Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-28
VARIOUS ITEMS.

THE forests are on fire all over Russia.
DUMAS goes 10 bed at four in the morn
| ing.
THE Protestant population Of France is
| 100000.
THERE are sixty-nine vessels in the Ital-
ian navy.
INDIANA has 5000 square miles of coal
land.
THERE are 800 newspapers in New
York State.
THERE are 164 Congregational churches
in Michigan.
CAMPHoR is concluded to be the best
remedy for strycbnine poison.
THEY have not "hands" enough to
gather the crops in Hungary,
A FARMER named Flaven died of star
vation in Quebec the other day.
THERE are 240 agricultural societies in
the province of Ontario, Canada.
CHARLES READE, the novelist, is said to
be the vainest man in England.
THE Daily Witness, of Montreal, is the
only religious daily in America
IT is said that 100000 were spent in
Saratoga during the racing week.
IT is estimated that about 500,000,0O0
THE dry goods salesmen Of Philadel-
phia have formed protective association,
THE growing rice crop of Georgia and
South Carolina is estimated at $4,000
tierces.
THE population Of Bavaria has increased
only about one per cent. in the last five
years.
A BRICK oven has been found In hill
In Wilmington, Del, seven feet below the
surface.
IT takes 10000 gallons of water to
keep the Boston Common fountains run.
ming an hour.
WHO is the LATEST MANI The furniture
dealer; he keeps chairs and lounges about
all the time.
THE Cleveland Herald figures up
Lake Shore grape crop for this year of
100000 pounds.
A FRENoHMAN is organizing concert
troupe of ladies exclusively, for visiting
the United States.
THE tobacco crop of Western Massa-
chusetts this year will be one of the larg-
est and best ever gathered.
ENGLAND exported more than four thou.
sand horses, worth nearly million dollars
in all, last year.
ISAAC NEWTON, Second Advent
preacher in Hudson, N. Y, has been pros
ecuted for preaching too loud.
THEY have just begun to rebuild the
burnt district in Charleston, s c., and ex-
pect to have it restored in two years.
ONE of the New York ocean steamships
has contract to bring 10000 mere Ger
man immigrants to this country.
A MASSACHUSETTS youth sold, this year.
800 worth of pond lilies, at a cent apiece,
in the cars at Groton junction.
A GENTLEMAN at Saratoga aged 65 is
engaged to be married in the fall to a
young lady of 1S. He has money and she
| has none.
THURLow WEED writes from London
that an enterprising Yankee has made a
decided hit in London by establishing a
soda fountain.
II is said that the advantage of steam
plows in England amounts on average
soils to an increase of at least eight bush
els to the acre,
THE Masonic Lodge at Marietta, O., is
older than the Declaration of Independ-
ence, it having been chartered on Febru-
AIRY 20, 1776.
THE ruins of Barnums Museum have
been taken down, and on the site new
and handsome building will soon be
| erected
THIS years estimates for Utah are :
| wheat, $50, 900 bushels; corn, 10000 bush
els; potatoes, 100000 bushels; sorghum,
10000 gallons.
THE merchants of London, @. W., have
| agreed to sell American silver to those
only who will bind themselves to ship 1t
out of the country
A ST. Louis oculist has recently re
stored the sight of blind mother and
daughter. Best of all, he did it without
charge, they being too poor to pay for his
| services
HUNGARY is about to celebrate its thou
sandth anniversary as kingdom, and ar
rangements for the celebration will soon
be made at Vienna.
AMONG the old carbines sent to Sharps
factory, in Hartford for transformation,
is one in the stock of which an ingenious
soldier had inserted u coffee mill
In preparation for great shooting fes-
tival to be held in Vienna 100000 bottles
of wine, and 5000 barrels of beer have
been brought to the field.
A PRIMITIVE three.pennY piece of 1852,
one of the earliest and rarest coins of New
England, was dug up on a street-corner at
Salem, the other day.
Miss BEAUNIA CoNANT. of BROOKLYN,
daughter of the well.known Biblical trans,
lator, has been appointed Professor of
English literature in Rutgers College.
LONDON thieves have begun to wear the
uniform of pOstmen, and thus protected to
pick the locks of street letter-boxes and
walk of with the contents in broad day
light.
RUSSIA sends fourteen thousand crimi.
nails to Siberia every year One-fifth of
them die from the fatigue of the journey,
twenty-six hundred miles, which is per.
formed on foot.
MR.. SETH BoYDEN, the strawberry cul-
turist of Newark, believes that in the
course of twenty years he could raise
Strawberries as large as pineapples, and
of equal delicacy.
THERE are six sugar refineries in Phila-
delphia, which refine about 100, 700, 900
pounds per year of raw sugar, costing at
present prices $99 100000 in gold. After
being refined, it sells for $26, 100000.
A MAN at Birmingham, Conn, fell from
a scatfoldng distance of thirty feet, the
other day, and struck upon his head,
which penetrated the ground as far as his
ears, but was not much hurt by the acci-
dent
IT is said that Oliver Dalrymple, who is
the largest farmer in the State Of Mime.
sofa, having roo acres devoted To wheat,
will have cleared 100000 from the last
two harvests, which includes the one now
being secured
MnToN WHITE poisoned himself with
| strychnine, in Fabius, N, Y, the other
! day. His father had ordered him away
from home onaccount of lazy shittlessness,
and rather than go towork, the youth con-
cluded to die.
OVER Mount Gents by rail must be quite
new sensation. You travel at twenty
miles an hour, at places where you can
look down 1900 feet only foot of mason
| nv intervening hetMeen the ahyss and