Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE waters of spring at Auburn,
CAL, are said to restore hair to bald
heads.
GEORGE ErFrEL is said to have made
$4,000, 600 as his share in the Eiffel
tower.
An American has made u large fortune
by introducing the American pie into
England.
A READING (Pa.) clergyman ha" Ssen
awarded % cents in his suit for $4,000
damages.
NOTWITHSTANDING the disordercd con-
dition of affairs, Paris is crowded with
Americans
DARK brown is the prevailing color
nationality.
The absence of tourists in Germany
is great source of complaint from the
hotellSeepers.
John McWinter, of Boltonvillc, Conn.,,
lived to be 105 years old, and then died
of heart disease.
RIDER HAGGARD thinks Egypt the
most interesting and the least explored
country in the world.
The Kansas City statutes present the
citizen the alternative of voting or pay
ing a poll tax of $3.50.
A COLT was born on farm at Irving,
N. j., with only one eye, and that in
the center of the forehead.
THERE are $50 women students in the
University of Michigan distributed
through all the departments.
IT is estimated that the German
Empire will lose 12O, 900 of it's popula-
tion by emigration during the current
year.
A FAMILY named Bates in Lawrence
county, ILL.,, claims to have the original
manuscript of Bunyan's Pilgrim Pro-
gress.
The duke of Westminster offers re-
ward of $4,000 for the discovery of the
culprit who poisoned the race horse
Orme.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent two thousand two hun
dred million dollars On her army and
navy.
The private railway train designed
by the emperor of Germany, for his own
use, is at last completed. 1t cost
$3.50, ,OOO
IT Is said the street preachers in Lon
don are merelya 'blind' to have crowds
collect to give pickpockets oppor-
tunities.
A SHARPsTowN, Pa. mother has
ordered her son to marry one of three
young ladies of the town whom she has
selected.
The California state board of health
is trying to start a movement for the
esta blishment of lazarette for the
care of lepers.
THE house of representatives passed a
bill appropriating s15O,0Oo to pay our
share of the expenses of the Behring sea
arbitration board.
In court in Mississippi an important
case was interrupted because one of the
jurors caught the mumps and gave it
to the other eleven.
THE earth, at the equator, moves at
the rate of a mile in 3.6 seconds, four
tenths of n second slower than the
velocity of cannon ball.
THE Office of college president seems
to go a-begging nowadays. Seventeen
y
with the head chair vacant
The legislative assembly of Styria, in
Austria, has passed law forbidding
poor people to marry without special
license from the authorities.
A Birmingham, Eng, judge decided
that an artist has a cause of action
against persons who ascribe his name
to pictures not of his painting.
CoLLIs p. HUNTINGTON has made a
gift of $4,000 to the Golden Gate park,
San Francisco, for an artificial water
fall. The fall will be seventy-fve feet.
BARON HIRscH's turn winning amount
ed to s35, ZOO last season, and he intends
to benefit his own race by devoting the
entire sum to hospitals and like institu-
tions.
The Chinese have kitchen god,
which is supposed to go to the Chinese
Heaven at the beginning of each year to
report upon the private life of the fami-
lies under his care.
A PARIS policeman begins service
with seventy-seven cents a day and
after twelve years he gets eighty-five
cents day. The police have asked for
81 day as the minimum.
SENATOR BLACKBURN is credited with
being the readiest of congressional
speakers. He carries at his tongues
end vocabulary which is remarkable
for its range and copiousness.
The farmers of Iowa and Texas are
greatly encouraged over the condition
of the crop prospect this season, and
from the present outlook great crop
of oats, wheat and corn will be Sc
cured.
JOSEPH MURPHY is put down as the
richest of actors. He is said to be worth
$3.50, ZOO most of which represents the
savings from his annual income, for he
is one of the most economical of stage
ar fists.
A LITTLE colored boy was struck by
the tail of an alligator while he was
wading in pond, in Jefferson county,
Fla, the other day, and had one leg
broken in two places. The stroke
threw him on shore