Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-19
PACTs AND FIGURES.

SAN FRANcRco supports flyfve
churches.
BUFFALO, last year, paid s5s $40 to the
drama.
AMERrCAN bald heads yearly expend
100000 on wigs.
TuE city advertising costs New York
about 100000 year
AwupcAT eight feet in length has been
captured in Connecticut
A STUDENT was expelled from Cornell
University the other day, for lying.
TWENTY prisoners now in the New York
Tombs are charged with murder.
THERE are 10000 citizens in Vinoland,
N. j., and not a liquor shop there.
LAST wear nearly 100000 were raised
in New Hampshire for school purposes
FEMALE laborcrs on the suburban
farms, near Boston earn from 81 to $3.50
per day.
Dr. s. II. TYNG, forty-nino years ago
started his first Sunday school in Quincy,
Mass.
BosToN is able to support seven thea
ters, besides concerts, oratorios and lee
lures.
FIFTEEN million fish hooks were made
at a single establishment in New Haven
during 1868.
A CALIFORNIAN has built an "agricul.
tural locomotive" that runs thirty
plOws at once.
THE first printing press set up in New
Hampshire was in Portsmouth, in 1865, by
Sam Fowle, Esq.
TuERE are two establishments in Maine
for Matching fish artiticially, one at Au.
gusta and one at Alma
A FULL length statue of Fitz Greene
Halleck is TO be erected in Central Park,
New York, at a cost of $4,000.
Two DRY GOODS clerks in New York arc
reported To have each received salaries
amounting to $25, 900 the past year.
THE lumber trade of Burlington, VT,
for 1868 amounted to $4,000 900, as 49,.
000,00 feet of lumber were received du.
ring the year.
A, Il, STEWART, this season, sold twenty
$4,000 shawls and one worth $4,000. One
lady ran up IA $4,000 bill in two months
at his store.
"VELoCPEpE candy" is now sold
The manufacturer finds it necessary tC
| give notice that it is not worked with the
feet,
THIRTV thousand acres of public lands
were disposed of to actual settlers during
January, il Nebraska, Minnesota, Mis-
souri, and Wisconsin.
A SEVEN feet long cigar, one foot in cir
cumtercnce and weighing thirty pounds
has been twisted out of leaf tobacco in {
New Haven (Ct) factory.
JOHN NJ. LANE, of New Hampshire, ha,
been awarded q verdict of $l,150. 80
against his mother in.law and her son fo
enticing his wife away from him.
THE Cincinnati papers report So
counterfeit greenbacks in circulation
which are so nicely executed that it |
almost impossible to distinguish them fror
the genuine,
NEARLY 500 persons live by selling tn
$4,000 oranges daily consumed in Ney
York. One hawker, besides earning
subsistence, has $4,000 in the Saving
Bank.
A CLEvELAND.BU schooner, "Wil
raliti," has successfully breasted a sever
storm on the Atlantic, aud reached he
destination at Liverpool safely with
cargo of coal.
A SPECIMEN of gold leaf was lately eN
hibited in Boston, reduced to one tittieth {
its original thickness, or to one fourteen
millionth of an inch. 1t was quite tram
parent.
THE New York World estimates ths
10000 persons nightly attend the theater
of that city, a great part of whom com
from the floating population, which nun
bers 10000.
. A DUBUQUE Qowa) teacher, who r,
ceived $l6 rs she was eating dinner, +,
. duced the national debt that amount b
, unconsciously emptying the green 70
into the stove along with the other fral
ments on her plate.
THE amount of interest paid on the pul
lie debt of Massac husetts, exclusive of tn
railroad debt, during the year 1868, wa
$1,150,367 81. The premium paid fo
specie to pay the interest was $336,000.
A LONDON IN. H. citizen sports cos
made Of cloth spun and wove by his granC
mother when she was sweet sixteen
! and which his mother, now in her ninet,
sixth year, first wore as n cloak whe
, seventeen years old,
QUEEN VICTORIA owns the Koh-i.noo
the largest diamond in the world, an
thought to have 1t cut recently. A fou
horse power engine was constructed to
: the work, and the diamond has bee
spoiled in the process.
MARTIN HALEY, of Albany, indicted fc
obstructing the mail by knocking down
letter carrier, has been acquitted in tn
United States District Court, the Judg
deciding that letter carrier is not ma
carrier.
WITHIN the United States the names
towns are duplicated to the following e.
tent. There are "a Fairchilds, 26 Adam
es, 10 Bostons, 45 Richlands, Al Center
: 81 Perrys, SO Waynes, 81 Van Burens, I
E Harrisons, 93 Franklins, 80 Jeffersons, l.
! Jacksons, and 134 Washingtons. Thel
are in the Union 90 towns named Uniol
q and 65 called Liberty.
/ SOME Minneapolis merchants recent
: rusticated month in the woods. Seein
/ a fine deer they were greatly excited an
shot at it in the most reckless manner po
{ sible They were somewhat chagrine
r upon discovering that it was fine dee
/, skin stuffed for the occasion by some of th
: lumbermen, who enjoyed the joke on tn
e city chaps " hugely.
A CURIOUS lawsuit is on the tapis
> England. A Liverpool merchant, SUI
: denly called to New York on urgent bus
! ness, took cab to the steamer, and in h
haste forgot to pay the driver. On hi
the cabman and cab Just where he ha
left them, sheltered by little woode
shed, and was met by bill for coach far
for ,0S0 houro by day, and 1850 hours b
night The case is still on.
, The Inclement Season,