Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

summoned to meet on February IS
TIE railroads will expend $40, 900, 000
in preparations for the Worlds fair.
The Athenians, it is asserted, suffer
ed from an epidemic of the grippe 500
years B. c.
JACKSON county, Mo, has citizen
bearing the wholesale grocery name OF
Coffee Rice.
REV. JOSEPH Cook, of Boston, is
mentioned in connection with the pro-
hibition nomination for president this
year.
| THE pope hopes to be buried in the
Lutheran by the side of Innocent III,
whose tomb has just been finished
there.
| IT is said that company is being
organized at st. Louis. Mo-, with ST.
900, 900 capital stock, to fight the Amer
lean Tobacco Co.
| THERE is an attempt on the part of
the Edinburgh ladies to raise money
for the erection of statue to Mary
| queen of Scots.
THE first overhead trolley electric
street railroad in England is under con-
struction in the suburbs of Leeds by
an American company.
THE male defendant in breach of
promise suit in Randolph, Mo, has
compromised for 5000, although jury
awarded the lady $1,000.
SINCE Patagonia was divided between
| Chill and the Argentine republic, it
| has been developed into a wonderful
| country for sheep raising.
A TRAMP was struck by train the
other night on the Pennsylvania road
| and on his person was found bank
| book with credit of S305
The prince of Wales has begun to
sign himself Edward" instead of "Al-
bert Edward" indicating that when
king he will be Edward III.
The proposition to choose U. S. sem
| ators by popular instead of legislative
election is under consideration at both
ends of the national capitol.
TEwFIK PAsHA, the late khedive Of
Egypt had but one wife and the
notices in the dispatches of his harem
refer to the companions and servants of
| his wife
The Russian navy consists at the
second-class ships, SO third-class ships,
and 20 vessels of the fourth-class, or a
total of 1872 vessels.
PROBABLY the youngest woman evan
gelist in the country is Fannie Edwards,
a fifteen-year-old Louisville girl, who
has been preaching the gospel to Ten
nessee mountaineers
THE grand total of charitable be.
quests in England during the past year,
excluding Baron Hirschs 10000. 600
for Jewish emigration, was S15, OOO 600,
as against Sll, 500, 900 in 1899.
THERE has just died in Poland a once
celebrated beauty, who refused the
hand of Napoleon III. She was the
Princess Helene Sagonsko, and died
unmarried at the age of fifty-seven.
BosToN has a new law which prohib.
its the driving of vehicle nearer than
fifteen feet from the one in advance of
it. Street car drivers are arrested for
violations and fined five dollars for
each offense.
FELIX NICKEL, a French horn player,
valued his ability to pucker up his lips
at So, 600, and because his lips will not
pucker as they used to he has sued q
New York firm, whose wagon struck
him, injuring his lip.
THE fire losses of 1891 in the United
States and Canada foot up over S137,
900, 900, an increase of about $50 OOO, 900
over 1890 and SO 900, 600 over 1889. In
twenty-seven of the fires the loss ex-
ceeded 500, 900 each.
THERE is to be a new Prussian
throne. Frederick ]. had one, but Napo-
leon took it off and melted it, and there
are now only two small chairs of small
value.
AN orange tree in a yard in Yuba
City, Cal, has full yield of large ripe
oranges of this seasons crop. and hang
ing among them are a number of Or
anges of the previous year in a good
state of preservation.
IN Texas there is stone about
twenty feet in diameter that has won.
derful magnetic power. 1t is said that
1t will draw hammer or an AK to it's
surface even when placed ten to fifteen
feet away on the ground.
The queen is so favorably impressed
with the picturesque turbans worn by
her own Mussulman attendants that
she has requested Lord Lansdowne to
restore the old-fashioned Oriental head
dress whenever practicable.
THE young blood of Egypt has rea-
son to he entirely satisfied with their
recent change pf rulers. The new lshe-
dive is downy youth in his teens, who
may undertake to compensate for lack
OF knowledge and experience by fertil-
ity of ideas.
PARIS is the finest city in the world,
yet the number of emigrants by suicide
is very large. No less than 800 escaped
that way last year. The favorite meth
ods OF exit among men were by hang
ing, shooting, stabbing, poisoning and
asphyxiation.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has been sued for $40, 900 by New Jer-
sey Methodist Episcopal church, the
congregation of which complains that
one hundred trains pass the church