Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-06

| this season.
Bishop MEssMER, of Green Bay, is one
of the few Catholic clergymen who
wear beard.
The ST. Louis chief of police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city TO be
photographed.
SENATOR EUGENE HALE is one of
three purchasers of an immense lumber
tract in Maine.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent 81, 200, 000,00 on her
army and navy.
A VANDAL1A (Mich.) farmer killed
twenty-three rattlesnalles in his hay
field in one day.
WILLIAM SPooNER, of Milan, Tenn,
who had lived for years in a hollow
tree, died lately.
AT present Mr.. Cleveland weighs
$50 pounds and his girth is more ample
than ever before.
Mr.. GLADSTONE first spoke in the
house of commons on May II, 1888,
fifty-nine years ago.
The combined weight of three
peaches seen in New York market
lately was seven pounds.
CHICAGO authorities have ordered the
removal of all nickel-in-the-slot ma
chimes from public places.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION will produce
his long expected memoirs in the course
of the next sixteen months.
CANADA has about 5000 Chinese in
habitants, and the number is increas-
ing at the rate of 800 year.
Mr.. NICHOLS, the husband of Char
lotte Bronte, is still living, it is report
ed, in a remote part of Ireland.
In Morgan county, Mo-, is an onyx
deposit which forms the floor of a cave
for distance of 100 yards or more.
HIRAM LUKENs has been setting type
in the office of the Doylestown PA
Intelligencer ever since June 81, 1882.
A MYSTERIOUS ringing of electric bells
| in house in Switzerland was traced to
a spider, whose web had connected two
wires.
THERE are 1T5 different pieces in the
average watch, requiring in its manu-
facture !, 400 separate and distinct oper-
| ations
A REPORT is in circulation that the
Rev. George Jacob Schweinfurth thinks
strongly of moving his Heaven" to
| Texas.
AMONG the new cadets at West Point
are a son of Gen. John Pope and grand
sons of Gen. Sherman and Gen. c. +.
Smith.
DANIEL LAMoNT's physical condition
is very alarming, and the possibility of
his return to health is questioned by his
physician.
The late Jules Lebundy, the great
Paris sugar refner, left fortune equal
to $40, 600, 900, probably the largest for
tune in France.
The most expensive legislature in the
world is that of France, which costs an
nually $780, 900. The Italian parlia-
ment costs s43o,oOo year.
The region about the Dead sea is one
of the hottest places on the globe, and
the sea is said to lose million tons of
water day by evaporation.
THE largest bell in the world, the ia.
nous "Giant of Giants" at Moscow,
has a circumference of IS feet, is 81 feet
high and weighs 443, 772 pounds
THE electric wires in Pittsburgh are
to be buried within four years, at the
v
agreement goes into effect August l.
Mrs. Edison, the wife of the man who
has applied the electric light to do
mestic purposes, prefers candles to
any other form of household illumina-
ton.
AN enterprising Philadelphia pub.
Usher contemplates bringing out an
edition of Shakespeare in words of
one syllable for use in the primary
schools.
Gov. PECK, of Wisconsin, was once
humble printer, living on back street.
He now lives handsomely in the house
in which Ole Bull, the famous violinist,
once lived.
SOME New York hotels have now
regular woman guide and chaperone
connected with the establishment for
the convenience of ladies visiting the
city alone.
SOME of the electric street railroad
companies of Brooklyn are equipping
their cars with storage batteries, having
found the plan of stored electricity per-
fectly feasible.
IT is now given out that the cruiser
Cincinnati will lie launched in October.
1t is said her engines and machinery
will be the most powerful put in the
cruisers of her class
GERMANY is building new double
track strategical railway between Carls-
ruhe into Lorraine to be completed
eorly in 1895. The bridge on which it
crosses the Rhine will cost four million
marks.
THERE are three places known where
green snow is found. One of these
places is near Mount Hecla, Iceland,
another fourteen miles east of the
mouth of the Obi, and the third near
Quito, South America