Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-28
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Not many battle ships in the world
can get away from the Alabama.
1t is estimated that Parisians spend
$4,000 every year upon confetti.
The launching of the battle slip
Ohio will not take place until spring.
Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, has
accepted chancellorship of A. o. II.
The silverware belonging to Queen
Victoria's table is valued at $780,
600.
Biggest worlthouse in the world is
in Liverpool. 1t has accommodation
for 5000.
1t will surprise many to learn that
years ago.
In the best of years Europe never
produces enough wheat to supply her
own needs.
All signs point to Vancouver as the
great center, the mining capital, OF
British Columbia.
The tidal wave along the Texan
coast will rank among the most dis
astrous in history.
Potatoes in Greenland are always
very small. Frequently they grow no
larger than marbles.
The corn crop of the United States
this year covers 100000 acres more
than it did last year.
More newspapers are printed in the
United States than in England, Ger
many and France combined.
England has the greatest number
of lighthouses and lightships-one for
every Il miles of its coastline.
The rice-eating Chinaman could
consume the present worlds greatest
crop of wheat and still go hungry.
Pike, dace, roach, barbel, chub-in-
deed, all British fish but trout and
salmon-are known as coarse fish.
Capt. Chas. S. Richie, U. S. A., en-
gineer, says the channel at Galveston
is as good, if not better, than ever.
A picture valued at $4,000 belong
ing to j. Harfeld Morton, of New
York, has disappeared in transit from
Naples.
Gussie Raabe, aged 90, of New York,
swan 12 miles in seven hours in the
Hudson river without once touching
ground.
Among the Chilians a belief pre-
walls that the juice of onions is sure
cure for typhoid fever if given in it's
early stages.
A big New York restaurant esti-
mates its loss in food spoiled while
on the counters and in the windows
at $4,000 a year.
Cork and poplar are the tightest
woods in the world and pomegranite
one of the heaviest; it is more than
one-third heavier than water.
An automobile recently made the
trip from Boston to Newport in 247
minutes. The return was made by
another route in less than three
hours. The distance is 25 miles.
In the formation of a single loco
motive steam engine no fewer than
SAG pieces have to be put together
and these require to be as accurately
adjusted as the works of watch.
Dragon fly grubs are most destruc.
tive to the fry of fish. Out of $4,000
turned into pond one April only 81
could be found the following Septem'
ber. The pond was infested by drag
on fly.
Not far from Laytonville, CAL, &
crop of little volcanoes has appeared
There are 25 of them, each with the
characteristic crater, and from eacf
crater gushes mud and warm vapor
Each ''volcano" is about five fee
high.
In Bavaria each family on Easter
, Sunday brings to the church ward-firt
walnut branch, which, after being
partially burned, is carried home tt
be laid on the hearth during tenn
pests as a protection against light
ming.
, The longest word in the English
language is said to be ''nonintercom
: from a recent biography: "But th'
free kirk of the north of Scotlant
are strong antidisestablishm
rians."
Most people talk about a milliol
without realizing what it really is
An expert coin counter can coun
!. about $4,000 in an hour. If he worke'
ten hours a day, it would take hin
80 1-6 days to finish the counting O
!. 81, 100000.
1t is said that as a general rul
substantial frame buildings in Gal
y weston better withstood the blast
of the gale than those of brick
!" though some of the frame building
We're picked up bodily and carries
squares away.
Pasture in the milk-raising sectiol
, tributary to New York has been burn
> ed by long-continued dry weather
. AS a result The price of milk has gon
. up, and there is prospect that TIN
= poor will have to do without the al
ticle altogether.
a In Santiago in the better class c
houses the bedsteads are surrounde
, with close kind of netting, begiI