Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-11-26


ernor of Tennessee, stands six feet and
four inches in his stockings.
BRAZIL has thrown her gates wide
open and invited Cinnamon to partake
of the blessings of the republic.
The national debts of Europe amount
to total which is equivalent to S55 for
each inhabitant of the continent
DR. NANsEN, the Norwegian arctic
explorer, proposes to reach the north
pole by floating to it on an ice-hoe.
The engineers of San Francisco pro-
pose to supply that city with water
from Lake Tahoe, $50 miles distant.
PAUL b. DU CHA1LLU says that while
he was in Africa he had $4,000 OPP
portunities to marry and declined them
all.
THE Revised German Bible has been
completed. For nearly thirty years
critics and scholars have been at work
on it.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; orange and
olive crop this year is most promis-
ing, while that of the lemons will be
short.
The ''porcine hog" to which the Inde-
pendence (Mo) Reporter refers must
be very malignant kind of a porlSer
indeed.
AT Scranton, Pa, a young man COM
bending over the dead body of his
sweet heart.
PROF. MARSHALL tells us that the oak
in general way requires to grow from
100 to 200 years before it is fit to cut for
large timber.
GEN. SHERIDAN's sword, which he is
said to have used at Fort Yamhill, Ore,
is reported to be in the possession of an
Oregon Indian.
PEEREssEs of Great Britain, Scotland
or Ireland, by birth, marriage or crea-
ton, are free from arrest or imprison-
ment in civil process.
A NEW variety of wheat the grains OF
which are almost twice as large as the
ordinary kernels, has been grown this
season near Moscow, Wash.
The yield of corn this year was but
22.4 bushels an acre, or an aggregate OF
100000, 900 bushels, while wheat does
not exceed 500, 900 bushels.
A DETECTIVE nipped a man in the
woods three miles north OF East St
Louis just as he was digging up forty
bars of silver bullion he had stolen.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says that the four
authors who had the greatest influence
in the formation of his mind are Dante,
Aristotle, Bishop Butler and St Angus
tine.
The word ''zero" is from the Spanish
and means empty, hence nothing. twas
first used for thermometer in 1895 by
q Prussian merchant named Fahren-
heit
IT seems to be taken for granted now
that Arizona and New Mexico will be
admitted to the union as soon as the
democrats are fairly established in
power.
A MOUSE started across the room in a
North Atchison house, and girl
screamed SO loudly the mouse fell over.
died of fright
MORE than $4,000 workmen in the
Lancashire cotton mills are out of en-
ployment. and about IA, 100000 spindles
are still. 1t is another conflict between
capital and labor.
| THERE is a proba bility that Gen. Mel
son A. Miles will within few months
exchange departments with Gen. o. o.
Howard, now commanding the depart
ment of the Atlantic
| JEROME park, near New York, for
thirty years one of the most famous
race tracks in this country, is about to
become the property of syndicate and
be cut up into building lots.
THE Tourist Zeitung publishes list
of Alpine accidents for 1892. There
were 32 fatalities in all, &c having oc.
curr~d in ascents without guides and 6
with guides. Twenty-siX We're tourists
and were guides. Ten were caused
by attempts to gather edelweiss.
MEDIA, Pa, is the home of four of
the largest families in the United States
that of Samuel Field, who has 2s
children; Joseph Chandler, Who is the
proud father of a5 children; Jas. Barrett,
with record of IS, and VIM. Wright,
who has Is little Wrights to feed
DANIEL BooNE's bones rest in his be-
loved Kentucky, encased in the cherry.
wood coffin which he framed with his
own hands, and into which he used te
get to see how it would fit him.
MRS. MCKEE, President Harrison't
daughter, will remain at the white
house, presiding in her mothers stead
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison and theil
little daughter will also remain at the
white house.
A MAJORITY is the excess over all com
petitors; q plurality is the excess owe
one Thus, If A had 800 votes, b 40'
and q 800, has q majority OF 100;
plurality of 400 over d. and pluralit,
of 500 over c.