Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-12-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

HARRISBURG complains ABOUT nuul-
terated buckwheat.
ERNEST REMAINS name is to be given
to n street in Paris.
THE princess of Wales wears gloves
which are nearly three feet long.
The Maharajah, of Baroda, and his
whole court are strict teetotalers.
THERE is said to be a material increase
oysters
AN Indian girl student at Haskell,
Kan. institute is named Jenny One
Feather.
The new union station at st. Louis
will cover thirty-two trains and cost
$500, 900.
Mrs. RUSSELL, aged IA, has secured a
divorce from her husband, aged 80, at
Victoria, b. c.
FALSE teeth are now made from
paper and are said to- wear well and
last n lifetime.
A RAILROAD with gauge of but
twenty-four inches is now building in
North Carolina
AMONG the late inventions is n sewing
needle provided with bevel-shaped
eye for easy threading.
THERE are now 1000 loan associa-
tions in this country, with q member.
ship of 1000. 900 persons
THREE of the Dutch universities are
open to women, namely; Leyden,
Utrecht and Amsterdam.
THEY opened a new theater in Seat
tie, Wash, the other day, box No.
selling at auction for S.T5.
THREE fresh recruits In the garrison
at Strassburg committed suicide rather
than serve in the German army.
mo CAKE, no cards, nobody's busi-
ness" is the novel climax of marriage
announcement in Maine paper.
A WOMAN who is an active worker in
Brooklyn church has been regularly
appointed assistant to the pastor.
A PHILADELPHIA dentist gives every
patron pound of gum drops while
their false teeth are being repaired.
The British soldiers are now provided
with black silk handkerchicfs on which
army rules and regulations are printed.
PARKMAN, the historian, who has been
very i'll, is still confined to his bed, but
his recovery is not considered doubtful
A TRIAL of speed between English and
American locomotives will be an inter-
esting and novel feature of the Worlds
fair.
A MEXICAN street car can be hired
for personal use for $50 per day, with
a right to stop at any one place for two
hours.
A SCRANTON (Pa.) dentist is sued for
$4,000 damages by a woman, who
claims that he fractured one of her
front teeth.
Tom BEAN and Deaf Smith, of Texas,
were solid for Cleveland this year. One
is the name of an election precinct, the
other of a county.
A VERMONT lumber dealer advertises
that he has for sale $4,000 shingles
made by 1.-The only Christian shingle-
maker in the state"
The Brooklyn bridge is to have a
great pneumatic tube for the transmits
sion of mail and baggage between New
York and Brooklyn.
TwENTY-oNE stays were shot in 4
single day by three sportsmen, it is
claimed, in the deer forests of Inchvae
and Strathvaick, in Scotland.
THE newest thing out for the table is
dainty plates, the size of saucer, for
bread and butter. The individual but
ter plate having gone out of use.
Mrs. IRIS c. RYDER recovered verdict
at Memphis, against the Appeal-Ava-
lanche Co., for $500, for the publica-
tion of an alleged libelous article.
OWING to the large demand and the
scarcity of supply, the large cotton
mills at Atlanta, Ca, have advanced the
price of goods \ Of a cent per yard.
New YORK state has paid out sl92,
647. so for the expenses incidental to the
mobilization of troops at Buffalo during
the switchmen's strike last summer.
A. P. KIsER, farmer near Wenat-
chez, Wash, owns a turnip which he
claims weighs twenty-ore pounds and
measures four feet in circumference
A MARYLAND woman entertained
three guests some time ago, strangers
Sprinkle, Mrs Shower and Mrs. Storm.
JAMES McVElGH, of Waycross, Ga, is
eighty-seven years old. He has twenty
three children living. He claims that
he has never been sick day in his life.
The salaries of Queen Victoria's maids
of honor are eS0O per annum, and should
one of them be married it is customary
for the queen to make her present of
e1,00O.
Hon. WADE HAMPTON declares that
he is square with South Carolina on po-
litical account and that he would not
take another Office in the gift of her
voters.
The sum of s4,OlG,79O is wanted to
complete the Philadelphia city hall, on
which some ten millions have already
been spent. The tower alone is to cost
| $7O0, 900.
QUEEN VICTORIA has now IS living
descendants-6 children, SO grandchil-
dren and l3 great-grandchildren The
latest addition to the royal family is q
boy, recently born to Princess Louise
| of Hesse.
The state department has instructed