Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-21
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

IT'S Drew, tits pity, and pity It's its
Drew.-N. Y. Com. AdU.
A FARMER of Santa Ynez, Cal, recent
ly traded 240 mustangs for one blooded
stallion.
If you would pass for more than your
value, say little. 1t is easier to look wise
than to talk wise.
A New York State town clerk wants
rest after fifty consecutive years of office
holding. How are his accounts?
IT was all feathers for the ladies' hats,
last winter, but for this summer the
fashion will demand profusion Of flowers.
LAND why is it," says Pat, =" they call
this the annsllar' eclipse? Shure, Idon't
reminder hearin of any last year, or the
year before"
NOTHING will dry woman's eyes and
check her sobs quicker, at funeral, than
the detection of a new style Of flounce on
a neighboring mourner's dress
LOOK ere now, Malindy," yelled
Vallejo woman to her eldest girl, "don't
bend over that well so far. You'll fall in
there some day, and then we'll have to
tote water"
A BROOKLYN girl is filled with Joy be-
cause she has achieved her Centennial Of
been led to the block, but she will marry
the Centennial chap.
JUDGING from the reports in circula-
ton all over the country that the frui:
buds have been totally destroyed, there is
every reason to believe that the coming
season will be an excellent one for all
kinds of fruit. -EEctdnge.
MONEY can never be we'll managed if
1aI, l.,
for its own sake. In all meanness there
is defect of intellect as well of heart
And even the cleverness of avarice is but
the cunning of becility.-BuItcer Lytt0n
THE farmers of AroostOolx County,
Maine, believe in combination There is
a starch factory in the county, and the
farmers have pledged themselves not to
raise potatoes for it unless they can be
guaranteed at least twenty-five cents a
bushel
A SCIENTIST says: Eventually, as our
globe contracts, there will only be thirteen
days in year, Every day but one will
be the first of the month, you see, and
thatll probably be Christmas, Fourth of
July every two weeks-whew!-N Y.
Gruphic.
Now, THEN, it's the solemn truth and
the whole truth. A month ago the editor
ial rooms of the Free Press contained a
million cockroaches, less or more. To-day
you can't find one. Half a pound of pow
dered bOraX did for them. It's an old
remedy and a sure one.-DetroH Free
Press.
PIERCE COUNTY, Ga, has novel di-
vorcc suit. The parties have been living
together for over twenty years, and have
grown-up children. One of the grounds
for divorce is that :" the man was drunk
when the marriage ceremony was per-
formed, and they married him to the
wrong woman"
A FAvoRTTE mode of curing intoXica-
ton in Sweden and Norway is by using
the hair of some of the same dog. The
drunkard is put in Jail and fed on nothing
but bread and wine. He likes it at first,
but after few days it grows very disgust
ing to him, and, If followed up, creates a
deep. seated repulsion to all that can intox-
icate.
THE Fifth Ward German school in AL
lentown, Pa, has been closed by the di-
rectors until further orders, because
some of the scholars, half-grown boys,
are so ill-behaved and boisterOus in their
conduct in the sChoOlroom during recita-
tions that it is impossible to impart in
struction understandipgly to those schol-
ars who behave themselves properly"
THE busy little Congre ssman is sending
to all the ends of his district the annual
supply of garden seed and microscopic
measures Of fine, rare wheat, all Of which
is confidently expected, despite the late
ness OF the season, to spring up, put forth
its leaves and blossoms, and bear fruit by
the time the next Congressional conven-
tons are held. What beautiful study
is the science of garden truck. -BUrlsng-
ton Hank Ege.
IT is now the lay in New York, by q
recent decision of the Court of Appeals,
that if bank eertifies an altered check,
it is not responsible for its payment. The
Court holds that the banks certifcation
was only TO the genuineness of the sigma
ture, and to the fact that the drawer had
the money on deposit. 1t does not bind
the bank to pay the check upon presenta-
tion if it appears that the check when
certified had been altered. This decision
excites the liveliest astonishment of the
New York mercantile community.
AN interesting presentation took place
at Cochranton, Pa, a few days since, at
the close of the public schools. A tin
box, said to contain the annual report of
the School Board, with the list of teachers
and pupils, names of borough and county
officers, was presented to the Directors, to
be preserved by them and to be Transmits
ted to their successors, and they in turn to
theirs, keeping it carefully in the School
Board until the year 1915, at which time
1t may be opened by their officiating Di-
rectors The box was received by Andrew
Apple, Secretary of the board, in a few
! appropriate remarks, and closing with the
historical words OF Gen. Dix; "If any
man opens this box before the year 1915,
shoot him on the spot"
SOMEBODY introduced resolution in
Select Council, yesterday, requiring loco
motives passing through the park to use
"noise absorbers" II is happy thought,
and after it has been adopted on the rail
roads, we shall apply for a peremptory
mandamus to extend the use of the appa-
ratus to hand organs, crying babies and
| long winded orators. What blessing it
will be when we get all the noise alb
sorbed. We do not know what the form
of the proposed machine is, Persons and
animals with very large ears must absorb
great deal Of noise. It will be very in
convenient 10 maintain a supply of ilck.
asses, either biped or quadruped along
the lines of the railroads in and around
the park; but the experiment might be
tried, and councils had better appoint a
special joint committee to go out and see
how II would work,-PhiIadelphia Egsn-
ing Bulletin,