Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

why is it that they call the sum-
mer trips outings?" 'Tdon't know, un-
less those who take them generally find
themselves SO mach out"
If it pleases you to hear friend
say he would do anything in the world
for you, don't prepare a thorn for your
self by mentioning one or two things
you want done.-Atchison Globe.
-Watts-"Were you ever afflicted
with insomnia?" Lushforth-"Once
It's great, isn't itp Fellow can go ahead
and drink two dozen hours out of the
twenty-four. r."--Indianapolis journal.
--"Ha! Back from your vacation?"
"Yes." "H'm! Instead of looking
rested you hook all tagged out" $50
would you if you had been trying to
play the lover to four summer girls
N Y. Press.
--Lady-"These berries look very
large and ripe" Little boy (selling
berries for the first time)-"Yes, mum,
the little green ones are all underneath.
That's the way the boss fixes 'em up
every morning"
safest place for young gentleman to
kiss young lady" Helm not sure
of it. The last time attempted to kiss
young lady's forehead got a bang in
the mouth. life
The largest county in the United
States is Custer county, in Montana,
which contains $4,000 square miles,
being larger in extent than Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Delaware
and Rhode Island.
Teacher (who has been explaining
the word epidemic c)-"Now, who can
give me the name of an epidemic here
in America. Remember it is something
that spreads" Tommy (wildly
waving his hand) )-I know; it's straw
berry jam. Inter Ocean.
"A correspondent of the Confection.
er's journal says that banana juice
makes a frst-class indelible ink. A
spot on a white shirt from a dead ripe
banana is marked forever, and the
juice from bananas thoroughly decayed
is bright clear carmine.
In Great Britain there are6. 8 square
miles and in Belgium 81 square miles
of area to each mile of railway. The
average cost of European railways is
estimated at $3.50, 900 per mile, and the
total cost of all the railways in the
world is figured at s32, ,115, OOO,O 900.
The stamp act, law passed by the
British parliament, March 20, 1765, ''for
granting and applying certain stamp
duties and other duties in the British
colonies and plantations in America "
took effect from November 1, 1765, but
was the occasion of such excitement,
protests and overt resistance in most OF
the states that it was repealed March
IS, 1766, and bill of indemnity for
those who had incurred penalties was
passed June of the same year.
The Italian who runs the peanut
stand on Fourth street was turning his
peanut roaster the other afternoon with
slow and measured hand, when an old
woman came to n halt and carefully OBJ
served the operation. After scrutiniz.
ing the roaster from every side, she
finally gave it up, and remarked: mo
sir; you don't get a cent out of me for
no such music as that. Why. can't
catch half of any of the tunes, and il
smells as if something was burning in
side. Lake City Citizen.
up to the year 1885 stoves in the
elusively in blast furnaces, and directly
from the ore, instead of being made in
foundries from pig iron, as they now
are, and they were consequently much
heavier and ruder than now, and had
loose and imperfect joints Most OF
them We're made in the furnaces of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, though few
were cast quite early in the furnaces at
Coldspring, n. Y, and at Salisbury and
Canaan, Conn. From 1920 to 1885 a con-
siderable business was done in stove
making in Rutland county, VT
In Minnesota 81 per cent. of the
males of voting age are foreign born, in
Wisconsin 81 per cent, in Indiana IL
per cent In those states, with Ohio.
Illinois and Michigan aa whole, 33 per
cent. of the males of voting age are for
eign born. There are nearly a6, 900 col.
ored voters in Ohio, $4,000 in Indiana,
$4,000 in Illinois and 6,O00 in Michigan,
but comparatively few in Wisconsin and
Minnesota. Over AZ per cent of the
aliens in Wisconsin, over 35 per cent OF
those in Ohio and over "a per cent OF
those in Minnesota are returned as not
speaking the English language.
The jelly palace to be erected by
the women of California for the worlds
fair will be sixteen by twenty feet and
twenty-five feet high. The entrance
will be by two doors approached by
three marble steps. The framework Ct
the building will be of wire, and on this
will be firmly placed several Thousand
jelly-glasses-cups, globes, prisms, etc.
containing jellies of many colors ard
shades of color, arranged with artistic
effects and in beautiful designs The
cost of the framework and glasses alone
rs estimated at two thousand seven hun
dred dollars, and the brilliant effect
\ will be heightened by many electric
lights.
-Dining cars are generally run at a
losA and are attached to trains simply
as a'rnatter of attraction. A steward,
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