Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-16
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valued at 81, 100000.
BLoTTINa paper is made of cotton
rags boiled in soda
The authentic history of China com.
menced 5000 years b. C.
HORSES are dying from the grip in
certain parts of Maryland.
THE first photographs produced in
England were taken in 1902.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN says he is too
old to be president He is 60.
The directors of the Worlds fair have
spent $50, 600 already in postage.
New YORK state has thirty-three cities,
Niagara Falls being the youngest.
A MAINE boy of eight years is said to
be able to repeat forty chapters of the
Bible.
II cost over $500 recently in legal fees,
in South Carolina, to settle a claim
of SIS.
The contractor who built an Indiana
Jail now occupies one of its cells as a
prisoner.
LYNNE, Ct., has citizen who ownsa
communion cup with the date 1887 in
scribed on it.
HERBERT SPENCER has an intense dis
| like to eating his meals with or before
| other people.
| FOUR Thousand ONE hundred and sew
| enty-five men are now employed upon
| the Worlds fair grounds.
| A PRESBYTERIAN pastor at Greenville,
ILL.,, has pulpit made of olive wood
| from the Mount of Olives.
Forty Thousand people witnessed the
launching of the cruiser Raleigh at
| Norfol6 Va ha otha,- dow
| PHILADELPHIA has the biggest reel
truck. 1t weighs IL, 900 pounds and can,
carry or bear 10000 pounds.
| THERE seems to be an epidemic Of
elopments in Scranton, Pa, five couples
having disappeared in ten days.
Ex-QuEEN ISABELLA receives $3.50, 900
a year during her exile but even that
large sum fails to cover her expenses.
THE Jains, of India, frequently un-
dergo fasts of forty days, partalling
during that time only of warm water.
A CASE of the United States against a
Chicago bank for $4,000 damages has
been pending in the courts for fifteen
years.
If all the money in the world were
equally divided among civilized people
every person would get six dollars as.
his share.
FEWER patents are granted to Missis-
sippians in proportion to population
than to the citizens of any other state
in the union.
WHILE attending college at 0berlin,
Steve Dorsey used to do odd jobs, such
as painting houses, to keep body and
soul together.
THE Koh-i-Noor, or mountain of light,
is said to have been discovered in the
diamond mines of Golconda, more than
5000 years ago.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has given 100000
for library and gymnasium at Home
stead, Pa, to be used mainly by his
own worlsingmen.
OF the confederate generals, only one
full general survives-P. L. Beauregard
but there are upwards of 1SO surviving
brigadier generals.
THE artistic work of the spider in
spinning his web is shown by the fact.
that it takes SO, 900 of the fine strands to,
cover an inch of space.
A GRANITE sepulchcr for the late j. L.
Case, of Racine, the famouse horse
; breeder, is about to be constructed from
: Vermont granite at cost of s1s,OOO.
QUEEN VICTORIA, John Ruslzin, Charles
Kingsley, JIG. Holland, Cyrus W.. Field.
. Julia Ward Howe and Walt Whitman
We're all born in the same year, 1sl9
THE empress of Russia is, the first
lady to answer from a European throne
to the invitation to take part in the
- women's work of the Columbian exposi-
- ton.
. Mrs. JACKSON, the confederate SOL
: diers widow, is devoting all her time
=, now to the education of her two moth
. erless grandchildren, Julia and Jackson
. Christian.
SOME American surnames in Maine
q are peculiar. For instance, Coolbroth,
. Youngbaby, Lovely, Law, Look, Sensa-
a bough, Comforth, Suclkforth, Skeetop,
Segar, etc.
A PATENT has recently been issued for
this chair tonic: Oil of onions, oil OF
y cabbages, oil of parsley, borax, sulphur.
sugar of lead, aqua-ammonia, salt, al
k cohol and bay rum.
N OLD peach trees are now being re-
/ ported from various parts of the coun.
o. try, but southern papers claim that the
D. oldest free-bearing tree is living in
a Georgia and is tifty-two years old.
W THE temp erature of a well that is be
t. ing sunk at Wheeling, w. Va, which
was 70 degrees at a depth of $500 feet
L, is said to have increased to los degrees
IL at 1890 feet and ILL degrees at 5,4Ot
is feet.
t. KING LEOPOLD, of Belgium, desires t.
n give his subjects voice in the govern
III ment by allowing them to vote OIL
ir public questions, but strange to sa.
I'd the Belgians are loath To accept tn
90 proffered power.
IL TWENTY-FIVE cents was paid for
DIS horse at sale in Bucks county, Pa, tn
e. other day. and the auctioneer threw i
ne a halter to make respectable bargain
as The horse dropped dead before the pul
'd chaser got him home.