Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-02
FACrS AND FIRuRES


COMMODORE NUTTs other name is Lewis
Dinger.
A TERRIER in Bristol, England, was
lately sold for 5000.
In Salt Lake City SIS is the price paid
for a cord OF pine wood.
"A HARTFORD lady has Just had $1,000
watch sent her by express.
BY a new law in Italy the clergy be-
come liable to conscription.
IT has been calculated that sixty persons
per minute die in this world.
A NEW Irish paper, The Irish West, has
made its appearance in Cincinnati.
THE Catholic Publication society has
printed $4,000 tracts during the past
year.
ONE hundred and seventy mine thousand
dollars have been raised for the American
College at Rome.
Six women were recently admitted to
the University of London, having passed
satisfactory examinations.
SWITZERLAND has about 900,0 900 cattle,
worth $4,000 600; 552, 900 cows.yield. $780,
100000 worth of milk year.
THE Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals in New York average two
arrests of cruel teamsters per day.
THERE have been three Popes besides
Plus TX, who have celebrated the flftieth
anniversary OF their first mAsa
A BOSTON letter carrier was recently
made the recipient of $3.50 from the we'll
pleased citizens whose mail Is entrusted TO
his care,
JAMES HALL, the e'famous Aberdeen ship.
I'M 10 i Ia io
not portion of the world where Halls
clippers are not known.
In one of the French departments q
poster adorned the walls, inviting the
voters TO cast their ballots for Jules X.
tho drunkards' candidate"
A FATAL quarrel in Jersey City arose
from the refusal of barkeeper to allow q
teamster to water his horses from the ice
pitcher.
A LADY in Rhode Island subscribed for
| Newport paper, the other day, to be sent
| to a neighbor who worried her by borrow
ing her own.
A TEXAS paper claims that there are
more newspapers published in that State,
in proportion to the white population,
than in any other State in the Union.
| By singular coincidence the first day
of the Peace Jubilee fell upon the date of
the commission TO George Washington as
| Commander. in Chief of the American
! armies.
LORD BYRoN's valet, Swede, named
James p. Lindberg, sixty.four years old, Is
now an inmate of the National Military
| Asylum at Milwaukee. He was present
at Byron's death.
| DURING the year 1868, there were 49,
/ Il, kaW rfvNnn
taken before the police magistrates Of the
metropolitan districts of London. or this
number, So were ticket.of leave men, and
5,544 had been previously convicted.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold Of their
vessels is lined with non.conducting felt;
and by chemical means q cold below the
freezing point will be kept up. ID.
A WHITE baby was picked up few days
ago on the Dan river, near South Boston,
Va. 1t was in metallic coffin, with q
bottle of milk at its mouth, and roll of
greenbacks under its head, while newly
plucked roses decorated its strange cradle.
THERE is man living In Northampton,
within three miles OF the railroad, 80
years of age, who has been in but four
different towns In his life, has never been
inside of railroad car, and has never
slept in any house except the one in which
he was born, has never been courting and
never kissed girl
IT is recorded of Catholic lady, Of
Northumberland, England, in the last cen
tury, that she married thrice, her first
husband being Quaker, her second q
Church of England man, and her third a
Catholic; and what Is more curious still,
on each occasion she married q man twice
her own age; at 16 man of 32; at 80 9
man of go; and AT 40. q man Of "a.
. THE champion strawberry has been ex.
hibited in New York. II measured IN
inches around, and weighed one ounce
, and seven pennyweights. 1t was raised
by Nathaniel Niles, at Madison, N. j., and
is a cross between the Wilson and the
Agriculturist. Governor Randolph, OF
/ New Jersey, has christened it the Niles
/ Seeding"
THE report of the Inspectors of Con
stabulary in Scotland for the year ending
March 10. 1862 states that the number Ol
thinkers, gipsies, vagrants, and other per-
sons who have no apparent means OF sup
port, has increased in Scotland TO the ex
) tent Of $4,000 within the last two years
The number of vagrsnts now amounts u
! 1854 children.
A PAPER was recently read before tn
Academy of Sciences, at Toulouse, France
to prove that the trunks of trees are not o
D a circular, but of an ellipticai form, th
Y axis from east to west being longer thai
8 that from north to south. The names O
Q eight distinguished observers Of the ope
: rations of nature are given as supporting
: | the fact mentioned
THE other day a seam in the roel
cutting on the Ridgefeld Branch rail
, road, in Connecticut, was charged VIII
, forty-two Kegs of powder and q quantity
: of nitro-glycerine, the whole costing $SOV
> Tho explosion shook the windows In kadge
. field, two miles away. and removed eaLu
and rock, the displacement OF which NJ 2,
. the usual course would have cost $1,000.
A CHEMIST in England has discovered
a fluid preparation which ne amrms WIl
! cause bodies plunged into IL 70 petriiy AM
4 become stone within ave years time
! The secret of this process is known onl.
). TO himself He throws out the suggestion
? that, in time, If persons will only pres nv
] their relatives and friends with his fluid
| they win be able to construct dwelling
4 with them, and thus live In residences sur
5 rounded by their ancestors
q The one hurdredth birthday. Of Mrs
2 Ruth Hemphill, of Henniker, N. Hb wa
I recently celebrated. She was the flrs
!. female born In the town. Her fhfhef
Deacon Ebenezer Hartshorn, built the mrs
frame housei in Henniker, and Il now stand
" In good condition. IL was La this hone
n that Senator Patterson was born. He
: father, James Hemphill, served In the Rev
. olntionarv war She IA the mother OF teI