Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-29
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and 1, 100 different rooms.
LABRADOR has a waterfall with q
sheer descent of 1000 feet
THERE are 10000 colored men occu-
pying Christian pulpits in the United
States.
PRINCE BISMARCK pockets 81, 900 a
week as profits of his little poultry
business.
The European sugar beet crop has
been set back seriously by the wet and
cold weather.
AN alloy of rs per cent OF gold and
% per cent. of aluminium is the most
brilliant known.
Gov. FRANCIS, of Missouri, is mill
ionaire. He has made all his money in
the last ten years.
A New YORK man has attended a
swimming bath regularly every day for
twenty eight years.
PATTI is little short of cash and she
is going to make another farewell tour
in the United States
THERE are more than hundred news.
papers in the United States owned and
edited by colored men.
THERE is possibility that the crown
prince of Sweden, too, may visit the
Worlds fair at Chicago
A KANSAS CITY policeman's star stop
ped bullet that otherwise would GER
tainly have entered his heart.
ACCORDING to expert figures the
permanent, tramp population of the
United States numbers 10000.
A COW with seven legs is owned in
Athens, Ga. The extra limbs grow
from the top of her shoulders.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR shows signs
of coming badness which will reach
down to his rear collar button.
HAY fever time is terribly trying on
the man who wears eyeglasses; he is
perpetually sneezing them off.
AN army of locusts that took five days
in passing and was ten miles wide re-
Gently swept over the Punjab in India.
THE king of Sweden is great swim
mer and wears gants de Suede in
swimming to keep his hands from tan
ming.
THE objection is raised against the
reoccupation of Palestine by the Jews
that Russia is going to capture Pales-
tine"
GEN. DIX is to have monument for
saying, "If any man attempts to haul
down the American flag shoot him on
the spot"
Mrs. JAMES X. POLK survived her
husband, President James Knox Polk,
nearly half century, he having died
June Is, 1S49.
KING HUMBERT is cook of no mean
order, and can boil a potato or broil a
steak in a way that would make dys-
peptic feel hungry.
OYSTER shells fourteen inches in di-
ameter and others twenty two inches
in length have been found in the desert
west of Yuma, Cal.
FULLY 100000 has been spent on the
empress of Austria's new palace at
Corfu. The wood-carving alone in one
suite of rooms cost SIS, 900.
FIVE marriages in ten minutes is
Judge McCarthy's record in New York.
Such speed is hardly in proportion to
the gravity of the ceremony.
A GRANDSON of Eugene Aram is a
lawyer in Alameda, Cal. He probably
devotes himself to murder cases, if
there is anything in heredity.
WITH population less than one
fifteenth as large as that of the United
States, the Argentine Republic has a
debt nearly half as large as ours.
OFFICER RoLLINGs, of Philadelphia,
is said to be the largest policeman in
the United States He is six feet eight
inches in height and weighs $40 pounds.
YOU'VE King Alexander, of Servia, is
in love with the Cars daughter Xenia.
None of the Austrian princesses seem
to be able to efface her beauty from his
mind.
A LADY bookmaker'' has appeared
in England. She is not novelist but
a frequenter of race tracks, where she
caters to the fashionable betting ele-
ment.
PEACHES are SO cheap that the east
ern shore growers can not afford to
send the white ones to market and are
drying some and distilling others into
brandy.
The great "whaleback" steamer
Charles w. Wetmore has crossed the
ocean safely. A possible revolution in
ocean carrying is suggested by this
successful experiment.
ACCORDING to the census bulletin on
the social statistics of cities, it costs
only cents per capita of the popula-
tion to clean the streets of Chicago,
while it costs II cents to clean those of
New York.
WHEN few more foolish persons
shall have been killed by falling out of
balloons it will probably dawn upon
the mind of the professional aeronaut
that the law of gravitation has not
been repealed
A BULLETIN issued by the census
bureau shows that Chicago has prac-
tically twice as many miles of streets
as any other city in the United States.
Chicago has 2,04S miles, while New
York has only 575.
The Cars daughter, the Grand
Duchess Xenia, will not come to her
husband, the Grand Duke Alexander
Michaelovitch, empty handed. When