Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-22
FACTS AM FIGURES.

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yens viii fill 1000 pages.
TuERE are 73)l dram shops in New
York and brooklyn.
New York Cagals last wear welded A
surplus of S399&30l.
LAST year $50 marriages were scltm
uized in Milwaukee.
ONLY one paper is printed in the TURK
lsh language, in L'udon.
THE Troy postmaster prohibited the
lettercarricrs of that city from circulating
II New Years address,
THE receipts for license tosell liouor in
New York, last year, were $l,ISI ,i72.
TUE Baptists have ninety Sabbath
schools, with li,S5l scholars, in Phila.
delphia.
MONTREAL citizens have subscribed
$4,000 to erect statue of Queen Victoria
in that city.
IT costs a Calcutta Hindoo about one
dollar and a half to have his body burned
in good style.
lT is now stated thai the loss bv the
earthquake in San Francisco will reach
T3,0OO,OO0
a BAIp eagle TINT measured seven feet
across the wings, was killed, recently, in
Titus county, Texas.
In Holland the Chambers have voted
for the maintenance of capital punish
mcnt by majority of forty five,
NEWPORT r. l, during the year 1868,
has lost by death illy-cight persons over
seventy years Of age.
THE Darien Canal Of thirty miles
length, will include seven miles tunnel,
and will cost about $G5,000,000
A French mcuagerie proprietor keeps
hls money in the cage of his most fcro.
ciOus animals He never lost any.
A noe weighing 1900 pounds. that
stood three feet six inches high, was lately
shipped from Columbia county Va, to
New York.
TuE number Of insane persons in
Indiana is from I 500 10 1000, the ratio
being but ono to each 39l Of the popula-
tion.
Mr. JOEL TAYLOR, of Cromwell, Conn,
has, during the last fifty years, rescued
100 drowning persons from the Connect
cut river.
FRANCE owes So, ,22G, 600 600, keeps 75O,-
GOO soldiers and annually cxpends $515,-
100000 IN running the government in
/ peace times
Next to Gov Seward, Gov. Hoffman is
/ the youngest Chief Magistrate the State of
| New York has ever had He is 30; Scw-
ard was 20 when elected
THERE are 100000 cotton sp+ndles now
in operation in the United States, of which
over 100000 are running on cloths for
printing, and produce 4jO,0OO,00O yards
per annum.
THE state Treasurer of Wisconsin re-
ports that the revenue for the past year
amounted to $9S2, $40 30, ind the eexpcnses,
1916 51S 05; balance in the General Fund,
September 30, $ii9lG SO.
A NASHVILLE mechanic has invented a
shooting machine, which he calls "Poly-
fer" which will destroy a regiment oi
soldiers, distant a mile and half in four
minutes.
THERE were 1,1l0 cases of small pox in
San Francisco during the six months end.
| ing on the lth of December last 3OS wer
fatal, The proportion Of cases to the Who'll
| population was to 1876.
THE Supreme Court Of Massachusetts
| has decided that life insurance policy
/ on which n note has been given for the
| first premium, was not valil, the first in.
stallment on it not being due when the
| party died
TIE Empress Eugene has given I ,0OC
francs To the convict Dumain, of Algeria
! for swimming with rope to a sinking
vessel, amid n violent storm, and saving
tho lives OF those on board The Emperor
is urged tn pardon the man.
ONE boot and shoe factory at Nortl
Brooktield, Mass, can turn out more thar
one million pairs Of boots and shoes pc
year, and is now producing 1000 pair
per day II was started half century
ago by two brothers, one of whom hal
survived to see his business grow from {
I little shop to the present gigantic factory.
THE gold medals offered by the.NeW
York GiPOer to the nine base ball player
making the best average during the season
of 1868, have been awarded to Messrs
Radcliffe, Mcbride, Foster, Roach anC
Sensenderier of the Philadelphia Atb4et
les, Waterman and johnson of the Gin
cinnatis and Wright of the Unions o
MOrrisauia.
MANY people think the true value Of
greenback is found by dCducting the pre-
MUM on gold from 100. This, of course
is an error Take the price of gold as III,
Fdivisor, par, or 100, as the dividend, an(
the quotient will give the gold value O
the greenback. For example, gold is abou
1886, Divide 100 by this, and we find tina
dollar greenback is worth about "a cent
in gold.
TIE first case under the Massschusett
statute of 1861, relating to the schoolu.
and hours OF children employed in manu-
factories, was tried in Salem recently
Two complaints were made against tn
oyerseers Of the Naumkeag cotton mill
for employing p boy and girl, between tn
ages of 10 aud - years, who had not al
tended school during the year. Judgmen
of guilty was rendered in both cases bu
the defendants appealed the matter to tn
Superior Court.
The New York Society for the Proven
tion Of Gambling received during tn
year 1868. S239I6, and expended f23,80'
The number of employees reported as hay
ing frequented gambling houses is 1904
The number OF public gambling house
claimed TO have been closed during th
year through the workings of the assooia
ton is St7. The object Of the association
as set forth in the report, is 20 mOderat
and place a check upon the great an
growing evil of gambling, while 1t con
fesses It's inability 10 put stop 10 IN
practice, per 81.
MANY persons suppose that rock sal
is dug out of the mines in sub,tantiall
the same condition that IL is put into th
market; but this is not so. The masse
+ OF salt are broken up aud dissolved i
water. The solution Is then evaporate,
and the salt removed as II crystalizes. B
this means, the impurities, consisting, "a
, the most part, of oxide Of iron and VAR
= Gus eagths are removed, ana the salt
I rendered tlJ for use. The greatest sa
> mine Ia the world s n. Cmcow, in Polan,
+ where the impure salt Is taken out In hul
s blocks, broken from lis place in the mil
3 by t0e use OF wedges and sledge hammer