Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-14


dered non-explosive by tying brick to
the can and sinking it in ten feet ofwater.
-Yung man, don't kry for split milk,
but pix up yure pale and milking stule
and go for the nekst kow.--JOSb Bill
ingS.
The ladies, Heaven bless them, are
all on one side in the eastern question:
they are all in favor of the ruchings. -
HaWb-Eye.
An old trapper says this is going to
be very cold winter. The muskrats
are even building storm-doors on their
residences.
The butchers are the ones princi-
pally concerned in the adoption of the
meat-trick system. It's matter of
joint interest to them.
"A Sunday-school teacher in Albion,
N. Y, asked her class the questions:
"What did Simon sayP" "Thumbs
upH" said a little girl.
Butler has never been himself, says
the Worcester Press, since Anna Dick
inson told him she would never be any
thing more to him than his very dear
friend.
/ Why is a beefsteak like u locomo-
tive on a long iourneyP 1t is not of
much account without its tender. And
why is beefsteak like freight train?
You rarely see it without its stuff.
WESTERN RUINS.
Alas the millions that do still
To Speculation's NAV gol
Fine houses meier have made strong banks
is not that true, Chicago'
SCourier-,Joumdl.
1t is the opinion of the Rev. Earl
Cranston that it is not the American
business man who is overworked, but
the American woman. He says: "Man
is busy ten hours, woman sixteen
-Cuyahoga Falls, growing and
prosperous town of nearly $500 popu-
lation, in Summit County, Ohio, is
without merchant tailor. One tailor
would count for nine ordinary men
there about these days.
"A solitary man in small boat was
seen putting out from Sandy Hook, the
other day, endeavoring to board a de-
parting European steamer. The Cap
tain remarked that it was probably only
some absconding Chicago bank Presi-
dent, and wouldn't stop.
There is something terribly suggest
i've in a bottle of ink with the cork
seal unbroken. 1t may write immOr-
tai poems that shall live for unknown
ages, or it may be touched upon the
worn edges of your frayed black coat to
make it look less seedy.
The editor of an Iowa paper offers
to send his photograph to any (fe-
male) teacher who will send him the
news from her township" and another
Iowa editor advises the teachers to take
up the offer, as the pictures will do to
scare bad school-boys with.
An energetic itinerant loomed up
before us the other day with patent
contrivance for holding coin. When
he discovered that he had wandered
into printing Office, the way he begged
pardon and slid downstairs was a
caution to peddlers. .-BreaktaSt Table,
An English woman writes: 81
have just made the acquaintance of an
American lady who married French
mana man of title-who has made
away with her money and run off with
her lady's maid. She is very lovely
and fascinating, and is now supporting
herself by managing large laundry"
The Rev. Talmage's Thanksgiving
sermon contained the following: "Some
of our people have been to Europe and
seen Melrose and Glastonbury by moon
light, and they have no appreciation OF
beautiful scenes at home. They come
back with an English accent, and talk
of moonlight and castles by the sea. II
makes me sick to hear it. The biggest
fool in the country, think, is the trav-
eled fool"
Miss Culture, of Boston, was asked
to be a bridesmaid at the wedding of q
friend, not thousand miles from Pitts.
burg, and she declined by letter, say
ing: "My Geological class is in fire.
quent session, and my Emersonian
studies occupy so much of my time that
| shall be prevented, by reason of in
tellectual duties, from officiating in the
manner suggested by your recent com
munication." Commercial Ga.
zette.
An affecting reunion of long-es.
tranged husband and wife took place al
Manchester, Va, a short time since
Many years ago a young man fell out
with his wife, beautiful girl of eighteen
years, and abruptly left her and then
little child. He wandered over many
lands, never communicating with his
home, but still the deserted wife re.
mained faithful to her truant husband
In the meantime the little girl died, and
every evening the heart-broken mother
would visit the grave and give way t.
her grief for hours together. A few
days ago the long-lost husband returned
and sought at once the grave of his
child. There, bending over il, was 8
well-known figure draped in black; the
mutual recognition was instant, and
without word or II pause the recon,
ciled pair were clasped in each other
arms.
The brutality of some parents to-
ward their children, their carelessness
as to the future prospects of their off,
spring, is almost incredible. A simple
minded and apparently affectionate old
gentleman living out at Hyde Park said
the other evening; Them seventeen
year-old locusts is punctual critters
Here they came this year like clock
work, and the time before was in 1860
when Abe Lincoln was elected, and the
time before that was in 1S43, when Me,
lissa was born" Melissa was present
so was her young man; and, as the poor
girl subsequently observed through hel
tears and in a voice chOked with heart.
rending sobs, she chad been playing
herself upon him for twenty-five nexi
February" All is over between that
couple, the young, the beautiful, The