Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

BELGIUM is now declared to be the
most temperate country in Europe.
The London geological garden con-
tains now no less than 8, 100 animals.
The policy-shops of New York lost
| nearly 100000 on 4-11-44 the other day.
AN Oregon farmer boasts of tobacco
stalks which measure six feet in height
MoNGoLrAN pheasants are being kill
| ed by the hundreds ia Lane county,
| Ore.
ABOUT twice as much power is requir-
| ed to stop an express train as to start
| one.
THE costliest dresses in the world are
said to be worn by the women of Sum-
| atra.
In Samar beehives hang in the form
| of oblong globes from the branches of
trees
VIRGINIA has just awarded contract
for handsome state library in Rich
| mond. d.
THERE is room for just five more dead
in the poets corner" of Westminster
abbey.
| To EVERY 1000 men in the British
army only eighteen are over six feet in
height.
| For the first time in years in North
| Carolina there are no convicts at work
on railroads.
FRANCE is to have new subsidiary
coinage, which is to be of some metal
besides copper.
| Rev. ANDREW JONES, colored, is in
Chicago prophesying the destruction of
the city by flood
SOMEWHAT more than 1000, 600 Cana
dians have crossed over into the United
States since 1881.
BETWEEN the years 1852 and 1856 over
two thousand persons fell victims to
brigands in Italy.
| LORD TENNYsoN married at the age
of forty-one. His wife was u niece of
| Sir John Franklin.
BY the law of Missouri a third con-
viction for larceny carries with it i'm
prisonment for life.
SOME New York people have taken to
putting Grape on the walking stick as
well as on their arms.
In order to collect pound of clover
honey, bees must deprive 81, 900 clover
blossoms of their nectar.
A PARTY near Tina, Mo-, advertises
pasture for turkeys, as he has large
lot of grasshoppers on hand.
j. l.. DOUGLAS, of Humboldt county,
Cal, is the possessor of beard reputed
to be forty-seven inches long.
AMONG the wealthy classes of Japan
it is considered undignifed to ride a
horse going faster than a walk.
A MARRIAGE by proxy, in which the
bride was in England and the groom in
Mexico, was a recent sensation.
In Hebron, Conn, is an apple tree
that was planted 125 years ago, and
still bears good fruit each year.
THE Chinese are to have an $4,000
tea house at the Worlds fair, with
pretty Chinese maidens to serve the tea.
ONE of the new cruisers will have q
smokestack ITO feet high. An English
mail steamer has tunnels 100 feet high
A CHICAGO newsboy has been fined
for crying sensational news" that did
not appear in the paper he was selling
SOME of the English journals are adj
vising that the custom of appointing a
so-called Poet Laureate be discontinued.
PoMERoY, Wash, boasts of curiosity
in the shape of n carrot. 1t resembles
a human hand having five fingers with
nails"
IN China wealthy people buy their
coffins long before they need them, and
exhibit them as ornamental pieces of
furniture.
A DOCTOR in St Augustine, Fla. y,
owns the oldest house in America and
lives in it, too. 1t was built in 1860 by
a Frenchman.
The Japanese government is said to
have provided for visit of g 600 of its
middle class citizens to the fair in Chi
cago next year.
IT will take three years to build the
two next warships that the government
contemplates, one being 5000 and the
other 8, 900 tons.
The president has appointed Fl. G..
Lanyon, of Kansas, an alternate COM
missioner from that state to the Worlds
Columbian exposition.
AMOS GINKs, who is 1O7 years old,
lives at Wellingsborough, Northamp-
tonshire, England. His age is verified
! by the registry of births.
: A PHILADELPHIA soft drink cafe dis
plays sign reading: 'Try one of our
Columbus egg posphates and you will
discover another world"
The Marine City (Mich.) Magnet
tells of mushroom found in that town
that filled bushel basket and weighed
fourteen and half pounds
: ASTRONOMER PICKERING reports Jupi-
ter's first satellite, $500 miles in diam
eter, 'egg-shaped and revolving end
over end in the orbital plane"
A DENTIST in Elizabeth, N. j., has
been directed by the local courts to pay
1856 damages to a woman whose jaw he
; broke while pulling one of her teeth.
The fastest train in the world is the
Empire express, which runs between
New York and Buffalo, distance of Az
, miles, at the rate of ffty-two miles an
, hour.
! IT is said that Corporal Tanner has
! cleared nearly $500, 900 from his bushes.
q as pension claim attorney since he wal