Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

20 DRIoHAN YoUNG weighs two hundred
and forty pounds avoirdupois.
In is said that operatic singers eat an
early breakfast ON the day they are going
to sing.
TnE late Henry Keep left four million
dollars, which will be a fine keep sake for l
the heirs. {
PRoFEssoR JUDAH DANA, of Rutland,
VT, has copy of Virgil printed over !
three hundred years ago
TuE first newspaper published in Vir-
! ginia, q weekly issue, in 1880, was $50 q
| year subscription.
HARRY SCHMIDT, ncwsboy on the
Kentucky Central Railroad, has fallen heir
to u fortune in Germany of $l3S,OO0.
1T costs eight hundred dollars y year TO
clotho the hand of the Empress Eugenie
with appropriate gloves.
A FRENcu lady was detected, tho other
| day, In trying to smuggle through the New
| York Custom House six poodlos slowed
In her pockets.
A STORY is told OF u belle at White
Sulphur Springs who, according to a vow,
accepted the one hundredth man who pro-
posed to her.
TUE largest tannery in the world is at
Kane, Pa. IL is not yet finished, but has
600 watts in operation, and consumes $4,000 |
tons of hcmlock bark per year.
REV. JAMES DuRpoRow, an Episcopal |
clergyman in Philadelphia, recently sol |
emnized his 1,000th marriage ceremony |
during fourteen years pastorate.
SOME one has sent to Postmaster. Gen |
eral Croswell $500 for the widow and
children of Secretary Rawlins, with the
request that his name shall not be men
toned in connection with the matter.
TuERK is letter in the Postoflioo nt
| Richmond, posLnarlCd Savannah, Ga, di'
rectcd as follows: "To Mr. Porter,
young man in Richmond, Va, whose first
name | have forgotten"
TIE Brooklyn Mercantile library is
/, vigorous and ilourishing institution. 1t
has ON its list 900 books The member
ship Is about 1000. Thirteen thousand dol.
lars are to be expended annually in the
purchase of new volumes.
Tue largest manuiactory Of gas fixtures
In the world is in Philadelphia. They
have built the largest chandelier in the
world for the Philadelphia Academy of
MUSCLE feet in diameter, 20 feet long,
with $50 burners,
; A MARRIED couple in the Palatinate were
, about to make a journey by cars from
GTmCrsheim to Durkheim, and missed the
train; the man began to abuse his wife;
she returned hisabuse with interest, which
Z exasperated him so much that he pulled
out pocket pistol and shot his wife and
/, himself
THE Young Mems Christian Association
+ of this country has membership OF 30
, 600, having property to tho value OF So
|, 100000. Nearly 5000 conversions are at.
;, trbutabe to their efforts. There are u
i 100000 of young men in our land, and
~ nnlu ON nm nrnfaGa n hp (NbriQiinnq
4 / THE full strength of our navy actually
4 on duty, in ships and guns, is stated to be
r as follows: North Atlantic squadron, 10
@ ships, 6S guns; South Atlantic, A ships, 43
O guns European fleet, ships, SO guns
Pacific, II ships, n guns; Asiatic, 0 ships,
,e 80 guns; on special duty, 3 ships, 30 guns
N This force could be trcbled at short no
o. tice.
le JOHN COFFIN, of Chichester, N. H., re
m Gently seized by the tail a black snake
u which had taken refuge under a rock
as Coffin held on at one end and the snake
lit at the other, and the result was that the
IF snake parted, breaking open in the mid
n, die. The two pieces, when put together
r, measured six feet in longth.
ly A French Canadian girl, aged nineteen
IS, years, was killed u few days ago, at the
ne st. Alexandra Station, near Riviere du
lg Loup, in attempting To cross in front OF
.rs an engine. Her mother reconstructed
b. and said the train was too near, but th(
"a father said, "Go, you can do it, if you're
gh smart" The girl was crushed beneatl
as the engine wheels.
rs THE entire cost of the Suez Canal, tC
er be opened next December, has been about
10 $S1, 100000 But to include improve
cu ments, which will be applied as experience
W. may suggest, we may safely set the sum al
y. L2E OQn nll II il aqtin1ltp1 Inv
lu thorities that the annual business OF tht
AT canal will amount to 100000 tons, anC
u, that its gross receipts will be $2O,OOOOOO
IN THE Hottentots living in Cape Colony
is. 4 South Africa, number in all 1906. NAM
he of them are rising in the scale of educa
ad tion, civilization and religion. In one ol
nj, their towns, having a population of owe
,e, 900, they have lately built Christian
"a chapel which will accommodate abou
of 600 hearers, and il is generally crowded
ID with sober and attentive worshipers.
nd THERE is a s:rnight forward, broad
~ shouldered, honest drayman standing
nd every day with his team at the corner o
b. Third avenue and Twenty street
"A who once lived where Mr., Field now re
,ut sides in Grammercy Park, and who's
ter father owned all of what is now Unio
wy Square, and much Of the neigbOring lane
od He bears his downward turn of fortun
ire quite bravely,-Nta0 York Mail.
= AT Jamaica, L. l., few day ago, Levi
si nsi Carter, colored man, descended into
rus well to take out the tube of an iron pumI
ln- At halfpast the earth and stones fe
vas upon him, and he remained thirty-seye
feet below the surface until extIicated I'll
following night at half past l. He wa
OF inferred thirty two hours. Heavy stone
lodged on his shoulders and pressed agains
nd his sides, and he was unable to move. ii
nd was entirely without light, but air reache
en- him through crannes between the stone
on He experienced no bodily pain, and HI
nd mental sensations were not distressing il
DIV asmuch as the sounds above gave him a
his surance of rescue. After working III
ate whole of the first night, the laborers weI
ost gratified at daybreak to hear the man
the voice His head was uncovered in I'll
the afternoon, and brandy was administered
EN- him, but il required six hours more 10 n
by lease his boiy. When drawn up he WI
in weak from bruises, but perfectly able
ind walk to his home, leaning on the arm
md friend Beyond being stiff and sol
,re, from the contusionsr nsreceiyed, he was in
at way injured Il ILL
@ oes HoRsE- -RAoING AMONG THE INDIANS
ai,' "Redlander, a New orleans correspondent OF Z
re- race IN the Creek nation where the racing autnt
me- ltes believed that weight was no objection II
- were well placed, and thai Il was an advantage
oI have two ridegsr- ON 10 whip and one to pun
llsO After sOme trading, much talk, and numbers
eur drinks the Indians proposed 10 run large nor
,yai thar they had against the pony quarter OF nj
ace jockeys. The white man was willing 10 run, D
nts, objected to the raer ~ pc nsd 99L one; a9
ain was very Small ana Souin W ues hi.ie @ ~ Wy Wy y