Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-27
FACTS AND rIeUREs

TIE Baptists or Germany have in
creased TO ninety-six churches and over H.. rf
900 members. tn-
THE French Government has authorized
the French Cable Company to lay wire
from Brest to England. - 49,
UP to January 1, 1869, eight life insur.
ahoe companies in Hartford, Conn, had
issued 1853, 1888 policics.i
A BosroN tooth-piel< factory las the
monopoly Of the business, and sells 4,000,-
900 or 6,0O0,O0O per day
THs model Of the bust of the late James
+. Brady, ofdeved by the New York Law
Institute, is completed.
The Russian Railroad 0dsstts saws that
Russia has already paid upward Of 200
| 100000 rubles to. American railfOaa con,
tractors '- H'
A CLERGYMAN IN Iowa City preaches
three times every Sunday, each time In
different locality, and during the week cul
tivates farm of 100 ACRES. .t'o
A SMALL garter snake With two heads,
each exactly alike, and standing ont the
sGme distance from the neck, was killed
near Nashville, few days ago.
TnR robe worn by Princess Louisa, Of
| Sweden, ON the ocCasion OF her marriage
to the Prince Royal Of Denmark, was
made in Berlin, and cost $s4,0OU
THE father of a deserted wife OF Sioux
| City has obtained a Judgment against ihe
recreant husband ior bed and board for the
last two years, amounting to $1,3S0.50.
In recent seIzurc Of champagne
making establishment in New York, the
articles found on band were four barrels Of
common white wine ofle bayrel of molas-
ses, and one barrel of vitriof.
A. T. STEWART says his business never
was better than this year, and tfiat he
never advertised so much before. He
gives his advertisements credit for keeping
his trade lively in dull times.
ii A NAN In Bridgeport formerly sol
dier, has a walking cane composed of 488
pieces of leather, and made from o pair of
old boots owned and worn by President
Lincoln previous to his assassination.
THE first instance of the marriage of .
IIiudoo widow occurred in Bombay on The
, 22d of June, and was the occasion of muck
public interest. II took place under the
, auspices of the Hindoo Widows Marriage
? Association.
In New York city, during last year, o.
272 poor, blind, insane and drunkards were
provided for at u cost to the municipality
, of $i0.2S each during the year. In De-
t. ccmber, 1868, there remained nearly 1000
persons in the various city prisons, poor
: houses, &c.
= Mr. john BULLOCK, of Bristol, r. l.,
! 100 years old on the I'd day of lass
: June, never drank glass of alcU.
4 holic liquor in his life, and
= never has had any need of or
= used spectaclcs The old gentlemen can
. see to pick up a pin or needle from the
!. floor us quick as any young person.
4 IT is little singular that the two links
d of railway necessary to make an absolute
q connection between the most eastern
# point of our Atlantic coast and the Pacific
Ocean, should be the short line between
b. San Francisco and Sacramento, and a road
,r of about the same length in the State OF
Maine
lr THERE is man living in Adams county
,r ILL.,, named Wood, who claims to be los
is years old Herecently walked to Quincy
distance of eight miles carrying under
his arm clock to be repaired. He ap
pears vigorous as most men ut 80, and /
as old ms claimed, is probably the oldes
nd man in the country. ae
NO SOMETIME since Portland, Me-, maj
V. had his pocket picked of $500 Shortly
IT. after, he received letter from the thief
ln stating that he had started in business will
his stolen capital, and that ,he should pay
t. interest on ii until he was able to return
Id the principal. Two payments of interes
he have already been made.
lst TIE recent census of the colored popula
by tiol of Alexandra, Va, shows that ther
es are in that city 4,754 persons of color, til
lily females exceeding the males by 504. Thes
Dg COlored people own real and personal estat
lie to the value of $219, 400. The total Popu
is htion of the town, white and colored, /
H." 1S60 was 11,206, but there is now u popu
of lation of about 1900.
ng A LETTER to New York paper states thG
hu there are now about 100000 contributin
lst members of the Order of Odd Fellows o
as this continent, comprised in 3,4OO lodges
.lll Total receipts of the order in two year,
It'll nearly $5,000,000; aggregate amount eX
re- pended i'm the same time for relief of tn
1t distressed, burial of the dead, succor +
ore the widow, and education of the orphan
nd about $2O00,000.
" " THE leading French journals are coun
,'aS ing up the itinerary round the world 8
lcu follows: Paris to New York, IL days
i lin San Francisco, by rail, 2; Yokohama, b
cn steam, 81; Hong Kong, 8; Calcutta, IL
nc Bombay, 3; Cairo, ID; and go back I
Paris, q total, 80 And out of all this in
mense line of route, there is only di
: tance Of 140 miles, between Allatnba
and Bombay, which is, pro tenn, not pc
THEY get rid of their marriageab
children by means of fairs i'll Roumani
When the fair is opened, the fathers elm
to the top of their carriages and shot
with the whole power of their lungs, ''
have daughter TO marry. Who wants
wife 2" The call is answered by SON
other parent who has son he is anxioI
to pair off The two parents compal
notes and if the marriage portion is sati
factory, the treaty is there and then CO..
cluded.
The Icelanders have a curious custoI
ard n most effectual one, of preventiI
horses from stTaying, Two gentlemen, I
instance, are riding together without q
tendants Wishing to aGght for the pu
pose of visiting some objects at distan
from the road, they tie the tail OF o.
-- horse TO the head of the other, and 4
head of this TO the tail of the former.
III. this state il is utterly impossible that tn
can move either backward or forward, o.
pulling one way and the other the revers
odv and, therefore, if disposed to move at a
~ it. will be only in a circle, and even tn
tbe there must be an agreement TO have the
i've heads in the same direction.
th AT the recent examination for wome
,entl held by the University of CambridG
lust England, in Group A, including rehglo
.dy, knowledge, arithmetic, English histol
und literature and composition, ten ladies We
ing placed in the first class, eight in the secoI
ntes seven in the third. In Group B, Ql
|. | guages) two were placed in the first ella
han two in the second, ten in the third s.
ned eral ladies obtained special marks of d
anne tinction in religious knowledge, arithn
of tic, English, French and German. q
this passed in mathematics, three in politi
amt economy, two in drawing, and one
s to music. Thirty-six ladies entered tn
sual names. OF these eleven were either
,nce sent from the examination or failed to S
the isfy the examiners.
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