Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-21
FACTS AND FIgUREs.

Protestant churches are organizing In
all the Turkish towns
EARTHQUAKES and smallpox cost San
Franchises 5000 900 last year.
A CHURCH bell has recently been heard
for the first time in Cheyenne
lN one Of the Parts gardens ia a came
liza with thirty seven hundred buds.
TuR Boston Trotting Association offer
prizes To the amount OF $50 600 this wear.
GEN LANE co-caudidate with Breckip.
riIge In 1860 has BECOME Roman Cath.
THERR are eight tunnels on the Penn.
ylvania Railroad, ran ring from 300 to
3Si2 feet.
MOUNTAIN trout over two feet long have
| fornia.
The Dubuque Herald says that a census
" ~ 'na. Cl'y' recently completed, shows
THE Troy Budget says there is pea.
! nut peddler in thtt city who clears be.
! tween $40 and $50 per week.
A LADY died st Columbia, Me. a few
days ago, at the age Of 1O4 who had been
( touT times married, aud yet died a widow.
A R'fL of female hair, measuring six
feet long, and weighing twelve ounces, is
| owned Ivy London hair dealer.
BsEcnER says he receives about $o5,.
900 year, aud gives one third of it in
| charlty and TO applicants for aid
! TUE Roman Catholics of New York
have subscribed 81 500 toward the SUP.
port OF the American College in Rome.
THE 2,4t7 churches OF Great Britain
last year gave ga 9OG to foreign mis-
stons -an average of about $75 each in
gold. -
In tho Island OF Hawaii, there are two
lakes, side by side, one of fresh water aud
The other salt Both are far above the
level OF the sea.
| NINETEEN TwENTrErus Of the rice
raised in the United States Is grown with.
IN narrow limit upon the seab1ard of
the Carolinas and Georgia
AFTER an expense Of S;s OOO, and many
months work, the arteslan well at Colts
rm0ry, in Hartford, Conn, has found
water,
a PIrTsFIELD lad recently sold 20l
muskrat skins of his own trapping, and
with the avails thereof paid his last win
ters tuition at school.
TUE great Australian nugget of gold
Welcome Stranger" found by the de-
spauinC miners of Dnnolly netted the
finders $4S,000
II you go into store and find the clerk
lying ON the counter asleep, you may
know that the firm don't advertise. ANY
thing for quiet lilo.
In London, fifteen diamonds, weighing
one carat each, are worth about $1,000;
one diamond, weighing fifteen carats,
brings from Sl2 900 To SIS 600
"WHAT are you burning off my writing
table, sonny Y' said an author 10 his six.
year old. "Only the paper that's written
All over, papa. | hain't touched the clean"
MAN in Elizabeth, N j., recently sent
to drug store for.sOme medicine for his
horse, and the clerk, by mistake, put up
something which killed four horses, valued
at So 400.
WHEN Prince Alfred was "tourinG " in
Australia ne made presents which cost
him about $4,000. When he returned
home he broughtiu bill for this item of
expense, and the Government allowed it.
In removing the debris of the Pacific
House, in St. Joseph, Mo, few DAYS
since, the discovery was made that the
fire WAS still burning. Nearly five months
had elapsed since the house WAS burned.
DumNG the past winter not fake of
snow fell III Portland, Oregon. Only three
or four nights did ice form, aud then only
of the thickness of window glaSa Sow
ing and planting were going on all winter.
TuE solitary system has bccn partially
dispensed with in the Pittsburgh (Pa)
State Prison and convicts have been al
| lowed to come into the corridors and have
the chaplain preach w them, instead of
being locked in their cells.
The Lincoln Monument Association, at
Springfield, H., have awarded to Mr.. w.
i d. Richardson the building of the archi-
tecural portion Of the monument for
S136 $50.
: HAINEs' Treatise on the Powers and
{ Duties of Justices Of the Peace, etc, has
!, rea he'd Il Sale Of 1000 copies,--a larger
Z sale than any book of the kind ever before
: had in this country.
5 ALL male children born in France this
! year ON August 10, the birthday of N4po.
! leon l., whose parents will consent to their
bearing the name of Napoleon, are 10 be
{ taken under the special protection of the
l Government.
IIEBIG says "Every farmer who
. takes II sack of corn or bushe of pOta-
toes To town. ought like the Chinese
> cOnlie, to carry back an equal or greater
> quantity of the mineral constituents of
= the produce sold, and restore them to the
field from which they have been taken"
. AT Dunstable, Mass in 1851, dancing
at weddings was forbidden, and in 1860,
f William Walker was imprisoned month
> for cOurtng maid without the leave of
. her parents" In 1872 the wearing of long
. hair, and superstitious ribbons to tie it up,
!. were prohibited by severe penalties.
c On the 1st of May the New York truck
J. men reaped rich harvest. Their charges
|, were AS follows; One horse truck one
b mile, SIS; two miles, $40 three miles, Sl2
y Twohorse trucks, including loading, un-
Q loading and housing, from SO to SEQ ac-
Fl cording Ia distance; To jersey City, New
y ark and Brooklyn, $l2 to $50 and $40.
= TRAVELLERS on the planet Mars can 60
> to any part of it on the element-land or
u water-On which they have commenced
> travelling, 50 complex is the srrang -ment
{ of the continents and oceans on that
planet In this respect it differs very
Is much from the earth, where the oceans
J. are three times as extensive as the land,
&c which is divided into two great insular
ie continents.
- DEEP sea soundings have demonstrated,
&c it is stated, that the bottom of the sea, at
y, great depths, is covered by a continuous
- mass, extending over miles in extent, of
Is what may be considered as one single ami
= mail 1t is thought to firm the lowest
u stage of animal life on the globe, and is
y supposed TO derive its nourishment di-
: reCty from the mineral world, as in the
= case of plants The new animal has been
y baptized by the euphonlous name of
:, BdthybiuS.
AN old building in Hastford, CT, re-
Gently torn down, was originally
erected, some sixty years ago, tor the
Hartford C0UraHt In this building the
s. first Bibles ever printed n this country
ct were produced Ats large expense, the
n printed matter, all set up, was brought
CT from London in forty or fifty chases." "
n The finest minion type was used, So
y choice were these "fOrms" that. u fire.
1t proof building WAS erected, in which they
j, were stored, together with the presses