Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-12-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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Ar Springfield, Mass, persons dying of
smallpox are buried at night.
TuERE were nine hundred and sixty
three liquor prosecutions at Boston during
November. -
TUE associated printers of San Fran.
cisco have started newspaper called Tie
T0ion and Stdge
A SAN FRANCISCAN has been sent TO-
the 'mnstic asylum for threatening 10
drown himself I.....
THE death rate of liverpool is largely
in excess of that of any other port town
in England.
A NEW gun has been invented by a
scientific farmer OF Western Prussia, which
fires thirty shots minute.
FROM January to September 30, 1869,
according TO ofhcial records, 1884 murders
were committed in Texas.
THR debt Of South Carolina Is $1,000.
600 and the taxable property Of the State
is worth $l90,00O,000
THE Boston Home for Little Wander
ers, since 1855, has taken care of 2,aS0
little children who. had nowhere else
to 60. ....... i.. ..'...
A vRLoCpEDR rider, named Grubbs
took the prize of $3.50 in gold, at the
Georgia State Fair, by making mile in
3.24. i '# Nd.
TUE Boston and Albany Railroad Com
pany have provided their employees with
library Of over 1000 volumes.
EMINENT physicians assert that breath.
ing through the mouth, or excessive talk
ing, is highly injurious to the health. .
THE sword knot belonging TO Marco
Bozarris when he surprised the Turkish
forces in 1928, has been presented to the
New York Historical Society. utglo
TIE smallest preacher in the world is
supposed 20 be the Rev. Thomas Noble,
of England. He Is said to be but one
inch taller than Tom Thumb.
THERE are seven million young men in
our country about two hundred and fifty
thousand of them profess to be Christ
ians.
A RESIDENT of Chichester, New Hanlp.
shire, walked half mile on stills, with q
rooster In his arms, the other day, on a
bet.
A PHIGADEIPHIA Ormsus has lust had
manufactured ia New York the finest set
OF drSwing.room furniture ever made in
America. 1t is got up in the Egyptian
style and cost $50, 900.
THE aggregate Of members and preach,
ers in the Methodist Episcopal Church
South is 545,060 There was an increase
during the year, of white members, of 81
lie, and decrease of 3e,0S1 of colored
members. s-. tfat
THERE are about 5000 regular gamblers
in the city of New York, besides the pro-
prietors and dealers and their winnings
average $4,000 nightly. Tho total losses
against aroand policy playing foot up the
enormous sum Of $0,O0o000 per annum.
IT was stated in the National Board OF
Trade, in discussion on extending the
James river and Kanawha canal to the
Ohio river, thus making complete water
route from the Mississippi to the Atlantic
that there is only transportation East for
100000 tons, out of 25,000000 Western
produce.
CAPTAIN WALTER o. BARTLETT, of
Providence, presented Helen Nj. Brown
with his photograph, q bird cage, $50, and
several articles of jewelry, wrote her sew
eral sweet letters, and then refused to mar
ry her. For this Walter was made Il
pay Helen $4,000 by the court,
EXPERIMENTS made by an English chem
ist, some years ago, show how much fooC
Of different kinds 1t takes TO make pount
OF flesh. According to his conclusions |,
requires, of milk, 25 lbs; turnips, 100; po.
tatoes, 90; carrots, so; oatmeal, .; barley
meal, IA peas, 81; beas, 316.
IT is said that the contributions of the
entire Christian world for foreign mis-
1ionS last year were about five million dol
lars, while the expenses of armies, navies
and the wars during the same period were
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much as was given for the conversion OF
the world to Christianity.
AN engineer estimates the loss of horses,
extra wear of vehicles, and extra horse,
shOeing In the cities of the United States,
occasioned by block stone and cobble
stone paVements, as follows: On horses,
$4,000, 900; on vehicles, $20,000,00O, and
on horse shoeing, $21 100000, making a
total of 56,000,0O0. .I.... .,.....-..
THE music In the Rev Henry Ward
Beecher's church costs, $1,000 a year
The organist gets $1,000, the conductor,
81, 600, the tenor, $1,000, the soprano,
5000, the contralto, $500, and the basso,
$500, leaving $500 for incidentals The
paid choir sing the solos and concerted
pieces, but the hymns are sung by the
whole congregation, led by volunteer
choir Of about seventy performers.
THE moons path in the heavens is not
a circle, but q continuous spiral, that docs
not return into itself until after very
long time. In consequence of its spiral
movements along the face of the heayens,
the moon hides in succession every point in
a belt of sky that stretches to five degrees
eight minutes and forty-eight seconds on
either side Of the elliptic, and it takes
eighteen and a half years to do this.
IT is reported in Cleveland that a little
German girl was buried at Brooklyn, sew
eral weeks ago, after apparent death from
lock Jaw, and that nine hours after her
burial her mother, fancying she heard a
noise In the grave, got spade, dug up
the coffin, and found her child warm as If
alive, and lying upon her side, when,
taking her home, she called a physician,
but it was too late for resuscitation. =.
A SHORT time since Mr. Gideons and
son were deer hunting in fernando Coun-
", Fla. Mr.. GideOns discovered q pair of
eyes. He ordered his son 70 hold the dog
while he went in the direction of the
sparkling Orbs. The eyes. however, dis
appeared, and, after searching for them
for some time Mr.. Gideons started to re-
turn 10 his son. o On his way he discovered
another pair of eyes, which he took for
the eyes of deer. He fred, and in a
moment discovered that he had shot his
own son dead ..alil 'D'ugs
The total number of white officers and
soldiers, known and unknown, buried in
the National Cemeteries is nearly 100000.
The number of negro soldiers nearly 50,-
900, tWo-thlrds of whom are not known by
name. The expense attending the burial
or reinterment of their bodies and the
laying out aud improvement Of the 35
national cemeteries, has reached "a 900
900, and it will cost $2,000,0O0 more TO
complete the work and keep them in
order. The yearly expenses of these
burial places will be about 100000,
The statute law Of Virginia declares
that "no marriage solemnized by any per
son protesting to be authorized TO solem-
nize the.same shall be deemed or adjndged
10 be void, nor shall the validity thereof
be in any way affected, on account Of any
NJ Of In II The