Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-23

wood; it turns the edge of any AK, how
ever well tempered.
NEIL BYRANT, one of the once famous
troupe of minstrels, is u government
clerk at Washington.
TWELVE members of the senate have
been governors of states, and five have
been cabinet officers.
IHE German emperor is said to have
posed before a camera 40 times since he
assembled the throne.
GEO. M. PULLMAN gives his daughter
Harriet one hundred dollars for naming
each new Pullman car
LAKE MICHIGAN boasts of n gospel
ship that makes a tour each year to the
lake villages and cities.
The longest journey taken by anv
European train is from Paris to Con-
stantinople, 1857 miles.
AT the beginning of the present wear
166,s1T miles of railway were in opera
tion in the United States.
Miss ADELINE NJ IRLsoN retires from
the Cambridge, Mass, corps of teachers
after fifty years of service.
NIECE of the late James Russell
Lowell, Miss Ruth Burnett, is soon to
become a Sister of Charity.
FOUR pounds of gold were recently
collected from the SCOT of the chimney
| OF the royal mint in Berlin.
COLUMBIA river contains trout covered
with large red spots They have been
named Dolly Warden" trout.
The constitution of Louisiana per-
mits women to hold any office in con-
nection with public education.
JOHN c. FREMONT, son of the famous
NPathtidner, is acting as reporter at
the scene of the Homestead riots.
IHE Presbyterians are about to es-
taolish college in st. Lake City, and
have purchased site of 100 acres.
a SOUTH JERSEY paper makes the re-
markable statement that thin people
are very thick in this neighborhood."
The Chinese, Japanese, Malavs.
Siamese, New Zealanders and the North
American Indians are all but beardless.
Bishop JOHN +. HURST, of the Meth
odlst church, is to be married in Sep
tember to Miss Ella Agnes Root. of Buff
falo
SECRETARY OF STATE FOSTER is the
only man in the nations diplomatic his
tory who has held three first-class mis-
sions.
The Arkansas City Traveller thinks
that the Fourth of July is all right, but
that the 9TH of July ought to be abol-
ished.
No bird can fly backwards without
turning; the dragon-fy, however, can
do this and can outstrip the swallow in
speed.
IHE price of reserved seats at the Sui
hvan-Corbett fight in New Orleans has
been fixed at $50 each, and chairs at
S25 each.
FEW lovers of Walter Scott recall the
TACT that he wrote five plays, none of
which, however, has ever been put ON
the stage.
GREAT BRITAIN has two lady lawyers,
Miss Frances II. Gray and L-titia Walk
ington. Both are Irish women and ma
tives of Belfast
DANCING is taught in many of the
public schools in Scotland, and made a
feature of the closing exercises at the |
end of the term.
IHE longest canal in the world is the |
one which extends from the frontier of |
China to st. Petersburg. 1t meas
ures in all 4,472 miles
IHE largest county in the United
States is San Bernardino county. Cali
fornia. 1t is over 400 miles long and
half that distance in width.
THE longest straight stretch of rail-
road without curve, is on the Aroen.
tine Pacific. From Buenos Ayres to the
foot of the Andes, 2i1 miles.
BEATRICE VEHoN, Chicago girl of
French parentage, has achieved nota-
Die triumph as singer at the Royal
court theater at Stockholm.
A KEG OF paris green was found in
the well of the tenant house on Edward
Chars farm near Woodbury., N. j.,
when the well was cleaned out.
IHE highest point of railway in the
United States is on the Denver and Rio
Grande railway. At Marshall Pass this
road attains an elevation of 10, $50 feet.
A BUFFALO IN. " man proposes to
furnish the Worlds fair with an attrac.
tlon In the shape of collection of
snakes lie claims to be able to show
as many as 1000 different varieties.
IHE largest grain elevator in the
world was built at Minneapolis June
tion In 1885, The main building is 1886
feet long, 92 feet wide and l75 feet high.
Its storing capacity is 1000, 900 bushels
of grain.
DOG at Canaveral, Fla, was bitten
IN three places by rattlesnalee short
time ago Fourteen spoonfuls of gun
powder were given it internally, and in
side OF two days the dog had entirely
recovered