Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-02
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up in Africa
A Nova ScoTIAN mother gave birth
to quadruplets four days apart.
THREE times as many herrings are
consumed as any other kind of fish.
IT is stated that 100 of Virginia's
post offices are in charge of women.
DELAWARE sent six cars of native
woods to be exhibited at the Worlds
fair
On the sth of April Missouri school
children are expected to set out 40, 600
trees
A NEW cable to connect the Central
American states with Cuba is soon to
be laid.
LAST year Missouri raised enough
haxseed-975, 600 buskels-to poultice
the state.
MADAME PATTI thinks that singing
should be taught to child as soon as it
can speak.
AFTER the queen, the duke of Edin-
burgh is the richest member of the
royal family.
PEACHES, Strawberries and all early
vegetables in Mississippi were killed by
the cold snap.
A PHILADELPHIA jeweler committed
suicide by putting his head under
steam hammer.
THE annual crop of English walnuts
in Southern California reaches million
and half pounds.
IT is gross breach of etiquette for
Chinaman to wear eyeglasses or spec
tacles in company.
SENATOR CARLISLE says that there
were never any abler men in public life
than there are to-day.
FRENCH salad plates with comic pict-
ures and explanatory legends help con-
versation at the dinner table.
PATTI and Bernhardt will sell flow
ers at the coming fair in New York for
the benefit of the actors fund.
TuoueH Wales is deteriorating, and
even the language is dying out, there is
colony of $4,000 Welshmen in Lon
don.
MARK TWAIN is now doing the south
of Europe. His daughters remain in
Berlin to finish their musical educa.
tion.
THE Austrian war minister is about
to esta blish school to teach practical
ballooning for army uses in time of
war.
OILED silk placed over the chest in
cases of pleurisy and pneumonia brings
speedy relief and prevents danger from
cold.
IN California peach trees are success
fully grated with rose buds, thus pro-
ducing groves of red, white and pink
roses.
THERE is st. Bernard dog in Quaker
town, Pa, whose hight is 321S inches,
length 81 inches and weight 1s5
pounds.
To stop bleeding apply tea leaves, or a
paste of flour and vinegar. 1t is said
that scrapings of sole leather will stop it
Immediately.
A rETRIFIED human body was taken
from the Phillipsburg IN. J.) cemetery
recently. The body was buried six
teen years ago
IT is said that the recent mine explo-
sion at Anderlues, Belgium, by which
about $50 lives were lost, was caused by
a spiteful miner.
AT Reading, Pa, wedding the other
day, among the wedding presents was
displayed liberal consignment of
homemade soap.
THE famous Florence Nightingale is
now seventy-two years of age, and in
feeble health resulting from a prolong-
ed attack of the grip.
SMOKE an infamed wound by holding
it over the fumes of burning cloth, wool
or sugar for u quarter of an hour and
the pain will be taken out
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN announces that in
the future he proposes to hold the
newspapers responsible for all un-
friendly illusions to himself
The bill passed by the Massachusetts,
house of representatives forbidding the
manufactu. or sale of cigarettes in the
state has failed in the senate.
GEN. Booth, of the salvation army,
says that nothing amuses him so much
as to note the manner in which his
methods and himself are criticised
ISAAC RICHARDS, of East Machias,
Me, who lacks few months of being
ninety-nine years of age, is said to be
the Oldest pensioner of the war of 1912.
BRIDGEPORT Conn. high school girls
will not sing be "ause they fear the ex-
ercise will spoil their good looks. The
school board has voted to make them
sing.
SPEAKING about opening the Worlds
fair on Sunday, Rev. Robert Collyer
suggests that people should attend
church in the morning and the fair in
the afternoon.
FIRE escapes which can be carried in
the coat pocket and by which a person
can safely descend from the highest
hotel window in twenty second have
been invented.
WILLIAM DAVIS, an Australian, has
arrived in New York from Liverpool
with the avowed intention of swimming
the rapids of Niagara without the aid
of any contrivance.
A CORPSE at Providence, Rel, was
exhumed and the heart removed and