Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-02
ALL SORTS.


Josh Billings wants to know who
ever heard rich man sing
The gentleman who kissed lady's
snowy brow" caught severe cold, and
has been laid up ever since.
"A man is $50 times as large as the
common honey bee, and yet it is useless
to try to argue the matter with the bee.
There are $4,000 clergymen in the
United States. But what can they do
against million newspapersS
-Misfortunes, like borrowed umbrel.
las, are easily carried-if they belong to
others.
People haven't yet begun to "Oh
for St. Valentines Day" much. There
are so many who still owe for Christmas
~ 7. Graphic.
The world is better than it used to
be. 1t has been so long since Christmas
that all the tin horns are lost and the
drums broken.
The great Corliss engine that sup
piled power for all the machinery at the
| Centennial has been sold to an European
firm.
-" Miss" said fop to young lady, !
"what pity that you are not mirror"
"Why so?" Because you would be
such goodlooking lass"
Ono hundred persons over ninety,
half of them women, died in Maine last
year; eight were centenarians, the Oldest
being q Passamaquoddy Indian aged 110. !
"A man in New Orleans advertises
that he will give tuition in law, religion
and journalism, " fitting anybody to be-
come an able lawyer, clergyman or ed
itor in one year."
When young man sets out in dead
earnest to court a girl, the deferential
manner in which he regards her big
brother is truly remarkable.-Turne
Falls Reporter.
The Government of Turkey is called
the Sublime Porte from the fact that JUS
tice was formerly dispensed at the gate
of the Sultan's palace, the gate being
known as the Sublime Porte.
"A circus elephant eats two bales of
hay per week while IN winter quarters,
and you can figure from this how nec-
essary it is for the man at the door to
cast murderous glances at dead-hsads.
George Francis Train says his paper
is the largest and smallest journal ever
published, and his motto is: Live ideas
in this dead age from the most sane man
in this mad world"
"A wealthy resident of Indianola,
Iowa, allows his aged mother to take in
knitting, that she may have the where
withal to keep herself in the necessary
smoking tobacco.
Whittier says "fifty dollars year
: ought to dress any woman" and fash
ionable young lady says this is the most
; unpopular line the Quaker poet has ever
, written-breathing neither truth nor
3 poetry. -NorriStoWn Herald.
t The contemplation of several hun
S drcd feet of sidewalk to shovel off in the
t winter will strike dismay to the heart of
: man who in the summer glories in the
t possession of corner lot.-Rockland
Courier.
"A Burlington man has invented a
: stove.pipe that slides in and pulls out
!, like telescope, and does away with all
disjointing or matching. There's mill.
d ions in it. Married men cry for it, and
no home is happy without it.-Hawk-
: Eye.
= The following, says the Boston Com,
nerctdI Bulletin, is about as terse an an
= nouncement of "business change" as
q any we have received, this year at least
! BIRMINGHAM, Conn.
Stop the Bulletin, We've busted.
a AMERICAN SHOVEL COMPANY
/. JAN 10, 1877.
1t The recent fire in Toxic, Japan
= ranks among the great confagrations Of
the world, 1t began in the densest par
:, of the city, cutting a gap half a mile
|. wide, and after burning over two square
- miles, rendering 100000 people home
J. less, was stopped by the waters of the
bay.
IL -Jonesville IN. Y. has a girl worth
" courting. She was sitting up with he
II fellow when she heard mysterious noist
IS in the house, excused herself, founC
burglars upstairs, got the old gun ant
r. blazed away-and not till then did tn
m lover suspect anything unusual wa
ia going on.
10 An exchange hopes the life of Van
derbik, the great railroad king, will b
IS IS an example to young men. 1t will. w
III have got together sixty cents toward tn
fifty.odd millions he was worth, already
ID and arc looking about for good railroa
e to become President of.-Bridgepor
Standard.
MI. NldyJ STduuSOu VI henIy Sldy
~ possesses quaint heirloom in the shap
~ ~ of letter written by Daniel Boone
-, ~ The spelling is very original, this bein
No a specimen: L hope you Will Wrigh
~, ~ me BY the Bearer, NIr goe, how you Cor
VI on With my Horsis-I Hear the Indian
~ have Killed Sum pepel near Lmstone.
ia THE IDEAL AND THE REAL.
,d -"Only lock of golden hair"
~ The lover sighed. "Perchance tonight
~ 1t formcth on her pillow fair
halo bright"
"Only a lock of golden hair"
The maiden, smiling swcetly, said,
AS she laid IL over the back of a chair
d. And went to bed.
IS, This is the season when the liberia
a minded man leaneth over the front gat
fl and discourseth of the great blessing {
id the snow in providing work for the poe
1T man, and watcheth the hired girl Will
to she saveth him quarter by shoveling O
ed the pavement and cltching the pleuris,
he -EGstOa Free Press.
~ The Norristown (Pa.) Herald e,
"a plains it as follows: Macaulay sal
DD that as civilization grew poetry declinet
~ And now hundreds of young and an
~ bilious poets will understand why the
:, contributions find their way into IL
:, editorial waste. basket instead of into I'll
~ columns of newspaper. Civilization
be growing"
,le AT Paris matrimonial agenc,
"Yes, monsieur, we have just your fit
ial stock, an orphan of twenty" 1900,
Is she prettyY" "No, she can hardly
called pretty; but her fortune is 10000
francs, and she is consumptive."
consumptive, eh? Well, that is alwa.
est something. But are you sure of it
"Sure of itF Yes, sir; we will guarant
EST her."
H. The trucks of the express car on Il
20, Atlantic express train going east brol
''A near Lackawaxen, Pa, the other NOR
~. ing, throwing the car from the trac
o striking passenger car on way ira
lG - - l.. l.. 81 Minu AInn1.in D.,