Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-16
FACTS AVID FIHURES

York
THE London benevolent societies spend
two million pounds year on the city
poor.
A NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK has been es-
iablished at Albany, N. Y, with Erastus
Corning for President. frb
ELEVEN grsveysrds can De seen from
the top of the old chapel ~ Wesleyan
University, Middletown.
PORTLAND, Oregon, on the parallel Of
Montreal and Quebec was eating its own
potatoes the first week in June.
SUGAR ia largely manufactured from
pumpkins in Hungary, by the same pro
cess As the extraction OF sugar from beets.
In May, the people of New York spent
SSSS,OOO in going to theatres, $75i 900 In
riding on street cars, and 1000 in rid
| ing In omnibuses.
Wilkes Spirit Of the Times opines that
the Allen McCoole prize fight, near 81.
| Louis, was probably tie last of any inn
portance in this country. I"
A BABY eight weeks old arrived in st.
Joseph, Mo-, the other day, from San
Francisco, and is now announced as the
most youthful oontinent-crosser of the
period.
| BRECuER breaches with vase of choice
flowers on each end of the stand, and to
supply these, winter and summer, it takes
$500 yearly, which he thinks is good in
| vestment.
Ara recent examination O. conscriptA
at Hildesheim, Hanover, il was found that
a young tailor had his heart, not on his
left, but ON his right side. The discovery
created great sensation. H..--z
| A RUSSIAN paper says thai the con-
sumption of alcoholic drinks in the EN-.
pire has increased since 1868, by 101 per
cent. The number of persons who died
from drunkenness in Russia, last year, was
2,74S.
Captain VIM. B. Eaton, of Chelsea,
Mass was bitten by = spider few days
ago, and the poison spread through his
system so rapidly that when medical aid
was called it was too late TO save him. He
died in great agony.
A LEAvENwoRTH editor is in quest of
special attractions for his paper. He says:
"What we want for this column is per-
sonalities, as mean as possible. Expenses
of libel suits to be betrayed by the writer
funeral expenses by u.s."
ONE of the most powerful labor organi-
z zations in this country has been formed
by the journeymeE shoemakers of Mas
: sachusetts, under the title of the Knights
i of st. Crispin. The guild now comprises
{ about $4,000 members, 10000 of whom
are employed in the boot and shoe pro-
:, ducing towns of the Bay State.
A 90 OPERATIVE store WAS opened in
u :, the Haymarket London about a year
= y ago and has been extraordinarily sue.
n cessful The sales in twelve-month
9 amounted to upwards of $640,000, the
i whole original capital being only
$4,000, and the profits have amounted 20
: over $31 900.
AN ancient piece Of pottery was recent
ly found at Auburn, N. Y, of the kind
used by the Alleghsns. or Mexican In
diaus, and confirms the theory that they
If were driven out of the Northeast by the
II Iroquois, A rude arch and Goals were
Y. found under the pottery, which is sup
i'd posed to be about 450 years old.
ID DOUGLAS TRACY, of Griswold, Conn.
60 years old, is the champion sheep
r shesrerlof London County. At one time be
" sheared sixty three sheep in sixteen hours
10 and at another twenty-three sheep in five
ne hours, and caught the animals himself thu
m latter averaging four and q half pounds o.
n wool each Recently he sheared a sheep
re in ten minutes.
h AT a recent sale of rare coins in New
al York, United States silver dollar o
iu 1894, one of the best in existence, sold
III for $l45; a Martha Washington half-dime
|
M piece, the size of the old cent, coined il
x 1868, with the head of liberty surrounded
lu by thirteen stars, for $1S.
W W A CLERGYMAN was one day much ar
nf noyed by those who dropped in after tn
~, service had commenced, invariably closin
W. the door after them. He bore the vexs
o. ton with Job-like patience, but at length
W being fairly exhausted from beat he voci
,,o Grated to an offender: Friend, do TO
~ We goodness sake, let the door be open. be
u, lieve if l were preaching in bottle, yo
~ would put the cork In"
m. A CURIOUS experiment was performe
We in France, recently, to ascertain whethe
.c fish could live in great depths of water
es The fish were placed in vessels of waite
,c- made to sustain 400 atmospheres, unde
rv which they lived and preserved thei
ds health IL is, therefore, concluded tina
ID fishes may penetrate to very great depth
In in the ocean with impunity, as pressur
nj. of 400 atmospheres corresponds to a dept
er. of 13,600 feet, or about two miles and
1st half
de A LARGE room has been discovered s
in Herculaneum which must have served fc
,at a kitchen. in it was a wooden clothes
,al press, entirely carbonized; also IA vases,
nd candelabrum, and lamp, all in bronze
I'm several vessels in glass and terra.cotta
in small marble statue of fs"n, and tw
ed broken tables, one in marble and the othe
he in slate. These excavations are carried o.
He by means of the grant of $4,000 by Kin
ge Victor Emanuel, made for that object.
ng In Victoria, rabbits are great nuisanc,
las A letter from farmer Of Colac was rea
ci- in the Legislative Assembly of that colony
m. stating that between April, 1868, and th
I'D close of the year, he had 100 men en-
at ployed in extirpating them, and the
ed killed 100000, at an expense to the en-
in ployer of 5000. This year he has sixt
ed. men engaged in the same work. 1t
nd thought likely that the impossibility {
ed extirpating the pests on large runs wi
Sc, hasten the division Of the land into sma
n a farms.
at. AN experiment has recently been mac
He in Munich to ascertain if a wheel OF raj
lad way car rolls regularly without sliding
oct so that by recording the number OF r,
volutions and knowing the diameter, Il
diff exact distance accomplished can be a
all curately measured. Although the e.
md pertinent was tried on a short distanc
cts yet the difference between the measuri
ing ment by mathematical instruments an
g that obtained by recording the revolution
Ks, of the wheel was found ~ be no mol
sh- than 1-8S, 900 of the whole. This woul
ks, indicate that there was absolutely 4
We sliding of the wheels. 1t is proposed
ful employ this method as control in tn
aus determination of degrees of longitude,
gilI the side of astronomical observations an
{. measurements with the telegraph.
AT Elvedan Hail. in England, an in
mense purple-leaved beach was lately r
ON moved from one portion of the grounC
O." to another. 1t was nearly tifty feet hig
nc the diameter of the branches was fit
- eight feet, and the circumference of ii
ro- ste one ioot iioiA Ti Suo va y.
ID and roots measured sixteen feet by fou
ae teen feet, the roots extending six feet b
,ed yond the mass of soil, the whole weigl