Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-22

FACTS AND FIGURES.
BAVARIA has 233, ,139 hives of bees.
Mn STEWART, though he is called A. T.,
is only 81.
A CANADIAN bride in New York wears
a $1,000 diamond
BROOKLYN has appropriated $4,000 for
free public baths.
THREE hundred and seven ladies ex-
hihit works of art in the French Academy
of Arts.
THE cheese crop of the United States
this year is estimatedat so, 100000 pounds.
THERE is u lunatic in New York asy-
lum who imagines himself William II.
| Seward.
THE total valuation of property in
Kansas is 500, ,3S3,191, an increase over
last year of $0,434, ,147.
A JouRNEYMAN blacksmith says he has
been striking for hire wages these twenty
| years, with uniform success
A New HAMPsHIRE genius is construct.
ing u miniature steam engine, boiler and
all, ont of single silver half dollar.
"EM QUAD" and Shooting Stick are
| the names of two rival base ball clubs,
composed of printers, in Reading, Pa.
BRIGuAM YoUNG has a school for his
! own children-sixty or seventy in num-
her. 1t is u two story square adobe and
succeed building.
The Commissioner of Agriculture esti-
mates the total value of the crops of the
United States, for the year 1869, at 81 ,S1l,-
66S,015. a.ItT
THE st. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than one hundred and fifty thousand
bushels of apples will be gathered in Min
nesota this year. .,G,.lr
| ONE of the features In the New Hamp-
shire State Fair was team of eleven
yokes Of oxen, from Darlington, drawing
a handsomely decorated rural cottage on
wheels
i BILL PENNYwEALTH, an Englishman,
living in Boston, on n wager of $50, eat
in succession three dozen hard boiled eggs,
without drinking any liquid whatever
Ar funerals in Massachusetts, for two
or three generations after its settlement,
the prayer was made by the nearest male
relative of the deceased who was a com
l-Tlunicant. v7a'a
THE Southern Typographical Unions
are each to send boy TO Gen. Lees col
lege, to be thoroughly educated, but to
work one hour every day ut the printers
| art. .,.U %
A MAN in Woodbury. recently broke his
leg while wrestling. The village butcher
and blacksmith got up match for his
benefit, and like accident befel the black
smith.
A QUICKSILVER mine, discovered in
BOrneo a year or two since, promises to
prove one of the richest In the world. The
specimens of native ore already shipped
yield between seventy and eighty per
cent of pure metal
A GOOD deacon, whose slumbers were
nightly disturbed by the fiuttering Of
swallows in the house chimney, set bun
die of straw on fire in the fireplace, when
down came $50 swallows in the flames,
and were picked up dead.
THE Territory of Utah has 65,000 square
miles, population 10000, not 5000 of
whom are Gentiles has under cultivation
135, 900 acres of land-80 900 acres are in
cereals, 1000 in sorghum, 1000 in root
crops, 200 lin the southern section) In cot
ton, 900 maple orchards, 1000 in peach.
es, Is in grapes, 19j in currants, and
10000 in meadow. They look upon cot
ton as q success, for their own use. Nine
ty-four thousand acres were irrigated, at a
cost, during the year, in making canals,
bitches, etc, of $247 600 h.e rH
THE life of the Empress Eugenie was
insured four years ago, for the benefit OF
to the amount Of e60, 900 or 100000. Sup.
posing any neglect to occur in keeping up
these insurances, which, on account OF
her peculiar position, were charged at an
unusually high rate, the Prince, at her
death, would only possess the barren lands
bequeathed to him last year by his father's
eccentric cousin, Princess Bacciocchi, and
situated In the Landes. The Emperor has
u not laid aside money; he has spent his
civil list in keeping up more magnificent
court than any other in Europe, as well
as i'm profuse charities but neither for
himself his wife, nor son, has he laid aside
any portion of the money received IRON
the country
Nor long since, in the vicinity of Utica
N. Y, a marriage was solemnized in a sin
/ gular manner As the parties TO be mar
! ried entered the parlor arm IN arm, thu
I clergyman met them midway In the room
) when the bridegroom, taking the righ
!, hand of the bride, said "We have prom
, ised TO protect each other so long as We
/ live. We intend now to be united, anC
/, hereafter 10 live together, husband anC
wife, and we have invited you to be pres
/ ! ent this evening TO sanction our union ae
! eording to the requirements Of custom
) and the laws The clergyman, In reply
: said "By the authority l possess as |
!, clergyman, and in the presence OF thes
+ Witnesses, I hereby (laying on his hand
: recognize you as husband and wife IN tui
: fillment of your promises" Prayer fol
} lowed, and the ceremony was ended.
Z A STRANGE story has got abroad II
g Edinburgh recently, in regard TO an age'
1 female pauper in the st. Cuthberts poor
+ house. The woman has been an inmat
of the p0orhouse for good many years
q and, in addition 10 her other misfortunes
n She has been afflicted with blindness. No
! long AGO, she was attacked with violen
/. pain, such as the medical officers could no
! understand, Gar less relieve. 1t lasted In
4 whole of the night, and part of the follow
4 / ing day, and was described as Of such
Y nature that lt threatened TO tear her eye
I out" At last II reached height th
! poor woman for a time was left in a suit
' Of semi prostratfOn but, 70 her delight, q
) soon as the pain had passed OF, she fonn
!, that her eyesight had heen restored On
1 can imagine the asLOnishment OF one
the officers, when, shaking him hearth
by the hands she said II have ofte
D 1 shaken hands with you before ! haV
/ often heard your voice and spoke 10 you
1 but never have seen your lace I'LL Uni
1 morningl"