Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-10-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

public schools in Scotland.
CROCODILE silk, rs it is called, is a
modification of the polka dot.
THE British Medical association now
admits women doctors as members.
LIEUT.. PEARY claims to have estab-
lished Greenland's northern boundary.
A MAN of Macon, Ga, has n $40 note
of the state of North Carolina printed
in 17SS.
THE Esquimaux at the Worlds fair
are to live in huts built on the cold stor-
age plan.
DALLAS, TEX, didn't have any NOS
quitoes until the railroad was built
through it.
ST.. Louis is to have fifty miles of Tel
ford pavement which costs four dollars
per front foot
ONLY eight per cent. of the T3, 1000
paupers in American almshouses last
year were Negroes.
FLoRIDAs state building at the
Worlds fair will be reproduction of
old Fort Marion.
THERE is colored couple in Camden,
N. j., who have thirty-two children, all
of whom are alive and well.
RUSSIA has herself contributed slT5,-
900, 900 to alleviate the sufferings of her
famine-stricken peasantry.
AMONG the relics to be exhibited at
the Worlds fair is necklace which
once belonged to Pocahontas
The Amazon Indians use blow pipe
with which they blow an arrow 200
yards with wonderful precision.
THE school children of Pennsylvania
will observe Columbus day, October 81,
by the planting of Columbus trees"
AN eel with skin of a beautiful gold
en- color has been added to the collec-
tion in the London Geological garden.
JOHN HAMMOND, a Negro of Hamil-
ton, ILL, has just located his mother,
from whom he was sold in slavery days.
THE lower part of the Hudson river
is Swallowing because of brick dust and
broken bricks thrown from canal boats.
The Kaisers baby girl will be chris
tened in Berlin on October 22. 1t is said
that she will be named Princess Marga-
ret
The "cabin boat" once common
craft on the Upper Mississippi, is dis
appearing with the wild duck and the
muskrat.
THERE is project on foot in England
to buy Tennyson's birthplace, Somers-
by rectory, and turn it into a charitable
institution.
AFoUBTEEN-YEAR-oLD Buckley (Wash.)
girl committed suicide few days ago
because her parents compelled her to
attend school.
ONE ocean steamship agent says his
company is losing $4,000 and another
s15, 900 n week by the suspension of inn
migrant traffic.
PROF. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL says
that before the Worlds fair is opened
Chicago and New York will be con-
| nected by telephone.
ANOTHER land war is threatening in
Ireland, owing to popular missappre-
hension as to the liberal policy of re-
storing evicted tenants.
ONE Topeka woman took premium
FOR suspenders at the Kansas state fair
and another carried off the prize for
the most ancient bonnet.
A BLACK pearl necklace worn by Lady
Leicester at recent entertainment is
said to be worth $685. 900. There is only
| q single row of the gems.
A RIVERSIDE (Cal.) man has succeed
ed in extracting from ten pounds of
orange peel oil in the proportion of fifty
| pounds to one ton of peel
FLORENCE BLYTHE, worth $4,000, 900,
the daughter of an old gypsy of San
| Francisco, has just come of age and
| married a poor insurance man.
BLoNDIN, the celebrated tight rope
walker, who is sixty-eight years old, il
| still in the business. He has lately been
making great success in Europe.
SIR JULIAN PAuNcEFoTE, the English
minister at Washington, is a versatile
musician as we'll as litterateur. His
favorite composition is the "Sybilla
| Waltz"
MAY WHITE the young school-teacher
at Stockbridge, Mich, who has been
asleep for year. is waking up. She is
very weak and has wasted away from
14S to 5S pounds Her mind is almost a
blank.
| THE elevation Of Denver, Col. being
5,370 feet-over one mile-above sea
level, makes the atmosphere rare, dry
and clear, there being on an average
less than six days each year without
sunshine.
The Dismal swamp in Virginia, one
of the largest of the swampy tracts in
America, is one of the most promising
areas for reclamation. 1t contains fully
1900 square miles and is at present OF
little value, except for supply of tim.
ber
The amount of coloring matter in a
pound of coal is enormous. 1t will
yield enough magenta to color 800 yards
of flannel, vermillion for 1850 yards
aurine for 120 yards, and alizarine
sufficient for 155 yards of Turkey rec
cloth.
CHINAMEN have been addressed by the
Six Companies and urged not to submit
TO the provisions of the Geary law. Al
appeal to the emperor of China to inter
fere has also been made.
The salt mines of Nevada throw inte
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