Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-05-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

operative boot mill.
SCARLET is the mourning color for
unmarried women in Brazil
AMONG birds there are few better
fighters than goose, or a gander more
particularly.
In Hungary there are thousands of
villages and hundred of small towns
without doctor within ten miles.
In Wales 10O,O 900 coal miners are idle.
Many were on April l6 offered an ad-
vance of 12 cents per day to return to
work.
FRANCE pays in pensions every year
20, 600. 900 francs, of which %, 900, 900
are subtracted from the salaries of
officials
A RED CROSS society, $50 in number,
has been formed in Berkeley, Cal. Its
members have rendered their services
to the government
THE sultan of Johore on state occas-
ions glitters in diamonds, the value of
those in his crown and worn upon his
person being not less than 92, OO0,O
A WOMAN, Mrs. Marion L. Garmory,
of Rockford, ILL.,, headed the list at the
recent examinations of applicants for
admission to the bar, held at Ottawa,
Ill.
CLARA BARTON is 6s years old, though
those who know her best can be hardly
made to believe it. She says she has
no intention of being put on the re-
tired list.
THERE is now building in England a
cable-laying steamer with carrying
capacity of 5000 tons of cable. This is
twice the capacity of any cable steam
er now in service.
The Turkish soldiers will incur
death rather than submit to amputa-
ton, because they believe that one
vhose body has been so mutilated can
not enter paradise.
THE gilded coach of the lord mayor
of London weighs four tons, and was
built in 1857, long before carriage
springs were in general use. The body
hangs on four straps.
LAW passed by the Ohio legisla-
ture provides that when street rail-
roads consolidate they shall not charge
more than one fare for a continuous
trip over the consolidated lines.
JAMES d. GIBSON, a blind man of
Seattle, Wash, has made his plans to
go to Klondike. He intends to let his
horse guide him over all the dangerous
places, and says he has no fear for his
safety.
A sIGNALMAN on the British cruiser
Taurango on the Australian station,
has been court martialed for striking
an officer and sentenced to three years
penal servitude and dismissed from
the service.
A NEW kind of cloth is being made
in Lyons from the down fhens, ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make rather more
than a square yard of light, water
proof cloth.
The Swedes and Norwegians carry
their loose cash in immense pocket
books; some of these have been in use
for two or three generations and con-
tain almost enough leather to make
pair of boots.
WILHELMINA c. SCHLATTERER,
graduate of the Bellevue Training
Schoul for Nurses, has given up her
intention of returning to her home in
Germany, and has volunteered as
Red Cross nurse.
THE daisy did not grow in the south
ern states until after the civil war
The explanation of it's appearance
there is that the seed was transported
in the hay sent from the north to feed
the army horses.
EX-SENATOR CoNGER, of Michigan,
who has been resident of Washing.
ton since he retired from the senate
some ten years ago, enjoys with Bis
marck the distinction of having been
born on all FOOLS day.
The metric system has been adopted
by the Russian government The only
important countries which have not
adopted the decimal system of weights
and measures are the United States
and the British empire.
GERMANY is now the best educated
nation of the continent, yet only 100
years ago German teachers in many
parts of the country were so poorly
paid that they used to sing in front of
houses in order to add to their income
by odd pence.
LONELY gentleman, who was mat
rimonially inclined, sent to the New
VI II PooI OlllCC d 1CIICI WIN llllS SUI
prescription: Forward or give to a
widow, aged 80 or over, with dark
brown hair and eyes; height 8 feet .
inches; name unknown.
ALASKAN babies are rubbed with oil,
tightly rolled in skin or blanket pad
ded with grass and bound with deer.
skin thongs, which are undone but
once a day, when the grass is fresh
ened. If the baby cries he is held un-
der water until he is still.
A FRENCH writer has ascertained
that Napoleon's favorite dish was bean
salad, and that he held that 90 cents a
day ought to be enough for any ones
meals. Louis XIV, on the contrary,
had favorite dish, made of the eggs
of various birds, which cost 500.
MISS MARY E. GARRETT, of the well
known Baltimore family, has endowed
the Bryn Mawr female college with a
European fellowship" which is in
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