Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

That's the stickingest plaster I know
Of"
How Sad.-Frau Z.-"Shall you be
going to some watering place?" Frau
L.-"Alas! no; unfortunately my hus-
band isn't suffering from gout this
year Flora.
do you propose to marry for love
or for money! "Well, I shouldn't con.
slider moderate dose of love any OBJ
lection if she has lots of money!
Dansville Breeze.
20, mamma! There was such
gang of dudes on the corner"
Daughter, dear, how often must re-
prove you for using slang? You should
not say u gang of dudes; say 'bevy."
indianapolis Journal.
Cutting Down His Ineome.-Beaver
Robinson tells me that his salary
has been reduced" Melton-"For
what cause?' Beaver-''He has just
been taken into the firm. Tom Mas
son, in Cloak Review.
Mrs. Jones-"I took tea at Mrs.
Browns last evening. There was
magnificent array of silver, but very
little to eat" Mrs. Robinson-''As
/
thing plated but the food."-Boston
Transcript.
| Miss Fortiod-"Dear me, how you
are freclSled! 1 should feel awful to
have my face like that! Miss Young
but then there is no danger of being
freckled when one is on the shady side"
boston Transcript.
johnny had been studying the ad-
vertising columns of the newspaper for
an hour, at the end of which time he
looked up and inquired in perplexed
tone, ''Ma, how is it there are so many
different kinds of toilet soap that are
all the best?"
John and Samuel Manning, twin
brothers, living on the same farm near
Reserve, Ind, married twin sisters in
1881, both of whom died in 1889. In
1891 the brothers became acquainted
with twin sisters named Swope, and
there was another double marriage.
According to theosophlsts $50 days
and nights of Brahma make one year OF
Brahma, and 100 years of Brahma make
the great Kalpa, period of 81 ,040 ,O0O,
100000 years, after which the entire
solar system passes into it's night and
everything in it is destroyed on the OBJ
jective plane
From an ancient account book
found at Eastport, Me-, it appears that
in 1897 tobacco was sold by the yard in
that settlement. The limited purchas.
ing power of a days wages at that
period is shown by the price of nails-1s
2}4d pound. A days ordinary wages
| fN,. II
nails.
Speaking of the extravagance o1
women of our day, Marie de Medicis
had gown sown with 50, 900 pearls and
5000 diamonds, and her example was
followed by lesser parsonages, who
cheerfully expended more than their in.
comes on gowns so laden with precious
stones that their wearers could scarcely
move about in them.
"A beach may resist the sea for years
yet in few hours it may be stripped
bare to the solid rock. Shells may bs
covering the bottom mile off shore
undisturbed by inshore gales; storm
with winds and waves apparently mucl
the same as usual, may sweep them al
on shore. In other words, the will O
old ocean in modifying shore lines il
practically irresistible and his occasiona
devastation remediless.
During October of this year fai
will be held in San Francisco under tn,
joint auspices of the California world
fair commission and the Mechanics in
stitute. Exhibits, classified by counties
will be shown from every portion of tn,
state, and special efforts are being mad,
, to have them of the most complete ant
. representative character.
in Pelham's Collection of Travels
, CS06) referring to one of the Pa
cifc island, mention is made of wo
man who was seen shaving a child
head with sharks tooth, fastened int,
the end of a stick. The hair was frs
wetted with rag dipped in water, an,
| then, by proper application of the in
, strument, she completed the busines
as etfectually as if razor had been em
: ployed.
3 B. r. Young and his family wer
+, travelling in u prairie schooner nea
+ Palomas, Mexico, when loaded gun il
the wagon in front was discharged ac
S cidentally. The ball pierced Young
S shoulder passed though his sons hir
1 then through the baby's head, an,
e struck the shoulder of Mrs. Mary Rob
S erts, daughter of Mr.. Young. Fathc
i and son were seriously wounded, tn
S baby was instantly killed, but Mrs
!. Roberts received only Il slight wound
$ -Lumbermen returning from tn
l headwaters of the Machias river, Maine
: report that the weather was so war;
: in that region during January tina
4 hornets LETT their hives. On January 1
e n teamster in township Al accidental
S drove into hornets nest hanging fror
r bush, and the hornets, aroused by tn
S collision, issued in fierce swarms an
$ stung the horses so badly that the
J. broke and ran two miles 20 the hovel bt
< fore they could be stopped
: The Windsor castle, residence {
the British sovereigns, was begun b
: William the Conqueror, and enlarge