Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-11-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.
T1rKnr are 1000 nuns in Spain.

MARX TWAIN averages 5000 per week
as a lecturer.
A cLERoYNGAN the other day took a
$4,000 wedding fee in New York.
BELLE BoYD, the noted Southern spy,
has been sent to the California State In
sane Asylum.
PARIS win have, on the 1st day of Jan.
uary, 1870, a dry goods store employing
1900 salesmen,
NEW HAMPSHIRE has stage-driver who
has held the lines for thirty-seven years
on one route. tr
IT Is estimated that over million bush
els Of peaches were shipped rom Alabama
during the past season.
THRRR are three times as many men en-
gagged In selling liquor as in preaching the
Gospel or teaching school.
A NEW BRDFoRD marble worker has
an order for a couple of tombstones for
the tombs of two hens.
A WEDDING guest in New York esti- |
mates that out of 80 marriages which he |
attended last season, only 10 were "loye
matches" tas ts Il
BIsuoP KINGSLEY, of the Methodist |
Episcopal Church, expects 10 ordain nine
native Chinese ministers on his reaching !
China. .a .to....e ....., ... M.
KATKoFF, the most eminent journalist |
of Russia, was, fifteen years ago, an ap-
prentice In a hodse-painter's shop in Mos |
COW. as l9ft
VERMoNTs funded debt is 81 ,0T5, ,000-a
net reduction during the past year of
$157,042, and since the close of the war of
$602, 800. 1a af ..I.5.., ..,S'.
THE total number of voters on the Eng
lish parliamentary register last year was
1905, no, and the number who voted was
S25,5t0.
A YOUNG lady, who has been studying
finance for some time past, wishes to know
whether the day rate of gold affects the
nitrate of silver.
VIcToR HUGO is 07, Alexander Dumas
GO, George Sands 65 years old. The three
great French authors have sons who are
celebrated authors themselves.
A FAMILY or seven brothers and sisters,
the youngest Of whom is sixty-eight, have
resided together all their lives, in Knox
county, Tennessee.
A NOVEL feature of the Danville, Va,
Fair, was pistol shooting match, partici-
pated in by number of young ladies,
Miss Ella Yates taking the premium,
In McHenry county, H., there are Ii
cheese factories, which use the milk of
about 3,400 cows, and the past season have
made about 100000 pounds of cheese.
LORD PALMERsToN never visited the
most important seaport of the British EN-
pire, Liverpool, which the railway had
brought within four hours of Broadlands,
his country abode, until the year before
his death. 'a
A WRITER in the, Providence Journal,
addressing Senator Sprague, says: Gov
"a ,.ol
one able-bodied, industrious man can lend,
in the course of a day, if he is so dis
posed"
SPRINoFIEhD, Massachusetts, has an en-
thusiastic Christian who attends eleven
religious meetings a week, works at his
trade every day, and goes twenty,siS
, miles by rail to his work, and finds time
to read his Bible and his newspapers
THE new Roman Catholic Cathedral in
Boston will probably be finished in 1871
1t will cover an area of $4,000 feet. Il
will have chime of BELLS and its chic
tower will be 300 feet in height The style
of architecture is the early Gothic.
Ina bayou near Natchez, a short time
since, two field-pieces, loaded with slugs,
stones, balls, etc, were discharged INTO a
crowd of alligators fighting over the car
cass of sheep, and twefity-one OF The
reptiles were killed. 't' ''.
4 FALL. BIvER, Mass, has a hank. with
100000 capital and only, eleven stock
4 holders, majority of whom are named
Brayton. There are four thousand shares
and of these one gentleman owns twenty.
nine hundred. ~, + = 80. - - 3, -.
4 AN eccentric capitalist in Buffalo offered
a man, presumed to be lazy, seventy-two
dollars and some groceries If he would
wheel barrow containing one hundred
pounds of stone . certain distance twice a
day for twenty-fonr days. The offer was
accepted and the contract faithfully exc
cuted. H,i fI'tLE VUS yETVg
A BAR of iron one inch in diameter
/ will sustain weight of % tons, q bar OF
steel 80 tons; and, according TO eomprlta'
ton, based upon the fact that a fiber only
1-4000th of an inch. in diameter, will sus-
tain 54 grains, bar of spiders silk an inch
in diameter would support weight Of "a
tons. EINN DTfV n OTFlTn
\ THE statistics of the last General Con
Yention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church shows 80 dioeeses; Bishops and
clergy, 1859 candidates for Holy orders
J 349; total number of baptisms, 90,720i
: combinations, 59,940; commandments
195,1S3; Sunday School teachers, 81 ATS
scholars, 1SS, 1872 amount ofcontributions
! for three years, $11,000,O0O
THERE is living in the town of West
> minister, Mass, a maiden lady rs years o
age, who, though totally blind and par
tally deaf, lives entirely alone. Sht
7 I1uilds her own fire every morning in al
: open fireplace. She pFides herself upol
, having had over forty offers of marriage
4 still she prefers to live on with no compa
? ny save an old cat.Ha a, So sr
A REMARKABLE fossil skeleton has beer
discovered at Horse Shoe Bend, Cal, lha
measures twenty-six feet from the jaws L
the hips, with teeth that are three and I
: half inches broad, and two smooth horns
l projecting backward thirty-two inches II
! fcircumterence at the base and five and {
Z half feet long, The skull weighed fiv
. hundred pounds, and surrounding tn
skeleton were about fifty skulls Of humal
shape, but small and apish.
Z WISE men are puzzling themselves i
account for the fresh water which come
!. up through an iron tube, sunk fifteen fee
: through the constantly shifting sands Q
l Cape Cod, from sixteen to twenty fee
4 from high water and not more than thre
: feet above it, The water in this tub
= rises and falls regularly with the tide, ye
y = more than 100 barrels have been pumpe
q from II at one time without finding tn
y slightest trace of saline matter Ltis Z
{ Isuch fine quality that vessels supply then
= selves for . sea voyage from this 'well.
!, AS AN example of the pride Of English
n inen, the D0a1is0 tells the iollowing story
n "Whilo Marshal Sebaatiani was Frencl
d Minister inlth country, be sat next Lon
/ PaImerston at cityudinner, and, after lis
d tehing TO all thatlwas said In praise q
d England hi the various speechesdelNeEe'
d during the evening, he remarkedAdo Ai
1. neighbOF, 'Oh, my Lord, n lfwas not
4 Frenchman should wish to be an Eng
I. / lishman, : And 4, coldly replied old Pam
III (ie pi6,9 asa) - : If I was not an English
3 maIl. should wish 70 a one, -. r.. 8 Is ~.
lFf vAiPRIsoann aplIo escaped ffom the Aa
!, burn iiaii 5n Maina N daWa dayss since
: showed much tngeuuity in. making th
0 | lhlse keY for. his PURPOSE. H9 borrowed