Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-02
CURRENT. TOPICS.


In the United States there are $751;
Gas free masons and 847, All odd fellows
EIeHTEEN of the London theaters are
occupied for divine services on Sunday.
THERE is not lizard or snake north
| of the southern extremity of Hudson's
.baN
WHEN terrified an ostrich travels at
the rate of about twenty-five miles an
hour.
GooD players of the harp are said
to be the scarcest of all musical per-
formers.
OFFICERS of the Indian government
have decided that currency reform is
necessary.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
the electrical illumination of Niagara
Falls at night.
New booSmarkers are in the form of
little paper fan that slips over the
corner of the page.
A CHICAGO burglar stole some jewell
ry but subsequently returned it, saying
that it was worthless.
A LARGE lot of Heinrich Heine's
hitherto unpublished letters are soon to
be printed at Hamburg.
SCIENCE has produced an instrument
for counting the number of dust notes
that exist in sunbeam.
GEO. APGAR, young clerk, died at
Jersey City recently from accidentally
inhaling sulphuric acid fumes.
RUSSIA seems to be threatened with a
famine next year as great rs that
from which she is just recovering.
IT has been decided by Judge at Mt.
Vernon, ILL.,, that the women members
of the school board could not hold of
flee.
The most skillful quot pitcher in
Dauphin county, Pa, is John w. Kautz,
who has been blind for thirty-two
years.
THE fund for the Washington memor-
ial arch in New York, s12S, 900, has been
completed at last. 1t was started May
8, 1889.
In one of the public schools in New
York city there are 710 pupils, all but
ten of whom are of foreign birth and
languages
HARRISON and Reid were both grad
uated from Miami university, which has
just conferred the degree of LID. on
Gov. Mckinley.
AS illustrating the feminine idea Of
business, a Belle Plain (Kas.) woman
| cut up $3.50 worth of silk and velvet to
make crazy quilt.
A PHOTOGRAPHER says that next to
babies young married couples are the
most troublesome, the bride especially
being hard to please.
A DAUGHTER of Director-General
Davis, of the Worlds fair, took the
prize for breadmaking few days $50
at La Sale seminary.
| The demand for the revised version of
the New Testament in 1881 exceeded
that for any other book that has been
I, published before or since.
The house at Youghal, Ireland,
formerly occupied by Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, the great adventurer, was recent
ly sold at auction for s6, $50.
So LIGHT is the spiders web that a
pound of it will reach around the world
and then leave enough to reach from
New York to San Francisco.
In Washington county, Ore, a man
named Tongue, who was a candidate
for the Office of state senator, was de-
feated by man named Hare.
FREE baths are advocated in st. Louis
as means of preventing the loss of
about forty boys who annually drown
in the Mississippi at that point.
ENOUGH rain fell on Cove county,
Mo-, during the month of May to have
formed lake ten miles long, two and
one-half miles wide and nineteen feet
deep.
MILES DARDEN, who was living in the
state of Tennessee in 1857, was the
largest man known to history. Clad in
thin summer clothes he weighed 1,O37
pounds.
A FIRST edition of Gray's "Elegy,"
originally published at 1871 cents, has
been recently sold at S295, while first
edition of Walton's Complete Angler
realized $1,000.
| RAILWAY managers of Holland have
found it impossible to get men to work
the switches who can be depended upon
TO let liquor alone, and have therefore
substituted women.
AT Clifton Springs, N. Y, recently,
several languages were used by those
who united in the hymns sung during
the services. 1t must have sounded Just
like opera in English.
MANUFACTURERS of obituary monu.
ments in the United States have the
right to remove their handiwork from
graves in the event of it's not being paid
for within six months.
IT is said that the little island of ia
maica annually sells to this country
sufficient bananas to more than equal
in value the entire American apple,
peach and cherry crop
THE business of preparing shrimp for
the Chinese market is assuming impor-
tant proportions in California. The
shrimps are taken in huge nets, and
boiled in great iron vats.
JAMES MILLER, postmaster at Gauley
Bridge, Fayette county, w. Va, was
appointed by President William Henry
Harrison. He has served continuously