Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-12-03
FACTS AND FIGuREa.

uuIlhg the past year mas Deen S5o,Oo4,-
ENGLAND has had more coal mine dis.
asters this year than. for the preceding
three years,
A CHNAMAN at the Oregon State Fair
did the best plowing that was done on the
ground.
The oldest commission Ia the army is
that of General Sylvanus Thayer, who
entered the service in 1903.
THE number of acres this year in cotton
in the United States is said by Southern
exchanges to be 100000. f.i..
IT cost man $15 for refusing TO pay IS
cents fare on Massachusetts, railroad the
other day.
]. p. JEwETT, the original publisher of
"Uncle Toms Cabin" is now working as
a journeyman printer in Philadelphia
In Great Britain, with population Of
24,363, 600, there are $4,000 ministers and
"a, 700 churches and chapels.
IT is stated that fairs were held in near
lv every county in the State OF Ohio this
year--there being only five or six ex-
ceptions.
THE architect who planned the new
Methodist church in Waterville, Maine,
made the beliry Windows so small that the
bell cannot be got into it.
Ex-PREsDENT FILLMORE, with Eve
others, will represent the recent Louisville
! Commercial Convention at the Russian
Exposition of 1870. '-.
A NAN lin Waldoboro, Me, zealously
| cares for hatchet, which, in the hands of
a stalwart Indian in 1749, was driven into
his grandfather's skull. i l-.s
THE number of Mormon emigrants that
have gone over the Pacific Railroad to
| Utah in the last ten months is 1928, mostly
| proselytes from England and Wales.
A BOSTON dentist who sued man for
$4,000 for reporting that his wife died in
consequence of the administration of
nitrous oxide gas at his Office, has recov-
cred one cent.
THE catalogue of the Munich Exhibi-
tion of Arts contains nearly fourteen
thousand numbers. More than sixteen
hundred oil paintings and over five hun
dred water color paintings are on exhi-
bition.
A YOUNG woman of Boston, the other
day, received gold watch, chain, ring and
silk dress, as a present from u California
woman, whose life she had saved at per-
ilous street crossing.
THE late Mr.. Peabody accumulated the
greater part of his vast wealth during the
last tive-and-twenty years of his life. II is
said, on trustworthy authority, that at 80
he was worth but little more than $4,000.
In cabinet at Lewiston, Me-, Is
double headed snake, which takes its food
in either mouth, as il seems convenient,
the heads being entirely distinct for two
or three joints of the backbone.
THE number of lunaties in France has
increased from 10000, in 1851, TO nearly
100000 at the present time. This fright.
full increase is ascribed TO absinthe, tobac-
co, politics, and last, but not least, to
stock gambling.
Emma Harding, who few years since
palmed herself Oft on the citizens of Nor
witch as the widow of n soldier, and sold
them fictitious autographs of Washington
! and other celebrities, has recently been
committed to Jail, and turns out to be a
man.
AN old African Methodist preacher, liv-
y ing in Lancaster, Ohio, now in his SSth
I year, has been a preacher sixty-nine
, years 1t is said that he had six months
schooling when he was 81 years old. This
;, is all the educational advantages he has
/ ever enjoyed.
- THE first article of tinware manufac-
| tured from tin mined in the United States,
. has recently been completed in San Fran
I cisco. tits case to contain the Pioneers
certificate of honorary membership pre-
/ sented to William II. Seward.
8 IT is now denied that Colonel Drake,
c who put down the first oil well in this
IS country, is dead, or that he has ever been
s an inmate of Connecticut Poor House.
It He is living in New Jersey and from
+ present appearances will never need any
town to support him or his family.
y y TIE celebrated DIR. Gregory, in the
i course of one of his medical lectures at
Edinburgh stated cone cannot stand
. perfectly motionless for half an hour +; that
he had once tried to do so, and had tainted
at the end of twenty minutes, the blood
requiring the aid of motion from the
body in order to retain its full circulating
power"
PRELIMINARY steps have been taken to
celebrate in grand style the centennial
anniversary of Beethoven, next year. in
New York. A coliseum is to be erected
3 for the special purpose of holding the ex-
ercises, and the profits of the entertain
ment are to be devoted to the erection in
.. that city of great music hall, to be both
. an architectural ornament and means of
. !, artistic education.
: THREE interesting fossils have recently
> been found in the township of Seymour,
! Canada. The first is apparently petritied
= human head, which shows the tongue,
: eye-balls, and muscles of the face, the
head having the redlsh-brown appearance
of an ore of iron. The other relics are
! the foot and leg of a young girl, about ten
, years old, and section of meat from the
side of an OK, showing three ribs.
Two young men in Wilmington, Del,
proposed to fight duel recently (abOut q
! young lady, of course), but when their
, seconds arranged that they should be
securely bound, knee to knee, and fight
! with small swords until one of them, at
4 least, was mortally wounded, the thing
, lost its charm to them, and an apology
: from one and its acceptance by the other
= arranged the difficulty
THE cereal product of Europe in 1868,
: it is calculated, amounted to 4754, ,604
imperial bushels, or sixteen bushels to each
inhabitant, while that of the United States
a amounted to 1,405, ,449, ,653, or thirty-six
| bushels per inhabitant. OF the product
i of Europe, 1 ,4S4, ,437, 800 bushels were
=: grown in the Russian Possessions in Eu-
rope, 664, I 100 in North and South Ger
many, 717,215996 in France, 571,254, ,765
in Austria, and Hungary, 3S0,SS7, $50 in
e Great Britain and Ireland, 19l,662, Alb in
Italy,; 204, ,S76, 800 in Spain, 129 9,446,65S in
I Roumania, and 120OOO,OO0 in European
I Turkey.
: SAMUEL JEssUP, who died in Lincoln
a a shire in 1917, to ok between 1891 and 1916,
= 226,934 pills, which is at the rate of 1O,SO6
! year, or twenty. nine pills a day. For
= the last three years preceding 1916, he
i took pills at the rate of seventy eight a
= day, and in the year 1914 he swallowed
I not less than 81 500. In addition he took
~ 10000 bottles of mixture, and juleps and
:. electuares, extending altogether TO fifty
five closely written columns OF an apothe-
cacies bill He lived TO be sixty five years
of age, and the trusty and worthy apothe-
cary who supplied him with all these deli
cacies was obliged to sue his stingy Gus
:, toner for small balance due him.
h SOME Young men of the town OF b.,
: lz..;.,,. "a So,,t a., =, ono nfOht IN the dQtri-