Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-08

The horror of being addressed as
"Mr." is keeping great many English
Lords" from visiting this country.
Motto Of the temperance girls:
The lips that touch wine
Shall never touch mine.
The prize for obscure punning has
been awarded to the man who addressed
his letters Chicago, Sick"
Fans are no longer worn hanging
from the waist, but swing from a slight
gold chain or ribbon around the wrist.
The black lace mitts now so fash
ionable for street wear furnish brill
liant foil for jeweled finger-rings.
Silver bands an inch and half wide,
studded with pearls and turquoises, are
the newest bracelets.
The latest novelty in handkerchiefs
is dark blue silk, embellished with the
portrait of favorite actress.
An unassuming corn can predict
rain twenty-four hours in advance of |
one half of the pretentious artificial |
barometers.
Hens do not usually do half so much
damage in a garden as does the woman
who goes out to throw things at them
Rome Sentinel.
The new Paris paper, the Other
World, is black, the letters are white,
and skeleton heads each of its depart
ments.
The striking resemblance between
the biblical lily and the girl of the
period is in the matter of toiling and
spinning.
1.-THE line must be drawn some
where" explained Danbury woman,
the other night, when her husband got
sawed across the neck with the clothes
line.
-Straws which show which way econ
omy turns in hard times: Those engaged
in cleaning and pressing old straw hats
state their business has been better this
year than for many seasons past.
Another mysterious disappearance
of bank clerk is reported. They are
not dragging the ponds for him. They
are looking over his accounts. .-NOraoich
Bulletin.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix recently
told story of a friend of his whom he
described, in deprecating tone, as "a
clergyman, but in all other respects a
, most worthy man."
r The high price of flour doesn't affect
this part of Iowa very much, but if any
body gets up corner on umbrellas and
} gum shoes VIC are a drowned communi.
ty.-Hai0k Eye.
Why does the good wife of the re-
: formed drunkard rejoice? Because her
husband doesn't liquor her any more.
(Send stamp fer further information).-
L00eU Journal.
: Young Lady" Oh, 1 am so glad you
like birds; which kind do you admire
most?" Old Gentleman" Well, think
goose, with plenty of stufing, is about
as nice as any"
Dom Pedro has won the hearty
, friendship of every journal in this coun-
try by saying that he found but one
thoroughly truthful newspaper in Amer
3 lea, and carefully keeping its name to
. himself.
: The world would sympathize more
0 with the man who has a cold in his head
e if it wasn't for the insufferable air of su-
b perior sanctity and calm, uncomplaining
!, martyrdom that he puts on and sits
D around in.
i Jones has discovered the respective
k natures of a distinction and difference.
y He says that "a little difference" fire.
: quently makes many enemies, while "a
: little distinction" attracts hosts of friends
n to the one on whom it is conferred.
Not one of the war maps shows any
trees for the officers to crawl behind, and
that makes the anticipated battle:
grounds look strange and unnatural.
: Ask any old soldier if this isn't so.-S.
J Louis journal.
v 1t is wonderful consolation to
think that summer will come and go this
year without deluge of Centennial"
- things. Never mind the grasshoppers
5 and the rain. We ought to be able to
endure anything in patience.-HaOk.
n Eye.
n There is to be women's clubhouse
in Philadelphia. The building has been
i chosen and furnished. 1t is in Girard
h streets Husbands are to be elected as
@ honorary members, but admitted only to
4 the outer vestibule to escort their wives
|. home at night.
It The growing custom of putting the
l. choir at the pulpit end of the church has
II the very serious drawback that it pre-.
a vents a man from turning around and
It looking up at the organ in critical man
n ner just before the contribution ap-
It prOaches his pew NOrUich Bulletin.
. Now that sewing machines have
= come down 80 per cent. isn't it about
g time for piano patent to expire, so that
. . $500 instrument may be sold for $3.50,
= !. and the manufacturer clear seventy-tive
y dollars on N0rristOsOR Herald.
II Summer tourists will board at the
It best Niagara Falls hotels this season for
Is SO. so per day. Including hack hire and
Is tolls thereabouts, $500 will enable one at
IT this price to spend couple of days at
q the Falls in comparative comfort.-Buf-
It fatO ESpress.
y The Toledo Blade suggest that in
stead of printing ,160long columns of the
names of delinquent tax payers, Chicago
= should print in one column those who
" pay their taxes promptly, taking all the
y others for granted. The fatal defect
Z about this plan is that it would save the
q q county $4,000.
!. "A Fulton man who was looking over
|. an old spelling book last week came
e across that little saying" You should
v have a place for everything" ETC.; and
r he was so thoroughly impressed with the
sageness of the advice that he got two
bushel basket and whenever he got
q through with an article dropped 1t in
c there. But yesterday when he was
e looking around in it after a shirt button
:. he came to the conclusion that II wasn't
n much of an improvement, and hereafter
q he'll let things lay around in the ordi-
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