Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-10
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stone park, in Wyoming.
THE slaughtering of cattle by cleo
tricity is practiced in Scotland.
SAwDUsT compressed into blocks is
used for building purposes in Germany.
THE University of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia, has a hospital for sick
dogs
In Saxony about 20 per cent. of the
workingmeu earn less than $3.50 per
year
QUEEN VICToRIA's new dining-room at
Osborne cost 100000. She paid for it
herself.
a A New YORKER is reported to have
killed himself to escape the annoyance
of flies.
A BOX turtle has been caught in
Rhode Islard that is supposed to be $50
years old.
The youngest man in the British
house of commons is % years old; the
oldest, 90.
DECATUR, Ala, has one Negro alder
man, one Negro justice and two Negro
policemen.
A RESIDENT Of Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
killed himself in despair because he was
a slave to cocaine.
A woMAN's tombstone is the only one
In England upon which the epitaph is
written in shorthand.
GEN. DYRENFoRTn is at Pierre. S. D.,
trying to draw rain from sky that has
been dry for month.
JAPAN is shaken 500 times year by
earthquakes and has 700 stations erected
for observing seismic shocks.
A MARINETTE, Mich. family which
has run out OF names has christened
the latest arrival "Thirteenth."
DURING August the treasury depart
ment sent out between 100000
and $1,000, 600 to move the crops.
GRATED CLANS stewed in cream with
.ruffe chips and herbs, masquerade at
Narragansett as Neptune salad"
Mr.. SUNDAY, who has beennominated
for congress in an Illinois district, Is
the well know ex-base ball player.
The queen regent of Spain is opposed
to bull-fghting, and is doing all she
can in quiet way to discourage it.
BUTTERFLIES to the number of 100000
will be shown in the Pennsylvania ex.
hibit at the Worlds fair at Chicago.
A GAsrRoNoMIc fad at Newport, R. l.,
is serving only the wings Of roast
chicken, the part held to be the best.
SIR LYON PLAYFAIR, just elevated to
| the peerage, married in 1876 an Amer
lean lady, Miss Edith Russell, of Boston.
| PROVIDENCE is to have permanent
exhibition of Rhode Island industries,
and in connection school of technol-
ogy.
THE Columbia river contains trout
with large red spots on their bodies.
They have been named Dolly Warden"
trout.
THE people of the United States read
and support as many newspapers as
England, France and Germany COM
bined.
! FRENCH florists are cultivatinga plant
which bears flower that is white in
the morning, red at noon and blue at
night.
TAwAs CITY, Mich, sold SCI 1000 worth
of huclsleberries and left $4,000 worth
in the woods to rot Pickers were
| scarce.
| ONE million dollars in gold coin would
weigh 3,6S5S pounds. The same amount
of silver coins would weigh $685. 8
pounds.
A recent report shows that of 100, ,174
regular soldiers in the British army
serving at home, but 1888 are natives
of Ireland.
DIR. DANIEL w. SHEA, of Harvard,
who was invited to take the chair OF
physics in the University of Chicago,
has accepted.
| SEvENTY-FIvE rats We're caught in
traps at the treasury department in
Washington one day last week and
were drowned
THE longest canal in the world is the
one which extends from the frontier OF
China to st. Petersburg 1t measures
in all 4,472 miles.
BARONESS BURDETT-CoUTTs, although
so years old, avows an intention to come
to the Worlds fair at the head of the
philanthropic section.
ACCORDING to United States statistics
farm land in New Jersey is rated at al
average of s65 per acre, the highest ot
any state in the union.
A CALIFORNIA judge decided that the
day of execution having passed, a con
aemned murderer is dead in the eyes Of
ahe law, though not hanged.
1T is said that one reason why Vice
President Morton sold his splendid villa
ut Newport was that his wife never haG
good health while living there.
A FRENCH prince advertises that HI
desires to sell his title and arms, ''ths
whole guaranteed by authentic parch
ments of the reign of Henry w."
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, though still
under the care of his physician at hi,
home on Staten Island, is reported to b.
recovering his health very rapidly.
u. r. SIGLER, an Adrian Mich hor
t;culturist, is the father of new vari
ETY. of tomato called Ponderosa. A fai
specimen of them weighs two pounds.
i, WHEN the Turk goes to his mosque +
worship he keeps his hat on, as h
, thinks he would be unbecomingly ia
miliar with divinity if he removed it.
SAMPLES of tea grown and cured a