Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-15

DURINo the past decade in England,
10000, 900 gold sovereigns and 1900, 600
half sovereigns were coined, which piled
one on the other would make column
thirty-five miles high.
A MANUFACTURER In Berkshire county,
Mass, has offered to give TO the ladies in
/ his town all the cotton cloth they viii
make Mp for the poor of that town during
the winter.
| AN old gentleman on the burning
steamer United States, seeing all hope cut
| off, went back to his stateroom, saying,
"Here let me die" A young woman
dived straight into the flames to make
short work of II.
BRAzIL has a standing offer Of prize
of $1,000 in gold to'any one who will in
vent mode of preserving beef so that It
will be suitable for expectation. Four
hundred competitors have appeared for
the prize, and still 1t is not awarded.
THE total number of arrests made by
the police of st. Louis during the past
year was 1850; males, 9,0l1 females,
ISIS. The money stolen and stray pro.
perty received and restored to owners
during the year amounted to $114,40s.
FIVE libraries in this country contain
! each over 100000 volumes, of which three
are in Boston and Cambridge. Boston
/ Public Library contains 145, 600 volumes
and the Library of Congress, 10000
| The others are the Astor Harvard College
and Boston AthenGum.
THE franking privilege of the members
of the Russian Parliament, which the
Government recently abolished as too
heavy burden for the Post Office Depart
ment, IL has been ascertsined, cost the
public exchequer only fifteen hundred
Prussian dollars a year.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR announces that the
fourth annual meeting of the American
Dairymen's Association will be held in
Utica, on Jan. 30 "Cooling milk before
cheese is made therefrom has it received
its due attentions" is the leading subject
announced for the consideration of the
association.
THE weight of gross of steel pens is
but few ounces, and it is not difficult to
believe that 1t would take a good many
boxes to make ton. The largest pen fac
tory in the world, ON the French coast,
uses sixty tons of steel month In this
manufacture, and there are dozen other
houses whose product is not very much
smaller.
LIE lOWUSulU VI NCWlOH, NldSsi uNdl
Boston, has seven villages, named respect
lively as follows Newton Center, Newton
Corner, West Newton, East Newton, New
ton Upper Falls, Newton Lower Falls,
and Newtonville Visiting parties FIRE.
quently find themselves in the wrong
"Newton," while letters take their
chances, and pass back and forth indeti-
nitely.
THERE are / ,113 miles of telegraph line
in South Australia. The rates are low and
more messages are sent than in any other
part of the globe. In England the annual
| proportion is one message to every seven
of the population. In South Australia il
is one to every four. In England there
are 121 letters sent to one telegram, in
| South Australia only 13 letters. The au,
thorities now possess n postal telegraph
system.
EDMUND ABOUT says, in his Old Time
Recollections," that, in 1S49, he was 81
poor that he was about to accept a clerk
ship in Lyons silk house and bid fare
well to literature. A timely loan of tive
hundred francs, however, enabled him t.
finish novel, for which a publisher paiC
him five hundred francs, and this success
encouraged him so much that he though
he would try literary life little longer
In the following year, he says, he earneC
one thousand francs with his pen, anC
thought that was doing exceedingly well
His income is now never less than fifty
thousand francs year, and he has a grea
many more orders from publishers thar
he is able to fill.
PAcKARDs Monthly relates The print
ers who formerly stuck type at the side o
Horace Greeley, have died out of the office
Horace, himself, though practical print
er, rarely visits the composing room. Tht
last time the writer saw him at work in the
compQsing-room was at o'clock in Tho
morning following President Lincolnt
election, when he ran his eye over the
type of the New York election table OF
the editorial page, and suddenly cried out
Here, Sam, bring me bodkin, some in
fernal fool has spelled Allegany with al
h." And though the pressmen were i'm
patiently changing the bells for the forms
Horace deliberately drew jack knife from
his pocket and dug the out of Allegany
before he would allow the form to &,
down.