Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-12
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at the rate of S13, 900, 600 a year.
IT is said that when Victorien Sardor
langhs he is the ugliest man in Paris.
IN Australia no newspapers are pub
lished or railroad trains run on Sun
day.
AN Albino lobster was captured re.
Gently in the Atlantic off Eastport,
Maine.
| 'RoCK," n hog butchered the other
day at Yardville, N. j., weighed 07S
| pounds
TREASURY officials deny that England
has agreed to participate in monetary
conference.
GIRL burglar, six years old, was
captured at work the other night n,
Milford, Mass
HUNDREDS of imported song birds
were turned loose a few days ago near
Beaverton, Ore.
A PHILADELPHIA ragman found a
Greek grammar EOS years old in an ash
barrel recently.
A RAILWAY in the Argentine Repub-
lie has one stretch of 211 miles without
curve or bridge.
FIFTY.oNE metals are now known to
exist. Four hundred years ago only
seven were known.
A CREMATED body leaves residium of
only eight ounces; all besides is restored
to the gaseous elements.
WALKING sticks, to be fashionable,
should show little or no metal. The
natural sticks are preferred.
The theaters of London are now
f,,, I'D
prevent the spread of the grip
A PHILADELPHIA saloon has sign in
the window which reads: "A bi-chlor-
ide-of-gold sandwich with every drink"
A MOUNTAIN in Australia was named
after Mr.. Gladstone last year. Another
has now been named Mount Sails
bury.
The only really happy monarch in
Europe just now is the king of SPAN,
and he is not CID enough to know any
better.
In proportion to it's population New
Hampshire stands first among all the
states in the amount of its savings bank
deposits.
A BLIND black eel was found in
pond in Maine recently and sent to the
United States fish commission as
curiosity.
The new German army tent is divisi-
BILE into two portions, each of which
can be converted into an overcoat in
case of rain.
MEXICO will enforce the collection of
an export duty on ores, in order to in
duce the ablishment of smelters in
that country.
WITHIN five years electricity has revo.
lutionized the welding of metals and
cheapened the production of aluminium
over so per cent
PROF. VIM. MCADAMs, of Alton, Ill
dug up bundle of fossilized vegetation
which he estimates had been buried
nearly 1000 years.
JULES VERNE predicts the invention
of "telephote, that will enable peo-
pie at the distance of thousands of
miles to see one another.
REPRESENTATIVE CoGswEIL. of Mas.
sachusetts has introduced bill to es.
tablish a national sanitarium for the
treatment of consumption.
A SISTER of Cardinal Manning, Mrs.
Austen, has survived him, and, al
though over ninety years of age, she is
still active in charita BILE and benevolent
work.
j. Fl. JOHNSON, of Blakely, Minn.,
advises farmers to build their own
hour-mills. They can then get ST. a
bushel for their own wheat SAYS Mr..
johnson.
A NEW diamond is being cut in Ant.
werp said to be the largest ever found
IN Africa 1t weighs 400 carats, and
when it is finished it will be reduced
one-half
A RECENT pamphlet on the railways
of London states that there are 256
railway stations within siX-mile ra.
dius of St Paurs cathedral and 391
within twelve-mile radius of the same
center.
Two hundred and fifty electric rail.
ways are running in the United States,
embracing ., 024 miles of track and s, $50
motor cars, with 174, 4S6 horsepower.
These railways represent a value of
over $40 000 600.
KNOWLEDGE is power likewise money.
A French economist has been charged
IN the chamber of deputies at Athens
with receiving enormous pay from
French syndicate for his services in eff.
forts to depreciate Greek bonds.
lT was the Chinese who invented the
well-known plan of capturing ducks
and other waterfowl by wading toward
them with basket over the head and
dragging them under water before they
knew what had caught them by the
legs
The election board at Neville. Pa,
at recent election ruled that legal
voter must be twenty-one years and
thirty days old, which shut out a young
man who was but fourteen DAYS past
his twenty-first birthday. No explana.
tion is offered.
SENATOR PETTIeREw's first home in
south Dakota was a rough log hut,
which he built with his own hand, at
Sioux City, when he went out there as
iaborer to United States deputy sur.
veyor, nearly twenty-five years ago.