Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

| -NlggS-"Why did BoggS leave his
last place?" Woggs-"Because he
he couldn't take it with him He was
discharged. d."-Philadelphia Record.
"A good swimmer and poor base
ball player are alike in one respect
they both strike out. Rochester Demo-
crat and Chronicle.
--Friend-"Has the landlord raised
your rent this month?' Tenant-'T
sincerely hope be has, for I've tried to
and failed. Inter Ocean.
-"NIiggs is lucky old chap, isn't
hep '1n what way?" Hes color
blind" "What advantage is that?'
"He can't tell when he's blue. Inter
| Ocean.
-Reporter-'I wrote The instru-
ment was n genuine Stradivarius, and
you changed it to one of the latest
makes" Desk Fditor-"Well, doesn't
that express the same idea? What dive
want to advertise the Stradivarius
for?'-Boston Transcript.
"A German paper states that in the
prosecution of railway line it became
necessary to remove a large cherry
tree; the proprietor demanded about
$1,000 for it; this the..railroad company
objected to paying. But after some
| legal work the owner was awarded
S1,l0O for the tree.
A severe attack of toothache was
endured by Simon Kintzer, wealthy
man of Hummelstown, Pa. A travel
| ing tooth doctor CHANGED to be in the
neighborhood, and applied "magic
| cure" In short time the pain ceased,
the doctor received his fee, and depart
ed. In n few hours the mans jaw be-
gan to swell, and in three days he was
dead from blood poisoning.
The lightship John, in Delaware
bay obtained its odd name from that
of the ship John, of Nantucket, Mass,
which sank in 1897 near the spot where
the lightship now swings at anchor.
The vessel was stripped by wreckers
from Bridgeton, n. j., and General
Logue, of Bridgeton, gave to the light
house department the figurehead of the
wreck. The figurehead is now mounted
on the deck of the lightship.
After the death of General Pacllen-
ham, at the battle of New Orleans, his
viscera were removed, preparatory to
shipping the body to England. The
| whole mass of the bowels, including
other internal organs, were wrapped in
cotton and buried in n box between
two pecan trees, which, although in a
fiourishing condition at the time, never
after bore nuts, and were known far
and wide as the "cursed pecan trees"
The body was secretly shipped to En-
gland in n cask of wine.
Nectar in flowers is not honey.
This nectar is gathered by the tongue
of the bee and enters what is called the
honey bag, from which it is regurgi-
tated by the bee on it's return to the
hive and deposited in the honey cell
Even then it is thin and watery. and
does not become really honey until the
watery parts have evaporated. In col
lecting the sweets the bees do not con-
fine themselves wholly to flowers.
They extract them also from fruits.
Varieties and hybrids of helianthe-
mum vulgare. the true rock rose, have
attractive flowers, which range in
color from white through shades of
red and yellow. AT the Arnold Ar
boretum these plants make n low
shrubby growth, spreading over the
ground in dense mat of foliage, on
which the flowers are now appearing.
The separate flowers do not last long,
but they keep opening all summer.
and Mr.. Dawson, the propagator at the
arboretum, thinks a great deal of
them.
"A most ngenious-gcneral-info
tion-automatic-ma has been set
up outside one of the Melbourne rail-
way stations. 1t is seven feet high and
four feet broad, and will, it is said
give reliable information on quite n
varied range of subjects. Touch one
elastic button and a list of the best
hotels in the city appears; touch an
other and a theater playbill slides out;
n third discloses to view a list of the
principal omnibus routes, and another
the cab fares to the various places of
interest
One of the striking proofs of the
advance of good architecture is Pts
adoption into factory buildings. With
in year ornate fronts have appeared
on a large number of structures that,
until the architectural renaScence-call
it renaissance if you lilxe-would have
been as plain, not to say ugly, as brick
and mortar could make them. Factor
les, laboratories, printing offices, stor-
|
things of tempered joy, and as to resi-
dences, churches, club houses, armor-
ies-well, ramble about New York and
be glad.
The San Francisco Chronicle states
that the yellow fruited fir, heretofore
reported only from the vicinity of Lake
Webber and doubtfully from Mount
Whitney, has been discovered in still
greater beauty on the slopes of Mount
Shasta. Here the tree rears its noble,
, nearly smooth shaft to great height
. and bears its crown of gauzy foliage
, far above the head of other frs, the
} topmost, stratified branchlets decorated
with upright cones of large golden
: fruit, a vision of flaming glory which
in the autumn season can be seen miles
away, in pleasing contrast with the
! royal purple cones of the prevailing