Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-03
CURRENT TOPICS.


BERLIN is the only city in Germany
that has an excess of 1000, 600 popula.
ton.
RAUM reports 929, 426 pending claims,
half for pension and half for more pen
sion.
ENGLAND is said to be looking with
covetous eyes upon the Sandwich Isl.
ands.
LAURA ALBERT of Ironton, Mo-, has
just been married to a full blooded In
dian.
THE Oregon hop crop will be short
about TO- 600 bales. The hop louise is to
blame.
OUR copper output this year fell short
of the usual amount by more than 100-
600 tons
THE fruit output of California in.
creased fully thirty fold during the past
ten years.
A GIANT hog is being exhibited in
Grand Rapids, that is said to weigh
1,50s pounds
LADY TENNYsoN is collector of old
pipes, but they We're all smoked by her
husband, the poet.
A FIELD of wheat near Huron, S. D.,
yielded tifty-three bushels and twenty
pounds to the acre.
THE greatest long distance bicycle
riding record is 745 miles in tifty-four
and one-half hours
ANTIMoNY is found extensively in
Portugal, the largest beds being stu.
ated near Braganza.
c. III. BULLOCK, of Northfield, Mimi,
has obtained 1, 100 bushels of potatoes
from one acre of land.
IN Bali, an island in the Indian
Archipelago east of Java, the burning
of widows still goes on.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL blunder in a west
ern paper recently referred to the Saise
as the German Kisser''
Mr.. c. c. WooD has contributed
S125, 900 to the Young Woman's Chris
tian Association of Brooklyn.
Mrs. WIN. c. WHITNEY diamonds are
valued at S1OO, 0GO, and one of her soli-
taires is as large as hazelnut
AN albino catfish nine inches long
and weighing over a pound has been
on exhibition at Lancaster, Pa.
AN electric flying machine was re.
Gently made to rise to height of sew.
enty feet and fly about 400 yards.
THE near future promises to witness
an unprecedented amount of railroad
building into the heart of Africa.
DWARF trees in Japan only two feet
high are exact reproductions in minia-
ture of sycamore, oak, cedar and apple
trees.
A LADIES' regatta at Stockholm the
other day comprised nine boats, all
rowed by young women in pretty
dresses.
BY the use of the camera, with pow
erful telescopes, a new and very large
crater has been shown upon the moon S
surface.
THERE are still fourteen different
places on the globe where cannibalism
is practiced, but the custom is grad
ually dying out
THE new insect which has attacked
| the beets grown for the sugar industry
has seriously affected that industry on
| the Pacific coast.
MILWAUKEE maintains as a part of it's
public school system a cooiing-sc school
at an expense of 81, 400 a year. Miss
Torrey is its head.
w. A. KEITH, of Buchanan, Ga, has
| found hard flint stone in the heart OF
a solid pine tree. How the stone got
there is a mystery.
THE value of the farm products OF
the United States this year is several
hundred millions Of dollars more than
was ever before reached.
''OLD HUTcH," the eccentric wheat
plunger, has brought his bed to New
York from Chicago 1t is sofa about
six feet long, upholstered with carpet
ing.
ISAAC Copy, the father of Buffalo
Bill was the first man to shed his
blood in Kansas for the cause of hu
man liberty in the troublous days Of
| 1854.
IT is said that there are five citizens
of Kawanda Falls, Pa, each bearing
the same name, John A. Libson. They
re not related in the remostest way, al
far as they know.
LILIUOKALANI, the name of the Ha
waiian queen, who is said to be grow
ing unpopular, means lily of the sky
and is pronounced as though writer
Lil-lie-woke a-lanny.
A UNIQUE necktie was worn by re
cent visitor to Macon, Ga. 1t was made O
rattlesnake's skin, the rattles serving
as a pin. The wearer killed the reptil,
nine years ago in Florida.
FOXES coons, rabbits and wood
chucks, breeding on abandoned farms
have become so numerous in the town
within radius of ten miles of Birming
ham, Ct, that they are eating up al
the farmers profits.
THE French law makes husband re
sponsible for the support of his wife
parents. For information concernin,
the enforcement of the law inquire o
the parents of any Yankee girl who ha
recently become French countess.
PARIS, with a population of nearl
25O0,o00 souls, has less than 100 Ne
gros within its limits. Statisticans sa
that the whole of France can not music