Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

to he living i'll France.
EvrRy fifth boy in India is at school,
but only every fifteenth girl.
THE average number of persons quar-
tered in the houses of Berlin is fifty.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS bequeathed
his estate, valued at 100000, to his wife
IT cost over 5000 recently in legal
fees in South Carolina to settle u claim
of 81.
A CHICAGO man has sued his doctor
for $50, ,00O for breaking the drum of
his ear. ais .-'t .aH
THERE is pumpkin vine in North
Topeka sixty feet in length and still
growing.
The democratic wheelmen of Nashua,
n. H., have formed bicycle campaign
company.
The largest pyramid in Egypt has by
late measurement been proven to be
43S feet high.
A New YORK society woman has an
album with photographs of all her cos
TUNES for ten years past.
THE New Jersey court of chancery
has decided that oysters are not real cs-
tate. but personal property.
THE cost of n one-man sea diving ap.
paratus for depth of 200 feet is esti-
mated only to be about S575.
The titles, of the writingsof Mr.. Glad
stone fill twenty-five pages of the Brit
ish museums printed catalogue.
AT the castle of Simonetta, Italy,
there is an angle in the building which
re-echoes pistol shot siNty-one times.
A 20 Df
New York offered the state authorities
100000 to aid in keeping out the cholera.
INDIA rubber trees grow wild all over
Lee county, Fla. At Fort Myers they
are the chief shade and ornamental
trees. r-aH.
A LARGE police force is required to
keep visitors from despoiling Whittiers
grave, so great is the desire to procure
mementoes.
THERE are pear trees growing about
Monroe, Mich, which were planted by
the first French missionaries nearly 200
years ago.
A MAN 100 years old has just been
committed to prison for three months
in Russia for petty theft. 1t was his
first offense.
THERE are still fourteen different
places on this globe where cannibalism
is practiced, but the custom is gradu-
ally dying out.
THE czar's personal expenses are S9,-
600, 600 year, which is Sc, 200, 900 more
than Russia's annual appropriation for
common schools.
THE Roumanian crown is made of
metal from the cannon that were capt
ured from the Turks by the Roumanians
at Plevna in 1877.
The empress of China carries with
her 5000 dresses when she travels.
These fill 600 boxes and are taken care
of by 200 coolies.
A pIsHwAsHING machine has been for
some time in use in New York hotel.
With two persons to attend it, itwashes
1000 dishes an hour.
The socialistic congress at Tours
passed. among others, resolution for
bidding married women to work out
side their own houses.
IN the four states of Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan and Indiana, there are
1900, SS7 citizens of German birth. OF
these SIS, 900 are voters.
PERHAPS the largest well in the
United States is the Sampson, at Waco,
Tex. 1t is claimed to throw up 800, 00O
gallons of hot water daily.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENDRY, of Greenville,
Mich, are the parents of fourteen chill.
dren. The birthdays of five are De-
| ceinber IL, 13, II, 15 and 16.
IRELAND has only eight theaters-
three for Dublin, one in Belfast, one at
Cork, one in Limerick, one at Water.
ford and one for Londonderry
THE aluminium works in Switzerland
| the largest in the world-uses water
| power of 1900 horse power, and turn
out about 1000 pounds of the metal
| daily
IT has only been eighty-one years
| since the first tomatoes were introduced
| into America The original plant was
cultivated as a vegetable curiosity al
Salem, Mass.
THREE Macon (Ga.) young ladies in 6
fit of merriment waded the Ocmulgee
river, and wicked kodak manipulation
got snap on them; and now they are
sorry they did it.
ID. GARDNER TYLER has been nomi
mated for congress by the democrats o
the Second Virginia district. He is ,
son Of ex-President Tyler, and was borI
in the White house.
AMONG the curiosities seen at tn,
Lake county (O) fair was an old Buck
eye stove, cast at the Geauga furnace il
Painesville in 1924. 1t is probably TIN
oldest cooking stove in the Unite'
States, and will be exhibited at tn
Worlds fair.
TIE only known lady chime-player
it is stated, is Miss Bertha Thomas, as
sistant organist of Grace church, Net
York. She doesn't have to climb int
the steeple to play the chimes, whicl
she handles from below by the aid o
an electrical device.
BRICKS made of plaster of paris an
cork are now used in the constructio
of powder mills. In,case of eXplosio
they offer slight resistance, and ar
broken to atoms.
LAST year New York CITY eXpende