Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-06
ALL SORTS.

grants arrive IN Can1OTnla uduy.
Corn, if iudiciously planted at this
season of the year will raise great
poultry crops. r ~ ..---.-
1t took an Iowa man twenty-one
days to starve himself to death. He
finished last week.
The catch of mackerel and Goldfish
on the New England coast has been
very large this season. tfzi
One of the earliest financial trans-i
actions on record is where Distance
lent enchantment to the view"
The next time Mr.. Stewart dies, he
will know better than to trust Judge
Hilton with the combination.-Ha1
Eye.
A system of loading heavy guns
by means of compressed air has been
invented by r. G. Smith, of Edinburgh,
Scotland.
Two hundred thousand pounds of
human hair are annually sold in Paris,
and the average price is twelve cents
per ounce.
-" Half cash and owe the balance
being the basis of sale, is the seller
ever justified in trying to collect the
other half?
Moses Allen, Georgia murderer,
sold his body to medical student for
$40, but the friends of the deceased re-
fused to deliver the goods. ...4.
The death of jefferson Davis, Jr.,
leaves no one of the blood relatives of
the ex-Confederate President living
who bears the Davis name.
| "A Cincinnati man died after drink
ing half a gallon of whisky and eating
four oysters. People should be careful
to eat none but wholesome oysters.
"A man in New York insured his
life for large sum, and then endeav-
ored to ruin his health. Most of the
companies, however, failed before his
health did.
After using Watts Hymns in
their public services for one hundred
and fourteen years, the North Middle
boro, Mass, Congregational Church is
to adopt new hYmn-book.
One thing that troubles the unin-
structed observer of a military band in
action is the care with which the drum
mers keep the score before them. Can
they really not play without their notesF
The ancients wore no shoes. The
| Valup Vi IllS ttS u l6dOulO VI oOSlbl OSOh-
omy is only properly comprehended by
the man who has been out until after
midnight and tries to sneak upstairs
without waking his wife or mother-in-
law.
We have seen good many cheeky
men in our time, but the fellow who
owes a three weeks board bill and asks
his landlady to put blankets on his bed
these cold nights-well, he stands
good chance of being elected to Con-
gress.-N. Y. Express.
: Yes said a venerable and be-
nevolent-looking old man, I've al
, ways really enjoyed living in an un-
healthy climate" That's queer"
: said a bvstander "What's the rea-
, sonP'' 81 rather think" responded
/ the venerable and benevolent-looking
old man, that it is because am
l physician" :"
What is an editorP An editor s
: bizness is to write editorials, grind out
g poetry, sort manuscript, keep mighty
bio waste basket, steal matter, hte
: other peoples battles, take white beans
e and apple sass for pay when he can get
, it, work nineteen hours out of the
t twenty-four, and be damned by every
n body.-JOsh Billings.
: A letter with fifty dollars in it is
. among the curiosities of the Washing
e ton Dead-Letter Office. 1t was adj
J, dressed thus:
Hoboken Sniffy Tiddleywinks g. Co.,
n Pig-dealers,
= 222 Hoffensniper's Terrace,
n (cor. Tiddelekee ave. and 4Ooth STU
Nantucket, Mass.
Cole Younger has been interviewed
- in the Minnesota penitentiary about
is the story recently published to the effect
:, that in the fall of 1868 an attempt was
made to abduct Gen. Grant The con-
- vict historian gave facts and figures to
- prove that at the time noted he, with
:, his brother and Capt Jarrett, were
= raiding down the Mississippi while
;, Grant was in Virginia.
! Brethren, before we sing the next
II verse of "John Browns body lies al
is mouldy in the grave" let us take look
70 into the grave and see that it is there
=, In these days of Ohio medical colleges
a cemetery isn't no safer than savings
n bank, and it may be that political gleC
"A clubs, who have been singing the song
,s quoted above, have been chanting /
,e rythmic lie for the past fifteen years.
W HaaOb-Eye.
"a in a gambling trial out West it was
w thought best that the jury should be in
4 structed in the practical working of {
1e faro table, so the Judge had the neces
sary apparatus brought in and Let thu
defendants give an exhibition. AL
hands became so interested in the gam,
that the Sheriff, seeing show thing
he were going, went outside, summoned
lg posse and arrested the whole room full
TO including the Court itself.
"A big bouanza.-Soon after tn
~ funeral of Mrs. James Tracey, wh'
~ died few days ago in Sioux township
n, the family in rearranging the interlo
90 of the house discovered sack contain
lk ing gold coins to the value of $4,000
W, which it is supposed the old lady ha'
az, ts accumulated during her life, and KEEP
Nc the fact from the knowledge of tn
On family, who were greatly surprised a
Iim the discovery.-SiOu1 CITY (Io10a) IeIt
.rnSS gram.
III Machinery for shoemaking pre-
lis duces marvellous results. One class o
% machines sewed last year 4o,OOO,OO
oS pairs of shoes, while another pegge'
llITl So, 900, 900 pairs in the same time. Te
nc men can make 600 pairs of shoes day
In new EnSldnu 9oV ouSnois VI sho
-. pegs are made in day, and one cent
~ worth of pegs will peg four pairs G
III shoes. There are 576 patents on sho
pegs and peggers, and 1000 on sho
lat machinery. Machinery turned out owe
ne two million shoe lasts in the Unite
,nnus States last year.
hss Some very curious provision
-" against the Chinese have been propose
~ in the Constitutional Convention {
Ao of California. Among those that bav
he actually been adopted by the Commi
,a,. tee on Chinese is one that disfranehise
~ citizens who employ Cinnamon. Al
Sh otbo. ,,rob;bits Ghinaman from Suin