a class,
are certainly not among those who are
Home journal.
The outlook for cheaper tea is good.
This plant was only introduced into
India forty years ago, and already 2,000
acres are covered with it on the slopes
of the Neilgherry Hills. The yield OF
the current year has been over 18, 900, ,00C
pounds, value $10,000,000. ,
The Sioux practice mode of heal.
ing almost exactly like the Turkish bath
As early as 1858 Father Hennepin was
cured of fever by the Minnesota In.
disns by sweating in an air-tight oven,
covered with buffalo skins and heated
with red-hot stones.
"A petition is being circulated by the
Woman's National Christian Temperance
Association, begging the Legislatures tc
enact law that no license be granted
to any liquor saloon unless the petition
for license is signed by the majority OF
the women in the ward or township.
"A gentleman who had tarried late al
his club found his wife awaiting his re-
turn in a high state of nervousness. She
said: Here I've been waiting and rock
ing in the chair till my head spins round
like top" jess so, wife, where I've
been" responded he; "it's in the atmos,
phere."
"A Springfield youth who was mar
ried the other day paid the officiating
clergyman fifty dollars for his job, spent
a Ioi0~ioAt on his wedding tour, an6
then came home to enjoy uno vOn.fopte
Of seventy-dollar chamber set, the only
furniture he owned, on which he had
paid but ten dollars, and when he'll pay
the rest nobody knows.
An enterprising Mendon (Vt.) man
boasts that he traded horses nine times
in one day at Rutland, and at night had
the same horse with which he started in
a watch worth twenty-five dollars, 8
double barreled shotgun and four bush
els of potatoes.
"A Vermont man borrowed So, 900 OF
a widow, erected Herewith handsome
monument in churchyard, sacred to his
own memory, failed within six months
and paid the widow, who could i'll afford
to lose it, 10 per cent. of her claim
Boston Post.
If there is distressing sight in the
metropolis at present it is the July
watermelons sitting in the restaurant
windows chattering with cold, and
hoping that their purchasers will send
them South, so that they can catch the
I yellow fever and die.-N. Y. Dispatch
~ "A singularincident recently occurred
in Philadelphia. A visitor to the Cen
tennial Exhibition from New Jersey put
l,up at one of the hotels and left his
sachel, containing clothing and $145,
in his room while he was sightseeing
At night he found himself unable tc
remember the name or locality of his
hotel, and was obliged to accept the
hospltalities of the city.