Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-12-05
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the united kingdom ports
THERE arc sixty miles OF snow she'd
on the Central Pacific railroad.
TIE output of matches in the United
States amounts to sl2, 900, 900 n year.
WHITE mules are in great demand
in the South, owing to their docility.
VERSAILLES, Mo-, claims a vein O.;
coal so feet thick, the thiclsest vein OF
earth
Two doctors and a livery-stable mar
were caught blowing open bank safe
in Gardner ILL.,
TROUBLE in Madagascar is feared OF
account of the natives resisting n claim
made by France.
The largest chicken ranch in the
world is on an island in Bellinghan
bay, Puget sound
1T is estimated that 5000 car loads o.
oranges will be shipped from California
during the coming season.
1T is generally believed that congress.
will make thorough investigation O.
the Maverick bank failure.
The mail line between Halifax ant
England has just been discontinued TO,
the first time in fifty years
Mrs. ROBERT LINCOLN, wife of the
United States minister to England, il
spend ng the winter at Tours
TWO hundred and twenty women nre
now in the Harvard annex, but theJ
don't count in football statistics.
IHE sufferers by the great Bostor
nre, nineteen years ago, who still sur
e.
year.
BY rabbinical law the Jew is allowed
to drink to intoxication on two day.
OF the year-Purim and Simchatt
Torah.
IT is stated that the crops of thi.
year will enable the farmers of the
west to pay off 5000, ZOO, 600 of mort
cages.
DURING last year $50 men were killed
outright and 7,s4l MANNED and manglee
while coupling cars on the railways o.
this country.
POLISH inventor claims to have dis
covered n process of manufacturing
smokeless and odorless coal at a cost OF
a dollar ton
POST OFFICES were first established in
France in 1864. The frs. English post
office was opened in 1881, the first Ger.
man office in 1871.
A CONNECTICUT man has invented
machine which automatically feeds his
chickens at night and morning. 1t i.
run by clockwork.
The fame of some men is preserved
by their cast-off clothes. An old ha,
of Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold
in Australia for S25.
Mrs. THOMAS NELSON, of Astoria
Ore, drowned herself few DAYS age
because her husband refused to allow
her to hold the baby.
MUCH of the barley arriving at Chica
go is going on sales previously made
and the stocks there are less than hall
that of last year at this time.
The arm of n compositor who works
eight hours at the case setting type
travels distance of from six to seven
miles, according to statistician.
MARcELLA AYALA, a Chilian, is one
OF the Oldest sinners on record. He Is
over 100 years old and is convict No
14,477 in the California state prison.
LAST year there was spent in this
country for tea the sum of $50. 600, OOO
for coffee, Sls2, 500, OCO, and for malt
and spirituous beverages, $50, 600, 600.
THERE is new element, a minera!
discovery in the Boleo mines 1t is com
posed of cubic crystals of fine blue
color, and has been christened ''boIe
ite."
THE wooden shoe-peg was invented
in 1915 by John Walker, of Massachu.
setts Millions of walkers have since
then pegged along enjoying his inven.
ton.
The first iron bridge, built in ITS,
still spans little river between Wor
cester and Shrewsbury, England. II
is about 96 feet long and weighs 37s
tons.
THE fashionable point for graspine
sticks and umbrellas in London is
about six inches from she ferrule. tho
handles being allowed to dangle down.
" ard.
AN equestrian statue ct Gen. William
Henry Harrison has been designed by
Re bisso, of Cincinnati. for that city. II
will be cast in bronze at Chicopee,
Mass.
The Tower bridge over the Thames,
built on the Bascule principle, has
caused the underwriters of Lloyds to
refuse to insure vessels that have to
pass beneath it.
WIN. SAvEENY, of Catasauqua, Pa,
aged 103 years, believes that he is the
oldest tobacco chewer on earth, having
used the weed without a lays break
for over ninety years
AT the newly discovered metallifer-
Gus mines in Texas, the miners struck
blanket lead" of silver ore almost at
the surface of the mountain into which
they had leen tunneling.
CHINA has been warned that at the
end OF the appointed time the com bined
powers will seize her customs receipts
and hold them till satisfaction for tn,
mission riots has been given.
The amount of wheat which the
United States will be called uron to
send to help out the European demand