Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.


SIX Of the eight principal colleges OF
Indiana admit young ladies' as students
Mr. BERGH has caused the arrest of
man in YorkYille for skinn'Gg dog alive.
THREE cooperative stores have failed
in 81. Louis during the past eighteen
months.
THERE arc about sixty.fve thousand
students at the universities on the cont.
| nenN of Europe ...s adi o.. H.H
Gov. GEARY, of Pennylvanis, signed
| ll'ooo bills during the recent session Of tho
| Legislature. ,---.' -.-'.
THERE are nineteen bookstores in Con-
stantinople, mostly kept by Germans and
| Frenchmen.
| A MAN has been sentenced to six months'
Imprisonment in England for stealing
10000 feet of gas.
THE Boston Trdrder says that az
Marblehead scotsman recently paid forty.
six dollars for single potato"
Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
| Of chickory have been imported into Han
Francisco within six months. '.H.
PROFESSOR EASTMAN, Of Poughkcepsio,
has expended twenty thousand dollars in
trying To invent writing machine.
| NICroU HUGO gets $4,000 for his story,
THE Man who Laughs" This, some
mathematical chap has computed, is lust
$3.50 line.
A AsEvENrY-FGvE.YEAR old goose is still
living in Kent county, Maryland. She
has raised goslings annually until within
three years
An English gentleman has bought be.
tween 5000 and 1000 acres of land in
Nelson county, Va, on which he intends
to settle 500 English families. s..
A NUMBER Of Buffalo business establish.
ments have signs in plain view: mo beg.
gars or insurance agents are allowed with
in these premises"
A HUNDRED thousand herring were re.
Gently cast ashore by the tide in Kataya
Bay, Martha's Vineyard, aud they were
carried Off and saltcd
In BrieC, Silesia, recently, a young mar.
ried couple committed suicide because the
doctor had decided that the young hus.
bands leg must be amputsted.
A THOUSAND acres of lad in Wayne
] county, n. y, have been planted in pep
permint this year. The yield is about
twenty-five pounds to the acre, and the
average price $3.50 per pound, so that
, farmers find it a paying crop.
THE best time ever made on a veloci-
pede was accomplished at jhe Cleveland
rink u few davs ago, Mr.. Fred. Hawley,
three hours, fourteen minutes and thirty
. nine seconds, actual running time.
AN echo in Woodstock park, Oxford
shire, England, repeats seventeen sylla-
blcs by day, and twenty by night; but the
! most remarkable echo kpawa is one on
the north side OF Shipley Church, in Sus-
sex, which distinctly repeats twenty-one
sylablcs.
:. LAST WINTER, Boston was visited by
h thirty.two snow storms, and the aggregate
depth of the fall Of snow was feet II Is
l. inches. In the past tweutv-siX years, the
only winters during which the total fall of
n snow was greater were those of 1854
If and 1861.
NOT long ago, in tearing down an old
J. English house, the workmen came across
a secret cupboard, in which were found a
quantity of diamond5 and iewelry to the
&c value of several hundred pounds. 1t is
lie believed that the articles had not before
seen light for centuries.
le OLIVER DIRYMPLE, of Minnesota, is
said to be the largest wheat grower in the
G. United States. In addition to his other
a crops, he has sown 1900 acres of wheat
e this season. Last season Mr. Dalrymple
employed 100 men ana 100 horses in har-
III vcsting and thrcshing his crop.
Il A YOUNG lady of Jefferson, o., mistook
a bottle of violet ink for perfumery, in
the darkness the other evening, and put
IL some upon her handkerchief, which she
=, used TO wipe her face, and, Fastening to
nc church Immediately after, she created an
cu immense sensation.
~ The Chronicle states that it is a very
-. low estimate to calculate that the people o
iS San Francisco spent 100000 in cclebrat
y ing May-day. Upwards of $4,000 persons
went into the country, while the Cliff
House, the sea beach and the country
around the city were thronged.
THE famous maclstrom, on the coast Of
III Norway is so little feared that the fisher
~ men pass and rcpass it in their sail vessels
nc at all states of the tide, except at certain
As times in the winter when the greatest
~ rate of the tide docs not exceed six miles
iu an hour.
~ N. THE Yale University crew average in
IN weight 172 pounds each the only one
Of heavier than that being the stroke, George
1e w. Drew, of New Haven, native OF
Maine, who weighs 1S0. Their boat is ol
bt Spanish cedar, 81 feet long, 20 inches wide
m nr and weighs 170 pounds. They row A.
| strokes to the minute.
ck To ASCEND staircase eighteen feet higt
on requires thirty-siX times the force that is
se required to walk eighteen feet on leve
pt ground and would, therefore, be equal tC
er a level walk of three hundred and twenty
it four feet. So then, a person shut up II
Is, the house and in need of exercise, car
to walk his mile by going up these stairs say
sixteen times
re THE following is an exact copy of ;
to promissOry note dated at Concord, Nov
he 25, 1893 For an old horse which hav,
go bought of Mr.. Isaac Dow, promise II
nv pay him three dollars in wheat or -four a
do 1ity
he to get 70 Lebanon, and three days after h
th gets there, an to give but two dollar
he for the horse. Witness my hand"
ACCoRpING to Chinese writer's, the grea
)re bell of Canton was cast five centuries age
nd At first 40 person was bold enough I
'ue strike il. Aiterward, however, one of tn
en officials ordered il IN be struck, where
ry upan upward of one thousand infants
to male and female, died throughout the city
so On this account young children, both boy
ut, and girls, were made 10 wear clothln
ley with fringes, to which small silver bell
for we've attached, as a charm to ward of tn
evil influence.
*. * A MAN in San joaquin, Cal, has in hi
~ possession a surveyors instrument on tn
llu front lens of which there is plainly seen
ye' beautiful landscape, with all the varie
DC hues of nature. Some fifteen years agt
according to the owners account, the II
"A strument had been in use, and was le
'U' standing for a time, on the plain, IN
IL scorching mid-day's sun, fronting woo(
nu m land When again brought into use,
Iig correct picture of the fronting WOODLAND
I Ilnl with all the various coors Of the landscap
ien f1r was photographed on the lens, and has n
ioa mained Interchangeable to the present tim
eIv IL Dennisyille, and other places in Ne
ley Jersey, heavy business is done In raisin
no. cedar trees out of the marshes in whic
'e1 they were buried many centuries ag
inc The wood raised from these buried fores
lcs is as sound as if recently telled, and
nd mostly made into shingles. Tree aite
al tree. from 200 to 1,000 years old, may !