Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

strength of ordinary silk and about the
samo elasticity.
One of the Berlin hotels was lately
robbed by two persons in the garb of
nuns. They were subsequently appre-
hended and one of tho "women' was
discovered to be man.
"A bread-buttering machine for use
in penal institutions, operating a brush
fed with soft butter, is patent lately
issued. 1t is said to save butter and
crumbs.
"A Charlestown lady became quite
sick the other day and vomited small
live fish. She does not know when 1t
passed down her throat, but supposes it
did so with drink of water.
Mr.. Wick, of Chelsea, England, is
the father of a peculiar infant prodigy.
His daughter Nelly, four years of age,
recently shaved five men inside of thirty
minutes for silver medal.
What sort of restaurant is this,
waiter?" he asked the first of that ex-
elusive set that deigned to approach.
well, sir, know one man that's been
coming here steady for a month and he's
living yet. ."-Philadelphia Tiroes.
-"Tell your master that he has made
mistake of twenty marks in the ac-
count he sent me-" "Impossible!"
"Why impossible? 1t is human to make
mistakes" "Yes, l know that, but my
master is not human. ~ Fliegende Blat-
ter.
South Attlua. Mich, farmers planted
mustard seed. 'shey did not expec. pine
apples or orar8es, but they were wild
when the plant came up and proved to
be western mustard, which is about ten
times as hard to eradicate as the Canada
thistle.
"A valuable find has been made by a
farmer at East Cape Girardeau, Mo. A
hill on his premises is declared by an
expert from st. Louis to be composed
chiefly of the finest porcelain clay. 1t
is estimated that there are at least 1000
car loads, worth S125 per load.
-Distanced.-"Yes SIR" began the
distinguished looking stranger, "I have
delivered that same lecture 200 consecu-
tive nights, sir!" That's nothing!' de-
clared Peckson. MY wife often de-
livers 200 same lectures in one consecu-
tive night!"-American Grocer.
"A five-year-old child in West Camel
is of the following dimensions: Height,
feet; weight, III pounds; circumfer-
ence of abdomen, 4215 inches; waist,
3715 inches; chest, 81 inches; neck, IA
inches; head, 2216 inches; thigh, 80
inches; calf, 1515 inches; arm, 1115
inches; forearm, 1O15 inches. He is
very healthy, eats all he can get and is
fairly intelligent. The parents are by
no means corpulent, and their other
children are of ordinary size.
Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, claims
to have devised an apparatus by the
adoption of which the smoke nuisance
will cease to exist. The process re-
moves from the products of combustion
all the black carbonaceous matter of
coal smoke, and a remarkable and i'm
portant thing is the entire absence of
sulphur in any form after the dense
volumes of smoke generally seen issuing
from chimney shafts have been forced
into the "annihilator."
AT the palace of Bangkok per-
forming leopard was brought in for the
amusement of one of the Siamese
princes. In one of the princes retinue
was young girl of about fourteen years
of age. The leopard jumped on her
breast. 1t was merely in play said the
animals caretakers, who begged her not
to be frightened, butin another moment
the leopard had seized the girl by the
throat, and she died in sight of the hor-
ritied spectators.
Boarding house inmates soon learn
to appreciate tender meat, and will
eagerly seek the place whore it is fre-
quently served. A Chicago man hit
upon an ingenious plan to secure a
clearinghouse where eating would be-
come pleasure instead of tiresome,
teeth-grinding exercise. He asked a
butcher to direct him to the house where
he sold the best meat The butcher
cheerfully did so, and the man was soon
thereafter installed in q boarding
house where the delicacies of the table
are good and plentiful.
1t is claimed that the rain which
falls in the interior of Queensland does
not all run to waste but is stored be.
meath the surface and that the supply,
II it can be utilized, is enough to last
through periodical drought. The local
government proposes to devote a large
sum to prospecting for water by artesian
wells. The artesian we'll at Barcaldine,
700 feet deep, cost s6,OOOand yields 49,,
900 gallons of water daily. Another at
Blackall, 1868 feet deep with six-inch
casing, cost $4,000 and yields 800, 900
gallons daily.
For year draughtsman named
Hazen, aged forty-two, with his wife
and six children, had lived in Paris in
great difficulty. Finally they resolved
to commit suicide and take the children
with them. They sent the latter out to
buy charcoal, and with the windows
closed Hazen lighted the stove and the
whole family lay down on the floor to
die, the mother clasping tho youngest
child in her arms. They were found
two days afterward all dead but the
mother. Upon her recovery she said
that when asphyxiation began the eld-
est daughter began to cry, but lest she
should excite the neighbors her father
threw himself over her face, and they
were found in that position.