Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

dealers in Central America.
THERE are thirty towns called Wash
ington' in the United States.
A SCHOOL of law is soon to be opened
In Toxic for Japanese women.
New YORK has s,162 dwellings which
contain over ten families each.
SAM JONES was paid 5000 for preach
ing three days at Richmond, Mo.
IN Southwestern British Columbia
there are fully 1000 wild horses.
HEN PECK valley is the name of n set
tlement in Marshall county, Kan.
NJ. DEIDLER, the veteran executioner
of Paris, has beheaded 220 persons.
A STREAM near Tucson, Ariz-, petri-
fies all soft substances thrown into it
AMONG the nobility of England
twenty-one per cent have no children.
GUAvAs are becoming quite an article
of export from Manitee river, Florida.
QUEEN VICTORIA has cabinet of Rose
du Barri china which is said to be worth
$4,000
Mrs. TED LON is to open school in
Japan for teaching the native women
of her rank.
For the first time in years in North
Carolina there are no convicts at work
on railroads.
THE original "Declaration of Inde-
pendence" is in the state department in
Washington.
The girl of the period is to inhs bit an
1t is known as vest.
The harvesting of wheat in South Da-
kota is about over and the reports indi-
cate an average yield.
THE emperor of Austria has ordered
the newspapers of the empire to quit
talking about the cholera.
THERE are said to be ,142 patent rem
edies for cholera in the list of the
United States patent Office.
AMONG the Digger and Ute Indians
there is no edible so highly esteemed
as the common grasshopper.
GERMANY has decided to adopt the
American grapevine, because exoeri-
ments show it to be phylloxera proof
The democratic nominee for congress
in Texas, Judge Pascal, has mustache
that measures sixteen inches from end
to end.
THE other day St Paul surge on
made an incision into a woman's neck
and recovered the false teeth she had
swallowed.
The democrats at a judicial conven-
ton at Carrollton, Mo-, broke the rec
ord, nominating Judge Rucker on the
5,G45th ballot.
New YORK dealers have taken adv an
tage of the cholera scare to advance
and even double the prices of nearly all
kinds of disinfectants.
RoCKLAND (Me. burglars accidentally
dropped a roll of bills amounting to
$3.50 in Mr.. Robinson's house and went
off without any plunder.
IT is said that the gate receipts at
the New Orleans fights foot up about
s156,000, of which $4,000 goes to the
management as net profits.
A SYNDICATE of American capitalists,
it is said, will buy the volcano Popo-
catepetl, in Mexico, to mine it's sulphur
and sell the ice from its peak.
The fish commission steamer, the
Albatross, has brought from Alaska an
assortment of black bass, with which it
is proposed to stock the waters of Pugct
sound.
SURFACE indications point to a grea
oil basin in the hathead country ia
Washington, and an attempt will be
made to prove its existence in paying
quantities.
ENGLAND is reaping a rich harvest by
reason of cholera on the continent. All
the tourists and many native French
men and Germans are summering on
the island.
THERE is nothing SO potent in causing
the average American tourist to awaken
to sense of the scenic glory of his own
country as visitation of cholera tc
foreign countries.
PROF. BARNARD, of Lick Observatory,
announces the discovery of a fifth satel.
lite of Jupiter. The discovery is con.
sidered one of great astronomical i'm.
portance and marked distinction fol-
America.
THE latest triumph of Yankee inven-
tive genius is an India rubber fish
worm. 1t is said to be remarkably
good imitation of the common earth
worm, is indestructible, and in actua.
use proves as alluring to the fishes a.
the genuine article.
A STRANGE custom is followed by
Mexican farmers. They use oxen o.
one color in the morning, and another
color in the afternoon. They do no'
known why; but they know that i
must be the right thing to do, because
| their forefathers did it.
On the occasion of the episcopal jubi
lee of the pope next year, there will be
700 priestly pilgrims from the United
States, besides many hundreds from
other ports of North America and from
South America, attended by numerous
bishops and archbishops.
CHICKENS have been acting as gol6
collectors for j. A. McConville, of Butte
Mont In one chickens crop and giz
zard he found some gold nuggets. II,
therefore killed the remainder of hi
brood, thirty-one in number, and fount
in them gold to the amount of $751;
A MARVELLOUS lake is reported t,
have been discovered in the mountain