Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-12-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.

olu OlHamtSb DOGS r .N
A. BRooKLYN dog faueicr has made $50.
600 in two years. ..f 3D.. .., ..
LouIsyuIB has negro child with ten |
fingers on each hand ...a.,
MoRubNtsN, II is said, has thirteen thou
sand capable military men.
On a train that reached Knoxville, |
Tenn, from Virginia, lately were A ba.
bios.
CmcAeo built two thousand five hun.
dred houses during 1869, at cost of $i0,-
100000.
By the recent death In this country of
five miscrs, nearly three million dollars
WILDE put afloat I. q. .rod r .uu fr |
A CuEEsE factory ut Cheshire, Mass,
manufactured this year l0s, 1871 pounds oC |
cheese.
A LAWYER OF Atlanta, Ga, received
counter-pane as n fec from a woman in
that city, in divorce suit
MoRE RATS iloatcd down the Missssip.
nj river during 1869 than are remembered
in any previous year.
CINciNNAri has had n corn huskinr
match. In nine hours one Hess huskcd 14S
bushels TO his opponents 145.
A WOMAN in the northern part OF Maine,
who is the mother of twenty children, has
been granted divorce on the ground thnt
sho has no affinity for her husband
NEARLY three hundred Parisians took
the oath Ns candidates before tho recent
special elections, merely to- secure gratu.
itous advertisement of their names and
business in the official journals
A CHARMING girl of Boston is about cs.
tabllshing female barber shop. Ten
sylphs are being put through tuitionary
| course OF lathcr Tor the opening A sweet
| shave will cost twenty-five cents, and
seraphic shampoo halt a dollar.
A LADY in Utica, N. Y, carried to a
newspaper an account Of her own suicide
by drowning, and, after the item was pub.
llshed, in flesh, blood and bones she ap.
peared at the EDITORS sanctum and dc.
manded contradiction.
A NEW HAVEN policeman got so sound
asleep upon doorstep, II few nights ago,
that the ehieG who happened along, could
not wake himup, but took his cap, bearing
| his number, to the police station, where
| 1t still awaits the call of the owner. -.....,
THE building statistics of 81. Paul
for the year 1869 for buildings and i'm.
provemcnts foot up 81, ,305, ,T27, against 81, p.
$500, 900 has been laid out in dwellings,
| 100000 in business blocks, and 100000
on public buildings.
| In Hungary a landowner was lately at.
tackled by one of his servants In a forest
and killed His right arm was then cut
off, and piece of paper, with tho follow
ing words placed upon it: Here hast
thou the hand with which thou hast
whipped me-" The murderer was ar.
rested
THE Maine Farmer makes the following
estimate of the crops of that State for the
past season: Hay, 800, 900 tons, (equal in
quality to 1,00J000 tons produced in
1869; corn, 100000 bushels; potatoes,
400, 900 bushels; wheat, 100000 bushels
barley, 100000 bushels; oats 100000
ri bushels.
! IT was In ST. Johns church, Richmond
/ in the Virginia Convention of rs, tha
| Patrick Henry delivered his celebrated
j Grafton and uttered the immortal sentence
"Give me liberty or give me death" Tn,
/. place is still pointed out where he stood
The celebrated Virginia Convention o
1878 that met to ratify the Federal Consti
stitutioD, assembled in St. Johns.
LORD PALMERsToN, eleven years ago
expressed the opinion that the Suez Canal
scheme was the greatest bubble evel
imposed upon the credulity and simple
ity of the country" Robert Stephenson
the great engineer, who had conquered
: the difficulties Of the Kilsby tunnel ant
, built the Menai bridge, indorsed Palmer
f stons opinion, stating that the canal wa
i physically impossible" %
Y AN Ohio clergyman, several years ago
s received bright new cent as wedding
, fee. The other day he met the bride
3 groom who mentioned the circumstance
l and said "My wife was comparativ,
c stranger to me at the time we were uniteC
in wedlock had not learned h0r value
8 and paid accordingly. | find her n Jewel
f so here is an additional fee" at the SAM
2 time handing the astonished minister
I, $40 gold piece.
PRINCE NAPOLEON recently sent hi
c eldest son, Victor, seven years of age, Il
+ n private school in the Rue Caumartin
b in which there are about fifteen pupils
;, The principal asked the father how h
:. should address the boy, as Monseig
! neur" or "your Highness" "Call hin
r simply Victor" said the Prince. "Bu
{ on the lists of honor for attention an(
J. good conduct ?" "Oh, then, Victor Ma
g poleon but when his companions Civ
him blow or he returns 1t, Victor short
c and in no case whatever Monseigneur."
u PINE wood is of great value in Mort
c Carolina. They have discovered a neN
way of making turpentine. They cha
II pine wood in retOrt and the prOductio
u from cord of wood is said to be ten ga
e Ions Of turpentinc, worth 81; eighty gal
J. Ions of oil, $2S fifteen gallons of blac
; varnish, $720; 100 gallons of wood aciC
L So, and 40 bushels of charcoal, beside
= considerable inflammable gas; but b.
n sides this the product has a market valu
e of $3.50; all of which is obtained at
e cost for wood and labor of $40. .t.
THE manner in which De Lesseps wo
70 his wife was u very singular one. II
is had brought to ladies in France gre'
" number Of Jericho roses, and was di
y tributing them at an evening party. II
: stopped before the young brunette who
!, II now Mrs Dc L and said; " II is not
m my power to make this rose bloom aires
10 leVery one knows the legend of Jeriol
~ rosesl, but express a desire in Acceptin
=. 1t, and | swear that it shall be accomplish
ed" desire CIV whatever you wish" mu
INJURED the young girl. "Well," said /
@ Lesseps, (" / wish you to be my wife
AND she is. .r H.
70 i4THE exports of tea from Shanghai an
p ,Japan during the period which elapst
~ between June ] and October IL, lS6
~ amounted to 1869, sol chests to the Alta
= - tic ports of the United States, and 47,25s
~ 53S chests TO Great Britain. During u
" same period in 1868 the exports to Il
"a United States were 5,395,141 chests, al
y, ~ TO Great Britain SO, ,228, 1913 chests. OF I!
~ exports of ten from June 1 1863, 10 q
- United States, 192, $50 chests were
- black tea, 32l30l2 green, and $685.
~ japanese. IL is also Announced that
III bales of raw silk had been shipped fro
"a Yokohama TO New York, by way OF 81
10 Francisco and the Pacific Railroad.
or A DELINQUENT boareer was brought
10 terms in Wheeling, Va, the other day,
he very novel manner. His landlady d
'es covered thai he was about to deear
without settling his bill, went into I
nj room while he was ASLEEP, and remoe
,et his "duds," including the clothing he h
taken of on retiring. When he popp
out Of bed the next morning, ana q