Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-01-21
CURREN" TOPICS.

| Ia MS barnyard near Sharon, Pa,
A SINGLE grain of strychnine will
embitter 600, 600 grains of water.
The two richest prima donnas are
Adelina Patti and Sibyl Sanderson.
DETROIT newspaper men not very
fond of Gov. Pingree insist on calling
him Ping"
The bones and muscles of the human
body are capable of over 200 different
movements.
| SURREY, suburb of Boston, has a
horse, Toby" that has myopia, and
wears spectacles.
THERE are said to be fewer suicides
among miners than among any other
class of workmen.
| THE Massachusetts supreme court
has unanimously decided that theoso-
ply is not religion.
| Gen. WHEELER says that during the
past war he used the same spurs he
used in the civil war.
IN Great Britain 10 people in every
1000 keep a carriage; in 1880 the pro-
| portion was only FIVE.
THE largest organ in the world is in
the cathedral of Seville, Spain. 1t has
~" pipes anu llU SJOpS
Gen. MERRITT wears seal ring which
las been worn by the eldest son of
he family for five generations.
PROF. EDWARD G. CoNKLIN, of the
University of Pennsylvania, thinks
monkeys can be taught to talk.
WOLVES are thinning out the deer
At a rapid rate in the North Michi-
gan woods-faster by far than hunters
do.
FRED A. ROBINSON of Philade phia,
collects zhimal freaks. He owns a
seven-l sgged COW and three-tailed
rat.
Miss LuCINA GAGE is New York
heroine. She carried her aunt down a
fire escape, saving her from burning
building.
oN an average each inhabitant of
France consumes SO quarts of wine in
year. In Paris the average con-
sumption is 1876 quarts.
For wager a local barber entered
the den of two forest-bred lions in a
menagerie at Ely and there shaved the
tanner before big crowd.
AMONG the saleswomen of New York.
Mrs. Richard Croker enjoys the reputa-
ton of being the kindest and most con-
siderate shopper in the city.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago the United
States produced 20 per cent of the cot
ton of the world; to-day she produces
SO per cent. of the worlds cotton.
MRS. c. p. HUNTINGTON, of New York.
has given the means for new girls
dormitory at the Tuskegee normal and
industrial institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
IHB first woman has just received
her degree of doctor from the Uni
versity of Berlin. She is Miss Elsa
Neuman, and gained it "cum laude"
PROF. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, the
inventor of the telephone, arrived in
Japan on Dece mber 5, and is receiving
many attentions from the Japanese.
CocoANUT shells make excellent fuel.
Ihe enormous amount of oil they con-
ain causes them to take fire at once.
Many hotel keepers in England recog-
nlze the fact and buy large quantities
of them to mix with coal, as fire-light-
ers.
MILAN has a curiosity in clock
which is made entirely of bread. The
maker is native of India, and he has
devoted three years of his time to the
construction of this curiosity. The
clock is of respectable size and goes
well.
THE largest price ever asked and paid
for single pearl was S55O,OOO, which
was the value of the Great Tavernier
pearl. 1t is the largest and most per-
feet gem of its kind known. 1t is ex-
actly two inches in length and oval
shaped.
A SIMPLE protective seal for bottles
is formed of glass cup nodded at the
end of the neck to prevent the inser-
tion of corkscrew until the cap is
broken, the cork being compressed and
inserted through slot in the side of
the neck.
1T is estimated that from 1901 to 1888
the world has produced IL, 700, 900, 900
tons of mineral, of which 1O,6O1, 900, 600
tons were of coal, 1875, 900, 900 of iron,
612, 0OO 600 of gold quartz, As, 900, 600 of
silver ore, $4,000, 900 of copper and SO,-
O00 900 of lead ore.
The mustache first became common
in the British army at the beginning
of the present century. The hussars
adopted IT, and not long afterward the
lancers. 1t was not until the Begin
ming of the Russian war that the in
fantry adopted the mustache.
THE ruins of Babylon have for years
been the searching grounds of anti
quarians and Others. 1t is said that |
visitors to these wonderful ruins have
recovered over 400 diamonds. Many of
them are uncut and the majority ara
polished on one or two sides only.
The states in which the death penal
ty is forbidden by law are Colorado,
Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and
Wisconsin. In Rhode Island the only
alternative is imprisonment for life. |
In Kansas the signature of the gov
ernor is necessary to an execution.
The seven principal Bibles in the |
world are the Koran of the Moham-
medans, the Eddas of the Scandinav-