Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


Don't you know it's full of spongcs?"
Bill Bunco-"Ever dealt in stocks,
Franls?" Frank Faro-"No, sir; that's
one game where the odds are against
the dealer" - Smith, Gray & Co. Is
Monthly.
"A hungry man called in upon a
friend one day for lunch. When the
joint was brought in, the host who was
very slow in carving, asked: "Shull
cut it saddle-wiseP" mo" said the hun
cry friend, "cut it bridle-wise, then,
perhaps I may get bit in my mouth"
Politics in Court-Burglar (who
has just been sentenced to five years at
Sing Sing)--"Whist, judge. have u
pull" Judge-"An' what is it?" Bur
glar - Alderman Callahan is me
brother" Judge-"Then I'll make it
ten years. He was agin' me in the con-
vintion. brooklyn Eagle.
American Hotel Clerk (suspiciously)
Your bundle has come apart May
ask what queer thing that is?" Guest
-"This is new patent fire escape.
carry it so that in case OF fire / can let
myself down from the hotel window.
See" Clerk (thoughtfully)-'I see.
Our terms for guests with fire escapes,
Sir, are invariably cash in advance"
Completing the Resem blance.- She
-"How much those overhanging trees
with black darkness underneath resem-
BILE tunnel" He-"Yes" She-"Only
the resemblance goes no farther. We
arc not on board train" He-"No,
but there is still another way of COM
pleting the resemblance, and this
lsmackl is how to do it."-Yankee
Blade.
In the neighborhood of the Ber.
mudas the sea is extremely transparent,
SO that the fishermen can readily see
the horns of Holsters protruding from
their hiding places in the rocks at con.
siderable depths. To enticc the crusta.
ceans from these crannies, they tie
lot of snails in ball and dangle them
in front of the cautious lobster. When
he grabs the ball they haul him up.
On the occasion of the death of an
old colored nanny" in Lexington,
KY, recently, her remains were laid in
state in the parlor of her mistress
handsome home, and many white
mourners followed the body to the
final resting place. During the last
days of her illness it was customary for
the ladies of the family to hurry home
whenever they had occasion to go out, so
that the old auntie should not get lone
some.
While murders and other atrocious
crimes seem to be rapidly increasing in
number in New Hampshire, such of.
fences have in recent years become
quite rare in Maine. and nobody can &C.
count for the difference between the
two states in this respect except upon
the theory that the mixed factory popu.
lation of New Hampshire is lower in
the moral scale than are the French
Canadians of Lewiston, Biddeford and
other great mill towns of Maine.
The demand for platinum for use
in science has raised its value to three.
quarters that of gold. Three years ago
it was worth $50 pound. 1t now costs
Sl60, or eleven times more than silver.
1t is found in small quantities in Peru,
Colombia, Brazil, the Ural Mountains.
California, Oregon and Borneo. The
yearly output has never been more
than four tons and is now three
"A few days ago farmer who lives
near Woodland, Cal, procured,a wagon
load of grape pomace from one of the
wineries with which to feed his hogs.
Upon placing it before the swine they
ate of it SO heartily as to acquire load
in more ways than one, tor they be-
came intoxicated and remained in q
drunken stupor for several days.
In the last quarter of a century the
average of mans lie has improved 5
per cent, from 41:9 to 49, years, and
of woman's life per cent, from Al. 9
to 1873. Of every 1000 males born at
the present day "A more will attain the
age of 35 than used to be the case prior
to 1870; the combined life of every 1000
born at the present day is 2,7Oo years
longer than it was % years ago. The
average human life is now being added
to at the rate of nearly 10 years each
century.
The people around Dark Harbor,
Grand Manan, N. E., are greatly ex-
cited over whale which chased a
school of herring into the harbor recent
ly and now can't get out again. At high
water there is depth of only ten feet
on the bar at the harbor mouth, but the
! tide, which runs with tremendous force
around Grand Manan, continues to set
in for two hours after high water, and
this fooled the whale. The monster
tries to get out when the current sets
seaward, and then finds that he draws
| too much water, SO that unless he can
discharge part of his cargo or get the
government to dredge out the channel,
| he is destined to be a fixture at Dark
| Harbor.
| In one of the East Side cafes in New
York is remarkable portrait of Baron
Hirsch, the work of an appreciative
member of his race. 1t is made entirely
of English letters, which, combined,
give detailed history of 1.-The modern
Moses" AT a distance of. FIVE feet it
looks like an ordinary portrait, similar,
even in details. 30 the photographs
which have appeared in the illustrated
papers. The work was done with pen
| and ink IT. would .anuira a hc,,t a doy,o