Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-07

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FouRTREN incomes in Hartford, Conn,
exceed 100000 each. Yf0IaT
BxsSENkroR DIXON, Of Connectieutrs-
turns an income 500, 900. rETq
THE area Of Minnesota Il larger than
the ak New England States ,si .ea
The Engliah railroads earn on an aver
age e57 lis per mile per week. -l,,
HANS CHHIsTIAN ANDnRsnr speaks four
languages huently, and reada four more.
The highest store rent paid in. iseW
York I.S sos Is 100000; the highest in Chicago,
THERE are 160 cases of divorce pending
In the supreme Judicial Court for Middle.
sex, Mas. h''i''-s 81 ~ sFadf
THE number of persons who died nom
drunkenness In Russia, last year, was
| 8,146-seven day. ifa " ei161N esiu -
sMoKINe pipes TO the aggregate value
OF fihy-two million francs were manufao-
tured In France last year. .fa-q n q
ALI the soma of the Harpers brothers
have been admitted to the Arm since tAe
death of James Harper. "A
A GREAT aquarium Is being constructed
at Berlin, for which 5000 living varieties
of marine life have been collected.
MoRE than S3S0,000 has been spent
since 1855 In decorating the Capitol ct
Washington with works OF art. -
A BIe blast was recently made in Cali
fornia. Twelve hundred kegs Of powder
were used and mountain was blown up.
In Vienna last year seventy ONE Roman
Catholics were admitted 70 the Lutheran
churches, and eleven hutherans turned
Roman Catholics o. 80 fft rd t.'
D MRS. RACHEL VENrRous died In New
} Haven, Conn, few days ago. aged %
: years-leaving 81 grandchildren, 40 great
4 grandchildren, and great great. grand
{ children.
THE fuckers, of Monson, Mass, are
long lived family. Two died lately aged
90 and 100; and there are four still living,
Of whom the Oldest is 80 and the youngest
10.
In California, four locust trees less than
twenty years old were lately cut, and
2 twenty-nine wagon hubs having been
y made from them the remainder made more
l than four cords Of firewood.
THE Houses of Parliament in London
. . cost $4,000, 900 in gold, and II is now said
!, = that people OF taste have most noble
Y monument, and people of business most
inconvenient house.
4 ToADs are sold in Paris at the rate Of
q fifty cents dozen. The animal is used
4 for the protection Of vineyards and gar
a dens from the ravages Of insects that
. escape the pursuit of the birds.
o THE average winnings of the gambling
IA tables at Ems, Baden, Wiesbaden, Ham
ia burg and Mannheim have, for the last ten
" years, amounted to an annual grand total
+ of three and half million dollars.
N THE canary bird has been an object Of
Y. traffic for five centuries. Five hundred
Is years ago there was but one kind of ca
Y, nary bird, but the original stock has been
SO mixed and adulterated that the varieties
{; now number at least 90.
MIR. A. T. STEWARDS property on
ID Broadway alone is worth about 81, ,000, 600
l Mr.. w. B. Astor's leal estate on Broad
in way is worth about &3,000,00 The Loril.
r lard estate has $4,000, 900 invested In that
p, thoroughfare.
90 A LARGE sperm whale was recently
III harpooned on the coast of Madagascar
10 From it was obtained 285 pounds of am
as bergris, worth about $25,0O0. Sailors say
as that ambergris is produced by dispepsi;
or in the whale. -.
~ A BosToN merchant is the possessor o
u ~ business ledger 100 years old. 1t wa
~, formerly the property Of Lieut.. Gov
~ Usher, of New Hampshire, and contain
" accounts dating back 10 1878 which are a
~ legible as when written.
al AN enterprising youth of 10, res
90 dent of Pittsburgh, bought liquor in fou
", saloons on recent Sunday, and on tn
m following Monday lodged informatio
nm against the dealers for selling liquor o
be the Sabbath, and received 800 as the II
,o. | formers fee.
Mt COLONEL ROBERT JOHNSON, who hs
on recently died, was the second, but eldei
he surviving, SON of the ex President H
ia ser Ved during the greater portion Of th
ne, late war, and, when his father becam
President, he assumed the position of hi
nd Private Secretary.
'as NEXT year is the centenary of Amer
can Universalism, and is to be duly cell
m. brated by the payment of all debts an
an obligations resting ON the various organ
ice cations of the denomination. A memoirs
ht monument at Washington, to cost 500
It, 600, is talked of.
ly In California, there is made on an ave
on age, from $50 to $50 gallons of wine to th
,re acre The four most productive of th
ne wine growing districts of Europe are
me Italy, giving to the acre 441X gallons
'ut Austria and her provinces, 265 Q gallon
cn France, 178 81 gallons; Nassau, 2371
.er gallons. "-f