Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-13
- MISCELLANEOUS.

tation. Why?"-Society.
Plaster casts arc made in small seq
ments, and are removed from the face
or statue separately. It takes twelve
pieces to get a cast OF an ear
Brazil IL iarger than the United
States, but in the whole twenty States
which make up the republic there are
not as many people as we have in New
York and Pennsylvania.
The greatest height upward in the
atmosphere at which the sound OF cam
non has been heard was 90, 900 feet,
when Mr.. Glaisher at that height over
birmingham heard the firing OF the
guns being proved there.
-"Say, I've got fine scheme, where
you can double your money in month";
"You ought to take 1t to the watch
makers" "What for?" "Why, they
handle all kinds Of snide movements"
West Shore.
Major Blowitz-"The fellow tried to
steal my reputation" Colonel Bluntly
You have lost the opportunity Of your
life" "What should I have done?"
LET him have it."
--Devotion-"John, the doctor says I
must give up wine, but think I must
have one more bottle, even though 1t
kill me-" "All fight, your honor, will
cheerfully die with you. -Fliegende
Blatter.
-Judge-"Then your husband has ILL
treated you2" Witness-"No, your
worship" Judge-"What? Did he not
bite off one of your ears?" Witness
mo, your worship; L did it myself
La Vedetta.
Can Not Pay.-Chapson- tailor
told me that if I couldn't pay for my
next suit of clothes / needn't expect to
be trusted for them" Dudely = 'Aw!
And who are you going to transfer your
patronage to now, Chapson, old boy?"-
Yankee Blade.
"A curious art imposition has been
discovered in Paris. An ingenious per-
son stole bronze and marble busts from
the cemetery of Montparnesse, Paris,
touched them up and sold them as
effigies of famous heroes, statesmen and
orators He did not find it difficult to
pass off the busts of departed grocers as
| Demosthenes or some celebrated gem
eral.
"A new educational game comprises
set of cards, each having series of
multiplicand numerals and multiplier
numeral on its face, and a second set
each containing a number which Is a
multiple involving as factors the multi
plier and one of the multiplicands on
one of the cards of the first set the Sec
ond set of cards comprising duplicate
multipliers.
English society has come to this: A
lady we'll known in London, who, with
her daughter, had been invited to join
country house party, wrote back in
quiring who the other guests were to be
to meet her. On learning that the
party was to comprise three or four
prominent members of a certain "set,
she wrote back an indignant refusal, de-
claring it an insult to invite her daugh-
ter to stay in the house with the same
ladies named.
"A bee-keeper living near large
hotel being built at Kingston, in ia
maica, recently found his hives in the
utmost confusion, with many bees lying
about exhausted and dead. The cleo
trio light was used at the hotel to carry
on the building operations by night sc
the bees mistook the light for daylight
and went out to collect pollen around
the neighborhood thus illuminated
When they came home the day was
dawning, and they flew off again with
out any rest till they worked them
selves to death.
OF the woods that are chiefly uset
in fancy cabinet work, ebony come
mostly from Ceylon and Madagascar
and is sold by importers at cents pc
pound. Satinwood is grown on the isl
, and of San Domingo and in Porto Rico
1t is on, of the beautiful woods, and i
. described as canary yellow" In tn
log it sells at rs cents PR foot. Tuli
wood is but little used. 1t is importe
more for turning and inlaying than any
thing else. 1t is found in Central Amer
, lea. and when brought to New Yor
sells for 8 cents per pound.
, "A California civil engineer visite
Toledo in 1884 and fell victim to a re
markable conspiracy, in which his pres
ent wife, her mother, and physical
combined to entrap him INTO matrimonJ
a He was informed the young lady, VIII
was very i'll, loved him passionately
!, and would not recover health unless b
married her. After the wedding he di'
!, covered she was hopeless paralyti'
He continued to be faithful to her unit
this year, when he discovered she di
:. not love him, but married really
, show the man she really adored tha
: she could get husband. The victil
> now sues for divorce.
-"Weeping" trees are becoming quit
q common. Logan County, Kentuch.
claims to have three of them. They al
=, maple trees, which stand in the froI
. yard of John Lyme. AT time whe
there had been no rain for fortnigh
water in streams began to run from I'll
tip of each limb The water has soake
l. the ground thoroughly and enough fal
a to wet man who will stand under ii
o trees through and through in fve mi
2 utes. The water falls at night the san
IS as in the day. A heavy mist ntinual
l. hau0s about the trees, no matter hO