Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-06-11
FACTS ANn rInuRRs. /.

hh ItlVhlB puUuSueId hOlut IN AOVOt
$40 100000 worth OF books ,TWI
The new French twenty-five franc gold
pieces will be called EmpereuTs. -
The fastest bycicie :.ilne has been made
In jersey City-a mile in two minutes.
ONE Of the Austrian Archdukes IA said
10 be a kleptomaniAc--iD plain .Enelsh'-
a thief
THE French Post ONCE conGscates nine
out of ten newspapers sent from this coun-
try. I
BUR- HARRISON, Private Secretary to
Jeh. Davis during the war, is practising
law In New York. ,,f',,-N
A New YoRK thief has accomplished
the neat trick OF stealing the boots of
sleeping mans feet, ~
THERE are said to be $1,000 oommuni.
sants to the various religious churches on
the western coast Of Africa. ,,ts.,.
THERE are $50 Protestant Sunday
Schools In France, 150 in Germany, 250 in
Switzerland and $50 Ia Holland.
A wIDowER went to Manchester, N. H.,
one day recently, buried his wife and left
town with q new.made bride on the day
following. tta.t
THE Canadian Rife Association will dis.
tribute $4 500 worth OF prizes at the an
/ ANea ~ AAAihAoAt IN hNkho9
A SERVANT girl at Newberg, N. Y, was
recently too much for burglar. She
poured gallon of hot water over hun,
and he LEFT the premises in hurry. Ia
A LONDON clergyman advertises that he
will "lend his weekly sermons for halEa-
crown apiece, or four for los, warranted
Original, earnest and evangelical"
Six churches have been organized, Ia
Mexico on the basis Of the Bible as the
word of Coda spontaneous movement,
without any foreign intervention, the sac
rsments administered without any or
dalned minister.
A BUFFALO lady was annoyed by man
named Thompson. She pulled out
pistol and snapped it at him. He moved
| off in good order and had her arrested
She was discharged on the ground that an
unloaded pistol is not a deadly weapon
GEORGE PEABODY has written to the
town of Georgetown, M8ss., stating that
II is his intention to supply all the funds
needed to sustain the public library which
he has given to the town, and also pre-.
senting $4,000 toward the permanent
fund. 80
The New York Elrpress has heard of
one American woman in Europe, "who
turned up her aristocratic nose All pocket
handkerchief costing 5000 francs, de-
msnding one which had to be fabricated,
and which was not TO cost less than TO-
000." ..
ACCORDING to an estimate made by
wellinformed traveller, the Chinese expend
annually over S20000,0 900 TO appesse and
prOpitiate the souls of the dead. About
$300O0,000 are annually expended in
worship of the Foo gods, and 800, 100000
in the worship of family ancestors.
A YOUTH of 10, in New Bedford, who
determined to marry against his fathers
will, was recently complained of as a dis.
obedient child, and the case continued for
sentence, so that he could be shut up for
want of bail till his father gets ready to
take him on a whaling voyage. nr
/ IT was stated at the National Sunday
, School Convention the. the Sunday School
I Union has established 6,346 schools into
( which 303, SOB children have been gathered,
+ and 45,070 teachers are employed. The
union has also aided $4,000 other schools,
: and over 400 churches have been estab-
I liied as the results of its efforts.
, DR. WIRaAND, of Halle, Germany,
after extensive investigation and collation.
, of statistics, concludes that employment
,, on railway trains is not more than usually
} dangerous or unhealthy. Reports Of
: thirty.eight companies showed that in
. 1868, 1072 per cent, of the engineers, fire.
men and other employees on the trains
o died, while of the employees not travelling
o the mortality was 0931 per cent. a-
: THE report of Baptist progress in
:, Great Britain for the last year
! shows that forty-nine churches have
been organized, making an aggre-
J, gate Of 2,447. The increase in MEM
l bership has been 0,0S2, larger accession
than any since 1860, and bringing up the
total to 25l 506 members. There are
267 800 scholars in the Sabbath Schools,
and no doubt, over million of the Brit
ish population dependent on the Baptists
, for religious instruction.
AT Rutland, VT, which has been scsnt-
lily supplied with water for many years,
the discovery has just been made that an
obstruction in o joint in the main supply
A reduced the calibre from three inches 10
one and half inches diameter. The OBJ
struction consisted of lesd, which was run
, into joint when the pine was laid, fifteen
years ago. 1t cost them $S,000 to make
the discovery, besides the loss of many
buildings by fire, which would have been
saved hut for the lack cf water.
FROM an old advertisement published in
the Georgia Journal Milledgeville in
1919. it Is found that the Hon. VIM. Ii.
Seward, late Secretary Of State, was
at that time Georgia schoolmaster. He
is therein announced as late from Union
College, N. Y, from which institution he
comes highly recommended as young
gentleman of good morsl character and
distinguished industry and literary &C.
quiremeuts." He taught Latin, Greek, the
oreticsl aud practical mathematics, logic,
chemistry geography, English grammar,
and other branches too numerous to
mention.
THE pews of the Centre Church, New
Haven, Conn, lately rented for $4,000.
On subsequent Sabbath the pastor, Rev.
G.. L. Walker, took occasion to express, in
decided terms, his regret At the result.
The prices paid, he said, could not but be
regarded as extrayagant, and the gross
amount received was larger than the exi-
gencies of the church demanded. II the
! debt of the church was alleged as an ex-
cuse, the speaker thought that in church
embracing so much wealth, many OF
whose members were individually able to
pay 1t without embarrassment, and who,
unitedly, could expunge IL at once without
} twinge, the debt couid not but be consid-
/ cred as, in measure, disgrace.
THE Secretary of the Treasury Is so
much annoyed by the constant receipt of
letters from persons who have lost by
: burning OF otherwise bonds of the United
States and who wish new bends, that he
has found It necessary to request the pub
lication OF the fact that ii is not the policy
of the Government TO issue bonds in such
: cases The only remedy is an application
to Congress, aud that is not very hope
full remedy, as the Congressional Commit
tee on Claims refused to report bills for
: the relief of several persons who had lost
bonds at the last session. In two cases
the Department issued now bonds. for
others alleged to have been lost, and, in
: both cases, it was obliged to pay twice, as
/, the bonds declared to have been lost were
! afterwards presented for payment
A Paris letter gives the following
, romance Mile Blondine, the celebrated