Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-09-26

MIA.
The emperor of Germany has had the
crown made SO as to exactly fit his own
head.
The British war Office has given 30,-
900 worn-out helmets to the Salvation
Army.
GEORGE VANDERBILT will have
$50, 900 tennis court in his palace at
AsSeville.
Mrs. MACKAY is the possessor of a
string of tiawless diamonds two yards
in length.
The United States mint in San Fran
cisco is the largest one of it's kind in
the world.
HIS Bible shows that Jonas Carpen-
ter, of Denver, is one hundred and fifty
years old.
THE damage to the cereal crops in
Canada by insects has been estimated
at S3S, 900, 600.
IN this country 100000 persons are
engaged in farming-44 per cent. of our
wage earners
NEARLY four-ffths of the sugar plan
tations of Hawaii are owned by Amer
icans it is said.
HENRY B. HYDE, president of New
York insurance company, gets salary
of 100000 year.
EIGHT thousand Jewish residents of
Odessa, nearly all engaged in business,
are under notice of expulsion.
on fields greater in extent than any
others in the world have been discover
ed in the region of the Caspian sea.
M. CHAUcHARD, the wealthy Partisan
who owns Millets famous picture, the
"Angelus," has insured it for S14O, 600.
Mrs. CORNWALL. of Bridgeton, l.. l.,
had dream and warned her husband
not to go to work. He was killed the
same day.
ATLANTA has musical prodigy, a
girl nine years old, who is said to play
the most difficult pieces on the piano
after single hearing.
CHAs. GRAUMANN wants a divorce
from Ida Grammar because she drags
him around by his whiskers. Why
don't Charles get shaved?
AN enthusiastic person says that
swords can not portray" the mag
nificence of George Vanderbilts coun-
try castle in North Carolina.
AT the close of the civil war there
We're 700 steam vessels entered on the
naval register of the United States, but
to-day only 81 of them survive.
THE two new Cunard ships, to be 600
feet long and faster than anything
afloat, are guaranteed by the builders
to be ready for sea early in the spring
of 1898.
IT is said that the largest locomotive
ever built in Europe was recently sent
out of the Hirschou works, in Munich.
1t is fortysix feet over all and weighs
eighty-four TONS
APPLE-TREE contests figure among
the latest fads in Kansas. Every body
has shake at the tree, and the man
that brings down the most apples car
ries off the prize.
A LONDON journal relates that the
Persian shah has been in retiracy late
ly because by mistake he used rheu-
matte lotion instead of hair dressing,
and turned his hair a beautiful myrtle
color.
THE first large quantity of American
sponges ever sent to European markets
were recently shipped from Philadel-
| phia. The lot comprised 5000 pounds
each of two kinds of sponges from the
Florida coast
Two STONE slabs, one of them bear
ing the inscription, "June l, 1716," and
the other the date 1716, were found
near LaHarpe, Ill, recently. They are
supposed to mark the resting place of
LaSalle's explorers
uaare ,,ro , e%,,lo,+ =, d..
lin was mobbed in the streets for ap-
pearing on a bicycle Now the German
Union of Bicyclists, which has just held
its eighth annual conference at Breslau,
has IA, 600 members.
THERE is deeply rooted superstition
IN Scotland that May marriages are un-
lucky and are bound to turn out badly.
| Last April there were 2, O55 marriages in
| Scotland, in May there were but 1908
while in June the number jumped to
4,14S
MISS MARION FOSTER, niece of the
secretary known as the 'little invalid
artist" is putting into her historical
picture for the Worlds fair, subjects
from every state of the Union.
| A DIsINFEcTANT which combines
cheapness with general worth is found
In permanganate of potash. One ounce
will make bucketfui of disinfectant
1t is crystal and can be kept in this
state until ready for use.
The tobacco crop of Pennsylvania is
valued this year at $sOO,OnO. Two
thirds of it is Havana seed leaf; and
when it masquerades as Havana cigars,
the dear public will be invited to con-
tribute many times $500, 600
SOME Russian emigrants on arriv-
ing in New York were dubbed by the
police and cast into dungeon cells. The
New York officials seem determined to
preserve the Russians against home
sickness by keeping up the customs OF
their dear native land.