Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES


France Italy and Spain last summer
are snid TO have injured the prospects
Of the next crop of olives.
In every seventy years the average
man grows beard twenty-five feet
long. hair almost fifty feet long and
nails twonty-threc feet long.
The attempt to reach the summit of
Mount Everest, in the IIimaayas, in
1902 having failed, Il new expedition IS
TO leave Europe in June for another
trial
4 veteran of the National home at
Togus. Me-, has sent President Roose-
welt n sofa pillow decorated with his
own nucdlework. This man is eighty
years old ana works without glasses.
While chopping at Munroe, Conn,
Patrick German fellcd n hollow maple
tree which was the temporary home OF
coon weighing seventeen pounds. The
pelt is now among Gorman's priced pos
sessions
A writer In the Lancet says in regard
TO some American cities that "the pre-
ventiom of public amusements on sun
DAYS seems to them to be much more
important than the prevention of the
pollution of rivers"
At present New Zealand is distinctly
an agricultural and dairying colony,
but recent Investigations by engineers
as to tie possibilities of deriving cleo
trio power from river and waterfalls
indicate that it may become Il great
manufacturing center.
The best language for making love is
said to be the ManX, because it has
ninety seven ways in which TO say my
sweetheart" The Irish language is Il
close second in the number of endear-
Ing terms, however, and has the added
advantage that most of these words
are extremely soft and euphonious.
An English policeman the other day
found Il tramp asleep in field near
Accrfngton. When arrested the man
begged not to be sent to Jail, saying it
was so drafty in prison." He was
known to the police as man who could
sleep standing or walking, but pre-
ferrcd to sleep in an open field regard
less of rain or snow.
placed at its door a box with n slot in
it for the receipt of suggestions from
patrons for the name of new eXhibl-
ton to be given. When the box was
finally opened a number of coins We're
found in it, contributed by people who
thought it had been placed at the door
for some charitable purpose.
A farmer at Brokenbacl, near Nal
don, in Victoria, while plowing recently
turned up nugget of gold weighing
fifty-two and three-quarter ounces. The
country is chiefly granite, and gold was
not known to exist in the neighborhood.
Quartz was attached to the nugget, al
though in places it was water worn.
No further discoveries have been made.
There are in London 2,711 cab propri-
etors, and of these 1924 own fewer
than five vehicles. AS you see, it is n
poor mans industry. There is only one
large company-the London Improved
Cab company, which owns 500 cabs.
In the main, then, the small proprietor
the "mush'-who owns a few cabs
and drives one himself controls the
trade.
A clergyman at Hiawatha, Kan,
preached II sermon on "Giving" recent
ly. He said that he did not want a
single member of his congregation to
give cent to any missionary cause as
long as he owed cent to any man at
home. He further stated that it was
necessary to pay ones debts with ones
business associates before paying them
to the heathen.
1t has been found impossible to pre-
serve in any way the skin of the great
Indian rhinoceros which recently died
in the London geological gardens after
a residence there of just forty years.
The carcass was handed to the taXider-
mists by whom it was skinned but in
consequence Of its poor condition the
idea of mounting it was altogether out
of the question.
a feature of the low street life in To
kyo is the "kuisha," or "moXa" doctor,
who applies small pads made of certain
dried herbs to the skin. These he sets
alire, the ensuing blisters being sup
posed to be most effective as cure for
various ailments. Among the doctors
remedies are rhinoceros pills, warrant
ed Il sure cure for tightness of the
chest, gnashing Of the teeth and de-
preston Of spirits.
The petroleum bearing strata show
remarkable resemblance in formation
and composition the world over. Ev-
erywhere they are bituminous clay
shales and yariegated clays interstrati-
fled with sandstones and conglomer-
ates. l.imestones, which may occur in
such series, contain tarry materials,
but rarely true petroleum, the only not
able exception being the Trenton lime
stone of Ohio and Indiana.
Curious atmospheric conditions pre-
vailed in Switzerland at the beginning
OF this year. While the valleys were
shroud@d in dense, cold mists the re
gions above q thousand yards in ele
walton l.nd blue sky and sunshine 5
warm t..ut men took off their coats t
work. Strawberries and alpenrose
were ia bloom. The practice of keeI
ing tie mountain hotels open in VIII
ter Is coming more and more int