Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-09-17
FACTS AND FIGURES. 4 3 \


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hotels At the White sulphur Springs Va,
during the past season.
A NEW dock was recently completed at |
Hull, England, which was bcg,tu nine |
years ago, and cost about ei,000000,
THEIRS are l30 Mormon settlements in |
Utah, and the number of adhercnts of
Brigham Young Is estirpateClSt 100000 /
4 A CHltn belonging to Benjamin Garner,
lofNlehanOn, hd. burst am cYeball recent !
ly, during violent fit of coughing.
A LITTLE child, eighteen months old |
died at Goshen, Ind, few days ago, from !
the effects of swallowing a penny.
A NEwsnoy in Cincinnati, ten years old,
supports his fathcrllnd mother, two broth,
crs, and himself The parents are both
invalidS .
THOMAS Cooks, the we'll known carriage
maker of New Haven, died, aged 7S, rc.
Gently, leaving his large property decided
to Yale College.
NEARLY $1,000 worth of bank checks
and bonds Were recently found by boy
in an upright boiler in front of the boiler
works in Fall River, Mass.
IT is stated that one hour after the gas
of London is lighted the air is dcoxidizod
as much as if 100000 people had been ad-
dcd to the population
THE King of Denmark makes annually
$4,000 rix dollars by his beet sugar factory,
the machinery of which has been designed
by him, and made under his personal su-
pervison.
The hight above the pavement of three
wcll-known church spires in Boston is as
follows: Christ Church, t75 feet, Hollis
street, 1876, and Park street, 2lS,
THE Boston Recorder states that, at u
birthday party given by a little girl in that
city, and attended by her playmate boys
and girls, five different kinds ofwine made
a portion of the entertainment
THE daughter of an oil millionaire
brought sixteen trunks to Saratoga. She
dresses six times a day, and sings two
;, $4,000 to teach her.
In a village near Brcsau, in Silesa, n
, peasant woman has given birth, for the
, second time, to three children. She has
been married three years, is twenty one
t years old, and has seven children.
THE number of homicidcs in Southern
Italy, last year, was 1884 to every 100000
inhabitants, or ten times the proportion in
England, and more than n hundred times
that in Belgium.
TUE whole number of persons in
Charleston, s. c., rs appears by q census
, recently taken, is 44,052. There nre 1920
> more blacks than whites, and 1900 more
females than males. The population of
the city in 1860 was 40,69e.
AT Paris, Russian valet ont of place
, hung himself in despair, and the suicide
was discovered by the postman, who called
to deliver letter to the deceased announc-
ing the death of his father and the inherit
, ancc of $4,000 year.
TIE old hotel in which the first Consti.
81 4
sor so !" It has been sold within dW N WdHa days
and the purchaser intends to preserve the
main building.
: ONE of the most conspicuous four-in-
! hands seen on Fifth avenue, New York, is
+ owNed by an old gentleman who lives in a
- little room on the fifth floor of an uptown
= hotel, and cats but two meals a day. This,
:, it occurs to his friends, is rather lnconsist-
tCnt. b. .
! TnmTEEN women were arrested in New
!. ; York the other day, at the Pension Office,
: charged with drawing pensions and fraud
ulently representing themselves as widows
! of soldiers All of them have remarked,
p and some of them came to the Pension Of
z flee in their own carriages.
A MAN called cold John" recently
i died in London workhouse, at the age of
/ 50. He went into the house" n blind
n orphan, at the age of 7, and consequently
y had lived there rs years For many years
e he played the organ and led the singing in
. the workhouse chapel. He could repeat
d corT"~'''' ~-'ory word of the Psalms.
i THE following stavv,.,. l,., ~, .IIO ,,uIII
i her of milesof railroad in the States given !:
I Pennsylvania, 4, 400; Illinois, 1850; Ohio,
: Iowa, 1850; Georgia, 1880; Massachu-
> setts, 1850; Missouri, 400; Virginia,
{, 1,4S0; Tennessee, 1,440; Wisconsin, 1850 (;
u Michigan, 1860 North Carolina, 100;
= South Carolina, 1000.
= THE Treasurer of Danvers, Mass ac-
knowledges the receipt from Edwin Nudge
y of his check for $675 The following eX-
I tract from his letter enclosing the check
p will explain the use to which he wishes
. the money applied: 81 propose to CON
y tribute the money | have received as a
:. member of the Legislature last year, by
n dividing it prOportionally between the
= Towns of Danyers and Wenham, towards
e a fund for the erection of soldiers mon
i ument in each town" The sum received
q last year from Mr.. Nudge was $S29.
!. GoLDEN-HAIR fluids have recently been
the subject of continued investigation by
a an English chemist, who, after a careful
analysis, asserts that they are composed of
e dilute nitric and muriatic acids, with
Y traces, in some instances, of sulphuric
acid. Though the proprletors of these
fluids announce that the preparations are
a harmless, yet instances have been reported
2, of ladies being injured by drops Of the
hair-dye falling on their shoulders. The
r agent to effect the change in the color OF
J. the hair is the nitric acid, aided by the
chlorine evolved by the decomposition OF
;, the muriatc acid.
; THE little Princess Felicia, said to be the
smallest girl of her age on the continent,
:! is the great sensation in Paris. She is
only fifty eentimeters high. On her ar
Il rival in Paris she was Immediately taken
tothe Empress, who put her into work
n BASKET and carried her to the Emperor's
l. room The girl was placed on Napoleon
e wTiting-table, ON which she promenaded
IS and danced for awhile, and closed the
, performance, to the great amusement OF
q the Emperor, by turning a somersault
= She is only seven years old, and the physi
e clans who have examined her predict that
4 she will yet grow about eight or ten
l, centimeters, when she viii be about tive
3, feet high.
~ AMONG the vessels lost in the cyclone
~ that swept over the Bay of Bengal in 1867
~ were the steamer Thunder and the shi[
y. Moraysllire. Search was made for them
" but no trace was discovered, and it wa
u taken for granted that both had gone dowI
w. at sea. The other day a party Of fisher
NJ men, driven for shelter into an Qut-of-the
W way creek some four miles inland, stumbles
upon the hull of ship, which proved Il
W be the Morayshire, and further in found ,
ne larger steamer with masts and tunnels still
II. standing, which answered to the descrip
er iion Of the Thunder. The steamer haG
in e165000 on board, which is doubtless ye
of in her bullion hold. Painful speculation
IN are, Of course, called up as TO the fate 0
or her crew and passengers. What that fat
ne was, may never he discovered. II Is con
\, iootuFed that they could not have liYeC
IN long, even ifthey had survived the cyclone
I'd as the place is mAlarous in the extreme
~ ana infested with tigers. What is, per
haps, the Strangest, il, that these vessel