Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-16
FACTS Ann FIGURES.

I ANAN ANU iAWl hLNs
A MAN in Pittsburgh has a beard eight
feet long.
PAPER collins are the latest European |
invention.
GENEVA. y. Y, boasts Of cow which |
recently sold for $4,000
In costs 100000 per aunum to feed the
dogs ot Cincinnati.
Two Americans have opened dentist
shop In odessa, on the Black Sea.
ONO paid s331 .00ii3 Of her state debt
during the month OF March.
Tine arabic lnud of tho United States is
estimated 81 1850, ,O00,000 acres.
TuEUE were 22O alarms Of Are in st.
Louis last wear; total loss, So 020, 500
Insurance, 81 .6j5, l05.
THERE are $4,000 ministers Of all de.
nominations IN Great Britain, with 3i7O0
churches and oh, ,pal5.
TUE Cdruell University has thirty one
professors with twelve additional pro-
iessorships to be illlei) aud 3SS students
Blsuop HUNTINGTON, the new Episco
pal Bishop Of Syracuse, N Y, has been
presented with sea, 600 house
THE telegraph companies Of Great
wire and manage 3,1G0 stations
THERE are $4,000 shade.trees in Paris
principally the Elm, Plane, Horse
Chestnut Maple, Linden, Acacia and the
Alanthus,
DURtNo 1868, 1853 persons were acci.
dentalv injured on the New Jersey
railroads. In l0i eases the injuries proved
fatal.
MANCHESTER N H., authorities allow
no one on Sunday 20 smoke pipe or cigar
upon the public pave, within one mile of
tho City Hal
A BABY advertised for adoption in
London was wanted by $40 applicants, ali
Of whom sent money as pledge of good
faith.
The father of cash boy in Louisville
/ dry goods store has brought action against
u salesman for sappng the urchin, laying
damages at $4,000
! AsGNdULAR mistake was made by Fields
~ Osgood, the other dav, in binding the
current number of Our Young Folks in the
| covers of Partou's Danish islands"
| THE Fall River cotton mills manufac-
| turc 1li,3ii 900 yards-or 81 or miles of
cloth, yearly. The pay.rolls of the various
.establishmcnt9omouutto$9O0 0O0amonth
NJ ScuNEDER, the President Of the
/ French Corps Lcgislatif is one of the
wcalthicst men In France He has four
/ daughters, each Of whom will inherit one
million dollars.
TuE burgOmlser of Leipzig has prohi-
bited velocipcde riding in the streets of
that city, owing 10 the numerous acci-
dents which have recetly beiallen the velo.
clpcdisls of Leipzig.
A PAms bookseller, NJ. Gosselin, has
recently been sentenced to three years
imprisonment and fined one thousand
dollars, for selling books and phamphlets
not very complimentary to Napoleon and
EugCnie.
MRs. JOHN JACOB AsTOR of New York
celebrated the recent coming of age of her
son, by furnishing Mr. Brace, of the Chill
drcn's Aid Society, with the amount re-
quirel to provide one hundred orphan
boys with homes in the West.
| DURING 1868, the seventeen street rail.
ways Of Philabelphia, with total length
of 172l miles Of track, transported So
435 5l2 passengers, received SO 1893 sea
AMI paid out So iG0,703 During the same
time, II horses were killed on the roads
and ii injured.
FIVE rustic Now Workers gave polite
metropolitan sharper $3.50 to buy their
tickets TO California, on his assurance that
he could save ten dollars on each ones
passage money. The clever fellow disap
peared in crowd and forgot TO return,
A BMDGEPoRT gentleman lately saw
without interference, his landlord tleeCed
of 800 by gamblers on the train, and re
marked in explanation, 81 wasn't going
to warn him. He raised my rent 5000 this
~ - N III.
landlords take warning.
CHEYALIER, the aeronaut, who proposes
to cross the Atlantic, has had hundred
applicants for seats in his car on the occa
sion. He has concluded to charge S25C
per passenger. The voyage is to be under
taken On the 3lst of July, from New York
THE London LaRcst mentions case il
which new blankets, having been infected
} by scarlet tieVer, were put away uncleanseC
in wardrobe. Fourteen months after
wards the mistress of the house had these
blankets taken out and put upon her owr
bed in a few days she took the fever anC
died.
A HACK DRIVER in Buffalo, who had de
tanned two gentlemen purposely from
reaching the train, in order that he might
make more money ont Of them, was arrest
was compelled to pay their hotel bill anl
the costs Of the case,
A GENTLEMAN who has had several
months experience with the velOcipede
states that new beginners, instead Of pro
pelling the'machine by adjusting the hol
low Of the foot to the treadle, would FIND
it much castor and more conducive tC
health to use the forward part of the foot
, THE J01rRh cf Chemistry states that
fish may he kept alive for ten days OF
more without water, by filing theiI
mouths with crumbs of bread saturated
with brandy, and pouring little brandy
into their stumaChs, after which, in thi:
torpid state, they may be packed in straw
They become alive in a few hours, when
again placed in fresh water.
TnE New York Herald states that, oil
the seven or eight societies organized in
that city eighteen months ago, for the pur,
pose of furnishing groceries aud Other
supplies at cheap rates % the stockholders
only one succeeded in establishing store
: and that has been closed az a loss of &C.,
500. There are, however several build
ing societies in the city and yiclcity that
are more or less successful
A VERY amialle and modest widow lady
lived IN a certain country. Soon after heI
husband had paid the debt of nature, lesv
ing her his lcgatee, a claim was brought
against the estate by his brother, and a
process was served upon her by the sheriff
of the county, who happened to be a wild
over of middle age. She was much
alarmed, and meeting with female friend
che exclaimed with AGITATION: "What dc
you thinkY the sheriff has been after me =
"Wen," said the considerate lady, with
perfect copiness, BE Is very tine man,
But he says he has an attachment, for me,
replied the WiloNR "Well, have long
suspected that he was attached 10 you, my
dearp But you don't understand ;Tht
says MUST 80 10 oOnrtN 90 that's quite
snoiher Eiiair my child; don't You go 81
! f4r rs thati Il is hi' place 70 come ant
! court you."