Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1
TEN million slate pencils are used up in
the United States every year.,
| THE Baptist contributions 10 missions
last year were $0s2,i79. 5sq-A ~
TEXAS exports goats TO Kansas The
current price Is 81 per head .ss-u
THERE are now upward of sixty thou
sand Germans in Paris aefs1,i
THERE arc two hundred and fly syna-
gogues in the United States. ..-
"FRoM Maine to Taxas, is now SUPER
seded by from Florida to Alaska"
THE Prussian Court spends daily five
hundred dollars for charitiesi the Russian
Court twelve hundred rubles.
The most promising young sculptor in
| Paris is George Warren, the son of Ameri-
can parents, but born in France
A SOMEWHAT defective copy of the first
edition of Shakespeare &c 1923 fetched f33
at Puttick Il Simpsons auction sale in
London. s.u,c-
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY compels all
agents and employees to put UP their pho
tographs at the general office, so that in
case any of them run, the detectives can
identify them.
THE aggregate membership of the va
rious branches of the Order of Odd Eel
lows in all parts &C the world is consider
uDlN ONCI 1,UVO,uVU. IN NfTeNL lDflldlu
alone there arc over 100000 Odd Fellows.
EIoHT hundred millions one hundred
and eighteen thousand letters passed
through the Post Offices of Great Britain
and Ireland during the year 1SGS-an in
crease of nearly thirty-fvo millions over
1867.
AN English coroner's jury lately re-
turned verdict of death from fatty
degeneration of the heart, accelerated by
the deceased having strangled herself"
That tcouId naturally aggravate such u
disease. '
THERE is remarkable diver, named
Coad, at Bodmim, in CorEwally England,
who, during recent swimming match,
remained under water three minutes and
ten seconds. This exceeds anything on
record. .'
A RICH man who lives near Rio Janeiro
is said to keep large anaconda on his
premises to fnghten off ladies and mis-
sionaries, who are constantly soliciting
donations for charitable and religious pur-
poses in that city.
TIE gross receipts Of the places of
amusement in New York, for the month
} of August, were $20S, ,332; of the differ
ent lines of railroads, $959,9 of the diff
ferent stage lines, $9S,432, There were
114,059, 1888 cubic feet Of gas consumed in
August.
THE Rev Mr.. Reed, of Maiden, Mass,
considered the expenditure of $4,000 on
his church edifice poor way,to dispose of
money, and hoped "the Lord would lay
the whole thing fiat" The big gale did
the business, and left a wreck worth, for
kindling wood, about $500.
) THE Methodist Episcopal Church last
year erected 710 new places of worship.
, One hundred and forty of these were built
to take the place of old ones, the other $40
are a net increase. The total amount of
money expended in building these church
es was nearly $6,000,000.
The oldest clerk in the departments at
Washington is John Barclay, chief clerk
of the office of Commissioner of Customs,
who has been clerk for sixty-five years.
Charles Vincent, of the Third Auditors
office, has been there tifty-eight years.
A FAMILY which was residing i'm Lynn,
Mass, at last accounts, has, during the
, past sixteen years, lived in sixteen differ
, ent towns and cities, and has occupied
twenty-eight different houses. During
this moving period the wife has become
the mother of eleven children.
A LONDON velocipedist was sent by
London velocipede manufacturing COM
pany to Edinburgh, Scotland, in order TO
attend an agricultural exhibition at the
latter place Edinburgh is more than four
hundred miles distant from London, and
the velocipedist made the trip in about
five days.
THE business of Ames & Sons, the
great shovel manufacturers of North
Easton, Mass, having suffered from drunk
enness among some of the workmen,
rule has been adopted to discharge every
man found drunk, unless he will DISCLOSE
and testify in court where he obtained his
liquor
THE six great Continental Powers of
Europe have at the present time no less
than five millions five hundred and eighty
thousand men under arms. France has
1,350,000, the North German COnfedera-
ton 1,028, ,046, Southern Germany 9O,17O,
Austria and Hungary 1,053,000, Prussia
,46T 900, and Italy $50, AGO, soldiers.
ALTHOUGH the Prussian government in
sists on all precautions which science has
discovered for the protection of miners,
293 men lost their lives in the collleries of
that country in 1867. The proportion was
2S4 for every 1000 men employed. In
} England the rate per cent. is higher (3.57
. per 1,OOO).
TIE lists of patents granted in France
, contain some curious articles, among them
| the following A hat with decorated rim
} an umbrella hat; a woman's hygienic and
impermeable skirt, called Ia PrnToyante;"
stockings with garters attached; me-
chanical mustard pot; application of the
instinct of animals to the guidance of
: steam carriages on ordinary roads-what-
ever this last may mean.
A DOMESTIC romance comes from New
, York. Twenty-Five years ago couple
I were married, had one son, lived together
ten years, and then, after losing aIi their
property, procured divorce. The wo-
> man married again, and got q fortune the
husband didn't, and remained poor. And
now that the woman has become rich
7 widow, she has remarked her first hus-
band and they are going to Boston for
revised honeymoon. .rt
THE Titusvllle (Pa) Herald has the fol-
lowing concerning some recent marriages
: in that place: at is somewhat remarka-
bic, first, that four weddings tooh place
during the past week; seeepd, that the
four gentlemen were all merchants oil IL
tusville third, that they did business ON
, the same street; fourth that they occupied
l the same block; fifth, that they were all
2 widowers; sixth, that IN the aggregate
they have had thirteen wives
AN excellent suggestion is made by an
, English druggist in relation to the dis
pensing OF poisonous substances. he pro
poses that, in addition TO the word poi
: con-" the labels should have printed on
their margins the appropriate antidotes
for each class Of poisons. A bottle con-
tanning mineral acid, for instance, would
have ON its label: poison i-1tss taken by
accident, give (mixed with water) chalk,
, or soap, or whiting or ceiling scrapmgs."
DELAWARE is small State and Z grow
ing smaller. The Delaware encrOaches
, upon It from ten TO twenty feet every year,
and the sites of houses that once stood in
the midst of fields are now under water.
The lighthouse near Bowers Beach has
been removed three times and small
hotel ON the same beach thai ores stood IA
the midst of cultivated grounds, con
siderable distance from vac bay, with large
| t.nI.n s., frnni Of Il haa liz wills now