Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-02-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

Rock (Kan.) man.
CEYLoN will spend $40, 600 on an ex,
hibit at the Worlds fair.
FRANCES last torpedo boat made
twenty three knots and half in bad
sea
CRIMSON and the old magenta red
will be the fashionable shades next
season.
THERE is weed in Northern Or
egon which renders horses that eat 1t
insane.
THERE are only 20, 600 people in Ice
land, but they print eight newspapers
on the island.
1t is said that the best Welsh scholar
living is an English woman, Mrs Ann
Walter Thomas
GEN. ANNENKoFF is at work on the
plan for a canal between the Black sea
and the Caspian.
AN Augusta (Me.) dentist is credited
with having taken gas and extracted
one of his own teeth.
The average duration to human life
is said to be increasing at the rate of
ten years each century.
and Berlin, distance of 700 miles,
through pneumatic tubes.
A BILL before the Illinois senate pro-
vides for only women jurors in coro-
ner's inquests on women.
L. w. WEBSTER, of Beckwith, New,
attempted to kick horse and while
doing so broke his own leg.
A YELLOW dog with two toy balloons
keeping his tail taut stampeded Phila-
delphia shoppers the other day.
ARTIFICIAL teeth are SO much in use
nowadays that it took 40, 600, 600 of them
to supply the demand last year
RossINfs centenary occurs on Febru-
ary 80 and the day will be extensively
observed in the large Italian cities.
The Scotch parliament passed law
permitting women to propose to men
during the reign of Queen Margaret.
THOMAS A. EDISON was born forty
five years ago, in Alva, o., the town
from which he gets his middle name.
ALONG the coast of the United States
during the past fourteen years there
have been 16, 1913 casualties to vessels.
In cases where nature intends that
insects shall feed on flowers at night,
the flowers they select are all of white
color.
PORTUGAL, which has the population
of Pennsylvania, with a smaller area,
has nearly as large debt as the United
States.
JOSEPH FRANCIS, founder of the
United States Life Saving service is,
at the age of ninety, writing his auto
biography.
Mrs. MILLER, twenty years of age, is
courageous deputy marshal in the
Indian territory. She shrinks from no
fatigue or danger.
The energy of stroke of lightning
is estimated by Carl Henry to be equaN
to that of a 100 horse power engine
working ten hours.
A MAN in Long Island has discovered
a way of feeding vanilla beans to his
hens SO that the eggs are distinctly
favored with vanilla.
There are 400 widows of confederate
soldiers on the Georgia state pension
list. This pension fund entails in
Georgia an annual tax of $500, 600.
BLESSED are the merciful" is the
text that is engraved upon the cross OF
st. George, which was presented by
Queen Victoria to Florence Nightin.
gale.
BosToN is considering three plans fol
q new city hall One would cost 81, OOO,.
600, another 81, 400. 600, while the pres,
ent structure could be enlarged for 81,
400, 600.
NURsERYMEN now sell trees on the
fifteen-year plan-that is the nursery.
man is to receive choice of any two
crops grown on the trees inside of fif
teen years in payment of the trees.
MISS MATHILDA PHILLIPS. the only
sister of Adelaide Phillips, and hersell
noted opera singer, lives in the fam
ily's old homestead at Marshfield
Mass, the old home of Daniel Webster
A sTERNLY just English magistrate
fined a grocer at Wolverhampton, 6
pound and cost for weighing the paper
in with some sugar and charging the
buyer for a full pound of sweetness.
WHITE tar is one of the latest inven
tions or discoveries. 1t will not become
soft under the SUMS rays in any eli
mate and is expected to be used large
ly in calking the deck seams of fine
/ yachts.
IT is figured out that if the entire
population of the world, comprising
l,400 600, 900 people, were divided into
families of five, Texas could furnish
each family with half acre lot anG
have plenty of land to spare.
So MANY spurious works by old mas
ters and celebrated modern artists have
been palmed off lately in Europe tina
the belgian police are doing their ut
most to. discovery the factory. which
has been located in that city.
THE watchmakers of Switzerland, a
q recent convention in Berne, decided
to make an exhibit at Chicago of thei
finest and costliest watches, but not t,
attempt any competition with Ameri
can manuf acturers in cheaper grades.
AN English method of keeping tn,
dainty embroidered cover of the toile