Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-25

TENNYsoN is said to have made more
money from the sale of his verses than
any other poet who has ever lived.
JUSTICE LAMAR, of the supreme
court has so far recovered from his ill-
ness that he now accepts dinner invita-
tions.
PETER COOPER is to have a statue,
which will be placed ere long in the
triangle facing Cooper Union in New
York.
A YOUNG st. Louis girl is said to
have made a profit of $1,000 last year in
furnishing bread for the Woman,s eX-
change.
WHILE some choice fruit and other
products are canned in France, the bulk
of the worlds supply comes from this
country.
The daily total water supply in Lon
don is 1s1 ,597, ,o49 gallons representing
a daily consumption of 31.S9 gallons
per head.
A LONDON society" journal names
four young noblemen who are engaged
to be married to young women of the
variety stage.
The poorest paid parson in America is
said to be Mr.. Wainfleet of Moles-
worth, Me-, small village. His salary
is S3 a week.
AN individual in Texas has sued Gov.
Hogg for $4,000 damages for calling
him "a professional liar" in one of his
campaign speeches.
The Chicago post Office has received
four of the new electrical stamping ma
chimes. Each machine will stamp
$4,000 letters an hour.
THE speed of the fastest railway is
not much more than half that of the
golden eagles flight. The bird often
makes 14O miles an hour.
SUCCI, the faster, is insane, and now
in an asylum near Paris. His delusion
has taken the form of belief that he is
Caesar and Napoleon in one.
AUSTIN CoRBIN has made contract
with the Mexican department of pub
lie works to complete the works at the
port of Vera Cruz for s5,615,OO0.
The storm at Wellington, Kan,
which destroyed twenty lives and
wrecked half million dollars worth
of property lasted less than two min
utes.
MORE people were executed in Eng
land during the reign of King Henry
VIII. than ever before or since in the
tight little island, the number reaching
II, 400
A MASSACHUSETTS man has invented
a recording device for scales. Upon a
roller is placed piece of paper, upon
which marker records the weighings
of the scales as desired.
j. DEEMING PERKINS. of Litchfield, Ct,
has given the fire department of that
town one of the finest engine-houses in
the country, costing 5000 and placed
a brand new engine in it.
FRAU PRoBsTI, who enjoyed the dis
tinction of being the heaviest woman in
Europe, has just died in Traubring, in
Bavaria, at the age of forty-one. At
her death she weighed $50.
A YELLOW fish, called Alaskan mack
erel, and fully equal to the mackerel of
the Atlantic coast, is found at the west
end of the Alaskan islands. They
move in large schools, and are finely
favored.
A RAY of light which would travel
around the earth in about one-eighth of
a second takes more than four hours to
come from Neptune. From Alpha Cen
tauri, the nearest fixed star, light makes
the journey in five and one-half years.
AT the trial of horse thief in Phe.
nix, A. T., recently, the prisoner rose at
the conclusion of the testimony and
asked the judge to instruct the jury to
bring in a verdict of guilty without
leaving their seats. He was accommo.
dated.
A LOCAL justice in Louisville has
ruled that it is not an assault to throw
pailful of water upon an organ grind
er when the water is thrown by a
householder who is on his own prem,
ises and annoyed by the strolling
artists.
A NEW arrangement for the detection
of fire damp consists in pumping the air
into a testing room and testing it with
a Bunsen burner. If the air contains q
dangerous quantity of fire damp it ig
mites, and, moving a valve, sounds q
gong of warning.
A New YORKER has made clock from
$4,000 pieces of wood, comprising over
800 varieties. For sixteen years he has
had sailors bringing him rare woods
from every quarter of the globe.
FREDERICK ScHwATKA, the traveller
once experienced temperature of II
degrees below zero in the Arctic re
gions, near Burlss Great Fish river. II
is said to be the coolest ever endured by
man.
ONE of the largest camellia trees IL
Europe is now in full bloom at Pilntz
near Dresden. 1t was taken from ia
pan $50 years ago, is fifty feet high, ant
has an annual average of 10000 bios
SONS.