Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

A PHILADELPHIA taxidermist is ap.
propriately named Stuffer.
THERE are about 800 women under
takers in the United States
VARIOUS parts of California, like Aus.
tralia, are plagued by rabbits
AN eight-year-old pianist in Berlin
has taken in So, 600 in ten days.
The turtle lives for nearly century,
and the pike for about 175 years.
ONLY two Americans, it is said, were
naturalized in England last year.
The New York police force is making
active war on the clairvoyants of that
city.
STARFIsH have the power to change
their color to that of surrounding OBJ
jects.
ONLY naturalized citizens will be em-
ployed on Philadelphia public works
hereafter.
SECRETARY HERBERT promises to
strictly apply civil service rules to the
navy yard.
THE eulogy on Blaine in Boston, May
8, will be delivered by Senator Frye, OF
the Pine Tree state.
A DIME museum giantess who died at
Des Moines, Ia, the other day was
eight feet in height.
BosToN's three greatest fires-those
of 1872, 1889 and 1S93-were all rung
from the same boY-52
The widow of Gen. Sheridan went to
the white house the other day to pay
her respects 20 the president.
CRoswELL, Mich, with population
Of 500 souls, has five churches, yet two
more are being talked of this spring.
SECRETARY MORTON is to cut down
the working force of the agricultural
| department and save $4,000 a month.
RECENT census investigations show
| that nine-tenths of the whole gypsy
| population of Europe are in Hungary.
THE king of Greece receives the
smallest pay of any European sover-
eign, his salary amounting to 500, OOO
A FINE herd of buffalo, owned by E.
| M. Hewens, of Chautauqua county,
| Kansas, will be taken to the Worlds
| fair.
A DOCTOR in New York is said to have
just regained powers of speech and
hearing after their absence for sixty
| five years.
THE marquis of Londonderry has the
smallest pony in the world. 1t weighs
! only 16 pounds and at its birth was but
! 1919 inches high.
CoLDwATER, Mich, has factory that
| manufactures a fine cedar" cigar box
| from white wood. The output for 1892
was 29S, 500 boxes.
| THE largest aquarium in the world is
being completed at the Worlds fair. A
| specimen of every fish in the American
waters will be in it.
THE German empress is said to owe a
single Berlin store $4,000. Both the
emperor and the empress are said to be
very heavily in debt.
A LARGE hotel will shortly be built
at Slater, Mo-, by number of colored
capitalists for the accommodation of
members of their race.
Mrs. M. A. HAULENBECK, who has
been a commercial traveller for ten
years, earns $1,000 year in commits
sions upon the sales she makes
| WHAT is known as plug hat is not a
fashionabl article of headgear in Ger
many. In one of the smaller towns it
| 10 "oi II otii W oNCSpS'
| SENATOR MILLS says that for ten
years the railroads of Texas have been
operated at an actual loss of 81, 900, 600
n year to the railroads themselves.
| A MAN at Riverside, Fla, recently
succeeded in extracting from eighteen
pounds of orange peel oil in the proper
ton of fifty pounds to the ton of peel.
A WESTERN Kansas paper says that
ga fine new school-house has just been
finished in that town, capable of ac-
commodating 800 students four, stories
high.
! A. M. CHISHOLM, who conducts a
farm near Hecla, S. D., claims to
own a calf which has wing grow
ing from its body near the shoulder
blade.
EX-SEcRETARY TRACY says that, in
addition to the hard labor and con.
slant anxiety, his cabinet life cost him
about $4,000 year over and above his
salary.
THERE is no Pacific coast representa-
tive in the Cleveland cabinet, and Mr..
Morton, secretary of agriculture, is the
only representative of the territory
west of Chicago.
A GOOD imitation of maple sugar can
be made by favoring ordinary brown
sugar with an extract of hickory bark.
1t is said to be almost indistinguishable
from the genuine.
THE last surviving relative of Aaron
Burr is dead. He was the inventor oi
he Burr hat machine, which made mil
ions of hats in year, and revolution.
!zed the trade.
A BOY at Orlando, Fla, rides a
bycicle and drives a milk wagon at the
,ame time. He rides beside the wagon
ieXterously handling the reins and
guiding the horse.
| WIsooNsIN's colossal Worlds fair
monoIith is likely to remain at its
quarry, for the Legislature doesn't sec
its way clear to order s25, 900 spent tc
remove the shaft to Chicago.
The people of Philadelphia are insist
ing upon the appointment of milk in