Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-20
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on Mars.
SIR w. HERscuEL discovered the polar
ice caps of Mars.
/ YORK, Mont, has natural fee mine
in gulch near there.
THERE are 100000 commercial travel
ers in the United States.
THE elm tree worms are causing much
damage in New England.
A TWIN watermelon is fruit freak
of Ware county, Georgia.
A MARYLAND widow set bear trap
and caught young man.
No LESS than fifteen thousand police
men are employed in London.
MARS is five times as bright now as
he will be when on the far side of the
sun.
The postmaster of Polo, Mo-, bears
the remarkable name of U. E. Sidebot-
tom.
A YEAR on Mars is two years and
| forty-nine and one-half days long, earth
time.
The latest fad in Crisfield, Md, is to
take your girl out riding in q baby car
riage.
CHINA has no telegraph poles. The
| people have superstition against
them.
UP to August the Worlds fair Off.
cials had spent-literally paid out-s7,'
25O, 900.
THE length of day on Mars is
twenty-four hours and thirty-seven
minutes.
BJoRNsTERNE BJoRNsoN gets a PEN
sion of $3.50 year from the Norwegian
storthing.
The total amount of taxas to be
raised in New York city in 1892 is nearly
s34, 600, 600.
ANOTHER fifty-cent increase in the
price of anthracite coal is promised at
an early day.
| A Moscow dentist has successfully
made false teeth assume a fixed place in
toothless gums.
THE Spanish government has con-
cluded a loan of s1O,OOO,oOO with the
Banque de Paris.
In one of Gladstone's own elections
his friends are said to have expended
S240, 900 in his behalf.
CROP experts estimate that the two
Dakotas will produce 125, 600, 600 bush
els of wheat this year.
THE fastest time in which train has
been known to travel is mile in forty.
nine seconds and fraction.
A CHINESE sect believes that women
by embracing vegetarianism will be-
come men on the judgment day.
A. A. ROBINSON, of the Santa Fe rail-
road received an eighty-pound water
melon from Texas the other day.
CALIFORNIA has the biggest soda
fountain in the world. 1t is natural
lake, and has $4,000, 900 worth of soda
in it.
WHEN the shah of Persia goes on
his holiday outing in the summer time
he is accompanied by three hundred
wives.
THE men who bought w. K. Wander
bilt's yacht, the Alva, under water, ex-
pect to make S2O0,0 out of the trans
action.
On the icy peaks of the Himalayas,
in India, there is n ''snow maggot,"
weighing nearly pound, and excellent
to eat.
APPROPRIATIONS made by the first ses-
sion of the Fifty-second congress just
closed amounted to S507, 900, 600 in round
figures.
KATE FIELD asks Secretary Tracy to
name the next new cruiser, the Isa-
bella, in honor of the friend OF
Columbus
ARTEsIAN wells were known at Thebes
as long ago as the time of Timerton,
1000 years before the beginning of the
Christian era.
WALTER BEsANT, the English novel
list, was intended by his parents for the
church, but he turned naturally tC
literary work.
The Greek government has voted the
sum of 800, 900 drachms to be expended
on the reproduction of antique works
of art for the Worlds fair.
MONROE county, Mich, has bought
nearly $4,000 worth of English sparrow
scalps in three years, and reports thai
there are as many birds as ever.
DETRoIT's new city directory contains
100,S54 names, from which they figure
out present population of 300, 900. The
last census gave the city 207,741
A MISSISSIPPI man who brought suit
against a railroad company for the
value of ticket which he bought, ant
|
, A RECENT novelty is a composite
metal wheel made up of skeleton OF
J wire for the spolles, hub and rim, the
/ whole being imbedded in cast iron.
, IT is likely that Wyoming may have
5 a woman for governor some day. Mrs
l Bard, ranch owner, came within nin'
t votes of a majority at the last election
/ ABRAM w. SMITH, the republican can
: didate for governor of Kansas, is saiC
to be one of the biggest men in th
state. He is almost giant in stature
THE oldest man in Vermont, ant
probably in New England, is Johl
Francis lie Maistre, of Brighton. HI
was born in the Isle of Jersey, April
. 1884.
IN the latest summer novel the hero
J inc saves the hero by taking off he
d suspenders and lowering them over tn
| ~ Al L. L.