Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-23
FACTs AND FIgUREs.

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MAST makes $500 week. with bis,sons
7TnH valuation q ofIAarsfoFd, Conn, q
"a, ,1o4, 100. 'Q ~ q Qup1 nFs go
.iNsy BHusswIck paid thioOfor dssd
bears last year.
sorrvis Ia Southern Asia enables lOO,-
100000 people 70 Rct drunk $3.50,
AN Ehglish clergyfnan charges double
fees for marriages IN Lent. 'a' aessTg I"
A 'fbcKxr rife, with baffol only
eighteen inches long, hte been irvcho8,i
a4Tisrmored that Charles Dickens win
again visit this country in the fall se7
A BoYin Phillips, Me-. has been con-
vieted OF profanity and fined nine cents
by q justice. sls ). .liaai
sAxoNT with a population Of 0i0:00O,
had 2l0 suicides last ycar--t5S men and
52 women.
rHEY have stylish parties in Bostnn. at
which no one worth less than $3.50, 900 is
admitted.
CHARLES WEM.EY,. brother Of the ven
cradle founder Of Mothodism, wrote sevog.
thousand hymns r- >, y, .s..s.s.fss tss.h
MELnouRSE, Australia, though but
thirty years old, has a quarter OF million
of inhAbitants ''s ~
TIE bed of the Missouri river, at Sioux
City, Is $40 feet above that OF TIE Mlssls-
sippi at Dubuque, in the same latitude. y
TIE first Newspaper printed in Amar-
lea was issued in Boston, April 4, 1T04
Only one complete copy of II Is preserved,
A REsrEcrABLR citizen Of Philadelphia
lives, when they are In season, upon meth
ing but goose-eggs, partaking Of nine. per
diem. ~ 4trs siif Sc sstai@ D -
AN old woman In ono Of tho French
Departments has Just died and distnheri.-
ed her nephew because he sung the Mar
seillaise In 1889.
Ar Alexandrie, Va, q gull stuck its "a
Ions into the back of fish, which provSyt
too powerful for the bird, and aftor q SOL
we're struggle, carried II under water. ssi
In the village of Union Springs, N. Y, ,
there are thousand and more shade-trees,
planted during the. past ten years by
uee'planting association
A CLEVELAND convict hung himself
in efllgy-the other day, making q gene
raj scare among officials, who proceeded
to cut the body down, when res1rrec-
ton occurred from under the bed.
MILAN has provided its customs officers
with very powerful microscopes for Tie
examination Of all meat brought into the
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| triohiuW sporalis.
In Europe there are about 10000 known
species Of flies, included in $50 genera. In
| North America about 1850 species have
been described, but the whole number will
| probably amount to 10000, 20 'f
A DRruTATIoN of Englishmen lately
| placed upon the tomb Of Maximiliau sti-
perb crown of solid silver, the product of
| a arhoorint;ava Tho oro.x,,, .yaa ,,nada ~,
an eminent jeweler of Paris. v
A MISSISSIPPI editor and Justice OF the
Peace married couple in 1853, divorced
them in 1860, married the man TO another
woman in 1851, ditto the woman to an.
other man in 1859, and recently married
the original couple. ..,,..
HENRY LEwTTH, of Hartford, died re-
Gently, and left an estate worth So, 900,
and debts which figured up $1,000 more
than that. Mrs Lewith not only wavea Ter
legal rights TO one-third the estate, but
paid the balance out Of her own pocket.
AN enterprising velocipede manufao-
turer has offered handsome premium TO
the corporation of Paris for liberty to
establish velocipede Stands" as In the
case of cabs, throughout the city, fixing
his tariff at four sous an hour, or one
frank per day. sir i &eat5t
IT Is a fact not generally tknown, per-
haps, that Washington drew his last
4 breath in the last hour Of the last day ofthe
last week, in the last month of the year,
and last year Of the century. He died on
Saturday night. at 10 O'Clock, December
81, 1700.-CiReianat Enquirer. isit
A. DONKEY in the suburbs Of london
has attained celebrity by showing
| fondness for hearing the concertina played.
At the sound of the instrument he win
gallop toward the player, braying loudly
It 10 suggested that he wishes ina fhu-
name spirit, TO drown the sound of the in-
strument.
i Docs are in training in New York for
thieving purposes. They are taught to
rush into room, seize from the counter
parcel, and quickly bring u to their mas
ters. Tho counter Is made to resemble
these in banks, and the parcel is covered
I with yellow paper, to look like the pack
ages Of bank notes that are exchanged be-
tween different banks. ~. b. siaiaf ,gai1i
AN English physician has just discovt'
4 cred that the moon passes successfully,
during its different phases. from temper
ature of molten lead to that of the congo
lation of mercury. While the sun darts
its rays upon her, thermometer suitably
4 constructed would indicate a temperature
of nearly 800 deg While, on the contrary,
upon the side opposite the sun, tie instru-
ment would descend TO 20 deg, below zero,
thus giving fortnight of Siberian winter
i followed by fortnight of super-tropicai
summer
i AN Illinois correspondent Of the C0use
try Gentleman has much faith in real es-
tate. he says, "The sharpest and ablest
imam, with 81 900 at starting, may buy and
sell and trade and deal, add profit 70 profit,
loan money at 30 per cent, and shave
notes at 25 or 80, and fret and worry and,
stew through a long and dlaborious life, and
at the end he. viii not have accumulated
half as much as he would, had he made 81
starting, the same Investment in resl es-
state, sat down, took things cody and
Iwaited on fortune. This is the average eK-
perience."
A PAIR Of lovers, near Bristol, Eng
laud, were taking q walk, when sone
slight disagreement arose between them,
and the young man walked hastily away.
The young woman soon went In search Of
him, and found that ne had climbed tree
and hanged himself by his handkerchief
Nobody was near the spot, and the girl
at once climbed the tree 70 cut her lover
down, but she had no knife with her, aRd
the only'way by which she could effect
her object was by biting through the
knotted handkerchief. This, with some
difficulty, shesucceeded In doing, ana the
youth fell on the ground iEsenAible. BIG
was taken TO hospital, ard Il was con-
sidered doubtful whether he would re-F
cover. ...-.......-l ,.,,..i, ~, Il,
ae @ stopped HIS Paper. e .''a.''
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