Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.
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3S3 ministers In the United States
THE Prussiau Bible Society has distrib-
utcd three million Bibles since 1914.
HELENA, Montana, claims 1900 inhah-
itauts, and an annual business of $1,000
600
TUE wife of NAH clerk IN the Louis |
willie C1,pler-joUradl office has fallen heir
to $300,000. ....
In its forty.seven years of existence the |
Yale Theological School has sent out $50
clcrgymen.
PRussrAN distillcries last year consumed
600, 900 bushels of grain and nearly 40
100000 bushels of potatoes.
TUE city of New York consumes an
nually fully 100000 sheep; Boston
about 00,000 and other cities in proper
! ton. ... --- .. tt"-..h ...... .
| PRoF BusuN, one of the most eminent
men of Berlin, died recently of n slight
wound on the finger, inflicted while he was
dissecting. .
TuE mail carriers at Cleveland deliv
| cred, during the month of September,
| 11j050 mail letters, II ,S04 local ones, and
| 63, 1876 newspapers.
-VERMoNri is the only State that was un,
| represented at the session of the United
States Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at San
! Francisco. ..s. ... .a.4,.
TnE Old and New School Presbytcri-
ans have 0 synods, 10 presbytcries, 1SO
ministers, 263 churches, and l3,131 COM
munlcants in Iowa.
Ex-PREsIDENT PrERCE's estate is esti-
mated at 81 100000, the bulk OF which
will probably 20 to nephew, who is be-
ing educated at Princeton College.
AN English servant boy pretended to
have murdered his master for the sake OF
makingN sensation, and would have been
hanged had not science proved him to be
a liar.
A NEW York jeweler gives his opinion
that nine out of ten of the so.called sets OF
diamonds worn by fashionables are mere
paste, not worth shilling peck. ....
H. NJ CRTTENDEN, of Waterloo, Iowa,
exhibited some sweet potatoes at the Fair,
ten of which weighed thirty pounds, and
three Of the ten weighed three and half
pounds each.
BURTON II. CARTRIGUT preached tho
first sermon ever delivered in Iowa. in
1924. lie broke prairie on week days,
and took the Lords field ON Sunday,
among the early settlers.
NELAToN, the famous French surgeon,
often receives, in the course of u single
day, the visits of between two and three
hundred persons who desire TO consult
him personally.
DURING the Mechanics Exhibition at
Boston more than $1,000 individuals were
weighed, whose aggregate weight was
LIS, 700 pounds, The average weight OF
the $4,000 was 1873 pounds.
In 1867 Italian statistics show out of
170, ,i56 marriages there we're 01159, con
siderably more than one-half the whole
number, in which neither the bride nor
bridegroom could either read or write
A GENTLEMAN recently left at the Office
of the Vincenncs, Ind, Times four ears OF
corn weighing seven pounds. Each ear
a contained % rows, each row 90 grains o.
= corn, making in the aggregate 4,64O.
' A YOUNG boy at Richmond bet "twC
/ bits" that he could lie down on the track
+ bed and let the train pass over him, and
I the train did, though the boy was minus
8 his head and cash by the operation.
BisHoP CLARKsoN has ordained three San
l tee Indians in the northwest corner of Ne
5 braska, to the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. They will be employed rs mis-.
g sionaries among their own people, ol
: whom more than three hundred are com
municants in the church.
THE Troy Wing has made a calculation
from which it appears that enough rain
fell in Rensselaer, and Albany counties In
two days during the recent heavy storm tc
supply every man, woman and child upon
the face of the earth with two and hal
gallons of water per day for year.
/ EXPERIMENTS made in the Botanic Gar
den, London, showed that a leaf of the
9 "Victoria Regia would support foul
| hundred and twenty six pounds before il
| sank. The leaf selected was The lightesi
+ of eight ON the plant, and it is estimated
r that the entire plant could uphold weight
of ton and half
y In 1885, Sir Robert Peel presented &
$ farmers club, at Tamworth, with two irOr
= plows of the best construction. On hi
next visit the old plows with the woodeT
4 mould-boards were again at work. Sir,
: said a member of the club, "we tried the
: iron, and we be all of one mind that they
: do make the weeds grow" H..I s-
MADAME X, an avaricious dame o
Paris, not long since, had an oak stair
case torn down, a segment OF solid wal
ruined, a cavern excavated beneath thl
!. floor, and spent finally 800 to get d tiye e
! franc piece which her careless grandchilI
y had dropped into a chink-and didn't fine
it after all.
4 THE English are very liberal in thei
= support of Christian missions. The fol
, lowing are the receipts of some of thci
> missionary societies The Church Mis-
: sionary Society received last year $685.
600; the Society for the Propagation o
4 the Gospel, $672, 600; the LonGon Mis-
u sionary Society, $555, 900; and the Wes
v leyan Missionary Society, $75O,OO0.
b THE singular fact is related Of Nj
Willitts, who was recently murdered II
a Detroit, that, on the day on which he wa
? killed, he obtained an insurance on hi
: life for five thousand dollars, for which he
v not having the money by him at the time
a gave his note. He put the policy in hi
y pocket, where, after his death, q few hour
later, it was found.
d THE Marquis ID 0rches offered priz
10 of 10000 francs to any person who woul
discover practical and cheap method Q
determining actual death. This prize ha
u been gained by DIR. Caniere. His metho
is to place the hand Of the subject before
light In darkeped roomi If the subject
l. not dead the light will make the han
e semi.translucent with rosy huei but
y dead it will be perfectly Opaque.
n The Board OF Missions of the Protest
s ant Episcopal Church recently held II
r annual meeting in New York. Tw
v, hun0red anu cieNoh i0iSym0h oiO "a
~ rolled as home missionaries, of whom on
n hundred and seventy-eight are now in th
h, field. Total receipts for domestic mission
u for 1869, were $127,710. The report {
~ the Foreign Committee was read, show
n ing the mission force TO be thirty'seYen.
le AN ingenious calculation has been mad
n. in England, that an average human beint
p after deducting the yaIae OF no What ne cor cor
y" value 10 the wealth of the community
Us during his or her lifetime. "If it is true,
said Robert Coningsby, lover 81 .0O0.00
per day drop into the American excheque
le from this one item of human machiner
.a 'n during several months of each year"
e IN Paris of 100000 inhabitants, III
of capital counts only 5000 really wealth
AZ nersons, 100000 who scarcely enjoy o
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