Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-19
ALL SORTS.
"A driving business-A cabman's.
"A wiseacre-Your wisdom tooth.
Every honeymoon has a man in it.
--Outdo relief-A breath of fresh

Outdoor relief-A breath of fresh
air.
Norway drunkards are compelled to
sweep the streets.
Mr.. Beecher had more than 1000
New ear callers
Women pedestrians are very much
loved and petted in Boston.
When is doctor most annoyed2
When he is out of patients.
About this time, pay for those
Christmas presents your wife gave you.
Remember that one square meal is
better than all the Heaven-pity- the
poor" poems ever written.
The pith of the rattan IS now manu-
factured into bowls, vases, napkin rings
and the like.
Kansas is happy in the possession
of fair maid of sixteen who can put a
bullet into an apple at fifteen PAGES.
Mem: On the quarters the eagles
head is always pointed to the left, while
on the twenty cent pieces she looks to
the right
OF Boston block of thirteen
houses, one is occupied by a maiden
lady, and twelve widows of large wealth
live in the other palatial residences.
We are glad, says an exchange, that
leap year is over. This having to reject
girl after girl is cruel strain upon
sensitive man.
"A man with an accordion can move
into almost any quiet neighborhood and
depreciate the value of real estate % per
cent. in one week.
Said she: Dear, it is Just twelve
years since that Christmas Eve when
you washed my face with snow and
kissed my tears away" Said he: /" Is
that all?"
w. q. Prime, of the New York Oh
seruer, owns coin dating back to Alex
ander the Great, said to be the only one
of the kind in the world, for which he
has refused 100000. ....
"A large number of counterfeit silver
half dollars are in circulation. They
can easily be detected by lightness in
the weight below the genuine and by
greasy touch.
There are two ways Of going through
this world. One is to make the best of
it and the other is to make the worst Of
it. Those who take the latter course
work hard for poor pay.
st. Louis last year received 69,123
packages of castor beans, and used over
4O, 900 packages herself. We don't know
how many castor beans make package,
but we hope st. Louis feels better.
There are over 100, 900 hogsheads Of
molasses consumed annually in Philsdel-
phia. That's why the people are so sweet,
and the city called "The City of Broth
erly Love-"
A Cincinnati physician sued another
man simply for calling him, On postal
card; A liar, a quack, a murderer, a
rascal, ruflian, a villain, a forger, a
perjurer, an ignoramus, pretender and
general beat"
Seventeen thousand Iowans spent
nearly 81, 600, 900 at the Centennial And
now they are sitting around in Iowa com
planning that there is no money in the
State. Singular, where all the money
has gone.-HaWk-B Eye.
"A young man at Lowell called for
fire.box key, the other night, gave an
alarm, returned the key with thanks,
and ran at full speed up the street shout
ing firc-all in a state of somnambulism,
the fire only existing in his brain.
james and Thomas Hart were ar
rested in Colorado town the other day
for jointly beating barkeeper. These
must be the persons referred to by the
poet when he spoke of 1.-TWO Harts that
beat as one"
"A little girl asked her mother; "What
kind of bear is consecrated cross
eyed bearS" The mother replied that
she had never heard of such an animal.
The child insisted that they sang about
it at the Sunday-school. mo-" said the
mother. "It is A consecrated cross
bear"
Washington society has some pecul-
lar wrinkles. A son lady's visiting or
invitation card signifies that the lady is
the wife of member of Congress, S
members daughter, and q other lady
relatives or friends inmates of men,
ber's family.
-"Now, Jenny, my child, remember
and not say word to your new nurse
about being black, for it might hurt her
feelings" On being confronted with
that very sable guardian Jennie ex-
claimed, with a surprised face: 80 my!
isn't she whitew
Origin of the word panic: The
god Pan was supposed to have assisted
the Greeks at the battle of Marathon,
400 B. c., striking such terror into the
Persian hosts that they hed to their ships
in perfect dismay. From that time the
Greek term panikon was used to describe
unreasoning or sudden and overpowering
fear.
The late Gen. Bartlett, after having
been several times wounded, wrote to the
lady of his choice releasing her from her
engagement, and it was she who wrote
the memorable words: "Ill marry you il
there's enough left of your body to hold
your soul" He lived happily and left
| five children.
The keeper of a " first t-elass boarding
house" was recently detected in Phila-
delphia and brought to grief for impOs-
| ing on the charitable. She had received
aid from the Board of Guardians of the
Poor and from the charity fund of one
of the Oldest churches for period Of
thirty eight years.
The other day, the Burlington
HatOk Eye says, some of the boys in
duced young man from Flint Creek to
take hold of the handles of galvanic
battery. As puckered him up he roared;
Jimmy Criminy, let upl Whoever
heard of a thing that could make you
taste green persimmons with your hands,
beforeY"
The practical advantage of college
education was strikingly exempliied in
the case of George w. Burns, of Califor-
mia, who recently was attacked by bear,
and though unarmed managed to kill the
animal by kicking it to death. Mr.,
Burns was a graduate of Harvard and
was noted as a proficient kicker at foot
ball.
-Adonis; " Miss Jones, do you think
Brown so awfully uglyS" Miss j.; "Ugly
No, indeed! Why, we all think him ex'
tremely nice-lookingp Adonis; q Well
was talking to him on the stair just