Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

hoWeNer yOuc eau Ill JlOSe jam puHS,
Tommy-"Ah, you Nike powder puffs
Best, don't you, Gertie?'-Funny Culls.
An Englishman was found dead on
Dakota prairie the other day. He
had told friend he was taking home
some Indian war paint as Sioux
veneer.-Crypt.
X -"Wewent bang into the iceberg and
slid off to one side. The ship fairly
Bhivered." THAT was natural. l think
I'd shiver so close to an iceberg. "-Har-
per's Bazaar.
In Wall Street. is lost, save
honor" groaned the lamb, aeeced in
Wall street "And that is not worth
continental here" growled his partner.
--Detroit Free Press.
Observation-Disclosures, have trouble
about swallowing. Does that amount
to anything?" Doctor Cooking down
his throat)-"Yes, amounts to five dol
lars. "-Fliegende Blatter.
First '94 Man lin logic class) -"Say,
what does /. o. u. mean?" Second "a
Man (who has been .here, with sigh)
1T generally means nothing at all."-
Princeton Tiger.
The barber is is sort of bellicose
individual. He has his little brushes
right along; he lathers people, and he
occasionally smashes their mugs.-Na-
tional Barber
-Tommy-''Paw, what is political
economy?" Mr.. Fight is the cut
ting down of national expenses by a
member of congress to make up for his
own special appropriations, Indian
apolis journal.
A novel but very interesting we'd
ding present is that bestowed by Mr..
George NJ. Pullman on his daughter,
who is to marry a young Californian.
1t consists of Pullman car of her own,
handsomely made and decorated, in
which she may run home and see her
friends as often as sne pleases.
Americans take an interest in a
number of islands of the Pacific ocean.
We are interested in Japan. from which
large number of the natives are now
emigrating to California, and in Samoa,
of which our government is one of the
three protecting powers. and in the
Hawaiian kingdom. many of whose
people are anxious for annexation to
the United States.
The American dress reformers are
preparing to renew their crusade at
Chautauqua this year. They declare
that their reformatory ideas are making
rapid progress all over the country. but
especially in the cool-headed city of
Boston and the hot-headed city of
Chicago They have not much hope of
undermining the prejudices of the fair
sex in New York City.
Charles c. Leland traces the origin
of the saying in reference to small
place, there is not room enough to
swing cat to a superstition current
in Pennsylvania. In this country, it is
said, if a cat runs away, when recovered
she must be swung three times around
to attach her to the dwelling. The
same is done with stolen cat by a
thief ii he would retain it.
Among a collection of curious
plants recently received at the Kew
gardens, England, is n specimen of n
curious tree from the solomon islands.
1t is believed to be new genus of the
order of Sapotace, to which the sapo-
diller of Florida belongs. The tree is
known to the natives of Solomon islands
the close resemblance which the seeds
bear to the turtle.
Marriage may be a failure in San
Francisco, and it may not, but it is in
teresting to note that comparatively
few people are making the experiment.
During last year there were only 1896
marriages in the city. less than eleven
to the thousand of the city's population.
The rate in London is more than eigh-
teen per thousand. What it is in the
various cities and states of the Union is
not recorded accurately.
BY novel legal technicality Mig
Scoring, OF Crawfordville, Ind, has es-
capped a term in the northern peniten-
tiary, and now poses before the COM
munity as martyr. He was indicted
for stealing box of cigars from a
grocery store, but in the trial it was
proved conclusively that he left the box
and only took the cigars. On this
ground he was discharged.
"A fine specimen of the sea fox, or
thrasher was washed ashore at Nassa-
wadox, Va, few days ago, and created
something of sensation. as nothing at
GIL llhc IIlC thiiS iiSiei CNCl
been seen there before. The fish was
fourteen feet long and about half of
this was it's tail, it's weapon, with one
of it's edges as sharp as knife.
I'm walking through the Central
Park, New York, one day recently, a
| Boston naturalist was surprised by
some of the trees, shrubs and flowers he
| saw there. He said he found even sugar
NAPLES, Norway naples and swamp ma.
Piles. He found moss pinlls, Asiastic
magnolias, lilacs, the forsythia, the cor
nelian cherry and other charming
things that are familiar to New York.
ers who stroll though the park.
From Holland an offer has been
made to the Holland society of New
York and the st. Nicholas society oi
Brooklyn to construct and present tc
them an exact reproduction of the Hall
Moon, the ship in which Henry Hudson
discovered and explored the river which
| bears his name The societies named