Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-02-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

London spends over e1,0O0,0OO an
nually on funerals.
Every year 10000 Spaniards emf
crate to South America.
Turkey exports about S3,000,000
worth of opium annually.
In several Belgian towns dogs are
being made use of by the police.
In one week Helen Gould is said to
have received beggars' letters asking
for more than 81 100000.
Four per cent. Of sailing vessels and
and two and one-half per cent Of
steamships are lost a year.
The report of the census bureau
shows the cotton seed oil industry in
Mississippi to be quite extensive.
Five gold beds have been discovered
In the western states of America by
means of an electrical "divining rod
The highest of all navigable rivers
is the Tsang-Po, which flows nearly
1000 miles at an elevation of from H.
600 to $4,000 feet.
Some Chinese medicine consists of
monkeys toes boiled down and hard
ened by being buried underground for
a number of years.
Lieut.. Peary is graduate of Bow
doin college and while there was con-
sidered the best all-round athlete
among the students.
Mrs. Alice Meynell, the English
novelist and poet, is making tour
through California in the interests of
a London newspaper.
The lord mayor of London receives
a salary of C 10000 year, and has to
spend twice that sum to mair tain the
dignity of his position.
Bret Harte's first literary success
was little book called Condensed
Novels" in which he parodied some
prominent novelists of the day.
The crown prince of Germany, at
present at school at Bonn, plays the
piano and sings we'll, and has in
herited his fathers poetic talent.
Cabbage grows all the year in Ha.
wall, and it apparently makes no diff
ference whether it is planted in the
spring, summer, autumn or winter.
Among the freaks at a ladies' ken.
mel club show recently was a setter
with four false teeth of gold, in the
middle of which was set large dia.
mond.
The Maine historical society, which
is to occupy the Longfellow home in
Portland, is about to build a $4,000
fire-proof building in the garden al
the rear of the house.
A corporation in London is ventur
ing upon the gigantic task of provid
ing S2,000,000 of two-penny meals daily
for the masses of the hungry who
need substantial food at low figures
i In Brooklyn, n. Y, the labor unions
are building a 100000 home that will
be provided with everything, ranging
from gymnasium and clubroom to 6
ballroom, dining rooms and kitchen
The Italian authorities have OF
dered the confiscation of Francia'.
painting, "The Madonna" which wa.
sold to an American for 100000 francs
The sellers of the picture were no
fined.
DR.. Theodore Barth, the German
free trader who has just been elected
; a member of the German reichsta,
from the Wittenberg district, is
: warm admirer Of American institu
tions.
Wallace Bulge, the well.known au
thority of the British museum ol
Egyptology. is about to begin the pub
, lication of complete history of pre-
historic Egypt down to the time O
Cleopatra.
The number of persons to the sec
, tion of land is, in Great Britain, 342
Japan, 800; Italy, ZIG; Germany, 270
Austria, 225; France, 1877; Hungary
, 1854; Spain, 92; United States, %
, Russia, Is.
I Vladiovostock, which 40 years ag
, consisted of four Chinese fishermen
, huts, is now fiourishing city of so
, 600 souls, and Kharbarofsk and Blagc
, vestchensk are not far behind il
, wealth and population.
The authorities at Minden, Germany
i have made a psychological examine
, tion of school inks. They have foun
, that most of them contain bacteria
) which, If animals are inoculated wit
: them, often prove fatal.
Paris now has automobile fire er
, gines which measures six to ten feet
, weigh two and one-half tons, or whe
! fully equipped, $3.50 pounds. The
start to work instantly. The pump dc
/ livers 20 gallons minute.
4 One of the most expert chauffeurs il
r Washington is Representative Sibley
5 of Pennsylvania. He has an automc
3 bile and each morning when congres
I is in session takes it up the avenu
8 to the east front of the capitol.
( AS result of the recent French e,
A periments with balloons, DR.. Robi
: and his colleagues now declare tina
they can decide exactly what const
. tutions ought and what ought not b
] sent to mountain health resorts.
!, Several wealthy members of tn
American club of Havana have organ
lied the Havana Mardi Gras compan,