Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

Gently sold at the rate of over R1 T50,-
600 per acre.
The Francis Scott Key mansion, in
Georgetown, D. c., is soon to be turned
Auto a hotel.
Mrs PARNELL, mother of the Irish
agitator, has sold her property in
America for $32, 600 and will live
abroad.
SOME of the tops with which the Chi
nese amuse themselves are as large as
barrels. 1t takes three men to spin
one, and it gives out sound that
can be heard several hundred yards
away.
MORE than 1000 pairs of shoes will
be saved by the changes in the British
army regulations, by which the sol
diers may wear their shoes until used
up, instead of having a new pair issued
at stated intervals.
THE Princess of Wales is an even
tempered woman, who always looks
the same. She has no gray hairs, and
her complexion is still good; but there
is certain sadness in her expression
that is ineNplainable.
THE investigation of the disaster
which recently cost so many lives in a
coyl mine at Pittston, Pa, reveals the
fact that the mine was unsafe and
known to be unsafe at the time it was
reported safe by the inspector.
LADIES in London and the south are
now decorating their bicycles with
flowers. The idea really comes from
Italy, where the front part of the little
victorias on the Pincian or in the Sas-
cine are crammed with gay blooms.
A VENERABLE Wilson county, Kan
sas, veteran, who not only served all
through the war, but still staggers
Along under burden of the name of
Iegrand Ferdinand Hortus Scortus
Marin, is restricted to pension of Sc
month.
ANYONE can discover the difference
between butter and oleomargarine,"
kaid an expert. "If the article is put
in a frying pan and it is not butter it
will not become brown, neither will it
make the article that is fried in it as
brown as butter will do"
RECENTLY train of 20 cars, all load
ed with wheat, was hauled over the
Pennsylvania lines from Erie to Balti-
more. The train was equipped through
out with air-brales, and is said to have
been the longest train thus operated in
the history of railroading.
THE severe itching and smarting pro-
duced by being poisoned with ivy oak
or dogwood may be relieved by wash
ing the parts affected with a solution
of saleratus water-two teaspoonfuls to
pint of water-and then applying
cloths wet with extract witch hazel.
EUGENE has returned to England
from trip to the scenes of her child
hood in Spain. She had not been in
Granada for some years, but recognized
many of her old friends, and was de-
lighted by her visit to her birthplace.
The eX-empress is in excellent health.
The new watch is to have phono-
graph cylinder hidden away, and at
the hour and at each quarter of an
hour tiny voice will be heard giving
you the exact time. You will simply
touch a spring, hold the watch to your
ear, and the little fairy on the inside
will whisper the hour
THE emblems of royalty of the queen
of Madagascar are slightly different
from those of the English queen. They
consist of three scarlet umbrellas,
which are held over her majesty when
she sits in her palanquin of state.
This palanquin was gift from the
late emperor of the French.
A BATH (Me.) young woman church
member who played cards from Z
o'clock until 10 one evening and died
the next morning, gave Rev. f. w.
O'Brien the occasion to denounce card
playing and also to express the conclu-
sion that the young woman, though in
the church. was not saved.
HANS SCHLIEssMANN, the wcll-known
Vienna caricaturist, has sent half
dozen letters to artists and authors of
his acquaintance, writing on the en-
velope only Mr." and then adding
tiny sketch of the person in question
and the destination of the quarter of
the town in which he lives.
SIGNoR MANUEL GARCIA, the teacher
of Jenny Lind, Catharine Hayes and
Nine. Marchesi, began his ninety
second year recently. Signor Garcia
is still hale and hearty and instructs
private pupils in London. His debut
II ANSW ioih Iooh pidSC ~ years dBO.
He retired from the stage in 1929.
A LOCK of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair.
cut when on the BeYerophon and sent
to Mr.. Capel Loft by the count de
Milleraye, with note, in 1916, brought
$50 at a sale of rare books and histor-
ical relics, that included also a fine
illuminated book by Flemish artist,
for which the new possessor paid
$500.
PLUcKY Mrs. Louise Cation, of Ian
sing, Mich, is an accomplished and in
dependent traveller. She has just
started for Moscow, taking with her
lot of nine valuable trotting horses
belonging to her husband, a well-known
driver who is now in Russia During
the trip across the United States she
had a sleeping apartment in the stock
car.
WITHIN the past few days permits
have been issued for the erection in
Atlanta, Ga, of two immense office
buildings, each to be eleven stories in
height, and to cost not less than half a
doll ~, f1, 4,