Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27
ALL SORTS.
London has 13, 900 cabmen.

How to rear a mule-TicSle his
hind legs.
The artesian well, Charleston, S.
c., is !, $40 feet deep, and has cost $780,
600.
up to the present time over 10000
silver mines have been located in Ari-
coma.
The tide of immigration to Texas
from Germany is heavier this year than
ever before.
Now we say Afghanistan. In a
few days it will be Afghan is tanned. -
Cincinnati Star.
One of the best preventives against
cold is getting married.-N Y. Com
nlercidI advertiser.
The oyster business of Virginia just
now employs 10000 men in catching,
opening and shipping.
"A good dinner will make home
happy where twenty notices have had
no effect. Free Press.
What is sweeter than a sugar
houseP Why, young ladies' seminary
when it is full of lasses.
The experiment has been tried
hook is not a night-key. -HacSenSacb
Republican.
When it comes to business, folks
who theorize about love are very much
like those eminent lawyers who always
lose their own cases.
"A woman with beauty and nothing
else is very much like raw recruit
sent under fire with an improved
breech-loader and no ammunition.
American street cars are now run
ming in nearly every large city in the
world, and horses continue to be ex-
ported from this country to Europe.
81 have a theory about the dead
languages, said new student. "What
is itP" asked the professor. THAT they
were killed by being studied too hard" :"
-" This business is being carried too
far" shouts the end man minstrel in
his search around the stage; here,
some ones stolen nly bonesW- Chicago
Journal.
Extract from romance: "With
one hand he held her beautiful golden
head above the chilling waves and with
the other called loudly for assistance"
French WittjciSnl.
No matter how good natured man
may be, he will invariably get mad
when he discovers that there is no
towel in the room, and is compelled to
dry his face on the bedquilt.
"A contemporary observes that the
lady and gentleman who lately got
some of the shot intended for game at
Swampscott will now be able to COM
prehend what fun sport is for the birds.
The question before a Massachu-
setts debating society is: " What is the
use of bears tailP'' Why, it's what
fills a hunter with delight when the
bear turns it Cincinnati Commercial.
"A Liverpool firm is reported to
have purchased a steamer for the pur-
pose of importing live pigs from Amer
lea. The vessel is being fitted up to
hold over 1000 pigs, as well as cattle.
There could scarcely be more
passes in Afghanistan if the country
abounded with railroads, circuses, ne
gro minstrels and other expressions of
the civilization of the Anglo-Saxon.-
Free Press.
The trade of dressing fur skins was
once carried on in Albany, but it seems
now to be lost art, as all seal-skins
used in this country are dressed in En-
| gland. Alaska seals are shipped to
England, to be returned at heavy duty.
The last Pacific mail steamer to
| leave San Francisco carried away l,20O
Chinese. At this season of the year
the departures are always in excess of
| the arrivals, on account of the desire
J to celebrate in their native land the fes-
tivities attending the new year.
Turn the knob gently, there's paint
on the door r-NelC York NeIUS. Walk
along softly, we've just washed the
| floor. Meriden Recorder. Set on the
sofa we bought at the store. Graphic.
And don't say a word till you hear dad
dy snore. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Come here, my son, look on this little bee,
| The master workmen of his humble sphere
! A winged focus OF wise industry,
And worthy teacher for the serf or peer,
! OF all the life on land, in sky or sea,
The bee-OucH catch him, squash him
hang bee
-FugitiUe.
-Makoff has resigned from the Rus.
sian Ministry. What makes Makofl
make off? Did the Gar by offering to
make officers make off with Makof'
make Makoff make off? We don't
know what to make of Makof. -Neat
York Mail.
Patti gets 80, 900 marks for singing
in Berlin nine nights. We remember
of getting about that number at board
ing school once for singing one night
and we didn't sing long either. AnC
they weren't fiat marks, neither. Amc
we've got some of 'em now, too.-BOS
ton Post.
Richard Olmstead wandered away
from hunting camp in the AdirOn
dacks, got lost, and week afterwarC
was found dead, having starved tC
death. 1t is supposed that he was over
come with fright and fatigue, for h,
had a gun and ammunition, and game
was plenty, so that there sheuld hav,
been no lack of food.
The little folks wanted the head o
the family to spend the evening will
them. Father said he thought of at
tending a meeting. Various measures
were discussed for keeping father a
home, when Tommy, aged five, ad
dressed his brother, aged seven, as fol
lows: q tell you what we'll do. Wei
put a sign on the front door No ad
mittance to go out of this hous
nights "
Capt. John, chief of the Big Mead
ow Piutes, is no slOuch of civilize,
person. Instead of spending his day
in hunting at the Sink of Humboldt
which is literally alive with ducks
geese, swans, and pelicans, Capt John
= according to the Winnemucca Sit0e
State, employs dozen Indians TO shoe
for him and coins money by selling tn
= fowl at dollar head in Eureka.
, The Princess Louise calls hin
Lorney" in her pleasant moods; but
, when she gets up these cold morning
, to build the fire and finds no kindlin
/ wood split, she says: "YOu job