Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-09
FACTS AND IguRRs
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~ ~ - 80 ussiAn international Exhibition
AgBER now nearly 20 years old. I,
about composing An opera called IA
Dream Oh Love- -a tiarf
BooT and shoe making Is a great busi.
ness In Philadelphia-amounting 70 Ave
millions year. NV
AT recent wedding in New York
among the bridal gifts was a bottle az
brandy oorked and sealed IN f772.
OyER seventy thousand people visited
the French exhibition OF pfcturea ON the
opening day Of this year.
=. hE it.k Japanese, Infringing living plauts
20 TINS country, wrAN the roofr J, amiV.
lure oil earth and carrots ground together.
ENeLHH house. .sparrows have besu i'm.
ported into Buffalo. One gentlsman "a.
oeived sixteen pair few days ago. -
SHELBURNR FALLS, VI, has q eitizen
who claims TO be the champion horse-
snapper" He is 40 years of age, and has
.raded horses over 600 times.
THE export OF cinnamon from Ceyion
Tor 1853 was 100000 pounds, and the es.
t'mate for the present year promises TO be
not short OF 100000 pounds.
OF the 10, ,027 800 furs sold in 81 Peters.
burg last year, about 1000 900 were from
Siberia and 1S6500 from Alaska The
value OF these furs was about %, ,4Ss ,875
in gold.
PAREPA RosA's voice Is thus iescribed
by misguided Boston critic: "Flve hun.
dred feet long, three hundred feet eyide.
and as high-as the Coliseum"
A BELLE of Agra, India, is In full dress
when swathed in two shAwls, with 30
bracelets, IA pairs of earrings, seven neck.
laces, one nose pendant, and seal ring
on each thumb. | assns
A LONDON photographer, who has pho
tographed nearly all the royal ss.snilY of
England, has been paid nearly G35. 900
for cdrtes dc pisite of Its varioua mem.
bers. a4ssss
A YOUNG gent of high standing in
Washington recently attempted suicide
because young lady, who went with him
to picnic, left him to return with another
fellow. -r-.-ss .r a-s-IarsH
THE Philadelphia Post says " "theF report
that Madame Psrepa -Rosa's TJiC5 so
filled the Boston Coliseum that the audi
ence had to go out to make room for it, is
incorrect" AtEle lhl
A YOUNG Welchman, Tilted by the girl
of his choice, has sent in to her bill for
damages, in which perhaps the most cruel
item is, ITO 10 days lost in your compa-
ny, GA Is 3d."
THE new City Directory of Buffalo con-
tains about 10000 names. The Courier
multlplies this number by five, and c!sims
that the product represents very nearly
the population of the city. al ast
The children at the royal court Of Prus-
sia are never permitted to eat sugar nlums,
bonbons, OF any indigestible food, aud the
servants are especially forbidden to let
them have any wine or beer. d.
Princess KAzLowsKY, of Moscow,
whose father lost all his fortune, declined
the aid OF her friends, and now keeps a
cigar store, by which she earns enough to
support herself and father. s--fT
In Schem's Ecclesiastical Almanac for
1868, the total number of members in
evangelical denominations in this country
is placed at 4,904, ,929, in population of
not less than 35,000,000, or one in seven.
Mr.. THoMAsS SAVERS, son of the pugilist,
has come out as comic vocalist, and ap-
| pears at the music halls " wearing the cos.
tune in which his father fought the men,
orable battle of Marlborough"
SOME indication of the number OF per-
sons who for some cause have left White
Pine, is afforded by the fact that there
were recently four thousand letters re-
naming uncalled for in Wells, Fargo i
Co.'s office in Treasure City.
| THE revolution in the island OF Crete
| from August, 1865, to March, 1869, 9
period of two years and seven months
has, it is reported, cost the Turkish Gov
ernment $25, ,0000 900 in money and 10000
soldiers.
A CHAP, who replied to al advertise
ment offering an article of great use tC
those contemplating marriage, "price sc
cents or four for ST." received for hi!
three dimes, a pocket handkerchief of the
coarset material, worth about six cents.
AT bull-fight in Nismes, Spain, few
weeks ago, the picadors appeared mounted
on velocIpedes instead of horses, and dis
played such skill in the management OF
their iron steeds that the astounded bull
was unable to dismount single one OF
them.
PHILADELPHIA is particularly happy in
its detective force, Ono of the papers
says that there Is scarcely professional
thief In the city. The chief detective
"has made the air so insalubrious to then
that the whole party have left in disgust.
AT a recent election in Boston, Lizzie
Harrison offered to vote. Being told tina
she could not, as she was not on the list
she declared that she had right to vote
all regulations to the contrary notwith
standing, deposited her ballot O.: The box
and departed. 10 gs
ENGLISH artists take the rejection o.
their pictures very much to heart, anC
one worthy coroner asserts that he hai
held several inquests upon artiats who
had been killed by sheer anxiety on the
subject before the decision of the hanging
committee was made known.
Born Houses of the New Hampshir,
Legislature have passed bill making
unlawful for first cousins 10 marry. How
ever, in order not to lead TO any breach o
promises already existing, the Legisls.ur
very CONSIDERABLY provided that the &C
should not take effect till six months ate
its passage.
In the city of Cincinnati, according Il
the City Directory, there are seventy -fou
houses of worship belonging TO the Pro
testant Evangelical denominations. Thei
average capacity does not exceed 900 sit
tings. The average attendsnee n les
than 400, so that the attendance- IN al
these churches is never more than $4,000
in population Of s40 600, or one IN eight
In the Third Street Baptist Church, o
Troy, N. Y, few days ago, as the Rev
DR.. Bridgeman, of Albany, was passing
down the aisle, he stopped forward Il
speak 70 friend, who was sitting int pe'
when one of the sharp whaleb0ne point
of an umbrella, in the hands of Q persol
standing near, was accidentally thrust a
his nose, and with such force that a smsl
artery was severed, producing yiolen
hemOrrhage. The shock was so .painfr
that DIR. Bridgeman fell in swoon.
THE population of Great Britain OF
juno 1. 1859, according to the estimate
of the Registrar General, Amounts TO 81
obs, ,234 souls, or, excluding the army, tn
navy aud merchant service, and reckOnin
only the persons in the United Kingdom
3O,621 ,491 --namely, II ,S60, GOT In Englan'
and Wales, 4, 3,2O5,4Sl in Scotland, ard 8,
GAG, ,343 in Ireland, ThiS is an increase o
240,64 as compared with the numbers u
the United Kingdom IN the middie OF IN
year 190eAnamely, an increase 90 SS0,
$50 In England, n, ,36S in 6cOtlaanS and .,
4 N a - -. II