Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

| 4 AXIS consumes daily lOur UOnS OF Jne
cultivated snail.
A PETRIFIED woman is on exhibition
in Hutchison, Kan.
A GOLD ROCK" was found in bag OF
coffee at Blalely, Ga.
CIDER brandy made in 1920 is owned
| by West Hartford, CT, man.
THE town of Cumberland, r. l., boasts
of a meeting house built in 1740.
A WOMAN of Lyons, Neb., has nose
four and three-quarter inches long.
GREAT BRITAIN has $40 inhabitants to
the square mile, the United States Is.
A COIN COLLECTOR at South Bend,
Ind, has German coin minted in 1927.
EXPRESS trains in Russia rarely travel
faster than twenty-five miles an hour.
IN South American countries baked
bananas are an excellent substitute foI
meat.
To CLEAN brass fixtures rub them
with slices of lemon then wash in hot
water.
GILT EDGE BRICKS" is the name of
social club recently organized at Otta'
wa, Kas.
A NEW variety of ham in the eastern
market is noted as ''cut from only milk
fed pigs"
A FIvE-cENT nickel of 1877 is worth 81
and a nickel fve-cent piece of 1878
about 10 cents.
CAPT. SCHUMACHER, of Fullerton, ILL.,,
claims to have cornstalk which is 10
feet inches high.
A New JERSEY man gives as cure
for hay fever the smoking of pine nee
dies with tobacco.
ONE-HALF the Missouri delegation in
congress were absent from their seats
during the session.
OF 200, 600 women working at 100 diff
ferent trades in New York city 127, 900
support their husbands.
A MEDAL won by De Soto, the discov-
erer of the Mississippi river. will be ex-
hibited at the Worlds fair.
The standard yard of America is said
to be one-thousandth of an inch longer
than the English standard.
THERE are $1,000 women telegraph
operators in the United States, and the
number is constantly growing.
CASTOR oil has not failed in any case
to remove warts to which it was APP
piled once a day for two to six weeks.
PHILIP SHERMAN, dry goods dealer
of Grand Rapids, Mich. who opposed
early closing, has been boycotted out of
business.
A ''MoDEL of the figure of Lots wife
in salt" will appear in the Kansas eN-
hibit to illustrate the salt industry of
the state.
The corn crop in Kansas this year
will be the largest in the history of the
state, and is expected to reach 130, 000,-
600 bushels
A HOTEL with 1,SOO rooms is to be
erected in Chicago to accommodate
members of labor unions during the
Worlds fair
ALLEN MILTON BROWNING, of Hunt
ington, w. Va, is sixty years old, has
been married six times and has sixty
seven children.
DREHER, the Vienna brewer, is re-
puted to be worth over $40, 600, 900, to
which the profits of his breweries add
S2,000,00O year.
A MEDICAL man in Vienna asserts that
diphtheria is thrice as prevalent among
smokers as those who deny themselves
the luxury of the weed.
The guests at Springfield hotel re-
Gently presented one of the mattresses
with pair of roller skates in the hopes
of being waited on more rapidly.
IT is the proper, fashionable, and, be-
sides, the healthful thing, to eat ginger
with ice-cream. Fhis on the authority
of leading gastronomic journal
MYRoN JH.soN, of Whittingham, Vt, =,
although only Is years old, is said to be
six feet ten inches in height and to
weigh 200 pounds. He is still growing
AN economical old woman at Atchison
has brought up family of spring
chickens on the bugs collected from the
machinery at the electric light station
every morning.
JOHN G. WHITTIER writes in bold,
dashing, but irregular and uneven
style, as different as you can imagine
from the plain, precise, unassuming
Quaker that he is.
SOME of the largest corporations and
business houses in Chicago who employ
young men in positions of trust, have
issued orders making betting on races
cause for dismissal.
REV. DIR. OsGooD, of Cohasset, Mass,
has been pastor of church in that city
for fifty years He was called to the
church upon his graduation from the
Harvard divinity school.
WITHIN six months Savannah, Ga,
will have system of water works sup
piled by twelve artesian wells, each
with Il capacity of 100000 gallons 6
day, and of perfect purity.
WHILE man was digging a hole in
the cellar of his house at New Haven
Ct, recently, he discovered bag
containing several large pieces of sill
verware, worth about S1,25O.
The performance of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" at Conway Springs, Kan, the
other night was slightly modified 10y
one of the bloodhounds, which stopped
to nip flea as he was in pursuit o
''Elizu."
IN recent appropriation of nearly
$3, 900, 600 for an Indian tribe, attorneys
claim agents, etc, got 800, 900. In III
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