Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-10-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE greatest days run OF an ocean
steamship was 515 miles.
DENVER is now in direct telegraph
communication with Pixies Peak.
UNPuNoTuATED letters are reported to
be a growing fad in social intercourse
In South Carolina there are 102, 900
white voters and 1872, 900 colored voters.
THE enrolment of girl students in
| the Harvard Annex this year is over
500
LONDON photographers can not meet
| the demand for pictures of Buffalo
Bill"
ONE-THrRD of the deaths among the
| American Indians are due to consump-
| ton
AN irrigation canal in Utah and Ida
no will irrigate about 100, 600 acres of
land.
The Topeka lad who stole three BIZ
| cycles has been sentenced to the reform
school
| "A CREAM-CoLoRED cat squirrel" was
killed the other day in Sumter county,
Georgia.
ONE Harper county (Kan.) farmer
raised one thousand acres of broom corn
this year.
GIRLS sometimes have to marry poor
husbands to appreciate what good faith
ers they had.
A NEGRO who was arrested at Albany,
Ga, recently for COW stealing, gave six
different aliases.
| THERE are but 100 colored voters in
North Dakota. There are $4,000 in the
city of Baltimore.
The sword of Henry the pious duke
of Silesia, was six feet long and weigh
ed thirty pounds.
A NEW triple alliance of France Rus
sia and Turkey is said to be greatly IA
vored by the pope
| The czar has excused all his French
cooks and scullions from becoming
naturalized Russians.
THE armor of horse and rider in the
fourteenth century frequently weighed
as much as 400 pounds
"a TOWN with one street and n few
alleys" is the way the Chicago man
sizes up New York city.
IT is said that American women spend
annually on powder, lotions, creams,
extracts, etc, S6,00O,O00.
AN Oil City pa colored man lately
won a wager by devouring sixty
two-pound watermelon.
SEATS will be provided at the Worlds
fair dedicatory ceremonies for $500
newspaper correspondents
Mrs. GEO. w. MARVIN, of Cordell, Ca,
keeps her husbands dead body in the
parlor. He died in June last.
IT may be of interest to the young
people to know that fashions in dances
change about once in five years.
Very few Scotch peasantry low. wear
the kilt. Most of the peasants dress
after the manner of Englishmen.
THE bore-hole at Schladebach, near
Kethan, Germany, is 5,735 feet in depth
and is for geological research only.
LINN county (Mo.) man has sign
He evidently believes in still hunt.
A SECOND edition of the Siamese twins
were born at Aspen, COL, short time
ago. They were joined together face to
face.
The lasso is an invention of the South
American Indians, and was in use when
the country was discovered by Span.
iards.
In Bremen the textile factories are
working half time, as their trade has
been embarrassed by the cholera quar-
antine.
SIR LYON PLAYFAIR, just elevated
to the peerage, married in 1876 an
American lady, Miss Edith Russell, OF
Boston.
IVAN KAMITz died at Schenectady, N.
Y, of blood poisoning, caused by wear.
ing colored hose on foot which had
blistered.
THERE are four states, Wisconsin,
Nevada, Minnesota and California in
which majority of the voters are for.
eign born.
A CORNELL college girl has taken uI
veterinary surgery as her professional
study and means to make it her future
profession.
HAMILTON FISH is now the sole sur
vivor of those distinguished men who
held the governorship of New Yorl
prior to 1879.
AN apple grown near Portersville
Cal, is reported to weigh almost two
pounds and measures fifteen inches il
circumference.
VALUABLE discoveries of onyx have
been made at Bridgewater, Rocking
ham county, Va. 1t is abundant ant
of superior quality.
The women in Newton, Kan, are 81
slow in washing their supper dishe.
that the theaters in that town dom
begin till o'clock.
AN English experimenter, Mr.. E. 7
Chaplin, has given an account of hyp
nothing laying hen and inducing he
in that manner to sit on a sitting o
ggs until seven of them had hatche'
ut.
MILLIONS of butterflies passed owe
the city of Williamsport, Pa, few
days ago, headed toward the South
They flew high in the air, but man,
dropped to the ground exhausted.
The most recent theater lightning
produced by unique apparatus.
!, consists of one old file, one equally oil