Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-02-20
ALL SORTS.
"A horse.heir-A colt.

High heals-The charges of fash
ionable physicians.
In leap year woman proposes and
man isposes-sOmetimes.
The fences of the United States
have cost about $4,000, 100000.
White hair is the flag of truce un-
der which old age parleys with death.
"A carpenter is about the only man
who is mad when he can't find his level.
In Dude and the northwest prov
inces of India, 401, ,0S0 persons died of
fever last October.
This is something like weather. -
N. 7. Commercial Advertiser. That is
what Jenkins said when he put his
teeth into the cold mutton.
-Magistrate-"D you know if the
prisoner had any provocation before he
committed the ASSAULT" Witness
"Well, sir, cannot be certain on that
point exactly, but dare say he might
have had glass or two"
"A Deadwood society had cane
voted to the handsomest man in town
by the ladies, and the man selected is
lurking in the woods till the men of
Deadwood will give him chance to
get out of the country.
AT Catti, near Freiburg, Switzer-
land, a trSdesman named Wicky has
just died at the age of ninety, leaving
l58 descendants-viz: Sixteen children,
ninety-four grandchildren and fifty
eight great-grandchildren.
The Transcript says that a bee s
sting is only one-fourth of an inch
long, but when man has just had one
stuck into him all the argument in the
world won't make him believe that it
ism over two feet long and hotter than
chain lightning.-BoSton Post.
Charles Jones, third owner of a
Leadville mine worth 81, 100000, died
without making will. A lawyer, tax
ing advantage of small mortgage, got
fraudulent possession of the property
but some miners discovered the scheme,
and have found heirs in a poverty
stricken Vermont family.
The latest fashion in Cincinnati is
for young lady to rush into the office
of a bachelor friend, kiss him, and say
she accepts his offer of marriage, al.
though of course the unfortunate Great.
|
excuse is that this is leap-year. CHI
cago Tribune.
"A Justice at Abba, Iowa, performed
a marriage ceremony, and was asked
how much he charged for the service
"The law of this State allows me two
dollars" he replied. "Well, here's
fifty cents" said the bridegroom, "and
that, with what the State allows, will
make two dollars and half"
eff the county will give me as
much money as it paid fees for sendin'
me here" remarked vagrant in the
county jail this morning, u could buy
an outfit and go prospectin'. Instid o.
usin' me to develop the resources O. the
cour try, they stick me in here and
board an lodge me fur three months
fur nothin'. Law $ queer layout" "
- Virginia (NeU. Chronicle.
The Duke of Argyll says that the
skies of America are higher, wider and
more full of sunshine than those of En-
gland, and he is very earnest in sug.
gesting that the introduction of the sky.
lark to this GLORIOUS privacy of light
would be happier than that of the Lon
don sparrow.
Some maliciously disposed people
having accused New Hampshire wild.
ow of being tifty-one years old, she in.
dignantly denied it, and a jealous
friend of hers was so provoked at the
slanderers that, at the cost of great
trouble, he hunted up the record that
stead of being fifty-one. was forty-nine
1. a 4
to that friend nowadays. Boston Post
Seth Green thinks that fish converse
with one another. How d those trout
of mine out there at the pond" he late
ly said, "know the difference between
plain, long stick and regular fishing
rod, as they do, if they didn't talk il
over and compare notesP Why, they'll
most break their heads humping then
together to get out of the way of fish
pole, and you see l couldn't scare then
at all with that stick to-day They
know the difference, too, between the
man who carries pail about dinner
time and the man who don't, can tel
you"
Some California people undertook
to scare Chinaman into owning up tC
stealing a shirt, by putting him to list
en- at telephone, and telling him thai
the voice he heard commanding him u
own up was that of the Deity, and while
the racket was being worked some onC
stole up behind the fellow who was do
ing the talking at the other end of the
line and iabbed brad-awl into him
which resulted in the believing but un
terrified heathen's remarking that the
Lord 4" talks Vely muchee like Melicar
man. boston Post.
The nearest realization of the
Cheeryble Brothers of Dickens is fur
nished in Sir w. Lawrence and Alder
man Lawrence, of London, brother,
and partners, who retired from bust
ness few weeks ago. They handed
over the whole of their business to theil
clerks and managers who had served
them faithfully for years, with the sun
of ESQ, 900 to carry it on, gave the arti
sans who had served them for ten year,
and upward sums in proportion to the
number of years, and few of the oldes
an annual pension of f20. reserving nj
interest in the new firm for themselves
Our society reporter was at fault IL
announcing Mrs. Ouray as being at thu
} Capitol yesterday attired in a sealskiI
sack, silk dress and fiashy hat. Chipe
ia (Mrs. Ouray) has not yet developed
taste for the finery of her white sis
ters, and is content TO plait her hal
; and wear her beaded blanket, hooC
shape, over it. "Dashing Sarah
Winnemucca was at the CAPITOL in sucl
attire as was described Sarah il
intellect, grace and knowledge of tn,
world will compare fayorably witt
many bells of Pennsylvania avenue
Washington Star.
; The sold woman's" remedy for /
"cold on the chest" sore throat, orr
bruise, which consisted in an applica
/ ton of brown paper stepped in beer o
. vinegar, owed its efficacy to. the heat
retaining properties of the paper.
wet pad Of this material, as far as tn
surface next the skin was concerned