Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

| pSSh OlsCONSTeu III L 0llduelpIlla.
SEvEN-EIeHTHs of the bread used in
London is made of American wheat.
JUDGE WELLHoUsE, of fremont, Kas.
has an orchard containing 1,o7s acres.
INDIANA has two cabinet officers, and
the cabinet has two Secretary Fosters.
Col. ELLIOT f. SHEPARD is building a
million-dollar house near Scarborough,
N
MAINE woman conducts large
foundry and engine works at Dunkirlx,
N. Y.
OVER 100000 postal cards are nee
essary to meet the daily demand in this
country
The Eiffel tower is said to be eight
inches higher in hot than in cold
weather.
A MISSOURI man ate eleven dishes of
ice cream and did not die till week
afterward.
MAN was arrested at Lawrence,
Kan, the other day for stealing a ride
on street car.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in England to
secure the ultimate canonization of Car
dinal Manning.
ONCE every eight years the locks on
the United States mail bags are changed
to insure safety.
| ST. PAUL is the first city to make no
distinction in the wages of male and
female teachers. .
| The greatest distance covered by
steam vessel in one hours run is fixed
at twenty-six miles.
AN ordinary day coach weighs about
| $4,000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh
about $4,000 pounds.
WELLsvILLE, Mo-. has twice as many
d ogs as inhabitants. 1t has lao resi-
| dents and $3.50 dogs.
THE old-fashioned notion of a ring
in the brides cake is being revived at
fashionable weddings.
WHILE there are now about 1000, 600
Jews in the United States, there are
over 5000, 600 in Russia.
The largest Masonic library building
and the only Masonic library in the
world are at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
IT is proposed attempting to stamp
out tuberculosis in cattle in Denmark
by vaccination with Koch's lymph.
A FARMER living near Rockport, Tex,
has been married twice, and is said to
be the father of thirty-eight children.
ONE of the Partisan newspapers is re-
ported to be experimenting with type
made of glass, with gratifying results.
A CALF with only three legs is the
oddity that attracts scores of visitors
to the farm of John Rinker, Lehich
county, Pa.
The original portrait of Pocahontas,
painted in 1912, now the property of
Londoner, will be exhibited at the
Worlds fair.
KANSAS has four cities in which the
vote of the women is larger than that
of the men. One entire set of council
men is women.
POLITICAL riots and campaign fights
still continue in Ireland, and the candi-
dates for parliament have to invoke
police protection.
GERMAN man of science saws that
the lands in G ermany devoted to grains
used in beer production would support
50,000,0OO people.
A MALE beauty is wanted as the
model for Worlds fair picture. The
picture is to adorn the dome of the hor-
ticultural building.
IT is stated that among every LOCO
bachelors there are thirty-eight Grim
inals; among married men the ratio is |
only eighteen per 1000.
IT is proposed to rear insects for or. |
namental purposes the same as foreign |
flowers and plants are acclimatized in |
lighthouses and gardens.
A BRASS BAND in New London, Conn,
announces that it has received two new
dirges and is prepared to play at fune-
rails at the lowest figures.
THERE is n sign on the entrance to a
cemetery at North Wales, Montgomery
county, Pa, which reads: mo admit,
tance except on business"
GEN. BIDwELL, prohibition candidate
for president, is a native of Ohio, and
like Harrison, Reid, Cleveland and
Stevenson, Presbyterian.
JOHN A. BRAsHEAR, of Allegheny CITY,
Pa., the astronomer and manufacturer
OF telescopes, was once laborer in one
of the Pittsburgh iron mills.
CALL has been issued for a conyen-
tion of confederate veterans to meet in
Columbia, ). C., on July 10 to organize
a grand army Of confederates.
THERE is very curious word in the
dictionary that is spelled lizard, and
means small French silver coin, a dap
ple-gray horse and a balsam poplar tree.
THos. l.. CLINGMAN, of North Caro-
lima, senator before the civil war and
a confederate general in that struggle,
is still living at the age of eighty years.
KING OSCARS refusal to allow the es-
adjustment of separate Norwegian con-
sulates has caused widespread feeling
and demonstrations of disapproval in
Norway.
A SOLID gold brick, weighing 500
pounds, and worth S15O,OOO will be ex-
hibited in the Mines and Mining build
ing at the Worlds fair by "a Helena
Mont mine owner.
The new Kansas state house, on
which over s., 100000 has been expended,
and which is not yet completed, is said
TO be in danger of falling down, owing
10 poor material used