Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
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IHE average size OF an American
farm is 610 acres.
THERE are LOO men employed IN the
Bank of England.
A New YORK jeweler has cigarette
holder worth $3.50.
THE average camel will travel 800
miles in eight days.
TRUcKEE Cal, has child with one
black and one blue eye.
No SHIRT has been elected chief Of
the Umatilla Indians in Oregon.
A BELGIUM viscount has enlisted as a
private in the United States army.
A GIRL in Norway must be able to
bake bread before she can have beau.
IN Buffalo one line of street railway
crosses fifty-four railroad tracks in its
course.
FoRTY-EIGHT stage coaches carrying
the United States mails were held up
last year.
A GENIUS proposes to transmit power
from Niagara to run tbe Worlds fair
machinery.
LARGE number of men in Washing.
ton make their living by writing con-
gressmen's speeches.
THERE are now 81, 7s6 Irishmen in the
British army. In 1860 there were CO..
600 and in 1870 $4,000.
FRANCE ought TO be happy according
to an old saying, for her revenue last
year exceeded expenditures by $40, 0OO,-
900.
JAMES COLE, of Vernon county, Mo-,
has been sent to the penitentiary for
breaking his yife's nose with fence
rail
THE cost of round-trip ticket on
the proposed new railrond between
Joppa and Jerusalem will be about four
dollars.
A PLACE called Pro TEN in Taney
county, Mo-, has lasted now for many
years and bids fair to become per-
manent.
SOME butchers of Ligonier, Pa, made
Christmas sausage siXty-two feet four
inches in length. 1t weighed thirty
seven pounds.
LOUIS KossUTH is very sick at his
home in Turin. He suffers considera-
bly, from asthma, and also has trouble
with his eyes.
SLATE and pencil are not good enough
for the New York school boy. He must
have a letter pad and fountain pen to
do his sums with.
The other day New York city pa
per published a record of 106 deaths,
twenty-seven of them being of persons
over 20 years of age.
BY majority of /, 144 the voters of
the city of Toronto, in Canada, declared
against the running of street cars on
Sunday, and only one newspaper advo-
Gated the change.
THE noted Australian lyre-bird is
threatened with total extinction in
New South Wales, owing to the Ameri-
can demand for it's stail-feathers to adorn
feminine nead-gear.
A RESIDENT of Saratoga, Ark, un-
earthed what is supposed to be the
bones of monstrous serpent. There
were thirty nine Joints and some of
them weighed nine pounds.
STEEL caskets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly on shipboard are be-
ing carried on many of the transatlan-
tic liners. The remains are placed in
them and Theoretically sealed.
PRESERVED as a memento at the
Adams house, Boston, is box contain
ing few cigars which belonged to
Gen. Grant at the time his illness COM
PEELED him to give up smoking.
WHILE James Wilkersou, of Ray
county, Mo-, was being buried, and his
family and friends were gathered at
the cemetery, thieves drove thirty-two
head of cattle from his pasture.
ALL the linen for Princess Victoria
Mays trousseau will be made in Ire
land, her tweed dresses will come from
Scotland, and some of her finer cos.
tunes are to be of English-made silk.
Two colored delinquents in Raleigh,
N. c., were recently condemned to re-
ceive thirty-nine lashes each, and spec
tators were admitted to witness the
whipping at twenty-five cents head.
The gate receipts went to the prison.
ers.
ELLEN TERRY's signature is worth
exactly los, Cd sterling. She placed her
name, unsolicited, on some 1Sd photo.
graphs of herself at an Edinburgh fair
the other night, and the price of the
pictures at once advanced to one guinea
each.
AT the auction sale of autographs in
London. the other day, letter of Ad-
elina Patti, in which she declares that
everybody is madly in love with her,
brought only eleven shillings, and doc.
uments signed by Richelieu went for
two shillings
SECRETARY ELKINs has in West Vir.
ginia a house which is described as one
of the finest country residences in the
south. 1t contains ninety rooms and
commands superb view of the sur
rounding country, which is exception.
ally beautiful.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFoRD points out q
strange error in the Encyclopedia
Britannica, which, confounding state
legislation in Virginia with national
enactments, states that the United
States congress had passed seventy acts