Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-30
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printed in Arabic.
In Cazenovia, N. Y, horsepower
fire engine is in use.
PADEREwsKI, the pianist, practices
from six to eight hours daily.
WOMEN used to wear nightgowns.
Now it is dream robes that they wear.
THERE are twenty representatives in
congress who are under thirty-six years
of age.
A PLOT has been discovered to depose
the sultan of Zanzibar in favor of the
prince of Muscat.
PRINCE GEORGE, son of the prince of
Wales, will, it is announced, visit the
Worlds fair in 1898.
THERE were at the beginning of last
year s,O97 artesian wells in the western
states and territories.
SECRETARY ELKINs is said to have
more daily callers than any of the war
ministers since Stanton.
PATTI has watch no greater than a
ten-cent piece in circumference, which
is said to be worth $1,000.
THE De Reszkes, Jean and Edouard,
took away s125,OOO of American money
when they sailed for France.
A BLACK man has been sent to Jail for
two weeks in Lexington, Mo-, for curs-
ing and swearing on the streets.
a STEAM plcw at work in Cheyenne
county, Kan, tears up the earth at the
rate of two and one-half acres an hour.
A PARTY of lads entered the Harrison
vile On. J.) cemetery few nights ago
and turned over twenty-one tomb
stones.
Col. ROBERT G. INGERsoLL stepped on
the Astor house scales the other day
and tipped the beam at exactly 231
pounds.
The weather in Florida during the
past winter has been remarkably bad
and very discouraging to natives and
visitors.
SEvENTYFIvE per cent. of the older
trees on Boston common are afflicted
with slow consumption, caused by the
too compact soil.
IT is reported that the opera and
Patti seasons have resulted in a net
profit to Abbey, Schoeffel s. Grau of not
far from 100000.
SENATOR and Mrs. Leland Stanford
have homes in San Francisco, Sacra-
mento, Menlo Park, and at two of the
Stanford ranches.
THERE will be building at the
Worlds fair where woman can leave
her baby and get check for it while
she sees the show.
| ALBERT WAKEFIELD, Bangor's veteran
lawyer, wears a pair of calf-slin boots
that he has had since 1861, and they are
| in good condition now.
EX-Gov. NEWTON BOOTH, of Califor-
MIA, is slowly dying at his home in Sac
ramento of the same disease which end
ed the life of Gen. Grant.
A YOUNG man hypnotized at an enter
tainment in Paris remained senseless
for two days, and was with difficulty
brought back to consciousness.
IT is asserted that the tune of Tiara
ra-boom-de Ray" was known in Europe
four hundred years ago. No wonder
Columbus set out to find new world.
The people of Paris have consumed
within the year 21,201 horses, 229
donkeys and 40 mules, the meat weigh.
ing, according to the returns, 4,615 tons.
New YORK has 1000 saloons, or one
for every 200 people. Placed in a
row and each given twenty-five feet
they would reach distance of thirteen
miles.
SUSPENSION bridges which were built
in the time of the Han dynasty (202 B.
c. to 220 A. d. are still standing: strik.
ing examples of early oriental engi.
neering skill
A GERMAN importer of immigrants
has offered to settle 100000 Germans in
the northwestern territory of Canada
but wants price per capita for all
whom he lands.
BECAUSE the jurors disagreed in a
murder case in Philadelphia recently,
the judge told them that they were a
disgrace to society, and were defeating
the ends of justice
To FIND the relative distance of the
sun and stars, suppose the earth and
sun but one inch apart. At the same
relative distance the nearest fixed staI
would be just eleven miles away.
THERE is a dentist in Rome named
Fra Orsenico who has been known te
extract 400 teeth a day without the use
of forceps. He makes use of his thumb
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THE discovery is made that the Alaska
soil and climate are peculiarly adapted
to hop-raising. An Oregon syndicate
has purchased large tract near Fort
Wrangle and will plant it with hops.
A BLUE and white ginger-jar, of the
period of Kang-ee, brought S3,050 at the
American Art gallery sale. 1t had 6
silver corner of more recent time, but
there was no ginger in it of any period
SALT does not enter into the food o1
the poor Venetians. They never taste it
and the hospital for the scrofulous chill
dren at Lido is filed by those who have
not had this necessary article ia theil
food.
The little fve-year-old king Of spair
J has civil list of 81, ,450,0 600 yeaI Eli,
eldest sister, now about nine years o,
, age, has fixed income of $40, 900
Ex-Queen Isabella receives $3.50, 900 pei
: | annum