Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
ALL SORTS.
"A land agitator-,A plow.


her people.
"A Chicago hat and fur store bears
in the front window th6placarded sign
-" Year Muphs."
1t is hard to believe man is tell
ing the truth when you know you would
lie if in his place.
No woman ever yet consented to
wear a shoe made to fit with an inside
sole.-BoSton Post.
The last time a man goes into a
graveyard he does not laugh at the
style of the tombstones.
Let nature give young man cheek
and all other things will be added unto
him.-M. o. Picayune.
Stealing a $40 horse cost Colo
RADIO man his life, although he had been
tried and acquitted five different times
for murder.
If the young man who insists on
stealing kisses don't abandon the prac-
tice, he will soon find himself behind
the bars of wedlock.
The latest product to which the soil
of California has been found adapted is
opium. A superior article has been
raised in the Sonoma Valley.
--Buckwheat is one of the most
staple articles of poultry food. It is
very fattening, an egg-producer, and
very much relished by poultry.
-" Worth uses oak and walnut but
tons on cloth wraps Just the same
sort of buttons that have been used on
wood-house doors for years.-NesO
HdUen Register.
February has five Sundays once in
every twenty-eight years. 1t will have
them in 1880. None of the ladies, how
ever, have ever heard of such thing
before. Boston Post.
The Paris cafes are unusually chilly
this fall. "Do you never light fires
hereP" asked shivering drinker of
absinthe. Never" says the waiter,
"our guests talk politics."
What is the difference between q
hornet and feaP One difference is
that when you put your finger on a flea
it isn't there, but when you put your
finger on a hornet it is there.
Mr.. Thurber, President of the
Dairy Fair Association of New York,
stated that in this country, during the
year 1878, $40, 900, 900 pounds of cheese
were produced, and $50, 900, 900 pounds
of butter.
There is something soft and tender
in the fall of single snowflake, but
when it comes to crawling out in the
morning and shoveling away big
drift, its onery, mean and disgusting
Free Press.
-"I was not aware that you knew
him." said Tom Smith to an Irish
friend, the other day. "Knew himP"
said he, in tone which comprehended
the knowledge of more than one life,
~ knew him when his father was a
boyr'
Elder sister Ito little one who
appeared to take great interest in Mr..
Skibbons) -" Come, little pet, it is
time your eyes were shut in sleep"
Little pet-"I think not. Mother told
me to keep my eyes open when you and
Mr.. Skibbons were together"
Mrs. Lorne is expected to return
from England in time for the opening
of the Dominion Parliament. 1t will be
a busy season around the house then,
and what with wash-days, and Mr..
Lorne being obliged to have boiled
shirt every day, etc., it would hardly
do for Louise to be away. Chicago
Tribune.
The Chinese encyclopedia has Just
been completed under the imperial
sanction. IL is work which no we'll
regulated family can do without. 1t
costs only $500, which is remarkably
cheap considering the fact that the
work consists OF 1920 volumes. Agents
wanted in every village and neck O. the
woods.
-"And how is your neighbor, Mrs.
Brown" inquired one nicely-dressed
lady of another. "She's we'll enough,
suppose. 1 haven't seon her to speak
to her for six weeks" "Why, thought
you two were on the most friendly
terms" "Well, we used to be; but
we've exchanged servants. ."-Ne00
HGUen Register.
She never will crown with her earnest love
The life Of some honest, loving man,
For she kindled the fire in the kitchen stove,
With the lightsome tilt of the kerosene
can.
And he-his work has been laid away
Almost before 1t was well begun;
\ For he didn't know, they heard him say,
There was any load in the empty gun.
-Hdlok-Eye.
"A boy from Honey Lake Valley,
who for the first time in his life saw q
military company out for drill in Vir.
ginia City, with fife and drum, gave his
mother the following account of the
business, " A little man blowed on his
squealin' stick, and a big man thai
stood beside him hammered on his
thunder box, then the boss man pulled
out big long knife and shook it at the
fellows what was standin' up in long
row, and they all walked off on two
legs"
"A poet asks: "Where are the
dreams of the days gone byP' This il
q singular query, even for poet. ThI
dreams of the days gone by are like tn,
days themselves gone by-gone by. . A
dream can't be preserved like ounce!
and other fruit. The poet can witness
Just as lively and startling dreams a
those that have fled, if he will eat
mince pie, dozen raw oysters, anC
some picked pig s feet, and drink pin
of cider before going to bed.-NorriS
tot0n Herald.
"A wedding party was assembled a
the residence of the brides father, a
Rochester. The groom and the res
were waiting for the girl, who lingere'
in her room. Half an hour after tn
appointed time the announcement wa
made that she had been united to an
other suitor, having changed her choic
at the last moment, The tilted ma
was umbfounded, but he rallied quick
ly, congratulated the bridegroom, kisse
the bride, and proposed a continuanc
of the festivities, and they were accord
ingly continued.
The Bangor Commercial says: Th
stupidest man in the State is farm
hand near Lebanon. He was hired /
plow a ten-acre field, and his boss
/ wishing him to draw a straight furrow
: directed his attention TO COW grain
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