Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
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lady advertising agent.
SPAIN has fewer daily papers thar
any other European country.
CGUR D'ALENE is three French words
and means heart of an owl"
THE winner of the Sullivan-Corbett
fight at New Orleans will get S45, 900.
THIRTY rich mineral veins have beer
struck in the Mt. Kelso tunnel, in Colo
RADIO.
CANADA whaclis duty of five cents q
dozen on eggs imported from the United
States.
THERE are $50 mountains in the United
States, each exceeding 10000 feet in
height.
THE czar is the richest sovereign in
Europe, his income amounting to ST..
100000.
MORE than two-thirds of the whips
used in this country are made at West
field, Mass.
LONDON buries $4,000 dead every year.
enough to fill a cemetery of twenty
three acres.
AUSTRIA will have forty of her most
expert woodcarvers at work at the
Worlds fair.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CLEVELAND are much
annoyed by idle gossip concerning their
everyday life.
A BERLIN inventor has invented an in
strument which measures the 1,000th
part of a second.
In England one person in every so is a
pauper: in America the rate is one per-
son in every $50.
THE New Orleans messenger boys
struck because they were ordered to
wash their faces.
Two farmers in Harper county, Kas.,
chased lightning rod peddler three
miles with pitchforlks
A SOCIETY has been organized in Iowa
whose object it is to push the pansy as
the flower of America.
A DAUGHTER of a resident of Nor
wich, CT, was turned black by bolt of
lightning the other day.
THE one topic of interest in England
| just now is the war in this country be-
| tween labor and capital.
Hill LUNG, Chicago's wealthiest tea
merchant, is going to set up big tea
house at the Worlds fair.
G. p. R. JAMES began novel writing
called ''String of Pearls"
| CONNECTICUT. spelled in an Indian
dialect, Quin-neh-tuk-gut, signifed
'land on long tidal river"
| THE largest theater in the world is
the opera house in Paris. 1t covers
nearly three acres of ground.
In Chinese the letter 'i'' has 145 ways
of being pronounced, and each pronun-
citation has a different meaning.
NEARLY three-fourths of the fires in
the United States last year were the re-
suit of the upset or explosion of
lamps.
A STORY of a COW in Washington that
eats hops and yields a bucketful of
brown beer twice day is going the
rounds.
ICE-CREAM is served at seaside resorts
in the shape, size and color of billiard
balls. 1t is an idea borrowed from
Geneva.
HoPs in Sacramento valley are threat
ened with much damage from small red
spiders which have appeared in large
numbers.
THERE are about one hundred Jewish
places of worship in New York city.
The finest is the temple BETHEL, which
cost 5000, 900.
In the executive mansion at Raleigh,
N. c., is card table presented to Gov.
Darlington by King George ii. about
the year 1775.
ST. LOUIS was selected as the place in
which to hold the annual convention of
the National Association of American
Florists in 1885,
THERE are few uncracled houses in
Essen, Germany. The testing of the
big guns manufactured by Krupp has
damaged them.
A. SOUTH HAVEN (Mich.) farmer paid
$145 for 145 acres of swamp. He planted
it to peppermint and his income is s9S
an acre this year.
A CONVENTION of German horse butch
ers is to open restaurant in Berlin to
educate the upper class to the use of
horse flesh as food
A WATER moccasin six feet long was
ately killed at Utica, Ill. When cut
open sixteen frogs were found, several
of which were alive.
A TEXAS newspaper tells us of couple
that were ''nuptiated. The possibili.
ties of the English language have not
been half exhausted
A PHILADELPHIA toy-dealer made the
shocking discovery that nearly hun
| dred of his best wax dolls had melted
during the recent hot waves.
The most recent trustworthy investi
CATION is that of NJ. De Chatelier, wht
fixes the effective temperature of th'
sun at 1900 degrees Fahrenheit.
The original standard chain author
. lied by the act of congress of May IS
1897, made for the purpose of executing
surveys of the public lands in the north
western country, will be exhibited a
the Worlds fair.
VIcToRIA's maids of honor, who ar
paid $1,000 year for their services
earn their salaries. They are oblige'
to appear before the queen in a nev
, gown every day and to be in READINGS