Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-06
FACTS AND FTGuREH.

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The young King Of Greece Is said TO
have become adrunkard.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, claims population of
Al ,450-an increase Of 2,440 over last
year.
The Rev. Miss Olympia Brown has &C
ccpted the pastorate of a Bridgeport,
Conn, church.
In North Carolina any person who
hunts with gun or dog, or Sunday, is liza
BILE. TO fine of $50
TItE Yale studonts who drew the best
college rooms mede about one Thousand
doiiars by selling out o. ECCW
A Boeus Rerey has been swindling
Louisville, in spite Of the fact of Mr..
Rarey's death, two years ago.
MATCHES are now made with sodium
instead Of phosphorus. IL ignites as easi-
ly, and is free frcrn offensive odorss
SINCE Lamartine's death 5000, 600 Of his
photographs have been sold, and no fewer
than S00,O00 cheap statuettes.
A FRENcHNAN has purchased 5000
acres Of swamp in Tennessee, and pro-
poses raising frogs for the Memphis
market.
The Coliseum in Boston, minus the Ju-
bilee, Gilmore and the anvils, can now be
visited at the moderate price of twenty
five cents per head. aa.if
TWENTY thousand elephants are annu-
ally destroyed to furnish tbs manufacturers
of Sheffield with ivory for knife handles
and other purpOses-
A NEW JERSEY horse thief, convicted
of fifteen horse thefts, was lately sentenced
ten years apiece for them-total, one hun
dred and fifty years
A POOR shoemaker, named Donohue,
residing in East River street, Newark, has
fallen heir to the sum of $500, 600 in gold,
by the death of his brother.
Or seventeen graduates of Dartmouth
College who died last year three were
over eighty years of age, and five others
had passed the allotted period of human
life
AT a recent temperance celebration, a
little lad appeared in the procession bear
ing q flag on which was inscribed the fol-
lowing: "Alrs right when daddy's
sober"
A DIVORCE case is now pending in Graf
ton County, N. H., in which the parties
have been married forty-four years, and
had fifteen children, of whom twelve are
now living and of age.
that a new Treasury regulation imposes
| duty of forty five per cest., in gold, on all
| fancy articles purchased on the Canada side
and brought over the river.
THE remains of George II. Steele, of
| Windsor, VT, which have been inferred
| for twenty three years, were recently ex.
humed and found to be in a.thorough state
| preservation.
Mr. A. d. RICHARDsOI;, who has recent
| ly been through to the Pacific" says that
| il the Central Union Railroad becomes
| remunerative, it will make its six original
| owners the richest men on the continent.
THE United States contain an erea of
over two billions of acres, which, if
peopled as densely as Massachusetts,, would
accommodate in the neighborhood of six
hundred million inhabitants
| A FATHER mother and nine children,
from Pennsylvania, recently passed
through Grand Rapids, Michigan, on their
way To Minnesota, the children being three
pairs of twins and one triplet
THE town of Wells, VT, has citizen
who married at II. His first child was q
daughter, who married at IL, and IL
months afterward made her father a
grandfather, at the early age of thirty
one and half years.
WATCHES were invented in Germany,
Nuremburg, in 1477 The Emperor
Charles V. was the first man who owned
one, but it was too large TO carry in the
pocket. Pocket watches were invented
by man named Hooke in 1858.
ALICE CARY, the poetess, reports an in
come of 81 ,180; Clara Louise Kellogg, the
prin,a donna, 5000; Maggie Mitchell, the
, Cricket, 81 1888; Florence, the comedian
$3,025; Barney Williams, the Irish actor
$3,195.
In the old burying ground at Kirk Gross
in Shetland, the curious in epitaphs may
T read that the death of "Donald Robert
son, to all appearance a sincere Christian
was caused by the stupidity of Lawrence
Tullock, who sold him nitre instead Of
Epson salts"
A NEW YORK letter says Mr.. De
groot is putting an immense bronze cast
ing of scenes in the life of Commodore
+ Vanderbilt over the entrance to the Hud
son River freight depot in ST. Johns Park
!; 1t will cost $600,000, and is the largest
casting in the world. The foundation
alone cost $80,000."
A MAN In Hamburg, Pennsylvania
bought wagon-load of boards about
|
price he asked, determined not to lose
money on them. Accordingly they art
for sale in his yard, having never been re
; moved from the wagon, but wagon ano
boards are mostly rotten wood.
F The mud of the hard paved streets ol
the city of London consists, according to
Dr. Letherby, the well-known sanitary in
spector, of 81 per cent of horse refuse, &c
| of aIy.aft
cent. of abraded iron-from horses hooft
and wheel tires. A chemist in Dublin ha;
obtained the same results from an exami
nation of the mud in the streets of thai
city.
Il AN Assistant Assessor recently applied
to headquarters at Washington, relative tC
the liability of butter and cheese manutac
turers for taxes on sales above $4,000. Th'
/ reply was that manufacturers of buttel
I and cheese, including factories and asso
ciations as commonly conducted, are liza
BILE to tax of 81 upon every $1,000 salt
above 5000 per annun.
1 THIRTEEN cases of small pox were re
S Gently discovered in a tenement house OF
9 FORSYTH street, New York. The soil
G origin of these cases was traced TO tn
r cuipable recklessness oe one Henry Refs
, who keeps cake bakery in that street
For thirteen days after he became infected
J with the disease, be continued at his busi
ness-making and dealing out his cakes t
) customers At last, when his face wa
: covered with sores, lac retired to bed
= room adjoining his shop, between whicl
, there was free communication OF air, anC
/ his family continued the business.
In the Middle ages the fires IN the house
: were made in a cavity in the centre OF tn
7 floor, over which there generally was al
opening in the roof foE the escape of tn
smoke and when the fire was out or IN
family retired to rest, the place in whicl
it was made was closed by cover. Il
! ! those days law was almost UNIVERSAL.
! established on the continent that hre
? should be extinguished and families be al
: | at home at certain hour in the evening
. which was notified by the ringing Of
= bell, that in England was called the Cur
few.