Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-05-21
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1t is questionable whether or no
shorthand writing has been of benefit
to the world. Without it half tho
speeches made might have been lost.
NJ o. Rcdyt0ic.
No tobacco allowed at tho State
Roformatory? Come, nowl why arc
convicts treated SO much better than
the rest of us? Has it come to be that
in order to escape the smell of tobacco
man must go to prisonP--BoSton Tran
script,
David Bell, of Pcllcter's Mills, N.
c., found very small pearl in IN oys-
ter seven years ago. He wrapped it in
paper and laid it in II trunk, and the
New Bcrnc Journal says that it has
grown from the size of a BIB shot to
the size of n smal. marble. During the
seven years it has not been wet
The Queen of Shcba, who visited
Solomon, brought with her fifty boys
and fifty girls, all dressed in boys APP
parcl, for King Solomon to tell which
were boys and which were girls. King
solomon sent for water for them to
wash; the girls washed to the elbows
and the BOYS to the wrists.
1t is suggested that the Pataconians
may have lost MS much us two inches
in stature since the adoption of con-
slant horseback riding, Il little over
two centuries ago. They were form
erly rcputcd giants, and their bodies
are still huge, while their legs are dis
proportionately short and slender.
There is tunnel near Naples,
Italy, three-fourths of mile long, cut
n mountain of solid rock called
Posilippo. The tunnel, as il now exists,
was cut through only twcnty-scven
years before Christ, and, therefore, has
the juvenile age of 1913 years, or is
l ,519 years older than the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus.
"A popular term formerly in use for
the nails on the ten fingers was the ten
commandments which, says Mares,
doubtless led to the swearing by them,
as by the real commandments. In the
same way the fingers We're also called
the ten bones, and it was n common
thing tousc the exclamation, "By these
ten bones!'
The Panama railway was the first
railway extending from the Atlantic to
the Pacific side of the great isthmus
that connects North and South Amer
Ca, and was completed at the begin
ming of 1855. 1t extends from Aspin-
wall City on the Caribbean Sea to Pan
lma on the Pacific Ocean. The first
rain passed over on January 90, 1885.
-BoStoR Globe.
Over 100 gray and grizzled sailors
n the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia
struck against veal pot-pe. They said
was bad, and so, after marching in
md sitting down to dinner, they rose
Is one man and marched out of the
dining hall dinnerlcss. They say they
ong for lob scousc, plum duff, dandy
unk, and like nautical provcnder.-
Press.
A Texas man, troubled with insom-
lia, was advised to repeat something
poetry or something of the kind-when
lie found himself restless and wakeful
.fter retiring to bed. AS he didn't
now any poetry to repeat, he took q
rink of whisky and repeated that,
epeatedly. The result was that he not
,nly went to sleep but never woke up
lgain.-1erds SJtingS.
In private hotel in London, which
bed and board for at least
weniy people, the house and kitchen
work is done by no means athletic
hough healthy German girl of nine
cen years of age. She rises at six and
,oes to bed at eleven, completely tagged
nut. She is recompensed for all this
lrudgery, hardship and toll with the
wages of el2 year.
While some men were working
Dad in the Plattekill Glove n stone four
eet square was loosened from a quarry
which was fully quarter of a mile
lbove them. 1t rolled down with tre-
nendous velocity, and when it struck
he road bounded twenty feet, just
,razing the heads of two men, and
triking horse in the head killed it
outright. From the horses head it
bounded eighteen feet further, and
plunged into the ground over half Il
oot.--N Y. SIN.
I'm Saxony, Switzerland and Austria,
orture was abolished towards the end
# the eighteenth century; in Russia it
urvived until 1901; in Wurtemberg
md Bavaria it was in use in 1906 and
S07, in Hanover till 1922. and in
Baden till 1881. In France the storm
# the first revolution swept it away,
md almost Mt the same time it came to
IN end in North Italy, but was used in
he prisons of Palermo and Naples
lown to the middle of this century.
"A Nashville, (Tenn.) paper says:
Colonel Fred Grant, son of the late
ieneral U. 5. Grant, is probably the
most fashionable breeder of mastffs in
his country. His kennels are at Bos-
on, Mass, and he has forty-seven
took dogs. A letter received from
colonel Grant by gentleman in Nash
lille, says: My stock dog Major is
the largest and most dis
private mastiff in our coun-
ry, and is valued at $1,000. Attached
o sixty-pound wagon he draws with
ase and safety my four children, en-
ering into the sport with apparent de-
light. "
Said the conductor: "When n
ady takes her seat in the car she rests
Ter sachel on her knees, opens it and
axes out a handkerchief and closes
he sachel. Suddenly she reopens it,
axes from it her purse, again closes
he sachel, opens the purse, takes from
I dime, then closes it and returns it
o the sachel, which she again closes.
As soon as she receives nickel in
hange she reopens the sachel, takes
mt the purse, closes the sachel, OPENS
he purse, drops in the coin and after
mapping her purse once more opens
he sachel and drops her purse into it,
Ifter which she sits back with self
stislied air and rides to her destina-
ion. San Francisco ChrOnicle.
MISTAKES OF LIFE.