Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-09
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AN inverted rainbow was seen few
days ago near jefferson, Ia.
New YoRKERs propose 10 go to the
Worlds fair in private yachts.
THERE is falling off of 500 in the
registration of women in Kansas.
The city of Philadelphia is sued for
100000 by heirs of Benjamin Franklin.
BISMARCK used to say that Salisbury
was pine lath painted TO look like
iron"
EMPEROR WILLIAM is planning to go
whaling excursion off the coast of
Norway.
IT will take two years to complete
the ironclads the United States is pre-
pairing to build
THE school children of Japan on one
day of the year are taken on a rabbit
hunting frolic
A "PooR RICHARD ALMANAC" of 1858
sold for $50 Mt an auction in Philadel-
phia a few days ago.
A "CuILDREN's TEMPLE" is to be erect
ed at Camden, N. j., attached to tho
Trinity Baptist church.
A GROW with only one leg, and upon
that leg only one toe, was q curiosity
shot recently at Lenoir, N. c.
PREMIER LoUBET said France would
not tolerate politics from the pulpit,
and would close offending churches.
PROBABLY the only monument to Co
lumbus in the United States is in Balti-
more, and was erected 100 years ago.
THE decree prohibiting the export of
wheat meal from Russian ports on the
Azof and Black seas has been repealed.
IT was the Boston Courier man who
discovered that "a chaplain in peniten-
tiary never has to exert himself to hold
his audience"
A COCOON of well-fed silk worm will
often yield thread 1000 yards long,
and one has been produced which con-
tanned 1,295 yards.
AN Eskimo village, inhabited by from
fifty to seventy-five natives of the frozen
regions, will be one of the sights at the
Worlds exposition.
B. f. HULL, on his place near Orlando,
Fla, has grape fruit tree 81 inches in
circumference, and an orange tree 4S
inches in circumference.
A MONKEY in the Philadelphia zoo
tried to commit suicide by cutting his
throat with piece of glass, after his
mother had whipped him.
In prosecuting her mission for the
lepers of Siberia, Miss Madden has trav-
eled 1000 miles on horseback and has
secured $4,000 for a hospital.
QUEEN MARGHERITA, of Italy, will
lend her famous collection of laces to
the Chicago worlds fair. 1t is said to
be one of the finest in the world.
PULLMAN. daughter Julia selects the
names for all of his sleeping and palace
cars, and he is said to pay her $1,000
year for the exercise of her ingenuity.
THERE is scheme afoot to create
greater Boston by including sixty-eight
towns and cities in one vast metropoli-
itan district, with Boston as the hub.
SPECIAL treasury agents seized day
or two ago, in Chicago, over 5000 sets
of false teeth that had been smuggled
in from Germany by woman dentist.
THE new clock being made for st.
Pauls cathedral in London will have a
face thirty feet in diameter. The ham
mer which strikes the bell weighs $50
pounds.
The people of Rome get their supply
of water, which is said to be remarkably
pure, from the Apennines through an
aqueduct that was constructed 1000
years ago.
REV. Mr.. TwIGG, of Middletown,
Mo-, is not only al eloquent preacher
but also Il skilled trapper. He has just
sold s99.75 worth of skunk skins of his
own catching.
Cool as cucumber" is scienti6cal-
ly correct Investigation shows that
this vegetable has temperature one
degree below that of the surrounding
atmosphere
WOMEN from the land of Isabella will
find sisterly welcome at Chicago. A
Spanish club has been organized by a
number of Chicago women who speak
that language.
UNDER 100 of the wills probated dur
ing last year in this country, the be-
quests for religious, educational and
charitable purposes have amounted to
about s7,OOO,OOO.
JOHN H. INMAN, the richest man of
the south, was a drummer toy in the
confederate army, and when the war
was over he did not have cent or
friend to help him.
A LOCOMOTIVE, drawing four passenger
coaches, has recently done mile in 394
seconds on the Reading road, which
would come very near to 100 miles an
hour if maintained.
NOT even charming wife and big
salaries for lecturing can keep Henry
M. Stanley from Africa. He will go to
the Congo again next summer, it is re-
ported, to look after new interests of
the independent state.
SENATOR GALLINGER, of New Hamp-
shire, who was once printer, has ac-
cepted an invitation to deliver the dedi-
catory address at the ceremonies incident
to the opening of the Printers associa-
ton at Denver in May.
LEMONS are used for soap in many
countries where they grow. When the
men and women of the East Indies want