Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-04
CURRENT TaoICS.

eglc railway along the PruSSian front
ier
PATENT has been issued to a woman
for an improved fastening for shirt but
tons.
PROF. SwIFT's new nine tailed come
travels at the rate of fifty miles
second
JAPAN has no fewer than 700 earth
quake observing stations scattered owe
the empire
The town of Roanoke, Va, has grow1
in ten years from a population of 600 t.
one of $4,000.
New YORK couple were recently
married in the head of Bartholdi's god
dess of liberty.
NEW herring bank 100 miles long
has been discovered off the west coast
| of Newfoundland.
The French war office has provided
for the enrolment of between G, 600 and
1000 bicycles in war.
The guests at party recently given
in San Francisco came arrayed in gar
ments made of paper
Two little islands, Zanzibar and
Pemba, furnish four-fifths of the cloves
consumed by the world.
MASSACHUSETTS has more cities with
population of $4,000 or over than any
other state in the union.
PHILADELPHIA has the biggest reel
truck. 1t weighs 16, 600 pounds, and can
carry or bear 10000 pounds.
AUDIENCES in Russian theaters are
forbidden by law to manifest their dis
pleasure at actors by kissing.
DANIEL BAUGLE, ST., resident of
Jeffersonville, Ind, claims to he 1O3
years old. He is in good health.
PRESIDENT ADAMS, who has Just re-
tired from Cornell university, has been
voted years salary by the trustees.
Mrs. KIMBALL, of San Francisco,
wants divorce because her husband
toted coal upstairs "for another wom-
an"
ABRAHAM is in the Missouri legis-
lature from Cass county, and Noah
edits paper at Spickardsville in that
state.
The Cottonwood river at Emporia,
Kan, varies in width during the course
of the year from three feet to seven
miles.
The senate has received 1,476 petit
tions, signed by s25, ,92O persons, in favor
OF having the Worlds fair closed on
Sunday.
A FAMILY now living at Helena,
Mont, possesses bones SO brittle that
they are broken by the most trivial
accident.
THE Horse Accident Prevention So
ciety in London reports that thousand
horses fall upon asphalt to five hundred
on wood.
SIX pairs of white swans from the
Thames river have arrived in Philadel-
phia for distribution in public and pri-
vate parks.
IF well could be dug to the depth of
forty-six miles, the density of the air at
the bottom would be as great as that of
quicksilver.
THERE is a brisk trade in secondhand
tombstones in London. Still stranger
is the custom of selling family vaults
partly filed.
A CHICAGO furniture house has intro
duced pneumatic tube system for car
rying cash. The work is done with
rapidity.
A CHICAGoAN will construct three
lookout towers in different parts of the
city for Worlds fair sight-seers. Each
will be $50 feet high.
Mrs. PIKE, of Dunsland, Ireland, has
become more or less celebrated by
thirty-fve pound salmon
with siX-ounce trout rod
The estimate of the United States en-
gineers for improving the Mississippi
is 10000, 900 for levees and $40, 200, 900
for improving the river bed.
ONE of the natural curiosities of Asia
S the Great Salt desert of Persia. 1t is
many miles in extent and is a solid in
of salt several feet thick.
WHILE burglar was robbing a sta
Ion at Pottsville, Pa, he overturned a
amp. The oil ran down his back fur
lishing clew to his quick identity.
AN old soldier of Wichita recently re-
'eived fron the government three cents
which had been due him without his
inowledge for more than thirty years.
A DRESS album is the latest Tiny
cuttings of every gown are placed in it,
arranged. To wom-
ms eye this would be as good as a |
biography.
The Presbyterian General Assembly |
has accepted the offer of John R. Wild. |
ilemas and others for the endowment |
II Presbyterian college to be called |
Westminster"
A TREE was cut in Puget Sound for
,st the other day from which seven cuts
we're taken without knot, their COM
'ined length being 179 feet. The tree
'caled As, 900 feet.
THERE are two yew trees in the de-
'artment of the Eure, in France, which
ire supposed to be 1900 years old.
They measure about thirty and twen-
y-six feet in circumference respect
vely.
The Jerusalem G. Jaffa railroad will
lot enter the former city, but will have
is terminus about three-quarters of a
nile outside the city limits. 1t is ex-
'ected that town will grow up around |
an