Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-16
ALL SORTS.

eleven fair daughters.
Gold is getting very cheap. Now
lay in your stock.
"A Rhode Island man tried to cure q
ham with blue glass.
A wooden leg
AT Sacramento, Cal, the young
ladies have organized morning mush-
room parties"
Fair, the Pacific Coast millionaire,
keeps two watchmen to guard himself
from assassination.
If you would pass for more than
your value, say little. tits easier to look
wise than to talk wise.
There are many who know their own
wisdom, but there are few that know
their own folly.
What odd heads the ladies must
have. A Paris writer says that ladies
have bonnets of seventy-two shapes to
choose from this spring.
"A st. Louis grocer had pound of
sugar returned with note stating: Too
much sand for table use, and not enough
fol. building purposes"
Nearly 100, 900 Germans are settled
in some forty counties in Texas, partic-
ularly Comal and Guadaloupe, and they
are highly successful as agriculturists.
He who thinks himself the wisest of
mortals, but conceals his opinion, may
be correct; but he who publishes his
high estimate of himself to the world
only shows that he is mistaken.
"A New York doctor says that per-
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whose throat is all right, as the COM
plant can be communicated. Girls with
sore throats should wear bell.
The two hottest days ever known in
Australia were the 18th and 10th of
January, when the thermometer regis
tered 105 degrees in the shade in Mel
bourne.
The little girls have commenced
their annual season of ope-jumping, and
the prevailing style of coffins for chill
dren arc those covered with white satin.
Chicago Journal.
1t is with gloomy views of the future
that the young Boston man, after laying
out seventy-five cents in caramels for his
sweetheart, learns from her own lips that
kissing is aItunde.
"A young lady advertises in the Paris
papers that she has 600,0 francs, and
would like to marry. Applicants, how
ever, must inclose postage stamp. The
prospect for harvest Of postage stamps
is good.
Mrs. Mayfeld, widow of Stan
ford, KY, fell in love with a tramp at
sight, who came to herhouse to beg, and
married him, Notwithstanding the threats
of her relatives to put her in an insane
asylum.
The ornamental young men who
stand at pianos and turn the music for
the girls are disgusted with a meddling
Dutchman, who has invented machine
with which the player turns the pages
with slight pressure of her foot.
Scene, recitstion-room in natural
history. "Mr. X, have you
ever put your head down on anyone's
breast and listened to the heart beats as
Huxley describes them?" Mr.. x. blush
ing): " Yes, sir"
If you take thousand persons who
have reached seventy years, there are of
clergymen, orators and public speakers,
forty three; farmers, forty; work men,
thirty-three; soldiers, thirty-two, law
yers, twenty seven; doctors, twenty-four.
William Rand, of Fayetteville, VT,
wanted to find out about the productive
qualities of the potato o-bug. He impris-
oned one in a glass case last fall, and
now he has the original bug and 1890
eggs.
"A philosopher says that astronomy
is the earliest of the sciences; but from
the way that a baby gets into short
dresses and Immediately goes to work
poking into the mica windows of the
stove we thought that the earliest of the
sciences was mineralogy. Y. Herald
"A poet asks: "Oh, why do our chill
dren leave us?" Well, some desire to
grow rich rapidly and rush off to the
Black Hills; some fall in love with cir
Gus actors and elope, and others write
poetry and stsrve to death. There may
be other reasons also.-NorTistOt1n Her.
aid.
-"What are you after, my dear?"
said grandmother to little boy who
was sliding along room and casting
| furtive glances at a gentleman who was
| paying visit. 81 am trying, grandma,
to steal papa's hat out of the room with
| OuL SCnIlOuldu oOO AC wants
him to think he's out"
How much may be accomplished by
untiring industry is shown by the exam
pie of young man of San Francisco.
He went to Virginia City, represented
that he was a clergyman, made the ac-
quaintance of thirty persons, borrowed
| money from each to an aggregate of
81, 700, and ran away, all within a week.
Another new design of postal card
is to be issued by the Postoffice Depart
ment. Many people, it is said, still per
sist IN writing the message, address and
signature on the same side with the
stamp, and it is to be the subject OF the
new design to make it impossible to write
more than the address on the proper
side.
Never quarrel with your wife. Here
is case full of warning: In 1859, at
Hicksville, l.. l., barn was incendiarily
burned; and now, after eighteen years,
wife has a quarrel with her husband, and
revenges herself by revealing what she
AYERS to be truth, that her liege lord
(but probably not her MASTERY set the
barn on fire. A married man never
knows when he is safe.
=" How to Break Balky Horses" is the
title of an article in the Norwich BulEe.
tin. We haven't read it, not having any
balkY horses to break just now. We
should think, however, that doubling one
under pile-driver might break it, un-
less It was a very tough horse. If thaF
didn't do it, it might be we'll to hitch
locomotive on each end and pull him in
two Bridgeport Standard.
"A Hopkinton IN. H. young lady is
to be married soon after a somewhat ro-
mantle courtship. Her lover lives in the
Sandwich Islands, and, until she went to
Boston to meet him, a few days ago, they
had never seen each other but fifteen
minutes, which was four years ago. A
COrresnOndence followed the accidental