Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-12-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

EAOAN AMI rAUOhEos
A CONNECTICUT woman eat bushel of
roasted oysters for $40 wager.
The total valuation of property in Ken
tucky is $406,e75,77S.
THERE have been AZ, ,33I volumes added
to the British Museum library this year.
A FIRM of bill.posters used sixteen bar.
rc!s of paste the day before the New York
charter elections.
OUT of twenty.nino divorce suits pend
ing in Connecticut the husbands are
plaintiffs in but three.
THE profits of the Baden Baden gam
bling bank, last year, were 100000, and
of the Wiesbadcu bank, S650W0,
Bath is, in proportion to its population,
the richest town in Maine. The valuation
gives $3,503 to each inhabitant
A RESIDENT, of McKeesport, Pa, fell
face downward into,a mudhole, while drunk
the other day, and was smothered to
death.
Mr. FARGO, the Express Manager, is
building residence in Buffalo, and nine
tons of glass have been used in its con
struction.
A RED CEDAR hitching post, set in
Plymouth, in t770, is still serviceable, and
apparently will be good for twenty years
more
| THE French Ambassador at st. Peters
burg receives 100000 francs year, and
the one at Washington about the fourth of
that sum.
THERE are 1913 monasteries in the
United States where men live under the
vows of celibacy and poverty, and 800
nunncries OF various grades.
In Westminster, Vermont, with popu-
lation of about / ZOO, there are taken of
daily, weekly and other periodicals and
papers, about 200 in number.
NINETY.sIx pounds of wild honey were
taken from single tree in Gambia, N. Ii
a few days ago. Some of the comb was
over six feet in length,
A BARBER drowned himself at West
minister bridge, leaving note: 81 have
suffered from liver complaint for forty
years, Can you wonder | am not Cody
man|
A YOUNG man in New London, Conn,
is playing game of chess with friend
in ST. Louis, the moves being commune
Gated hy mail. They both anticipate 6
long life.
THE Congregational churches of Mas
sachusetts have entered q solemn protes
against the increasing proclamation of thu
Lords day by railroad and steamboat com
panies.
A NoBLEMAN, who painted remarkably
well for an amateur showing one OF hi
pictures to Poussin, the latter exclaimed
"Your lordship only requires little pov
erty to make you complete artist"
A BROOKLYN gentleman has invented 9
system of language whereby conversation
| hn inH m hu ha Of
1t is intended for use by deaf and dumb
and may be denominated the "Mute'
Whisper"
IT is calculated that there are on aI
average 10000 strangers in Paris, anC
that they spend 100000 francs per day
Multiply by 365, and at the end of tn,
year, it appears very respectable amount
finds its way into the pockets of the shop
keepers
The Daughters of St Crispin have now
twenty.four lodges in this country, four
teen being located in Massachusetts,. ThC
largest lodge is at Rochester, with abou
700 members. The Lynn Lodge has only
, AGO members, although 1000 or 1900 wo
men are engaged in manufacturing shoe
there.
IT is announced that three perseverinl
,, gold d-diggers, two from California and ont
! from Australia, have discovered gold il
/, Lapland. In the spring nugget weigh
,, ing ten ounces and remarkably pure wa
picked up, and during the summer sixty
. ounces, worth about 81 200, were obtained
In the Thirteenth District of the Twen
ty-first Ward of New York city, Eliza
3 beth Cady Stanton received one vote fo
Mayor, Susan b. Anthony one for Alder
a man, Anna Dickinson one for Assistan
\ Alderman, Harriet Beecher Stowe one 70
. Police Justice, Lucy Stone one for Civi
2 Justice, and the Rev. Olympia Brown on
(; for School Trustee.
IT is stated that the number of Chimes
c brought to California is $4,000. OF thes
b 10426 have died, 57,323 have returned +
o China, leaving 81 900 on the Pacific coast
o and only Al 900 in California. OF thes
J. H. 900, $500 are women, children, old an
g decrepid, or criminals confined in tn
iails There remains 30,700 active mer
j all at work; all producers
d A CURIOUS case of loss of speech oC
n Cured recently in Budweis, Moldavia.
3 young man dreamed that he was attacke
a by robbers, one of whom was about t
d murder him. He tried to cry out for helI
l. but his voice failed him, and when b
IS awoke he found that he could not utter
: word. He was advised to go to Vienn
n for treatment, and has there fortunatel
e recovered his speech.
. Ina charge of assault brought by N
/ Aurelin Scholl against Count du BissoI
in a Paris court, the latter was aske
whether knife he carried about him wa
:, poisoned. The Count said he did nC
y know, but would see, and thereupon stat
q bed himself in the left arm SO violentl
:, that the blood spurted out in abundanc
~ the wound being nearly two inches
~ depth. The President rebuked M. du Bi
/ son for this novel mode of vindicatin
= himself and characterized the act as III
!, necessary and improper,
e THE United States Army had in use, o
- the 1st day of July last, 9,58t horses, IL
n OO5 mules and 237 oxen. During the pr
= ceding year 2,50S horses and 726 null
is had died, 600 horses and 2i0 mules In
"a been lost or stolen, and 1,427 mules an
=. II oxen had been sold. There had bee
- purchased 1858 horses, at an average co
of Sl3O. as, and 2,502 mules at $3.50
:, The yearly consumption of forage WI
"a /. $50 900 bushels of corn, 100000 bus
a. . els OF oats, 100, 900 bushels Of barley, al
n 5000 tons of straw.
M THIS astounding concatenation Of rel
q. tiyes was at Thanksgiving dinner At WI
w A. Smiths, in Hadley, Mass. Thr
d fathers, five mothers, one tather'in-la'
at two Inothers-in law, one grandfather. Nv
in grandmothers, one great-grandmotht
or three sons, three sons-in-law, seven dang
in ters, one step.mother, one step-son, OF
I'd step daughter, three uncles, seven aunt
he three great-aunts, three nephews ~
ed nieces. eight cousins, ten second-cousin
Iis one great,QTand son, and one great gran
of daughter. The Oldest person there W
u. 7e years lof age, and the youngest 10
er, months,