Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-19
SUCCOTASH-No. 2.



think you cannot reasonably expect this
dish to be put before you often in this sea-
son OF the year-succotash is a summer
Ingredients, except the CON
diments or seasoning, are cooked green
fresh from the garden. True, 1 do not
propose TO dish you up vegetable food, ex-
cept it be-well green or verdent, so TO
speak. There, truce to that, or my mod
esty will be considered vanity poorly dis
gnised. But what l shall furnish will be
chiefly, II not wholly, of literary nature
food, weak though it be, for the intellect
or mind. As you say, that is as appropri-
ute for winter as for sum mer, and your COM
plant Of nay long silence has good grounds.
METEOROLOGICAL.
No need Of pronouncing that word.
hardly could il were to try. You may,
but doubt it. What do | mean by it ?
That is we'll put Nc, have no reference
to meteors-especially that galaxy or train
Of them that sailed slowly and luminously
over nearly every city in the United States
on the same evening. allude simply to
the weather. Why did not say so at
once, instead of using word 30 nearly
endless? Because l wished to employ nn
adjective. II you think of one ns appro-
pirate but decently short, will be obliged
ii you will name it. 1t is singular that so
a word has no simple adjective
derived from it. Hal ha! hn ITo ! ho
ho Yeeip! But that is too funny for
anythingl What? Why question
why not say weather. There is something
in that. Yes, you are right-there is no
that We do derive leathery
from leather, aud weather and leather diff
fer only in one letter; and what is of more
importance both are from the German.
Well, we will, as you suggest, use the word
weathery instead of meteoro-I mean the
expletions nt the head of this paragraph.
But stop Is weathcry in the dictionary
Let us zee. No, it is not there, aud that
ends it. Why not coin the word? Why,
there is no reuson except that folks would
call il bogus, were we to coin it. Genuine
coin is made at an authorized mint, you
know. Well, so of words-sOme writer of
standard authority must first use them, and
then they are proper for anybody. All
What was | going to say under this head
Talk Of the weather, which is not so easy
a chore as one would think at first blush.
You think anybody can talk of that-the
topic is incxhnustibe Just try it, and
see if, after yeu have remarked, at is n
fine day. We have had several fine days"
and said few more Ms wise things on the
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your thumbs or scratching your head, than
continuing the subject. think go, and I
think l will stop for this time.
OH, AsHTABULAl
Beautiful town and name-henceforth
the Gehenna of Ohiol No fault of the
citizens perhaps, unless they should have
inspected and condemned that bridge. On
the contrary every Ashtabulaite was verify
good Samaritan, an angel OF mercy, on
that awful night and through the following
days of agony and lamentation. They
shall he remembers gratefully and affec-
tionately, when the memory of sordid
opinionated, unfeelng railroad officials
will have rotted and disappeared Who
would stand in the sh hoes of such officers
They may we'll envy the peace of mind
that comforts the lowliest of their em-
ployees, after n day of racking toll. Bet
ter the homely fare of those who dwell in
novels and yet have "cnnsciences void of
offence towa-d God and man." than the
richest Injuries OF those who inhabit pala-
tial mansions, but bear the burdensome
crushing responsibility of that voiceful,
mournfnl and most horrid calamity. The
man who, to avoid concession to another
engineer, persisted in spanning that valley
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he had a shadow of doubt, and thus know
ingly and heartlessly risked the property
and lives of trainful of passengers, in
Cured guilt that no crocodile tears can
wash away and condone. But next to him
in rel criminality stands he who forbade
the Fire Department from throwing water
on the burning wreck in order that the de-
vourinG flames might lick up the evidence
of the magnitude of the dire disaster. And
is that Fire Department entirely gmiltless?
What though railroad ofIirial did inter-
dict the quenchings OF the flames? At
such time each mind must decide for it.
self, and the behests of the Gar of Russia
are TO be di-obcved ii personal Judgment
so dictates But a portion of the penalty
merited by 50 cold Indifference to human
peril, has already visited that sOulless cor
poration. Travel is largely diverted from
their road. Indeed, the thought is what
road issafe,and very many who purposedl to
go somewhere Ivy rail, have decided to post
pone the trip till warmer weather, when the
disintegrating frost no longer converts
wrought iron into pot metal. What testimo-
ny! The perpendicular rods and bars OF the
bridge became as brittle nnd inelustic as
cast iron. That is the evidence Of an un-
! doubted expert. Oh, that the bridge had
fallen, like some giant of the forest, wien
no human being cOnld be endangered or,
| il that must not be- when train of inani-
mate freight was passing-when anything
would be imperiled but human life.
N. W. o. NJ. n. 4.
Which means the North Western Ohio
Masonic Relief Association. This, for its
members, Is undoubtedly the best Life As
snrance Company in the world Itismuch
cheaper; the payments are small, though
sometimes frequent; it insures risks that
ordinary Life Companies will not nccept
We know the money goes to aid the family
of s deceased Brother; il il paid overwith
no delay; the Association IL managed by
Masons; and every member of the Craft
should become member. Our Association
has two classes--one full and the other
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