Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-09-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

lhEhhiaAiA IN IhTuWICk, jMasS., on
which thereAre fifty miles of stone wall.
Mr. PEABODY has given $4,000 pro-
mote science and useful knowledge in Es-
sex county, Mass.
THERE was a set Of jewelry valued at
5000 in a. bouquet recently thrown to
New York danseuse.
Local. observers place the number Of
visitors to the IIoosac tunnel, during The
past three months, at 10000. 4A
OK the Austrian pension list are 33S
Generals, 403 Colonels, AL Lieutenant
Colonels, and ,410 Majors.
YOUNG woman has been admitted to
the course OF medical studies in the Medi-
cal college at salem, Oregon. as1
-THE production Of corn and wheat in
the United States In 1863 was about $780,
100000 bushels, or % bushels per head
A NEWARK haclIman hung his canvas
lecd.bag on lamp.post, and on his return
from dinner found II full of letters.
THE value boots and shoes manufac-
turcd infAl&sachusetts the present year
will amot Probably to over $05,OOO,000.
THE littW town of Bennington, VT,
with q population of 5000, does u heavier
manufacturing business than any other
town or city in the State.
BANTING, the anti.obesity philosopher,
| after five years Of experiment, finds sugar
| to be more productive Of iht than any
other element of food
TT is estimated that the cotton crop OF
Arkansas for 1869 will net 100000 bales,
worth S30000,0O0 The corn crop will be
the largest ever made in the State.
THE Rev DR.. Spaulding, who is 7G
years of age, is the oldest living missionary
of the American Board lie has been en-
gagged in his holy work in Ceylon since
1919.
AJouRNAL at Dieppe complains of the
number of children of from twelve to four.
teen years who are TO be met in the streets
of that city in a state of intoxication.
| A CALCULATION has been made by late
accurate philologist, that there are $4,000
words in common use in England which
do not appear in any dictionary of the
language.
"A FARMER having piowed the land
about his applc-trees for the first time this
spring was surprised by u second blossom
ing about two weeks after the first bloom
had disappeared.
MRs JOHN S. JONES carried fire in an
old fashioned foot-stove from Durham to
| Strailord, N. H., sixty-throe years ago, and
from that day to this that fire has never
been permitted to go out.
ONE of the members Of the American
| Association for the advancement of Science
hvors the abolition of months, and wants
the days of the year numerically designat-
ed up to 365.
THE bromide of ammonium is recon-
mendcd by DR. Glib, Of London, to those
who suffer from an excess of fat lie says,
when taken in small doses for u length of
time, it will diminish the weight of the
| body with greater certainty than any
other known article.
THE various labor organizations in the
United States claim total membership of
100000. The Knights of st. Crispin lead,
with 10000 members the miners have 30,-
600, the iron moulders, 1900, and the
briCilayers 10000. s-.Ir-7
DIR. STRoNasBuRa, a jew, who seven
or eight years ago, liveda penniless adven-
turer in London garret is now called
the Prussian Railroad King He Is worth
at least 100000 900 thalers, and owns nearly
one half Of the railroads in the Kingdom.
A GENTLEMAN who advertised fora clerk
says that he payed attention to only four
out of sixty replies, because the remainder
exhibited bad spelling, bad writing, too
much Independence, "A disposition to write
too long letter, or q taste for writing it
on fancy paper and using fancy envelope
and monogram. t.s.l
PA NEW knitting machine has been per-
ftcted in Hamilton, Ont, that knits 324,-
900 stitches of ribbed work. colored or
plain, per minute 1t has been patented
in the United States and Canada. 1t is cs-
timated that one machine will turn out 800
shirts per day. -BtIf.
A GENTLEMAN in Litchfield, Conn, hav-
ing reached his hundredth birthday, his
friends determined to give him reception
in the church. Arrangements having been
made, as the old gentleman entered the
church with his two brothers, each oyer
70, the entire audience rose and sang cold
Hundred" .7 7ri roAR
a POSTAL. treaty has been cOncludetlsbe-
tween the United States and British Hoh-
duras, to take effect on October list, Ect-
tiers weighing half ounce or under will
require twelve-cent stamp newspapers,
without re gard to weight, two-cent stamp;
and books, patterns, or samples, Il six cent
stamp for every four ounces ~
TIE fishing vessels of New England
appear to be very successful. On board a
Gloucester (Mass.) vessel, recently, $4,000
pounds of fish were spoiled for want of
! sufficient salt; and a schooner recently ar
rived in port, after thirty days fishing,
with $4,000 pounds of halibut and 81 600
pounds Of goldfish. Every member Of the
crew received $170 as his share of the
profits of the trip
I A MUNICH professor estimates the
amount of beer annually manufactured in
Europe to be equal to S,G00,000,000 pints,
or more than enough, he says, to float the
4 whole Prussian navy. The average
amount drunk by each individual in 1868,
was, in Bavaria, 234 pints; in England,
1893; in Belgium, 140 in Austria, 81; in
France, 3j in Prussia, 80; in Russia and
Spain, ~,
THE Protestant Episcopal Church Az
mdRdc gives the following summary of
that church in this country Bishops, AZ (;
priests and deacons, 1867 parishes, 2,412 !;
baptisms, 35,702; combinations 2l,95S /;
number of ofcommunicsnts 1914 ,692 Sunday
scholars, 1914, ,046 contributions, $4, ,457, 1888
The Oldest Bishops are Rev b. B. Smith, of
Kentucky, and Rev. G. p. McHyaine, of
Ohio, both consecrated in 1852.
AS AN illustration Of the prevalence of
insanity on the Pacific coast correspond
cnt states that on the 2d ult no less than
four men were sent to a lunatic asylum,
and adds: "Californians live continuously
in perfect whirl of feverish excitement,
| enduring an amount of wear and tear OF
body and brains not equaled in Wall
street. itself There are few old Californi-
ans to be found who have not been rich
and poor again at least half a dozentimes,
and most of them are poor now"
1 YALE has had among its alumni four
signers of the Declaration of lndepend-
ence, one Vice President, torty-tour
United States Senator's and tifty-eight
Presidents of Colleges. Princeton has
had two signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, twenty eight members CT the
Continental Congress, one President, two
Vice Presidents, forty.eight Senators,
twelve Judges of the Supreme Court, six
teen Foreign Ministers, twenty-eight Gov
ernors, five Bishops, and thirty-s six Presi"
dents Of Colleges. ..,4..t
! Tue first conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was held at Philadel-
phia, ,Hin June, 1773, ten ministers only
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