Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

next door neighbor. Horn.
She Knew Jack. ck.-Sweetie-"Jac
told me last night he loved me, and !
then he kissed me-" Vettie-"Ahf !
He usually kisses the girls without ,
telling them hat."-Dctroit Free |
Press.
Long and ort.-Browu-"IIow |
long have you known that man you
lent dollar to this morning?" Jones !
IL never knew him long. He's been
short ever since 2rst met him. De |
troit Free Press.
Tom was away only one day and
when we met he said it seemed an age
since he'd seen me-" Mrs Bitterly
"The horrid wretch; don't see why
he should want to tell you how dread
fully you're breaking. Inter Ocean.
The blood of Rizzio, Mary Stuart's
| favoritc, cannot be seen on the floor
where he was murdered by Darnly and
tle other conspirators. What is seen
there is daub of red paint, annually
| renewed for the benefit of gaping tour
| lists.
Baron Haller German poet, when
young man, risked his life to save
his manuscript poems from Il burning
| building. He laid them away, and n
few years later, sitting down TO read
them over, was so disgusted with them
that he threw them all into the fire.
| Aristotle was small man, with q
hoarse voice and thin legs. lie stam-
mered and was i'll ut ease in company.
He dressed magniticcntly, was fond of
| jewelry, and so eHtravagant in his
! pleasures that he wasted his fortune
on female favorites.
The bee works harder than most
people would believe. There are about
sixty flower tubes in every head of
clover, and only tiny morsel of honey
in each. In order to get enough sugar
for load the bee must visit about
6, 900 different flowers, and each bee
makes, on an average, twenty trips a
day.
The California Indians bow is
made from the white sap of wood of
the cedar, the outside of the tree being
the outer side of the bow. The stick
is scraped and polished with pieces of
obsilian. Then it is roasted in ashes,
al bent into shape. Their arrows are
made of button willow, twigs of the
buckeye and canes.
If train, moving at the speed of
twent five miles an hour, was sud-
denly stopped, the passengers would
experience a shock equal to that of
falling from a second floor window; at
thirty miles an hour they might as
well fall from the height of three pairs
of stairs: and an express train would,
in point of fact, make them fall from a
fourth story.
-Percell, the great English com.
poser, had termagant wife, who was
accustomed to lock him out when he
did not come home at the hour she
!, designated as proper. On one occasion
he arrived late and drenched to the
skin from sudden shower. The door
was locked, and, before he could reach
an inn where he could change his wet
clothing, he was seized with chill
which ended in a fatal illness.
Half dozen men in New England
and elsewhere treasure interesting
keepsakes that James Russell Lowell
gave to faithful few of those who sal
under his teachings at Harvard. He
formed a large class for the study o.
, Dante and plunged them, ignorant o.
, Italian, into reading the Divine Comedy
,, ! in the original. Few persevereG
through the course, and to those few
Mr.. Lowell gave an engraving of the
then newly discovered portrait o.
Dante. Each picture bore a line from
Dante in Mr.. T.owel's handwriting.
MIR. Edison has challenged the skep
tical to name one substance, organic ol
inorganic, which is not to be found il
his laboratory. Every department o
nature has yielded it's tribute to tn,
potent wizard The bones of birds anC
!, animals, feathers, hides, teeth ant
horns, shining metals, lucent crystals
: variegated minerals lie scattered il
profusion; dainty shells and coral re
pose among MOSES and seaweed; fra
? grant gums and spices recall memories
of the fair Babe of Bethlehem. Chalks
3 resins, salts and chemicals are heapet
3 about in lavish plentitude. The collec
tion embraces not only raw products
but specimens of nearly every human
> industry.
, 1T would be diflicrlt," says tn
st. Louis Republic, Ito convince tn
average man that fir is a stronger WOO,
d than oak, but such has been provel
i by actual tests that were made by
y fair and impartial committee appointe
for that purpose. The timbers use,
: were each two by four inches, and fou
feet long, both ends sol dly braced
q and the weight applied in the middl
II of the span. Yellow fir stood strai
3 of 3,O62 pounds; common Orego
oak, 2,922 pounds. Fine-grained ye
low fir from near the butt stood
strain of $685. pounds, and best Mich
Z gan oak snapped with "A strain of onl
u 2,42s pounds. The tests were made b
y the Northern Pacific Railroad Con
y pany at Tacoma, Wash"
- Among the Latin Christian cour
tries there were seven different date
for beginning the new year March
January 1, December 25, March 2
used in two ways-first, by beginnin
the year nine months sooner than {
present; second, by beginning