Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-03-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

horses tails is before the Colorado
senate.
A PHYSICIAN declares that people
who sleep with their mouths shut live
longest.
THE Arkansas house is considering n
bill to make the legal rate of interest 8
per cent.
THE smallest camels belong in Per-
sia. They are not more than 80 cent?
meters high.
CHINESE streets are the narrowest in
the world-somc of them are only
eight feet wide.
THE Delaware legislature has passed
a law requiring that barber shops be
closed on Sunday.
A GERMAN law prevents proprietors
of eating houses from serving beer to
people eating fruit.
BERLIN has the smallest elephant in
the world. 1t is one meter high and
weighs so Kilograms.
THE Texas bill to exterminate prairie
dogs is hung up in the senate on the
point of being unconstitutional
NIAGARA river is washing away great
quantities of the rock cliff and mark
ed change in the rivers bed is notice
able.
HENRY WEBSTER Birmingham, Ala,
threw beer keg out of window. 1t
struck Richard Lewis, killing him in
stantly.
FIRST car load of Cuban sugar pro
duced since the late war has ar
rived at Santiago and is now on the
market.
CoFFINs of heavy plate glass, hermet-
ically sealed, are now being used. 1t
is said they are more sanitary than the
other kind.
THERE are more than 20 halls in
Paris devoted to fencing, each presid-
ed over by a fencing master more or
less famous.
A COMPANY has been incorporated in
Connecticut, with $12,50 NO capital,
to combine the silk industry of the
United States.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature providing for
the completion of the new capitol at a
cost of 81, 900, 600.
A BILL prohibiting the use of money
or other valuables in primary elections
has been defeated in the Arkansas
mouse, Dy TOUR majority.
KING MALIEToA, the Samoan mon
arch laJely dead received smaller
salary than any royalty, $3.50 monthly,
and it was usually in arrears.
A BILL prohibiting depositor hav-
ing more than $4,000 on deposit in any
single savings bank has been favorably
reported to the New York house.
THERE are 49, bird specimens in
the collection at the Philadelphia Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences, and more type
| specimens than in any other collection
| in America.
The mineral and vegetable deposita
of the world are pretty evenly divided.
1t is believed that in China there is 20
| times as much coal as in all Europe
and America.
SINCE the death of Mrs. Depew some-
thing over 80 years ago Miss Annie De-
pew Paulding, the senator's niece, has
been at the head of the distinguished
New Workers. home.
A PENDING bill in the Michigan legiG-
lature would if enacted, make the
teaching or advocacy of polygamy a
felony, to be punished by imprison-
ment for from two to ten years.
A JOINT memorial to the president
and congress has been introduced in
the New Mexico house, providing that
a large part of southwestern Texas be
annexed to the territory of New Mex
| leo.
CALICO print works use 40, 900, 600
dozen eggs per year, wine CHARTERS use
10000, 600 dozen, the photographers and
| of har. ind trio millions and
these demands increase more rapidly
than table demands.
The largest single wheat field in the
world is now being planted with grain.
1t covers over 25 600 acres, or 40 square
miles. This enormous field of grain is
on the banks of the San Joaquin river,
near the town of Clovis, in California.
THE lower house of the Convocation
of the Church of England has passed a
resolution declaring that the law of
the church does not recognize divorce,
and asking the bishops to devote them
selves to securing action of parliament
to the end that the church shall not re-
marry divorced persons.
The most unique college the world
has known has just opened its doors at
|
labor leaders. 1t owes its existence to
two young Americans, who, both earn
est in heart and intelligent in deed,
have toiled for several years to make
such an institution possibility.
The construction of the ways in
which the new battle ship Maine will
be built has begun at the Cramps ship
yards. The timbers which will be used
in the foundation were originally cut
in the live oak forests of Delaware 90
years ago and were shipped to Boston
TO be used in the construction of wood
en- ships.
ICELAND is the oldest colony possessed
by any European country. 1t has be-
longed to Denmark since 1889. Origi-
nally colonized by Norwegians in S74,
it remained republic till 1892, when
it became subject to the Norwegian