Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-12-19
CURRENT ToPIcs.

ONLY one couple in II, 500 live to ccle-
brate their diamond wedding.
The Worlds fair buildings will con-
tain twenty mine acres of glass.
ILLINOIS now pays a bounty of two
cents apiece for sparrows' heads
A BRANCH of the dead-letter office Is
to be established in San Francisco.
The Chinese government is whipping
her rebels and killing them as she does
it.
THE only speaker of the house who
ever became president was James X.
Polk. r
THE famous Winchester elm in Bos.
ton, recently cut down, was standing
full grown in 1850
QUEEN V1croRIA's granddaughters
outnumbcr her majesty's grandsons by
almost three to one
CooN-HUNTINe with Roman candles Ia
newly invented sport in the mount
aims of Pennsylvania.
THE undergraduates of Cambridge,
Eng, have taken to drinking tea after
dinner instead of wine.
LORD LYTToN was the sixteenth earl
W VIC tuiS ySdT. SCOUldut lOSt CWO,
Ireland four and England ten.
THE Chinese language is said to be
the best adapted to telephone CONVEX
sation, because it is monosyllabic.
THE price of platinum has advanced
fully 100 per cent, owing to its in
creased use for electrical purposes
IT is said that the new lord mayor
of London has laid down six hundred
dozen of wine in the mansion house cell
lars.
A French officer in Buisson has in.
vented hippometer which will regis.
ter the PAGES and ground covered by a
horse.
THE population of the Cherokee ma
ton. which has just sold 5000, 900 acres
of land to the government, is about
so, OOO
AN electric plow has been invented
in Minnesota. Horses are dispensed
with and the power supplied by stor-
age battery. ,-
KENNEBUNK, Me-, claims the young
est grandfather in the state in the per-
son of David Parent, who is only thir.
ty-six years old.
Gov. MERRIAM, of Minnesota, has
succeeded in refunding the debt of the
state at 3]1 per cent, saving SIT, 900 q
year in the interest charged.
CHICAGO has a frontage of twenty
two miles on Lake Michigan. and a
navigable frontage on the Chicago river
of about twenty-three miles.
The Cincinnati Southern has let a
contract for 12, 900 tons of 75-pound steel
rails to be laid on the fourth division,
from Oakdale to Chattanooga
JESSIE BENTON FREMONT is reported
as being engaged on an important piece
of literary work, which has engrossed
her attention for the last six months.
Hon. JAS. B. BAKER, of lizard, lately
introduced in the Arkansas legislature
bill "debarring women from filling
pos tions of trust and responsibility.
ACCORDING to recent statistics there
are 5.5O0,OOO women in Germany who
earn their own living, a greater number
than is to be found in any other nation.
THE new speaker of the national
Sheffield. Eng, on the goth of January,
1S45, and is, therefore, nearly A years
old.
The New Orleans Picayune reports
that the cotton crop this year has been
handled so well that 200, 900 more bales
have reached the port than at the cor
responding date of 1890.
AT the grand receptions of President
Carnot in Paris. the president does not
shake hands with the guests but bows
to them in a solemn way as their names
are announced as they pass by.
RIO DE JANEIRo is said to have the
finest harbor in the world. The en-
trance to it is lined by strong fortifica-
tions, and vessels can anchor imme-
diately at the quays of the city.
FLORENCE, the actor, was ar-sighted
and could never recognize any of his
friends in the seats of theater from
his place on the stage. He thought he
could play better for that reason. ia
SENATOR PROCTOR, late of the war
department, has long worn full beard.
except that he shaved his upper lip.
He is now growing a mustac,le, and it
is said to change his appearance greatly.
FIFTy-oNE young American sailors
completed the two years course of
study on the Saratoga the other day.
Her sister school ship at Philadelphia.
the St Mary's, will graduate about the
same number.
The Empress of Austria has ordered
that fifty thousand rose trees should be
planted around the statue of Heine, to
be erected on her property at Corfu, on
rock over two thousand feet above
the level of the sea-
The body of Gambetta is in Nice.
His brain is in the museum of the Paris
Anthropological society. His heart has
just been deposited beneath the monu-
ment erected to his memory at Vile
d'Avray, where he died
A NOVEL wager is to be decided in
Belfast, Me-, where one man has bet
$5 that no one can drive pig a uile
without the porker turning to see who
is driving, and another man has risked
hig dignity and IS to prove the con.
trarv