Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-12-24
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the British house of commons.
The wealth of w. IL. Vanderbilts
sons is estimated at 5000, 100000.
"SouMGULLIoN" is the euphonious
name of n new town in Georgia
THE Egyptian is taxed so cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
In the coolest part of Siberia the
ground is frozen to depth of go feet
IT will cost only eight cents to regis
ter letter at the post Office after Jam
uary /.
ACCORDING to the census 239 of the
904 cotton mills in the country are in
the south.
A PETRIFIED turtle was recently blast
ed out of the rock in quarry near
Atchison, Kas
A MONSTER mountain lion is said to
be soaring people in the neighborhood
of Cortez Colo.
JUSTICE RYAN. of New York, has sent
woman to Jail for throwing eggs at
one of her neighbors.
The trust funds held by the govern
ment for the various Indian tribes ag-
gregate over S24, 900, 900.
A SINGLE row of pearls as large as
peas, and perfectly round, were sold re-
Gently in Paris for 100000.
GEN. DYRENFoRrH is said not to be
discouraged by the failure of his rain
making experiments in Texas
New YORK is so rich that down
town building lot could not be bought
by covering its area with $40 bills
II is said that the New York state
treasury will receive from Goulds
heirs about $3.50, 900 as legacy taxes.
Mrs. LAvINA FILLMORE, of Clarence,
n. Y, q cousin of Millard Fillmore, re-
Gently celebrated her 105th birthday.
Mrs. HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE,
of New York, has been elected chief
of the Six Nations of Indians in New
York.
ALL green vegetables growing above
ground should be cooked in salt water.
Those growing below ground in fresh
water.
IT is no longer housekeeping" in
| Boston. They call it 1.-The science of
oekology," from the Greek word for
house.
AT a recent chrysanthemum show at
! Dalles, Ore, four hundred varieties
of that plant are said to have been eX-
hibited.
OAKLEY RHINELANDER, of New York,
has collection of antique armor that
is said to be the most complete in the
country.
HORSES are so plentiful in Buenos
| Ayres that every body has at least one.
1t is said that even the beggars beg on
horseback.
| THOMAS LINCOLN, cousin of the
| lamented President, is still living in
Fountain Green Township, H., and is 50
years of age.
THREE Englishmen now have statues
in Frauce-Lord Brougham at Cannes,
Jenner at Boulogne sur-Mer and Shak-
speare in Paris.
The title her royal highness" means
something in the case of the crown
princess of Denmark. She is six feet
three inches tall.
SAMUEL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tin
peddler," is the legend inscribed upon
the card of Russian commercial trav-
eler in Connecticut.
THE first aluminium microscope, weigh
ing one-third as much as brass micro
scope, has been exhibited to the Royal
Microscopical society.
A WOMAN in Ohio has churn which
has been in her possession for fifty-ive
years and which has made more than
$4,000 worth of butter.
CHIEF JUSTICE Turney, Governor-elect
of Tennessee, will not resign his pres
ent Office, and will appoint his own
successor after his Inauguration.
GRAY wolves are reported to be play.
ing havoc among the stock in Elk
mountain country and along the
Cheyenne river in South Dakota.
MINERALoGIsTs now exploring north.
ern Thibet claim to have discovered
valuable mines of gold and many varie.
ties of the richest precious stones.
The anniversary of Washington's
crossing of the Delaware is to be OBJ.
served this year on Christmas day, a,
Trenton, by the Sons of the Revolu.
ton.
Mrs. INCREASE SUMNER, Starke, Fla.
raises her own tea She gathers three
crops year, and the bushes furnish hel
tea which in China would cost 4 large
sum.
"GILsoNITE," variety of mineral
wax, contains eighty per cent of car
bon or asphalt in its pure form. The
Utah vein is three feet wide and mile
in length
AT cost of five years labor anG
more than 81, 500, 900, the four-mlle tun
mel under Lake Michigan at Chicago has
been completed and is now ready to re
ceive water.
Miss VIOLA FULLER, of Mitchell
S. d., will present to the Chicago
Worlds fair unique opera cloak. Il
is made entirely of the feathers OF
prairie chickens
NINE. DIAz, wife of the Mexican pres
ident, is organizing an orchestra o
torty-fve Mexican women, which sh,
will send to the Chicago exposition a
her own expense.
| TUE most COSTLY niaca of "a ilrond lin,