Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-12-11

TN poss-ofice clerks In Cleveland are
ali nmales.
Nrw EEAbASp has yielded sil,OOO,OOo
IN rold dnce 1855.
-cAtrfoRNrA has gained 10000 new In.
habilants by immigration this year.
tTAR finest public schoolhouse in Penn.
sylvania is going up In Meadville.
"A TOLEDO printer has fallen heir 10
$4,000 worth Of property In Canada.
A B1RBRR, at Knoxville, Tenn, has been
fined 80 for shavinga man on Sunday.
WISCONSIN has a greater proportion of
foreign.borp citizens than any other state.
AT present there are 3,68T practitioners
os homeopathy in the United States.
CouSTBFEIr ten dollar bills on the Au.
burn City National Bank are in circula-
ton.
ABOUT 0Oo0 barrels Of Irish moss is
collected annually along the Massachusetts
coast
WASHINGTON owned, at the time Of
making bis will, $3.50 acres Of land, in
six States.
ENGLAND recently had a festival in hon
or Of village pump that did not get dry
during drouth. g
A ACoNNECTfcuT minister lately married
two couples and was married himself the
same day.
TuE'cens Of 1870, it is said, will show
the population Of the United States TO be
1900 900. ''''"
Pow ERs, the sculptor, returns to the
United States this winter, after thirty-one
years absence. .r.-
A SWEET POTATO, two feet Ia length,
and Weighing eight pounds, is exhibited
in Newbern, N. 9, 's
THE whole number of slaves brought
into Charleston during 1904 and 1908
amounted TO 3S.778.
A POULTRY RAISER in Australia has a
pen OF 1C 900 acres, in which he keeps
ostriches, for their feathers.
GREAT BRITAIN raised 100 900 900 bush
els Of wheat this year, being 48O0O,000
more than last year.
APHuADELPHIA Agarbage.picker hooked
out $4,000 in currency the other day.
But IL was counterfeit.
TEE armies of Europe are composed of
2,557,426 soldiers in active service and
ell, 1,393 drilled reserves.
EIGHT of the most valuable presents
were stolen, at a wedding reception, on
Madison avenue, New York, recently.
1T is stated that three hundred lady
graduates of medical schools are now in
good practice in the United States.
THE Earl Of Dudley is styled the Iron
Earl His iron mines cover an area of ten
square miles, and are worked by 1900
miners
THE Council of State of the Canton Of
0bwald Switzerland, has published an
cdict forbidding any youth under 1Syears
Of age TO smoke under severe penalty.
THE average salaries Of the New
Haven (Ct) Clergymen are as follows:
Episcopal, $9,500 Catholic, $500, with
parsonage; Congregational, $3,2S3; Meth
odist, 81 500, with parsonage.
The building statistics of Omaha for
the last year show that more than 1000
buildings have been erected, at q cost OF
over $t,250O00 This is exclusive of the
Government barracks, costing $4,000.
A Rock ISLAND On taxldermist lately
procured a mallard duck for stufiing, and
on removing the skin found the flesh lit
orally filed with a small, white worm, re-
sombling the trichina found In pork
SOME years ago a young man in Berlin
assisted an old man who had slipped on
the pavement. A few days back he was
surprised by receiving $4,000 left him by
the person whom he had 30 alightly ben
Gifted.
KANSAS produces the finest apples to be
met with anywhere, says the Fort Scott
Monitor, and turnips, called the "Unonn-
ditonal Surrender" weigh from z TO III
pounds each. One man has thousand
bushels of such.
THE amount of fractional currency daily
printed at the Treasury Department is be-
tween ninety and one hundred thousand
dollars, which Is rapidly forwarded TO the
various Assistant Treasurers and Govern
ment repositories throughout the country,
to oil requisitions made by them on the de-
partments,
A PRAR TREE on the estate of Mr.. Edwin
Smallwood, Newton Corner, Mass, which
was planted by Mr.. jackson, one of the
flrstsettlers, about the year 1850, is believed
to be the oldest tree of the kind in New
England. 1t Is still vigorous, bearing
large crops The crop this year was good
in quality and profuse in quantity.
THE head of one of the largest concerns
in New York began his business career by
hammering out for further use, bent naill
taken from packing cases In dry goods
establishment. He was green lad from
Connecticut and in five years became on,
of the managers of the establishment
His store now contains $l7,000,000 worth
of stock.
A MISSISSIPPI editor having given motto,
that he would inform, free of charge, en-
terprising young men how to make for
tune without capital, replies to severa
anxious inquifers: Every one of yol
pull off your coats, leave off your army
skies, quit whisky, go to work, make
crop of corn, cotton, peas, and potatoes
house them up, then marry Gn 'enterpris
ing girl"H
THE Boston Transcript says: "Som'
days since we copied a paragraph, II
which experiments abroad in photograph
ing printed matter were sDoken of a
something novel, We have seen to-day I
volume of over a thousand pages, perfect
ly copied by prominent photographer IL
this city, in the clearest and most distinc
manner. This undoubtedly Is the most ex
tensive as well as the most successful at
tempt of the kind, and gives perfect ia
simile of the original book"