Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

WHALEBoNE has become so scarce that
1t is now sold ut SIS, 900 & ton.
A RUBY-coATED bug on n diminutive
gold corn husls is q late design in breast
pins
They call bicycle "the devils char.
lot" in Turkey, and the sultan forbids
its use.
A PATENT has been issued for "A lock-
which can be operated only by a mag
netized key.
BARON HIRscH will probably sail
from France to this country the middle
of September.
ADwARF residing at Shigaken, Japan,
is thirty-six years old and but seven
teen inches high
A CUCUMBER over five feet long has
been presented to the editor of the
Hale (Mo.) Times.
The United States is the richer by
So, ZOO. 600 in money orders never pre-
sented for payment
OF the 2O,OO0,O0U workers in tho
United States less than 1000, 900 belong
to labor organizations.
AN Oregon murderer while marching
to the gallows was showered with bou-
quets thrown by women.
If all the locomotives in the United
States were coupled together they would
make train of solid iron and steel over
three hundred miles long.
A POOR cast spoiled the production of
an 1s,000-pound gun carriage at the
Washington foundry the other day.
THE fastest time these days is that
being made by American tourists in
getting out of cholera-smitten Europe.
THE British Medical association pass
ed n resolution at its meeting recently
admitting woilen doctors to member
ship.
WITHIN the last thirty years there
have been on the British coasts &C, 377
wrecks, with the fearful loss of 22,S12
lives.
CATERpILLARs are lunching on the
foliage of Grand Rapids (Mich.) trees
| to such an extent that their destruction
| is feared.
THERE are 13S American students at
tending Berlin university and only "a
English. OF the S,7SS students 3, 1s1 are
Prussians.
AT Bombay all the Hindoo sentries
salute any passing black cat, thinking
| it may possibly be the soul of an Eng
| lish officer.
Miss DORA MILLER, teacher in New
Orleans, has patented blackboard
eraser for the right of which she had an
| offer of $1,000.
IN 1867, Sl,3l7,09 worth of diamonds
were imported into this country. Last
year the importations amounted to
nearly sl5,000,000.
A ToMAHAwK said to have belonged
to the famous Indian chief Tecumseh
is now in possession of Mrs. Lizzie
Skinner of West Point, Ky.
| A WASH made of witch-hazel and CO.
caine, to be applied to the nasal pas.
sages when the asthma comes on is an
effective cure for hay fever.
| BERLIN is said to complain of the en-
forcement of the Sunday laws under
which no one is allowed to work more
than five hours during the day.
FINE rubies are enormously more val.
liable than diamonds. A fine ruby OF
real pigeon-blood color and eight carats
is worth from S45, 600 to $4,000.
AFTER fifteen years of failure the
vines at Egg Harbor City, n. j., are
heavily laden with grapes, and good
year of wine making is expected.
WASHINGTON is to have museum fol-
all sorts of curious life saving appli.
ances, including the earliest kinds OF
lifeboats, rockets and life preservers.
WHEN the coal fields of America and
Europe are exhausted China will still
be able to supply the world with fuel.
Her coal supply is practically illimit.
able.
A EUROPEAN lady in Japan has col.
lected 700 teapots of different pattern
and kinds, and yet scores of typical
shapes are not included in her assort.
ment.
HUDSON, Mich, has a woman mer.
chant whose husband stands across the
street and throws stones at the windows
to attract attention to her rev line o1
fall goods.
THE colored people of Georgia have
formed society called the Upper Ten.
The members agree that after a certain
date they will do no more work for the
white people.
AN ear of corn which measures nine
and half inches in circumference al
the butt and eleven and half inches
long is the pride of Screven county
(Ga.) planter.
A TIGER that escaped from a wagon
show is hiding in the woods near Brown.
town, Wis. Cattle and sheep are re.
ported to have been disappearing ir
large numbers.
The far-famed temple of Solomon
was not so large as many suppose. /,
was only 107 feet long 36 feet wide, s.
feet high and had a veranda or portico
S6 feet long and 1s feet wide.
A WESTERN editor met we'll educa
ed farmer recently and said to hin
that he would like to have something
from his pen. The farmer sent him
pig and charged him 1915 for it.
CRYsTALIzED nitrogen is one of the
greatest chemical curiosities. BY cool
ing nitrogen gas down to 367 degrees be
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