Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-27
ALL SORTS.

Winged riches have tales of econ
omy.
The Susquehanna is the American
Rhine.
There are twelve artificial eye fac
tories in Paris.
The woods begin to resemble inn
mense bouquets.
Cholera slays thousands of pork
ers per day in Iowa.
America took the prize for paper at
the Paris Exposition.
The United States Supreme Court
was established in 1889.
In New Hampshire tramps must
have a license to travel.
Millions of our fellow creatures
shave with stone razors.
Keep clear of a man who does not
value his own character.
-Ergot of rye is said to be of great
service in typhoid fever.
Lovely blue and pink silk necker-
chiefs are an autumn novelty.
-Shawls small enough to wear on
the head are new for the Fall.
The water-tanks on Mt. Washing
ton are fringed with fat icicles.
Letters from Zanzibar report in
creased activity in the slave trade.
The first locomotive in America
was put in operation Aug. 2S, 1880.
There is never but one opportunity
of kind says philosophic writer.
What insect does a blacksmith
manufacture? He makes the FREELY.
During the siege Paris subsisted on
horsehesh. Now it lives on stranger.
Diseases of the teeth have been
known to cause serious defects of WIS.,
ion.
twenty-five colored people in
Washington claim to be over 100 years
old.
Before you believe "that figures
will not lie' find out who brought them
up.
Out of Americas $4,000, 900 peo-
pie not over 600 ever went up in bal
loon.
Faith, hope and charity; but the
greatest of these is the champion base
ball club.
Spend your money among your
home merchants. 1t will make bust
ness better.
Look out for swindlers calling
themselves refugees from the yellow
fever districts.
"A Chinese insurance company in
Hong Kong has opened an agency in
San Francisco.
Never let boy baby walk too soon.
He might turn out tramp.-N Y
Commercial AdUertiSer.
during the first series of bull-fights
at Madrid this year 90 of those animals
and 143 horses were killed.
Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for granted, nor
to find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider.
We must not speak all that we
know-that were folly; but what man
says should be what he thinks-other-
wise it is knavery.
Detroit has lady life insurance
agent who does large and increasing
business. She cleared S2,560 in COM
missions last year.
"A London philosopher says there
is something ineXpressibly sad about
the music of church Organ-while the
collection is being made.
Women will not hold offices in the
Episcopal Church hereafter, as they
must be twenty-five years old before
they are allowed to do so.
If you want to have a man for your
friend never get the ill-will of his wife,
Public opinion is made up of the aver
age prejudice of womankind.
Perhaps Edison will find time to
explain why the decayed side of n
peach is so heavy that the fruit usually
falls into the basket the other side up.
When a man returns home at night
and kisses his wife with more than
ordinary tenderness, she may be pretty
certain that he has been into mischief.
"A hospital for lepers is to be estab-
lished in San Francisco, TO which all
Chinese lepers found in the city are to
be removed until there is an opportuni-
ty to ship them back to China.
"A girl says that when she dies she
desires to have tobacco planted over
her grave, that the weed nourished by
her dust may be chewed by her be-
reaved lovers. There is poetry in the
idea.
1t is left for futurity to produce
two men who have sufficient Christian
grace to occupy different offices on the
second floor of building, and then not
wait for each other to sweep the stairs.
Fulton Times.
"A remarkable incredible
accident happened in this town the
other morning. A woman attempted
to kindle fire with coal oil and-suc-
ceeded. The can didn't explode, and
no injury was one.-NorriSto1O Her.
aid.
The physicians say it is almost i'm
possible for yellow fever to be trans
mitted through the mails. We may
add it is also impossible to transmit
your ulster through the postoffice like
love-letter unless you are aCongress-
Graphic.
Governor Holiday, of Virginia,
has taken steps to have photo-litho-
graphic copies taken of Washington S
will, which is now rapidly fading away,
as well as the will of his wife. In a
couple of months copies will be sent to
every State and public library.
"A. S. Wilson presents the following
facts to show the marvellous industry of
bees. Approximately 100 heads of Glow
er yield 0.8 gram of sugar or 125 heads
give gram of sugar, and, therefore,
125, 900 heads kilogramme of sugar.
AS each head contains 60 florets 125-
000x60) not less than 1900, 900 flower
tubes must be emptied of their honey
to obtain l kilogramme of sugar. The
honey may, roughly, be estimated to
contain rs per cent. of sugar, and hence
we have kilogramme equal to 5,600,-
600 flowers in round numbers, or $780,
00ovisits for one pound of honey.
Fuller, in his Holy State" gives
very opposite story: A poor man in
Paris, being very hungry, went into a
cook-shop and staid there so long Cfor
the master was dishing up meat) that
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