Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.

from 80 to 10.
CHEYENNE has three church organi2a-
tions and two church buildings
A SON of Theodore, of Abyssinia, Is
travelling with menagerie in England,
LAST year the American Bible Society
printed 10000 copies of the Scriptures
DURING January, Pennsylvania yielded
a daily average of 10,t92 barrels of petro-
leum.
THE fret piano sent to Japan was re-
Gently shipped thither by New Haven
manufacturer.
IT is supposed that the annual losses by
cattle diseases in this country amount to
$500OO,0O0
A BUDDHIST monastery in Thibet, 15,-
III feet above the sea, is the highest
known human habitation.
ONE New York car-dTiver is worth
$125,000. He lately sold Central Park
property that brought him $4,000,
A New HAVEN merchant has insured
his life for $1,000 for the benefit of the
New Haven Orphan Asylum,
YALE has graduated 80 College Presi
dents, 10 Cabinet Ministers, 40 Senators,
80 Governors, and more than 100 Judges
0NE-THIRD of the 10000 women and
girls who have to earn their own living
in New York, do not average over 50 q
week
MIR. BURLINeAME's credentials to the
French court were five feet long and COW
cred all over with five clawed dragons.
A NUMBER of young women in Massa-
chusetts manufacturing establishment re-
Gently kept silent, on wager, for sixty
long minutes.
| A CARGO of wheat from California,
which recently arrived at Boston and was
sold, returns net loss to the parties in
tere ted of over 100000.
New York is more densely populated
than any other city. In one portion 1922
900 persons reside within square milo.
London cannot furnish parallel
HALF a mile in $50 carried off silver
cup for the fastest of nine velooipedists in
! Nashua, N. H., the other day, the victor
being Walter Hartman, nephew of the
Governor. E.. -.H
OUT of 100,1S7,3S1 passengers con-
veyed on Massachusetts railroads, in 1868,
seventy.five lost their lives. During the
same period 155 railroad employees We're
killed.
/ On the east side of the highway leading
from DuCklhuu, hlC, w IhO Soh6iO6e-
tional Church in Sumner, every tree is
rock maple, and on the west side every
tree is beech.
1T is a curious fact that although the
rain keeps thousands away from church
on Sunday, II does not deter 8 single man
from attending to his business on week
days. IsNy l
I PROBABLY the Oldest tree on record is a
cypress at Semms, in LOmbardy, that was
known to be standing when Julius Caesar
lived, 1900 years ago. 1t is 1O6 feet high
and 20 feet in circumference.
I The largest man on record in modern
times was Miles Darden, a native of North
Carolina, born in 1898. He was seven feet
and six inche Ugh. At his death, in 1857
he weighed little over one Thousand
pounds.
= Hone KoNG contains 10000 inhabi
tants, of whom $4,000 are Europeans ant
Americans. Its annual export and i'm
port trade is valued at 5000, 100000. Th'
Chinese exclusively occupy portion o
the city.
THE Maxwell House, erected in Nash
, vile, Tenn, on lot that was bought TO
, , $11, in $780, is nearly completed at a cos
! Of 100000 twill be one of the larges
hotels in America. During the war it wa
! used as hospital
, IT seems that veritable black diamond
! was found by Federal soldier back o
! Atlanta, Ga! 1t is seyen eighths of al
inch long, two and a half inches in cir
cumterence, weighs two ounces, and i
worth several thousand dollars
THE number of newspapers in thu
Southern States is as follows; Texas, ID
. Louisiana, 94; Alabama, 81; Arkansas
48; Florida, go; Georgia, SO North Car
, olina, 65; South Carolina, 81 Kentucky
q 10; Mississippi, 76; Tennessee, 9s.
! "A lady in New Hampshire recent,
/ determined to exchange for currency a sill
! yer dollar which she had carefully KEEP
= for thirty-fve years rhe money change
! sstounded her with the information that
was counterfeit
: A BRAKEMAN in Eastern Pennsylvania
I who leaped from some cars that had be
= come uncoupled, and which ran back in
= TO a passenger train, causing the loss q
1 several lives, has been sentenced TO thil
. teen months hard labor for neglect G
G duty.
Y DURING the twelve months ending Oc
1 /, 1857, rs, 451 crimes were committed i
e New York OF these 75 were murder
5 1921 assaults, and the remainder rot
. berries and thefts. The police force nun
}. bers 1900 men there are eight police iui
Q tices, with II aldermen and q clerks I
) assist them daily one district attorney
+ with 1s assistants; a recorder, city judg'
a and Judge of oyer aud teIminer, B'
l sides, there are SO officials of the CouI
e of General Sessions and 8 officers Of Sp'
e cial Session, besides coroners, and
! iails, station houses, &C., which Tequir
n I "a kaanara The exDensa of the citV IA
this number Of officials Is $3,212,690 pC