Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-10-11
ALL SORTS.
Indiana has 10000 pensioners.

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/ New Haven in 1887.
kerosene was first used for light
ing purposes in 1862.
Edison has an income of 500, 900 a
year from his patents.
Avoid an angry man for while, a
malicious one forever.
"A 800 pound cheese brought S168
at Therese, N. Y. lately.
California tillable soil produces
more wealth than her mines.
All honest men will bear watching.
1t is rascals who can't stand it.
"A Democratic candidate for the
Georgia Legislature is eighty-six.
The ocean is divided into four
basins; the deepest being fifteen miles.
The masses are like children; they
would sooner have their way than a
good time.
So live that when thy summons
come-yOu won't fear the constable
who serves it on you.
Disappearance OF umbrellas is usu-
ally preceded by barometrical depres-
sion.-Neo0 HaUe' Register.
The compositor who made it read
In the midst of life we are in debt, -
wasn't so much out of the way.
-Hiccough of severe and prolonged
| type has been cured in five minutes by
a powerful compression over the cpl
gastrium.
Erie, Pa, has about forty gas wells,
which furnish gas for Illuminating and
heating, and five others are to be put
down as soon as possible.
Italian padrones, who beat and i'll
treat their children, force them TO beg,
and then dissipate with the proceeds,
are becoming a Boston institution.
"A man is the better of having two
sides to his brain-one to imagine all
sorts of foolish things and the other to
laugh at them.-N. Y. Commercial Id
UertiSer.
"A German physician has discov-
cred that if one-ffth part Of oil of tur-
pentine be added to chloroform, the lat
ter can be administered without danger
of asphyXia.
The books of the Postofiice Depart
ment show that the money-order busi-
ness during the year ending June 30
amounted to $4,000, 900, an increase of
100000 since 1876.
The Southern Cheyenne Indians
complain that they are starved by the
agents. Well, then, why under the sun
don't they eat the agentsP Nobody
would care for that HaW6-Eye.
The heat in the California and Con-
solidated Virginia mines is at present
so intense and the demand for ice so
great that the consumption of ice
amounts to ninety-six pounds day for
each man.
=" Papa said a bright boy who had
| just came from a sleight-of- enter
| tainmcnt, " | wish / was coniurer. -
"Why, my son?" "I would turn you
into rat, call up the cat, and wouldn't
have funr'
What differences there are in fam
lilies sometimes! Now there is the
Ficiency family for instance. What a
much nicer fellow E. Ficiency is than
D., and yet how popular d. is!-N Y.
Commercial AlUertiSer.
"A clergyman of Bath created con-
sternation ut funeral by praying ear
nestly in behalf of the bereaved hus-
band and the one to come who shall
fill the place made vacant by the death
of our deceased sister"
-" Well, l suppose you have been
out to look at Texas; did you see any
thing of our friend X. out therePn - Yes
gone deranged.h "Gone deranged!
HowP What does he do? Real crazy P"
" Yes, indeed; he doesn't know his own
hogs from his neighbors'."
"A little boy was one day asked by
a Clergyman if he knew what an inn
plicit childlike faith was. He thought
he did. Being asked to describe it, af-
ter thinking moment, he said: "When
my mother says thing is so, 1 must
believe it is so, if it amt So"
"A Virginia woman offers to sell her
husband by auction, and apply the pro-
ceeds to the liquidation of the State
debt. Il can recommend him to pur-
chasers,' she said, :" as a man possess
ing all the qualities woman capable
of controlling him could desire"
William E. johnson was clerk in
the Bank of Saline, Mo. He went to
Scotland, where he spent all his money,
and wrote the banks cashier for help
to get back. Money was sent him. One
of his first acts on his return was to
steal $4,000 from the bank. He has
fled.
Captain, please give me light, ="
said a private at camp. Certainly,
my good man; but if we were in the
regular army such liberty would not
be allowable - lis that soPn said the
private; "but if we were in the regu-
lar army you wouldn't be captain, per-
haps."
The yellow bags which are used to
cover hams are sometimes colored with
chrome yellow (chromate of lead,) a
dangerous poison. There does not ex-
ist for this most Objectionable practice
the slightest excuse, for tumeric, which
gives an almost equally bright color, is
both cheap and harmless.
"A Connecticut paper says: "Jo-
seph M. Hoadley stopped at farmers S
in Huntington and left his horse in the
barn for about three hours. When he
returned he found that a calf had eaten
part of the horses name and tail,
and had made considerable progress
on the harness. He was glad to get
back in time to save the horse.n
-" Habit is hard to overcome. If
you take off the first letter it does not
change ga bit.n If you take off anoth-
er you still have a "bit'' left. If you
take OFF still another the whole of ''it''
remains. If you take off another it is
not "t' totally used up. All of which
goes to show that if you wish to get
rid of habit you must throw it off
altogether.
The frequent mysterious burning
of haystacks and farmers buildings has
led to the discovery that they are set
on fire by wasps' nests, and that the
nests are ignited by spontaneous COM
bustion. This is produced by the chem
ical action of the wax in contact with
the paper-like substance of which the
nest is composed, comparatively
small access of oxygen being sufficient
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