Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

PHILADELPHIA is the greatest carpet
manufacturing center in the world.
PNEUMATIC tubes for mail will prob
ably be in operation at the Worlds fair.
The emperor of China has ten men
whose sole duty is to carry his um-
brella.
THE most expert woman conductor OF
music in the world is Miss Clara Novello
Davies.
THE palace at Versailles, France,
which Louis XIV. built, cost $780,
10000
ONE-HALF of the paper used in the
United States is manufactured at Hol-
yoke, Mass.
SECRETARY RUsK proposes to have q
plantation of rubber trees in the ever
glades of Florida.
THE fastest ship afloat is the City Of
PelSin owned by the Pacific Mail Co.
She cost 81 100000.
On an average there are 1o6 boys born
to every 100 girls, but more boys die in.
infancy than girls.
IT is estimated that about $4,000
horses were ousted from street car serv-
ice last year by electricity.
JAY GoULD's unmarried daughter
Helen, has now three lovers who are in-
mates of the insane asylum.
FRENCH reporters now take notes at
night by the light of a tiny incandescent
lamp attached to the pencil.
RECENT data places the population OF
the globe at 1,4s0,00 900 souls; the land
area at SO, ,S21 900 square miles.
In 1885 a tame elephant could be
bought in India for $685. now their
prices range from $3.50 to $4,000.
THE sole personal effects of man
who died in Auburn, Me-, recently,
were Bible and pack of cards.
AN English doctor has traced the in-
fluenza in many cases to infected post
age stamps on letters from diseased per1
sons.
A FAMILY now living at Helena,
Mont, possesses bones so brittle that
they are broken by the most trivial accis
dents.
NINE young men are about to walk
from Americus, Ga, to Chicago, Ill, a
distance of 1000 miles by road, on
wager
THERE is brisk trade in secondhand
tombstones in London. Still stranger Isl
the custom of selling family vaults part,
ly filed.
DELIVERY wagons, the motive power
of which is electricity, are the newest
vehicles in London. A green-grocer had
the first
ALUMINIUM water bottles in the Ger
man army have failed on account of cor
rosion. They would stand water, but
not brandy
AFTER a search of thirty-nine years q
, son found his father in the Allegheny
mountains, in New York, living the life
: of a hermit.
: The anti-slavery societies of Europe
are to make an exhibition at the Chi
cago fair of all the instruments used by
slave captors
: A STREET letter box, charged with
electricity from crossed wires, gave a
; severe shock to a Pittsburgh letter car
rier recently.
THE latest discovery in dentistry is
: that new teeth may be grated on old
roots and made to grow as finely as the
natural teeth.
The Italians invented the term infln-
> enza in the seventeeth century, and at
tributed the disease to the influence of
certain planets.
, S. r. PARK, of Mexico, Mo-, has what
is said to be the bill of sale of ELIZA" :"
: one of the principal characters in
"Uncle TOMS Cabin"
, SENATOR VOORHEES,, of Indiana, will
y deliver the grafton at the formal OPEN
ing of the new steel bridge over tho
Mississippi at Memphis, May IL.
EX-SPEAKER REED has one of tho
largest mails that come to the capitol
Every morning an enormous batch Of
letters and papers covers bis desk.
q A New YORK scholar in tailoring has
a enriched the English language with the
4 word pantorium, which signifies a place
v where ''pants' are pressed for hire.
Il TIE conductors on two lines of street
e railway in New York have been notified
8 that they must wear white Shirts linen
r collars and white ties while on duty.
S The majority of the white hackmen
d of Washington, d. c., says the Post OF
n that city, refuse to carry negro, but
n all make Fred Douglass an exception.
d A LARGE cave was recently discov
II cred in Montana which contained the
e bones of hundreds of animals that ha6
n fallen into it and were unable to es
y cape.
y THE Rothschild family, of Europe
says Herr Flurscheim, the German econ
omist, is estimated to be worth 81 900,
100000, and their income to be $50,
h 100000.
" THERE is Whirlpool in the Sante FL
river, three miles northwest of Higf
s. Springs, Fla, into which 1000 feet o
l. line has been lowered without finding
ID bottom.
n In about eight out of ten cases of di
D vorce in the United States it is, from
y statistics of the past twenty years
l, found to be the wife who asks for tn
a. separation.
70 AT the school election at Evanston
10 ILL.,, recently, Mrs. Mary Willard, tn
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