Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

AN Opelousas La.) gander has
learned to turn the faucet of cistern
\ with his bill, and when the water begins
to flow he sits under the stream, flaps
his wings, takes bath and has q good
time generally.
1t is estimated at the War Depart
ment that If any foreign power should
tackle this country it would be con-
fronted by the enormous tc tai of z, 7,0OO,-
900 fighting men. OF course it would
take some time to put that host in the
field.
-"Spiffs" are premiums placed on
certain articles, not of the last fashion
indicated by marvellous hieroglyphic
put on the price-ticket These marks
are well known by the statesmen, and
the almost invisible mystic sign explains
why an article, wholly unsuitable, is
foisted on the jaded customer as "just
the thing -
The largest beer barrel ever made
in the world is the attraction of st.
Louis saloon. 1t is twenty-three feet
high, twenty-five feet wide, and has a
capacity of 81, 400 gallons, or /. roo ordin-
ary beer barrels. A dining table is set
up in the interior of the barrel, and
many people have enjoyed the novelty
of taking their luncheon in the big
barrel. 1t was made in st. Louis ten
years ago.
In gratitude for their recent deliver
ence from the perils of the voyage in the
1nman liner City of Paris, the passen-
gers, before landing, subscribed 5000 as
a thank Offering and appointed COM
mittee to decide upon its application.
1t is understood that the committee
have decided to hand over e400 to the
Seamen's Hospital, Liverpool, for its
| general purposes, and to endow with
the balance bed in the same institu-
tion for sick American sailors.
The experiment of constructing a
large building chiefly of paper has been
successfully made at Hamburg, Ger
many, where an immense hotel, with it's
facade and other important parts COM
posed of that material has been erected.
1t is claimed that the building is abso-
lutely fre-proof and also impervious to
the action of the elements which render
brick, stone or wood unsightly or unsafe
under prolonged exposure.
Charles Lamb had horror of no.
toriety, and of being ''lectured" in pub
lie places. Impertinence or offensive
interference of any sort he could not
brook. An overbearing head of adepart-
ment in the East India House approached
him one day, when Lamb was busily en-
gagged, with the Paul Pry question,
| Pray Mr. Lamb, what are you about?"
Forty next birthday" he replied. 81
! don't like your answer" said the man,
Nor | your question:" was Lambs re-
ioinder.
The age of the high hat is under in
vestigation. A correspondent writing
to the Manner Journal says: among
| the marginal illustrations, by Albrecht
| Durer, of the famous prayer book of the
| Emperor Macmillan, there is man
wearing high hat. and in a book of
crests and escutcheous of JOSH Amman,
| published in 1885, high hat forms the
crest of a nobleman. Had these hats
not been worn at the period, great art
| lists like Durer and AmmaRa would
certainly not have painted such misera-
| bly, ugly things, which are the most un-
slightly pieces of furniture the world has
| ever seem"
Mrs. John G. Curtis, of New York, is
the founder of one of the most remarka-
| BILE orchestras in existence. 1t is COM
| posed of men and women, girls and
| boys, gathered from poor families. The
few who can afford it pay small fee.
| Theodore John, formerly conductor of
| the city orchestra of Freiburg has
trained the performers so thoroughly
that at the end of three years many Of
his pupils are able to take places as pro-
| fessional performers. Mrs Curtis draw
! ing room is their practicing hall, and,
at her desire, rhey play occasionally in
| public for charities.
1t is seldom that the trivial causes
which lead to the overthrow of thrones
receives so clear an illustration as tho
following statement by eX-King Thee
baw of Burmah: My late father, the
royal Mindoon Min, the goldea-footed
! lord of the white elephant, master of a
thousand gold umbrellas, owner of the
! royal peacocks, lord of the sea and of the
world. whose face was like the sun, al
ways smoked the Esoof cheroot while
meditating on his treatment of the bull
faced, earth-swallowipg English. Had
done the same l should never have left
my throne, but used the opium-drugged
! cheroot from Manila, and the trash So
lace was sent me from San Francisco,
and fell. Chicago Journal.
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