Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

cises.
There are 100000 pension claims
pending before the pension depart
ment.
Japan now has 4,021 miles of rail-
way, of which the government owns
1,059 miles.
All the -four consumed by the 11,000,-
600 people in Siam comes from the
United States.
On June Z, 1745, at Kaschan, Persia,
was overturned by an earthquake AMI
10000 persons killed.
Mulhall, the great statistician, de-
voted nearly thirty years to the pre-
paration of his Dictionary of Sta
tistcs."
An Australian government report
testifies to the great progress made in
the pacification of the Philippine
islands.
The area of Martinique is 3S1 square
miles, its population prior to the vol
canic eruption was less than two hun
dred thousand.
The old receiving ship Vermont will
in few days be burned in order to get
the metal. The Vermont was built in
Boston in 1912.
In December, 1456, 10000 people
perished at Naples by an earthquake,
and in 1926, 20 towns were destroyed
and 10000 lives lost.
London is to have at Hackney its
first Yiddish theater. Besides the
plays the managers intend to give
grand opera in Yiddish.
It is said that full investigation of
the British army remount scandal will
reveal the fact that the nation has
been swindleI out of eS,00000
The largest sum ever spent in i'm
proving one street was s14 100000, in
the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. New Can
non street, London, cost S2.950,000
Word comes from the Great lake
fisheries that never before were fish
more abundant than this season, the
big catches fairly straining the nets.
In France fuel briquettes are made
from garbage. The refuse from the
streets, from markets and abattoirs
is minced and mixed with naphtha and
tar.
In 1903, at Medod, Japan, an earth
quake killed 100000 people. In 1871,
on November 80, 100000 people were
buried by an earthquake in Peking,
China.
For suddenness, completeness and
number of victims the destruction of
st Pierre, Martinique, appears to sur
pass nearly all disasters recorded by
history.
Moscow has the largest hospital in
Europe, with 1000 beds. There are
sc physicians and 900 nurses, and
about $4,000 patients are cared for
annually.
Six little Maltese kittens have been
The hen drove the mother cat away
from the little ones and has since
acted in the feline's place.
A site for the st. Louis Carnegie
library has just been bought for $780,
600, which sum was contributed by
citizens of st. Louis, who each sub
scribed amounts of $4,000 or less.
iCNChI III puott-
mala is reported to have wrought ter
rible damage. The city of Ocos was
ruined and hardly any coffee planta-
tion escaped damage. The loss of life
was large.
Ex-Governor Morril's apple orchard
in Kansas now contains over $4,000
trees, and is said to be the largest
single apple orchard ina the world.
Eight thousand trees have been set out
this spring.
The Russian mercantile marine has
745 steamers and 2,25S sailing vessels
All the Latin poems written by the
Pope have been collected and pub
lished at Milan in two-penny volume
of 112 pages.
At last years census there were
2,234 actors in London, an increase oi
rs per cent. over the figures for 1891
. OF literary people in general there
were 1896, an increase of "a per cent
in the last ten years.
Vaccination of plants is the idea Of
French botanist. He proposes Il
raise suitable cultures of parasitic
fungi and inoculate the plants in or
der to make them proof against the
attacks of those parasites.
The star Arcturus, the hottest o
celestial bodies, gives us as much hea
as a standard candle six miles away
This fact was ascertained by thu
radiometer, an instrument which will
show the amount of heat given OF
from a mans face at 1000 feet dis
, tance.
| The celebrated M. Arton, who wa
, one of the central figures in the grea
!, Panama scandal, and who. it will b
/ remembered. was arrested in Londol
r and extradited at the request of tn
, French government, is now ric
, man. Last year he made betwee
. 100000 and $2500O0 by speculatin
on the bourse.
Herr Kaufman. whose election a
!. second burgomaster of Berlin tn