Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-03-22

we have passed over the equpox
without rain TO aid in filing the em\ty
cisterns and wells.
"A Boston man has made an invention
which acquires importance from the mild
character Of the winter and the i'm
probability OF the usual ice harvest. BY
means OF certain chemicals which are
placed In a email tin box-this chemically
filled box taking the place OF lump Of
ice-be 10 able TO reduce the air In re-
irigerator to much lower degree Of tenn :
perature than by the use OF ice. The in
vention has been we'll tested and gives the
most satisfactory results. The cooling
process ia rapid and is not accompanied by
the generation OF moisture, as is the case
with melting ice. A glass Of water
placed in the refrigerator, was found to be
frozen solid In three hours. Meat was
found after lapse Of Eve weeks, to be in
excellent condition. Further. it is esti-
mated that box once charged will re-
main an effective cooling agent for three
years, 1t is to be observed that, while
this offers substitute for ice, IL does not
do away with the summer luxury. Pro-
vided with one Of these boxes and a re-
frigerator, a man may make his own ice
in any desired quantity, and on short no.
tice any time.-Er.
Does ii seem possible that only one
hundred years ago, when Washington
was inaugurated in New York the First
President of the United States, that
the city was then small place, sixty
times smaller than at the present day,
or having only about thirty thousand
inhabitants How New York City
looked at that time, and the customs
and costums of the residents, are graph
ically told and beautifully illustrated in
DEMoREsT's MONTHLY MAGAZINE for
April, which has just arrived. At this
time, when the Centennial of the In
auguration of Washington is about to
be celebrated, this article will be greatly
appreciated and those who purchase
the April number of this popular Maga-
zine will be repaid, not only by this,
but by numerous other attractions, not
least of which are the beautifully illus
trated article on "Birds," by Olive
Thorne Miller young Japan at Play"
which will give many hints to the child
ren for new games; Homes with Two
Servants" which contains suggestions
for the management of servants; and
there are numerous other equally inter
esting subjects.
Published by w. JENNINGS DEMoREsT
10 East 18th Street, New York.
The dime mnseum has become an
established institution in every city that
makes the least pretense of being metro
po'i'an. EnIerpriaing managers rack
their brains and search the country for
the freakiest kind of freaks, and anything
that is new, strange and wonderful. To
meet the demand for something new the
museum managers have instituted contests
of different Kinds. The chewing gum
contest iH siill going the rounds, but a
Cincinnati museum has, perhaps, the
latest thing ont in entertainments of this
clasS. Picture group OF six pretty
winsome maidens in fierce competition
oveS their respective merits as wood saw
yers. As the slang phrase has il, the
girls were Saving wood and not saying n
word" for prise of $500, sub-diyided
into three parts. They were arranged in
a semi-circle upon an elevated stage, and
each supplied with sawbuck and wood
The latter w's kept piled in front of them
by three employees of the museum, while
at corner Of the stage, blonde youth
attended to the teeth OF the saw. The
young ladies were named after the cities
of their birth, and a very plain score was
kept on a huge black board. .-OAaua Sen
tinel.