Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-14

on the lips as the greatest insult, even
from their own husbands.
THREE hundred and fifty seats are to
be reserved for the daily press at the ma
tional democratic convention.
AsAFETIDA is said to be favorite
article of diet with the Hindoos, who
use it in all kinds of puddings.
The authorities of Meran, in the Aus
| trian Tyrol. have forbidden the outdoor
wearing of long trains by women.
AT Quito, the only city in the world
on the line of the equator, the sun sets
and rises at o'clock the year round.
THOMAS JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, the
newly appointed minister to France, is
a great-grandson of Thomas jefferson.
The first Negro novelist has appeared,
Miss Sarah E. Faro, of Chicago, awom-
an of good education, aged about twen-
ty-siX.
A MAN in Liberty, Me-, who is five
feet and seven inches in heighth, has
beard six feet and three inches in
length.
The widow of the late British Post
master-General Fawcett is said to be
one of the best platform speakers in
England.
IT is said that Patrick Mccarthy, a
Brooklyn man, lived to be 101 years old
without experiencing the effects of a
toothache.
TEE colored population of New En-
gland increases so slowly that the race
appears to be becoming decadent in
those states.
IT would take forty years for all the
water in the great lakes to pour over
Niagara at the rate of 1000, 900 cubic
feet n second.
The private in the German army is
paid 80 per month, or cents day,
| out of WHICH cents is deducted for
mess expenses.
APPLIANCES connected with a marine
railroad in Elizabethport, n. j., render
it possible to haul 1,500-ton vessel out Of
water in nine minutes.
A MAN who enlists in the United
States regular army may hereafter, if
he chooses, wear n cravat. Hitherto he
has been denied that privilege.
SAMUEL LANE, of Gardner, Me-, ought
to know something about rural justice,
AL lC las pCCll a JuSIlCC VI IhC DtdCc
for fifty years without a day off.
A WEST PHILADELPHIA clergyman re-
Gently received an envelope containing
an old-fashioned copper penny as his fee
for performing a wedding ceremony.
AN eagle measuring ten feet from tip
to tip of it's outstretched wings was
captured at Riverside, n. j., few days
ago, after attacking Il child and large
calf.
THE Grand Duke Paul, of Russia, is
so tall that he is obliged to carry his
bed with him, as he can not find one at
any hotel long enough to hold all of
him.
THE great Astor property in New
York is practically entailed, and in the
hands of trustees; no Astor has more
than u life interest in the income of his
share.
GERMAN railway directors are expert.
menting with rails made of paper,
which are said to be as superior to steel
rails as paper carwheels are to those
made of iron.
SAN Francisco has an earthquake.
proof hotel. 1t is constructed of iron
and in the form of two hollow squares,
one within the other, arranged so as to
brace each other.
AT Lubbenau, in Prussia, it is said
that small, reddish-brown mice have ap.
peared in great numbers in the fields
and are destroying everything. The
cats will not touch them.
CHILL, with an area of 299, ,97O square
miles and population of 100000, pro-
duces 81 900, 900 bushels of wheat, "a
100000 gallons of wines and other
things on like scale yearly.
A CRIMINAL arrested near Hunting.
don, Pa, has already served eight terms
in the penitentiary since the war, and
during that period has only enjoyed in
all a year and half of liberty.
MoNzoLU, who says he came from the
Garden of Eden, is creating sensation
by his preaching among the Negroes o.
east Tennessee. He claims to be Zulr
king, and in support of this wears rec
shirt, Turkish fez and an ivory ring
through his nose.
VAssAI college is to have new Ii
brary, the gift of Mr.. Frederick Thomp
son, of New York, for whom it is named
1t is built of brick, with gray stone
trimmings, and will cost SIT, 1000. A new
students hall is to be erected by thu
college, and is arranged to accommodate,
100 students.
MILE. PAULINA, native of Queens
land, Holland, is said to be the smalles
human being in the world. She il
nearly l6 years of age, her height i
| eighteen inches and her weipht sever
pounds. Unlike most of the "midgets
she is remarkably pretty and accom-
plished, speaking four languages flu
emily.