Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-12-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The bridal robe at recent Paris we'd
ding cost $4,000.
a REsIDENT of Macon, Ga, made
$4,000 in two years by marketlgardening.
OVER 5000 OOOOOO " watered stock" is
said to have been issued by railroads with
in five years
A DIsREGARpED statute of Virginia i'm
poses fine of eighty-thrce cents for each
oath uttered.
THERE are thirty college papers pub
lished in the United States, and the num-
Der is increasing.
IT is said that 80, ,4l0 seeds of weeds, by
actual count, have been found in pint Of
clover seed.
A BELL weighing 5000 pounds has been
swung in the steeple of the Newark On.
J0 Presbyterian Church.
A New YORKER stepped on dogs tail,
was bitten by the animal, and had the
owner fined $40 for the bite.
MARRIED Methodist Ministers in the
Cincinnati Conferenceaverage 1925 a year,
and the bachelors $545.
| THE sales of wool in Chicago during the
months of October and November amount
ed to ,SS5,711 pounds
| MONEY and securities valued Mt from
through the New York city postofIice.
THE population ofBavaria, at the census
taken December 3, 1867, which is just pub
lIshed, was 4 4,S24 ,425.
A RECORD in an old family Bible reads
thus: October 30, 1927. The greatest
earthquake New England ever knew"
A New ORLEANS Judge adjourns the
court precisely at 1 o'clock, no matter how
important the unfinished business, that he
may go to dinner.
WITHIN the past three years sprightly
widow of 7S, residing ia Bush, N Y, has
woven 3 1000 yards Of carpet, besides doing
all her housewOrk.
/ ROBERT Hoe, the printing press inven-
tor, began life as a Leicestershire eng
land) mechanic, and came to New York
in 1915.
In Spain there are 81 Dukes, TAG Mar
! quises, 557 Counts, "a Viscounts, and 76
! Barons, beside 90 native Spaniards who
bear foreign titles
A CLEVELAND sharper, the other day,
gave German emigrant 800 counter
felt bill for his meerschaum pipe, receiving
in exchange $50 good money.
THE citizens OF Morristown, N. J., are
complaining of their dog taxes, which
head. A co operative sausage mill is the
remedy.
SoUTH CAROLINA wages to blacks are
800 year and "found" to farm work
ers; women, from SIS to 81 a month and
found" Mechanics get more, masons
averaging So per day.
AN English court has separated boy oi
IS from his wife, and sent him into the
country to learn a trade before he can be
allowed to live with her. He had married
his nurse.
A FEW Sundays ago, a banquet of 40O
covers was given in honor of a fireman,
who, at fire in Paris, on August 8, saved
the lives of ten persons at the imminent
risk of his own life. A silver medal ac-
cOmpaIied the honor,
IT is said that Chicago possesses the
largest bakery in the world In the months
of October aud November eight thousand
nine hundred and ninety barrels o.
flour were converted into crackers in thai
establishment.
IN contrasting the Presidential votes o
1860 and 1868, it appears that whereas
the vote of Massachusetts and New Hamp
shire respectively has increased but 26, ,00C
and 1000, that for New York has in
creased III 900, Pennsylvania $4,000
Ohio 1900, Illinois 10000, and that o
Michigan 6s,000
X. A. WILLARD says that American
dairying now represents capital of 800,
00b,0 900. The cheese product of 1867 sole
for $25,000,000, and the butter product o
New York alone was nearly S5,000,00t
pounds, and the quantity Of cheese mad
$4,000 900 pounds The value of thes
products, at very moderate estimate wa
$50,000,000.
SECRETARY KL'PPART enumerates Obi
farm stock as follows: Horses, COS, ,006
valued at $50 100000, average over 8 100
I head mules 95,972, valued at 81. 5OO0
nearly 800 head; cattle, 1854, 55C
valued at $60,000,000; sheep, 1922 49t
, valued ut $l4,750000; swine, 1,S07, ,594
valued at 500, 100000; total value of liv
. stock, poultry omitted, $169,250,000.
HORACE GRRELEY purposes to write
J during the year 1863, an elementary wor
! on Political economy, wherein the polio
/ of Protection to Home Industry win h
E explained and vindicated This work wi
J, fret be given to the public through su,
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