Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

Ors udS ueeu pdUeuUeu III bouuChs
JAPAN has built it's first factory for
the manufacture of woolen goods.
MRS. POTTER PALMER gets more mail
matter than any woman in Chicago.
AT the next session of congress Al'iz-
ona will ask for admission as a state.
THE fastest mile by man on tricy.
Gle was made in . minutes 40 2-5 sec
onds
THE output of gold and silver in Aus.
tralia in 1890 amounted to about S26,.
OOO 600.
CHIEF BYRD has decided that no more
whites are wanted in the Chickasaw
Nation.
The fastest mile ever made by run.
seconds
WASHINGTON is the only city of any
size in this country that possesses no
factories
PHILLIP ID. ARMoUR's transactions last
year reached the enormous aggregate OF
S63 600, 900.
CANADA only lacks 237,0 square
miles to be as large as the whole conti-
nent of Europe.
IF Europe is at peace at the time, the
German emperor will visit America and
the Worlds fair.
IN Russia stoves are built into the
walls between the rooms, thus heating
two rooms at once.
A MASSACHUSETTS man went crazy
because he could not meet a note for
few hundred dollars.
SENATOR CAMERON is reported to be
worth $4,000 900, third of which is in
Washington real estate.
THE tie that binds Russia and France
together at this time is evidently not
that little German band
The fastest mile ever made by man
swimming was done in twenty-siS
minutes and fifty-two seconds.
BERLIN's suicide epidemic shows nc
signs of abatement No less than $50
persons died there by their own hand in
July.
THE widowed daughter of ex-Secre-
tary Bayard is to spend the summer in
Sweden, the home of her husbands rel
Rtives.
MONA CARDS Romance of the
Moors" is the first English novel to be
copyrighted in this country under the
new law.
THIS summer has had its full quota
of horrible railway accidents, and every
one of them has shown the existence of
negligence.
CHINA has just coined silver dollar
which will be accepted in trade in place
of the Mexican and Japanese coins
heretofore used.
A ,n%a hoe
offered to the Worlds fair by Farmer
Rogers, of Marengo, Ill, upon whose
land it recently dropped.
Miss DE BAR is the name of young
woman who has successfully passed the
examination and received license as a
steam engineer at Chicago.
Two plucky boys, with empty guns,
bluffed a pair of veteran burglars in
New York and kept them with 'hands
up" until the police arrived
TEXAS has a Fat Mans association,
the initiation fee of which is cent
pound. Men who weigh less than 225
are ineligible to membership.
Miss MABEL CAHILL, the champion
woman lawn-tennis player of America,
is of Irish parentage, her father being
country gentleman in Kilkenny.
THE greatest number of successive
victories in war in one day were those
in Mexico of Gen. Scott who had five,
and Gen. Taylor, who had three.
| A DECEASED Vienna car driver turns
out to have been the Baron Schenstein,
formerly millionaire and the last
member of a distinguished family.
A WONDERFUL case of longevity is re-
ported from Augusta, Me. 1t is that of
Mrs. Nancy Kennedy, who is alleged to
be 11S years old and still vigorous.
THE youngest member of the SD con-
gress will be Mr.. Bailey of Texas.
He has not yet turned his 3Oth year, but
has already acquired fame as an Or
ator.
DURING his last year in New York
Dr. VIM. A. Hammond is credited with
having made over S150,000, probably
the largest medical income ever earned
in America.
AMERICAN petroleum has been shut
out of the Peruvian market owing to
the discovery of oil fields in that coun-
try covering an extent of shout 1900
square miles.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers Fore,
have invented a new kind of harp,
made entirely of wood. Instead of
strings the inventors use strips of
American fir.
ONE wheat field in Colusa county,
Cal. covers 572 square miles. This
year it yielded an average of fifteen
bushels per acre or total of ,early 81
900, 900 bushels.
SOMEBODY has counted them up and
finds that there are 720 women lectur-
ers in this country This doesn't in
clude those who administer their lee
lures in private.
CAPT. LAwLER, who sailed from Bos-
ton, some time ago, in the dory Mer-
maid, has arrived in England He
claims shark tried to devour his boat
on the way over.