Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-12
FACES AND FIGURES.


iu FACTS AND FIGURES ...r
THERE are $40 patients in the Maine In
sane Hospital. rrFr'Ets.
THE Philadelphia theatres received last
year S405,S1S. ItI,i .H,'i.tF
New YORK is said to expend Ss,000,OO0
year for false hair.
For the Bank of England 2S000 notes
are printed daily.
y ONE hundred and eighty.sevcn mar
riages inDincinnati in Jsuuary.
SPAIN has seventy seven normal and
$4,000 elementary schools,
AT late Charleston Is C) wedding
there were twenty-five bridesmaids.
FIVE Police Commissioners Of Phils.
delphis are worth in the aggregate 50 900,
900.
ONE hundred millions of dollars has
been invested in the Superior copper
mines. FF (
FIVE hundred New York bank clerks
have united in a cooperative insurance
scheme.
TIE Christians of the world last year
contributed $5,000,00O to foreign mis-
siOns.
Four thousand and forty.four horses
were killed in Berlin, and used as food, last
year.
A. 7. STEWART & Co. have given S2j,
900 worth of spool cotton for the poor in
Washington.
A LYNCHBURG (Va,) carpenter has fallen
heir to S4,000,000 by the death of an Eng.
lish relative.
THE Masonic Lodge at Santa Fc, New
Mexico, has been presented with Kit Car
sons rifle.
ABoY diedlstely in huntington County,
Pa, from hydrophobia, induced by bite
from cat.
AN English farmer has been sent to
prison for a month for sending bad beef to
market.
THE annual egg product of the country
is 1880, 100000 eggs, worth, at 1G cents
per dozen, $243,333, ,330.
A MAN in Philadelphia his been held in
1900 bail for having wantonly and wick.
cdly cut off the tongue of horse.
In California, the men outnumber the
women four to gone in Nevada, eight &c
one, and in Colorado, twenty to. one.
TIE residents of Put-in-Bay have sub
scribed $1,000 toward the erection of 9
monument in honor of Commodore Perry
! on that island.
A PENNSYLVANIA grocer ingeniOusly
tried to clean out bombshcll with a red
hot poker. He succeeded in cleaning
himself out most effectualy.
SIXTY folio volumes are daily filed will
! the accounts of the Bank of England
and eight bookbiuders are constantly EN-
| ployed.
A GENTLEMAN of York, England, ha,
| been sued in $3.50 fine for refusing to ac
cept the office of Alderman, to which HI
had been elected.
THE area of public land asked from
Congress by the numerous Pacific Rail
| roads down to June, 1868, amounted il
the aggregate to only 1876, 100000 acres.
A CONSCIENCE STRICKEN Connecticuttel
! lately inClOsed thirty-ilve cents to the
/ Osborne House, Rochester, the worth o
door-key which he had carried of in
] 1863. -,
] AN insane man became uumanageabl'
/ in New York Central Railroad car, anC
/ il was acertained that out of thirty-twC
| gentlemen in the car, twenty-nine carried
revOlvers.
1 A WIDOW lady named Mrs. Mead, living
in Fremont, Steuben county, N. Y, anC
/ aged seventy years, has spun one hundred
and sixty-eight thousand yards of yarr
during the past year
/ THIRTY.FIvE years ago Mrs. Erastui
! Corning deposited in an Albany Savings
Bank the sum of $22 to the credit of hel
nephew. Both forgot all about it unit
the other day, when the deposit had in
creased to $123,
A BERKSHIRE girl, says the Boston Post
walked fourteen miles through the snow
the other day to marry young man wht
couldn't come to her house for fear of {
six shooter which the stern parent car
a Snow fell in such abundance in 81
Petersburg and its suburbs in the latte
half Of December that in several streets
rose to - feet in height. Accounts fror
the provinces state that whole village
were buried under the drift.
THE revenue officers assert, after
patient investigation and inquiry, ,,that tn
amount of capital in active use in Wa.
street, during year, is not less than
thousand millions; that is, that larg
amount changes hands and makes fol
tunes for the owners or spectators on il
way,
A REPORT on the operations Of the va
rious cooperative associations in Massa
chusetts, it is stated, viii soon be pre
sented to the Legislature. The financia
condition of about twenty five societies
given, AID list of the members of eacl
The associations, it is reported, presen
the most varied results in their difIeren
statements. Their capital stock varie
from 5 900 to $4,000, and the small assc
Citations are generally more successful tha,
the large ones.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusett
has decided an interesting case. II cam
in the form Of petition Of father 70
the custody Of his child. In the absenc
of the father, who follows the sea, tn
mother died, and the child, being of ten
der age and destitute, was placed in tn
care of a respectable family in Beverly t
be brought up as their own. When th
child was nine years old the father az
, peared and endeaV0red to assert his claimi
, Judge Hear refused 10 grant him the Gus
tody ofythe child holding, with the cor
curTence of the other judges, that wher
by misfortune or accident a father has lei
his child destitute and dependent upo
charity, and the child has been permltte
TO form new relations in life so deep an
strong as to change its whole nature an
character, the child should be considere
as emancipated by the father, and tn
iather cannot assert his legal right to hI
custody .l0LL--E a u E,lH
'lI Eft Western Mounds.
MGxY theories have bsen set als- Gs,t
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