Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

De the only nSn tnat never steep.
KANGAROO farming is to become an
established institution in Australia.
OVER 200 wine growers from the
Rhine region will exhibit at the Worlds
fair.
HARRISON, Reid, Cleveland and Ste
venson are members of the Presbyteria
church.
A GILT engagement slate on tripod
is now conspicuous thing in the
boudoir.
In Danish cities it is against the law
to ride on bicycles faster than the speed
of a cab.
THE fiavoring used under the name
of vanilla is obtained from the fruit of
an orchid
oLD-FAsH1oNED white beaver high
hats of many years ago are back again
this season.
THE leaf of the banana is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers are pink.
The Salvationists are about to go in
for an extended line of operations in
this country.
A TUNNEL, to cost S1,Oo0,000, was
started at Leadville, Col, to drain the
mining camps.
RUSSIANS are colonizing the arid
counties of Rush, Lane and Ness in
Western Kansas
THE emperor of Germany has over
1000 different suits of clothes and 500
pairs of trousers.
HENRY IRVING has had the degree of
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versity of Dublin.
A TOPEKA woman thanked her friends
through the newspapers for helping her
to obtain divorce.
The drive well, one of the simplest
inventions, has yielded its inventor
$1,000, 900 in royalties.
BETWEEN Paris and Berlin mail mat
ter is now transmitted in So minutes by
the pneumatic process.
THE railway dining cars in this coun-
try earn more than the sleeping and
baggage cars together.
THE first Italian Methodist Episcopal
church in the United States was recent
iy dedicated at New Orleans.
Headache almost always yield to the
simultaneous application of hot water
to the feet and back of the head.
GEN ErPA HUNToN, Virginia's new
senator, rose in four years from the
confederate ranks to major-general-
ship.
FOURTEEN logs, each sixteen feet
long, We're cut from one sugar pine
tree felled last winter in the Sierra
mountains.
WM. FELHAGE, of Hartford, attempted
to open bottle of ginger ale, when the
cork flew out and destroyed the sight of
his right eye.
There are over 1000 tons of silver
bars, 55,OOO,O00 silver dollars and $780,
100000 in gold coin stored in the Phila-
delphia mint.
GALMEo's first telescope was made
out of a common lead pipe, into the
ends of which We're glued ordinary
spectacle glasses.
AN Atchison county (Kan.) man has
a rose hedge $50 feet long. 1t is mass
of bloom and sends forth cloud of
sweetest fragrance.
THE regulation afternoon costume
for the New York swell is frock coat,
gray trousers, white overgaiters and
high black silk hat.
MEXICAN bricklayers, it is said, can
only lay 500 bricks a day of eleven
hours, while an American can lay $500
in day of nine hours.
A RowDY who disturbed the Salvation
army while they were trying to save his
wretched soul, in Nevada, Mo-. has been
sent to Jail for sixty days.
PAsco county, Fla, boasts of having
the oldest soldier in the United States.
His name is Jonathan Pratt, and he is
claimed to be 103 years old.
EXAMINE your $50 greenbacks care
fully. Some misguided genius with
photographers camera and crow quill
is turning out coun terfeits.
THE famous Treadwell mine in Alaska,
which has yielded more than s3,O0O,-
900 in gold bullion, was purchased by
the man for whom it was named for
$780,
Miss CATHERINE ANNE HoPPIN, of
Oberlin, o., was the one woman in the
graduating class of twenty at the late
commencement of the Oberlin Iheolog-
ical seminary.
Cairo, Egypt, is the manufacture of
paint from mummies. The mummies
are ground to powder and this powder
is mixed with oil.
A SERMON which had been preached
in the Presbyterian church at Yelling
ton, Kan, the Sunday before the cy-
clone was picked up the day after the
storm on farm five miles from Vel
lington. r"' 'dH
A committee of the Manchester IN.
H. Central church is going TO set aside
one of its horse sheds for the use of
bicycles. Quite a number of the con-
gregation ride to and from the church
on cycles on Sundays as well as during
the week.
i. p. BROWN, the unique evangelist
and eX-newspaper man, who edits the
religious paper called the Rams Horn,
of indianapolis, Ind, seems to have an
inexhaustible fund of epigram to draw
from He Is more widely uuOtad than