Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-02-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

SALVATION army women have been
forbidden to wear ear rings
RABBITS are selling in Memphis,
Tenn, at three cents apiece.
HENRY IRVINE is likely again to re-
ceive an offer of knighthood.
MRS. RIDER HAGeARD has won three
prizes in golfing match lately.
AT Tornea, Finland, Christmas day
is less than three hours in length.
THE cost of food per family in the
United States is Sa43.6 .65 per year.
THE Lindell hotel in st. Louis has
been sold to Boston men for $780, 600.
THE value of the crown of England,
exclusive of the cost of the metal, is
e1, 0OO,O 900.
COLORADO has over 5000 artesian
wells, there being $50 in and around
Denver alone.
A FRENCH physician has q gold prepa.
ration which he claims is an antidote
for snake bites.
ENGLISH has been recognized as the
official language of the Imperial uni.
versity of Toxic.
IT is said that the late Justice Joseph
P. Bradley had the finest private Ii.
brary in Washington.
BETWEEN the years 1890 and 1850 no
less than S,4OO women were burned in
Scotland for witchcraft.
A MAN fell dead in Manchester, Va,
a few days ago, in n grave which he
was digging for another.
The estimated American capital rails
ed for Mexican undertakings in the
past year is over 800, 600.
OVER $4,000 sparrows have been
killed by Chicago boys since December
for the bounty on their heads.
For bringing a jug of wine in the
jury room in Columbus, N. c., a grand
juryman was fined $50 and costs.
IN Bangor, Maine, a judge has de-
cided that it is not unlawful for Jewish
children to play base ball on Sunday.
In future the observance of Sunday
is to be strictly enforced in Russia and
all shops and business houses closed.
the state of Washington, with a total
daily cutting capacity of s, 421, 600 feet
A CONNECTICUT judge fined a man
$40 for disturbing the slumbers of
police officer by practicing on the coro-
net
DoLL1E AGNEw pleaded guilty OF
larceny. ut Chicago. it is believed,
to save her lover from the peniten.
tiary.
THERE are II, 500, 600 voters in the
United States, of whom 500, 600 are OF
alien birth, and 1, 500. 900 are of African
descent
SENATOR GIBSON. of Louisiana, esti.
mates the profits of the Louisiana lot
terry at from IS, 600. 600 to $40 OO0, 900 a
year net
CHoNG FuNG, New York Chinaman,
has just been convicted of forging the
name of another celestial to a check
for 81, 500
MORE than forty per cent of all pris-
oners between the ages of twenty and
forty die of consumption and other
tubercular diseases.
The widow of "Stonewalr' Jackson
suffers severely from neuralgia affec.
ton of the head and is under treatment
therefor in Richmond.
The fat pieces of iron shaped like
the letter S, which are frequently seen
cn the walls of old brick buildings, is
the ancient symbol of the sun.
MAIL matter can be sent from Paris to
Berlin, now, in pneumatic tubes. II
takes thirty-fve minutes for package
to go from one city to another.
THERE are fourteen great gates to the
Escurial, the palace of Spanish kings,
and the building is lighted by 1,11c
outer and 1,57S inner windows.
BARNES GREELEY, the only brother
of Horace Greeley, lives q quiet life on
the old Greeley farm in Chautauqua
county, near jamestown, N. Y.
THERE are but few hundred dollars
unpaid on the cottage in Los Angeles
which the women of California have
given to Jesse Benton Fremont.
A FIFTY-YEAR-oLD Philadelphia has
carefully preserved all the hair cut from
his head during his whole life. The
accumulation weighs 100 pounds.
Mr.. JUSTICE BRADLEY was not en-.
dowed with very robust health, and
it is said that he escaped being down
right invalid only by his will power.
A JACKSON Mich man has certainly
a run out of luck. While convalescing
from the grip a convulsive cough threw
him from the chair and broke three
ribs
QUEEN VIcToRIA's gold dinner service
is kept In burglar-proof cabinet fill.
ing two rooms in the Buckingham pal.
ace, and two watchmen guard it con.
stantly.
AN effort is being made to build up q
big India rubber industry in Mexico,
and company has been organized tc
plant 100, 900 rubber trees in the state
of Sinaloa-
THE Georgia dude can rival his North.
ern brother in some particulars. One
at Macon, for instance, sports necktie
made from the skin of rattlesnake,
the rattles being utilized as the pin.
AN unpaid tailor's bill of the Emperor
Maximilisn I, of Germany, who reignee
some four hundred years ago, has been
discovered, but the tailor is not around