Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-11-19
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(Kns.) 6. A., T. post commander.
A PROMINENT Philadelphia official has
collection of over 100 corkscrews.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, L.Asts of q tomato
that weighs two and n half pounds.
OVER 100000 pounds of tea were
imported into this country last year.
A NEW design in clocks is Cupid hold
ing a heart, in which is the timepiece.
TRENTON, Mo-, lays claim to colored
woman who, it is said, is liz years old.
GENUINE gold and silver coins are
now mounted to do service as bonnet
pins.
The saloons of London, if set side by
side, would reach a distance of seventy
five miles
THE first elevated railroad in Eng
land is fast approaching completion in
Liverpool.
New and valuable halibut banks have
been found to the west of Cape Flattery,
Washington.
ELIZABETH CITY, N. c., has wonder
full freak of nature, it is claimed, in the
shape of live calf with bull dogs head.
+. B. ScHEMERHoRN, geologist,
claims to have found fossil forest in
Custer county, Idaho.
A BOTTLE corking machine, with a
feed reservoir of corks like the magazine
gun, is a recent invention.
Gov. Picks excuse for writing
"Peclk's Bad Boy" is that he was only
fortythree years old at the time.
The largest catfish ever caught in the
Mississippi river was landed near Ca
rondelet. 1t weighed 700 pounds.
The Dry Goods Examiner says 159
pearl button factories were started in
this country during the past two years.
Two pelicans were lately killed in
Jasper county, Mo-, one of them meas
uring nearly nine feet in eXpanse of
wing.
The new whaleback steamer to be
built at Everett, Wash, will be $50 feet
in length, AZ feet beam and 2619 feet in
depth.
WHILE in Maine one can visit Norway,
Sweden, Mexico and Peru, and a post
office has just been named in Knox
county for Turkey.
AN ingenious Indianian has invented
plow in which an auger or screw
mold board is operated by means of q
drive wheel in the rear.
JoNEsBoRo, Ga, has resident who,
it is reported, has only spent IS in the
past six years for clothes. He is said
to be worth over $4,000
AT the head of the Gulf Of Bothnia
there is mountain, on the summit of
which the sun shines perpetually dur
ing June 10, 20, 21, % and 49,
THIS very sage advice was given by an
aged priest: always treat an insult
like mud from passing vehicle; never
brush it off until it is dry"
Miss BERTHE Campbell, of Allentown,
Pa, bet money that she could make 4
pumpkin pie in five minutes She made
a good one in four minutes
AN average of three British seamen
lose their lives every day by drowning,
and 800 British steamers and sailing
vessels are lost at sea yearly.
No INSTITUTION or device has with
stood ridicule so we'll as the nickel-in-
the-slot machine, which as collector
of small coin is still a great success.
The moth has a fur jacket and the
butterfly has none because the noctur-
nal habits of the moth require it The
diurnal movements of the butterfly do
not.
AN automatic match igniter is a re-
cent novelty. You pull a lever, n match
travels along roughened surface and
is then thrust out of an opening already
ignited.
A PHILADELPHIA woman goes shop
ping with baby carriage which is
pushed by small colored boy in livery,
and she returns with it loaded with
parcels.
New ZEALAND has set apart two
islands for the preservation of its re.
markable wild birds and other animals,
forbidding therein all hunting and
trapping.
SENATOR HoAR, who sailed for Eu.
rope in May on account of serious
trouble with his eyes, has returned in
good health and with his sight greatly
improved.
A CHAIN made for the United States
government at Troy, N. Y, in 1888, was
six miles and fraction in length. 1t
| was made of bars of iron each 21l inches
| in diameter.
SIX brothers of the Frost family at
Kansas City own the following odd lot
of names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost,
White Frost, Cold Frost, Early Frost
and Snow Frost.
A SLEEPING car company official
states that fifty dozen whisks and sixty
dozen combs are used up on his cars
every month. This is suggestive of the
memento gatherer.
| THE Cotton marble works have just
quarried what is claimed to be the
largest block of marble ever taken out
in California. 1t is reported to be II
feet in length, feet inches in width
and feet inches thick.
IT is asserted that there is not liv
ing stream of water in Thomas county
Kan, nor a tree of natural growth. AL
the same the farmers there don't fine
any trouble in raising wheat that turn.
out thirty bushels to the acre.