Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-18

IN New South Wales yields reddish hDerS
thirteen inches long, silky and flexible.
CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT FOSTER, of
the of city OF London police, has sent in
his resignation after forty years SER
vice.
LESS than q score of members attend
ed session of parliament the other day.
A horse race at Epson Downs accounted
for it.
AN Illinois insurance company has
paid this season sixteen losses caused
by lightning in one neighborhood. All
horses.
The sale of the llaisers photographs
taken when he wore beard has been
forbidden, and all the negatives ordered
destroyed.
A son of the late President Chester A.
Arthur is conspicuous among the coach
ing set'' and opera habitues in Paris
this season.
CORRESPONDENTS say that every sue
cessive year sees increased appreciation
of and prices for the works of American
artists in Paris.
TOURIST agents in London have con-
tracted to bring large parties to this
country next summer to visit the Chica-
go Worlds fair.
ASA FIsHERFARMER and wife, of Mo-
berly, Mo-, have baby which by great
care was made to weigh one pound four
days after birth.
The descendants of Davy Crockett will
celebrate the 106th anniversary of that
deceased hero's birth on August II at
Ruthford, Tenn.
WILSON HOWARD, who is said to have
killed twenty-three people, is on trial
at Lebanon Mo-, for one of his most
wicked murders.
LIGHTNING flashed into an Eastern
Pennsylvania coal mine the other day
and shocked man who was 1000 feet
below the surface.
AT Paterson, n j., the other night,
an electric car was the means employed
| in capturing thief who had stolen a
horse and carriage.
The trustees of Shakespeare relics at
Stratford have been compelled to buy
Anne Hathaway's cottage to prevent
| its removal to Chicago.
A NIECE of Sir John Macdonald is a
nurse in one OF the Washington hospi-
tails and is proving herself thoroughly
adapted to the profession.
IT is observed that in antique statues
the second toe is longer than the first or
great toe, but in men of the present
time the reverse is the case
THE shoe and leather industries of
the United States will be placed on
solid footing at the Chicago exposition
in $4,000 building of their own.
THERE is tribe of South American
savages who live in tree tops near Ven
| ezuela and their singular mode of exist
ence gave the name to that province.
A BANGOR (Me.) somnambulist
walked in his sleep, hooked a five pound
| black bass in Lake Chemo and awolie to
find himself struggling in the water.
RATS ate up $4,000 in paper money be-
! longing to the late Henry Warner Of
| Benton, Pa. The money had been hid
den for safe-keeping in jar in the
cellar.
GLADSTONE, a fawn IA bbit, was sold
in England recently for $3.50. Its ears
are twenty-seven and half inches in
| length and seven and half inches in
width.
| ARCHDEACoN FARRAR says that there
is room only for two more monuments
in Westminster Abbey, and the space is
reserved for those of Gladstone and
| Tennyson.
FOUR thousand sheep have been sent
| over to be pastured in Monroe county,
Mo. They came from section of the
republic of Mexico where it has omitted
| to rain for fourteen months
AT the home of Vice President Nor
ton, Rhinebeck, n. Y, his daughters
conduct a sewing school for poor child
rem on Saturday mornings and make
it a Sunday school next day.
A BASEBALL player at st. Helens,
England, died from peculiar cause
An opposing player accidentally kicked
him on the ankle. The injured part be-
gan to swell, resulting in death.
CARDINAL MANNING did not leave
property enough to pay his funeral ex-
penses. These amounted to So, 100; and
to meet them Il subscription was started
among his relatives and intimate
friends.
The women's temple in Chicago, which
cost S0,G00,000 was largely paid for out
of the contributions OF penny banks,
100000 of which were opened, it is said,
for that purpose.
THE proposition of Canadian COM
pany to build a ship railway to connect
Lakes Huron and Ontario at cost OF
$4,000 600 is probably feasible, as the
distance is only sixty-six miles and the
grades easy.
The best existing map of the moon
shows 32,s56 crater-shaped projections,
according to NJ. Wilhelm Meyer, and
astronomers tell us that 10000 are
brought into view with telescope OF
medium rowor.