Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-16
ALL SORTS.

ger.
"A Pittsburgh paper calls Alexis a
Czardine.
-Self-made men are very apt to wor-
ship their maker.
Three ex-Congressmen lend dignity
to the Georgia Legislature.
Rhode Island owes So, 900, 900, which
is as much debt to the square inch as any
of the States can boast.
Boston had pretty fair share of the
tramps last year. She fed and lodged
$4,000 of the peripatetic nuisances.
AN eagle at Pottstown, Pa, recently
carried of a pig. Stealing pork is small
business for the bird of freedom"
Massachusetts Is one of the nine
States in the whole galaxy that pays the
Postoffice Department more than they
take from it.
The kind-hearted farmers are feed
ing the quail AS a reward the CITY
sportsmen will tread down the grass and
knock down their grain next season to
shoot at these wellpreserved game birds.
"A mother died in New York with a
babe frozen at her breast; on that very
night lady at Delmonico's spent half an
hour in feasting on a new kind of French
salad.
Women have often successfully hid
valuables in their hair, and q Young
French lady lately found thousand
franc note in her deceased mothers CHG
non.
The Brooklyn Theater inquest has
ho G00Q Go
fees. The Coroners get in fees $3, ,562. so
the largest sum an inquest ever yielded
in this country.
=" Thomas, of what fruit is cider
nader" Don't know, sir" "Why,
what stupid boy! What did you get
when you robbed Farmer Jones Or
chard?" II got thrashing, sir"
Important item from George Francis
Trains paper: NeUer again mention
my name in connection Nth the Presi-
dency or Dictatorship! II you do / i'm
n'ediateIy cut the Oiresi"
Each train passing over the Dakota
division of the Northern Pacific is-sup-
piled with ten days rations for the per.
sons on board, to be used in case the
train is showed in.
We beg pardon for not having pre-.
viously announced that Queen Victoria
has laid aside mourning this season, and
will hereafter wear colored store-clothes
like other women.-Edston Free Press.
New York city is troubled with too
much normal school. 1t costs about
$95, 900 year to run it, and it turns out
about 233 schoOl,ma'ams annually.
There are no places for half of them
The total length of the railways in
operation in the United States on the 1st
day of January, 1877, was $3.50 miles,
being an average Of one mile of railway
for every 900 inhabitants.
The old.time spinning wheel has not
yot gone out of use in Hampton Falls,
N. H., for young farmers wife there
recently sold over thirty-dollars' worth
of home-spun yarn at dry'goods store
in Exeter.
"A San Francisco clerk paid eighty
five dollars month for his rooms, ate
three-dollar dinners and smoked twenty
five.cent cigars. The firm overhauled
his accounts and found them $21 900
short.
-Woman's rights do not stand high in
the estimation of the legislators of
the Province of Ontario, a bill introduced
extending to them the franchise having
been defeated by vote of seventy to
twelve.
"A Rhode Island man has written a
lecture entitled Whom Shall l Marryi"
1t is fine work, but, so far as we are
able to see, holds to the old opinion that,
after all, there is nothing better than a
woman for a man to marry.
"A man sent his two boys to friends
until the peril of an impending earth.
quake should be past In few days he
received this letter; Please take your
boys home and send down the earth
quake"
- The Rhode Island House of Repre-
sentatives recently voted to repeal the
clause of the general statutes prohibiting
the intermarriage of whites and blacks |
When the roll was called there were
thirty yeas and thirty nays. The Speaker
voted in the affirmative.
One of the bills now pending in the
Wisconsin Legislature abolishes SEN
fences for specific periods in punish.
ment of crime and leaves cOnvicts in |
prison until the Warden believes they
are thoroughly reformed" This is sim.
plieity itself.
Here is a good business-like epitaph:
. Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas
smith, marble-cutter, This monument |
was erected by her husband as a tribute
% her memory and a specimen of mis-
york. Monuments Of the same style,
1880" !