Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-09
CURRENT TOPICS.


MASSACHUSETTS has abolished her
poll-tax as prerequisite for voting.
A NATURALIST says that Of all ami
mails the horse has the acutest sense of
hearing.
In Austria women are employed as
hod-carriers and are paid at the rate of
twenty-five cents day.
Four pounds of gold have been col
lected from the SCOT of the chimney OF
the royal mint in Berlin.
A PENNSYLVANIA has gone into the
business of raising Angora cats, and
charges S15 for one kitten.
THE greatest plague ever known Wis
tied Naples in 1856 and carried off $780,
600 people in twenty-eight weeks.
THE steel rail mills of this country
have now orders on their books for $780,
600, 900 of rails, deliverable this year.
Mrs. ELIzABETH BERKMAN, a resident
of Plainfield, N. j., is descendant of
Rubens, the great painter. it is stated.
THE Irish parliament existed for over
800 years. 1t was extinguished III 1901
at the time of the union with Great
Britain.
AN old continental hat worn in 1887
is the treasured relic of Coatesville
(Pa-) gentleman. The hat belonged to
his uncle
AN Albany young man is under ar.
rest for attempting to steal a diamond
ring from n jeweler to give to his girl
for Christmas.
CoNFLAGRATIoNs for the fire insur-
So fp,
the life insurance companies are eating
into insurance profits.
AFTER Seattle man had spent So, ZOO
and travelled extensively for ter months
to recover his voice, it came back to
him without costing a cent a few days
ago.
A NORTH CAROLINA man claims to
have been married twice, and that he is
the father of 81 children, and although
but So years old has great-grandchil-
dren.
THE curious news comes from Bonn
bay that an epidemic of cholera has
broken out among shoals of sharks,
those terrible monsters that infest the
Indian ocean.
A MEMBER of New York china firm
says the very latest fad in New York
society is for all of girls intimates to
send her teacups on the announcement
of her engagement.
WASHINGTON is still the haven of
honeymoon tourists, and it is also a
great town for weddings the percent
age of marriages there being greater
than in other cities of it's size.
CAPT. N. d. GIDDINGs, who went
West, grew up with Nebraska and be-
came her first congressman, has re-
bounded little. He is now Justice
of the peace at Savannah, Mo.
LAWYERS still predominant in con-
gress, as probably they always will.
There are 212 mem mbers of the present
session who have at one time or another
practiced law, while 65 are farmers.
ENTERPRIsING newspapers are ex.
ceeding the proprieties in trying to get
up yellow fever scare. The grip and
| other prevailing winter diseases are
amply sufficient for the present time.
THE new edition of the Bible which
Prof. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins,
has undertaken will have among its
| editors several Jewish scholars, two OF
them Talmudists, said to be of the first
rank.
| THE Australian ballot system, which
was introduced in the United States
five years ago, has been adopted in
thirty-three states of the union, eigh.
teen of which fell into line during the
past year.
| SENATOR WALTHALL, of Mississippi.
does not go to roost with the chickens
exactly, but he retires at o'clock, and
as he awakens and sips his matutinal
coffee at 4, it is question whether hit
or the lark is up first.
| CHRISTINE NILssoN's husband, the
Count De la Miranda, has been appoint
ed Spanish minister to Stockholm, and
the peasant singer of former days will
return to her native home with the
rank of embassadress.
A YOUNG Boston business man, who
now commands salary of $4,000, wen'
through Harvard on $500 year. He
says Harvard is the poor as we'll as the
rich mans college, and that he did no
find it difficult to live on So week.
A MONTHLY periodical of New Yorl
city announces that it is ready to sup
ply the public with literary pa bulum
secular or religious, "by the pound"
says: 1--WE will send five pounds o
reading matter prepaid for one dol
lar"
The splendid mansion in Paris, whicl
Mrs. Maclay has owned for some years
is to be offered for sale at auction, tn,
upset price being S24o,OoO. Its from
windows and portion of its court com
mand noble view of the Arc de Tri
omphe.
4ra recent fair in Chicago, given b,
the First regiment, there was livel.
voting on the disposition of doll thre
feet high and beautifully dressed
Baby" Mckee received 1892 votes
and Ruth Cleveland 1,O0s. The dol
was therefore sent to the White House
JOSEPH JEFFERsoN's son Charles, in
stead of going on the stage, has pre-
ferred to act as business manager fo
dramatic companies He is conductin
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