Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

paper is increasing in the west
| AN average of four persons die daily
in England from delirium tremens.
ABOUT $4,000 suicides were commit
ted in the United States during the past
year.
1T is denied that Abbotsford, once
the home of Sir Walter Scott. is sold, as
reported.
ScorcH journals resent the PROPOSE
| ton for the abandonment of kits by
| the soldiers
The Southern league of baseball
clubs has been organized, with six clubs
represented.
WITHIN sixty-two years Mexico has
had fifty -four presidents, one regency
and one empire.
Two or three American plays with
American players will be given in Lon
don next summer.
The annual cost of each public cleo.
San Francisco S44067
PAUL DU CHAIILU has so far recov.
cred from his recent illness as to be
able to lecture once more.
A TENOR at the opera in Geneva who
was Kissed promptly went home, thus
stopping the performance.
A RUSSIAN can plead infancy for q
long time, as he does not come of age
until he is twcnty-six years old.
A VERY wide belt and very big buckle
is the latest addition to feminine street
costume by the women of Paris.
MExIcos presidential election occurs
in June, but no candidate has been
named against Diaz, now serving third
term.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is reported as say
ing that the state of European politics
will not let him attend the Worlds fair
at Chicago
A MAN died in jail at Lexington, Mo-,
the other day, serving out a fine of 5000,
and suit will be brought against his
estate for the fine.
A FEW days ago a Marysville (Cal)
man found under the floor of his bed
room about 135 pounds of choice honey
deposited there by wild bees
| A PHILADELPHIA has made an UNI
brella stand two and half feet high,
which is composed of 1000 separate
pieces and fifteen kinds of wood.
BY far the greater part of the acci-
dents that occur in mills, etc, happen
during the last two hours of work,
when workpeople are tired and care
less
PENNSYLVANIA new ballot law goes
into effect March 1, and will first be
tested in an election in Allegheny City
for mayor, to fill a vacancy by resigna.
ton
The women of Poland will wear
black during the present year in order
to commemorate the centenary of the
loss of Poland's independence as ma
ton.
The deepest depth of the sea is re-
ported to be at point twenty-three
miles north of New Guinea, where
soundings showed depth of 26,s5O
feet
THE cost of lighting the Worlds fair
at Chicago will be about ten times the
cost for lighting of the exposition at
Paris. The figure is at present placed
atS1, 500 600.
MRS. WARREN NEwCoMB, of New
York, who gave 5000, 600 to endow the
Sophia Newcomb college at New
Orleans, has made an additional endow-
ment of S44, 600.
A CONFERENCE of the postmasters of
/ forty-fve of the large cities will be
held March to discuss postal reforms
and proposed notifications of existing
laws and regulations
BY studying the spectrum of light
ming as it passes through the air, it has
been found that sodium, the element
from which common salt is formed,
exists IN the atmosphere.
The remarkable likeness between the
latest accepted portrait of Columbus
and the ordinary portraits of George
Washington is appreciated at glance.
1t is at least an interesting coincidence.
IT is said that the bulk of the grain
recently purchased by the Russian gov.
ferers, is really to be stored in the ma.
tional granaries as preparation for
war.
THE first notice of India rubber on
record was given by Herrera, who in
the second voyage of Columbus observ.
ed that the natives of Haiti ''played q
game with balls made of the gum of q
tree"
The ocean cables of the world now
stretch over 12O,25O miles There are
1000 cables in all, nearly all of English
manufacture. Most of the cables are
owned and operated by private corpor-
atoms
A cRUsTY old Indiana bachelor not
liking the way his landlady's daughter
had of appropriating his hair oil, filed
his bottle with liquid glue the day be-
fore the ball to which the girl was in
vited She stayed at home.
THE hopes of many Bavarians that
death was about to relieve them of o
mad king have proved vain. The lat
est reports say that King Otto is ply
sically comparatively WELL although
his mental condition is as sad and
gloomy as ever
EDISON thinks he may be able to hear
the sun spot roar. His idea is that a
long stretch of copper wire to be set up
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