Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

AAGAn AMI EAUONAHJe
SAN FRANCISCO thinks of having
Worlds Fair " in 1870.
A NEWARK (N. J.) n;schiuist has In
vented q velocipede TO carry two persons.
A NEwroRT Or. I) firm made $150,OOO
by the recent rise In sugar and molasses.
KIoYTE BAKIN has written LOG Japanese
novels II has taken him thirty-eight
years.
THE Free churches Of England raise
about $4,000 900 per annum for religious
purposes.
SINCE 1899 three hundred and eighty
eight Protestant Missionaries have gone
out to China.
PRUSSIA expended s113t 035 in the
war of 1866, Of which half a million were
for secret service.
Tx 1867 the mints of Paris, Strasbourg
and Bordeaux coined 100000 francs in
gold and silver.
A PRovIDENT Texan considerably saved
| $25, 900, and then inconsiderately died
without telling where 1t was deposited.
SUSAN MEpBERRY Is the name of
Connecticut prodigy four years old, who
accurately plays hundreds of pieces on
the piano.
REV. SIMEON PARNLEE, d. D., of West
| ford, VT, has preached 10000 sermons,
and attended about 1000 funerals.
| A New HAMPsHIRE Baptist pastor,
| Lowell by name, has-strange to relate
accepted a call at less salary Jnan his
present one.
THERE are 55 Protestant Churches in
Turkey, besides rs other places of wor-
ship, with an average attendance OF
5000.
Two Houston (Texss) editors, one day
lately, shot at and missed each other, but
killed a small boy who was standing near.
THE Seventh-dsy Baptists have seven
ty-flve churches in the United States. or
these the oldest is that In Newport, found
ed in 1871,
IT is said that the commissions and per-
ouisites of one real estate agency in New
York have amounted to 100000 since
January /.
A MAN in London, having married two
: wives, survived for twenty years without
letting either into the secret of the others
existence.
GENERAL, KLApKA, the great Hungarian
General, is living at Nice on small PEN
sion, which the Prussian Government is
paying to him.
TUE Church of England holds in fec
simple the right to property worth $14O,-
100000 in gold, the annual income oil
which goes to support the clergy.
DIR. GRIER SIR, and DR.. Grier, Jr, OF
the PRESBYTERIAN church at Brandywipe,
Pa, have occupied the pastorate of the
! church for combined period of eighty
years.
, RUSSIA has granted permission for the
! building Of about 4,200 miles of railroad
. in all, and the greater part of this dis
q tance has been constructed and is in opc-
!. ration.
q NINE. RossINI has decided that her hus-
d bands remains shall not be transferred to
n Italy, nor will she herself leave France.
n Over the maestro's grave the widow will
t erect an humble tombstone.
: THE average earnings Of the boys who
8 sweep the crossings OF the London streets
= are from two to four shillings day, but
9 on some holidays they earn very much
= more.
THE Romanists claim in Pennsylvania
u a population of 43S.000, with colleges,
r SO female seminaries, 26 select schools
E 115 parochial schools, asylums, 34c
. . churches, and 352 priests.
= LYDIA II. BAILEY, who carried on =
) pri ting business in Philadelphia from
r the time of her husbands death, in 1905,
r until 1861, during which time she was Tor
{. many years city printer, died recently
o in the DIST year of her age.
., NEARLY all the velocipede makers have
5, agreed to pay $40 on each machine to Cal
j. vim Witty, owner of the LallemanG pat
l. ents. Two new patents for the Hanlon
p brothers including nearly all the devices
n used in velOcipedes, have appeared, and
y there is much excitement among the max
% ers in consequence.
- A PETERSBURG, Va, paper, Rlludlng To
y the recent death of the three-year OLE plan
Y ist of that city, saws: "The head OF this
U little musical prodigy, according to medi-
~ cal prediction, burst open after its death,
% caused by severe enlargement OF the
- - BRAIN"
81 THE number of patients in the Bing
a. hamton IN " Asylum for Inebriates
n since May, 1857, has been $40. OF these
10 147 were periodical drinkers, 16O constant
tS ones; 146 were married, and 1854 were
N single. The number known to have re
a formed after the first trial was 113; attel
= the second trial, II after the third, A. Oi
a 25 there is no hope. Owing TO distance
~ or other causes, 6S have not been heard
,e from.
r, AN old beggar in Montgomery, Ala
1r was arrested and searched. A bag was
Nd found on his person containing 5000 In
silver, a roll of greenbacks amounting tC
$50, $50 in gold wrapped up in a-Iewspa
naper, a belt around his waist containing
ever 81, 900 in currency, and seversl hun
he dred dollars in his shoes. The Mayor
@. gave him twenty.four hours to get out o
nr | town