Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Iowa has {, sos life insurance agents.
VELoCIPKDEs rent at 60 cents per hour
in Boston.
In Maine 100000 acres of land remain
unoccupied.
A CINCINNATI genius advertises Work
not so much of an object as good wages.'
THERE are six times as many daily
papers published In this country as in Eng
land.
SEVENTEEN hotels in St. Paul, Mimi,
have been destroyed by fire in as many
years. ...
THE average monthly wages of the male
teachers, in Illinois. last year was $42 40,
and of females $32 80.
A PARIs shopkeeper has been fined for
exhibiting goods in his window marked
at a lower figure than he would sell
SMITH is almost innumerable; there are
S03 of him in Boston, $50 Of Brown, 53S
| of Jones, and the same number OF Sulli-
van.
THE Dominican Father Minjeard, at
whose preaching ladies tore off their jew
els and put them into the plate, has be-
come insane.
A GLASGOW firm boasts that -four is inn
ported there from America, made into bis
sale.
AN obituary of deceased ferret in
Worcester Mass, shows that during its
lifetime of six years itkilled ,467 rabbits,
rats and squirrels.
AT a recent wedding in the Baptist
Church, in Charlottesville, Va, the
bridal party consisted only of the bride
and groom and two lady attendants.
ALASKA produced for market last year
225,0O0 seal skins, worth from $40 to $26
each. In addition to their skins, every ten
seals are good for barrel OF oil.
THREE swindliDg bogus guides at
| Niagara Falls were arrested the other day
by Buffalo detective, who affected inno-
cence, and allowed them to cheat him for
several hours.
| A MATRIMONIAL engagement in high
life was recently broken of in New York,
! in consequence of the parties having
dispute as to who should pay for the we'd
| ding cards.
THE passenger travel between England
and France during 1868 reached the total
of 306, $50, being pid Calais, 142, ,121; Bou
logne, 109,3 1895; Dieppe, 81. SIT, and Havre,
10,207. q
THE seventeen standard places of
amusement in New York city employ q
020 persons. The average nightly attend
ance is 1880 persons, and the average
nightly receipts $!4,66s.
AN individual from the rural districts
dead-keaded to a considerable extent late.
ly in Burlington VT, on the strength of
being connected with the press" On
inquiry 1t was ascertained that he tended
( a clder-mill.
An old man employed to hunt rabbits
on the Duke of Portland's estate, in Eng
land was recently found dead in rabbit
| hole into which he had crawled, and from
which he could not extricate himself. He
was drawn out by the heels, grasping a
rabbit and ferret in his hands"
A MAN was executed in Brigham
| Young's dominions the other day. He
was Brought ironed into the courtyard,
where there was a crowd of some four
hundred, and seated in chair. He then
read aloud chapter from the New Testa-
ment, the irOns were taken off his hands,
and, at signal from the Sheriff, he was
shot dead.
/ A CLEVELAND gentleman, while cross
ing the Atlantic, sealed bottle and con,
signed it TO the waves the bottle con-
| tained the history of some dastardly thief
who had stolen the whisky and drank it,
! and a request TO the finder Of the bottle
to send the same to his address at Cleve-
land. What was his surprise the other
day, after six months had passed, TO receive
from Brighton, England, the identical
waif which had been washed ashore COW
cred with barnacles.
A ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, mechanic recently
invested $50. for the purpose Of obtaining
valuable prizes which be had "drswn."
OF course he never received them. After
cogtatiug on the matter, he wrote over an
assumed name, representing that if he
could draw good prize he could get others
to invest Upon this the lottery managers
sent him about $50 worth of silver plate,
etc the package marked &c. o. D." When
notified of their arrival, he attached them,
won the suit, and the lottery people "smen
a mice"