Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

y CNcINNATI has S,0S1 registered dogs
BosToN has about dozen good female
velocipedists
ONE hundred and sixty-eight twins
were born in Philadelphia last year.
THERE are 100000 Norwegians in the
Northwestern States.
FIFTEEN members of the new Spanish
Cortes were saloon.keepers.
THE memorandum book of Frederick
$s40. ... -.l- =. =. -
THERE are over $4,000, 900 invested in
circuses and menageries in this country,
THERE are ouly 5000 Gentiles IN Salt
LAX City, out of population Of $4,000
IT is stated that there are always about
FIVE thousand well.to-do Americans in
Paris
THERE are 1910 indians in Massachu-
setts, comprising representatives of more
than twenty tribes. -,e
THE average length of the session of
the Massachusetts, Legislature for forty
years has been 1T days.
NEVADA is becoming deeply interested
in silk culture. There are 1,250OO0 mul.
berry trees in the State.
A ARETIRED wealthy New Y ork merchant
lately paid $4,000 for landscape paint
ing at private sale.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is to be sent
abroad by his congregation, $4,000 being
raised for that purpose.
THE Pacific mills, Lawrence, Mass,
with capital of $s,650,000, paid twenty
four per cent. dividend in 1868.
In 1868 the ten Southern States pro.
duced 222 100000 bushels of corn, being
10000, 900 more than in 1867.
PAT MURPHY, aged 110, and his wife
aged so, of Westmoreland county, are the
Oldest married couple in Pennsylvania
THE product of the fisheries of Cape
Cod the past year, it is said, amount to
| about million and half of dollars.
THE Iowa Agricultural College is five
stories high, and contains over one hun
dred rooms the farm is 649 acres.
ACCORDING to the report of the Secre.
tary of State, the total valuation of Mas
sachusetts at the present time is 81 $780,
49S,939.
THIRTY years ago, A. L. Stewart was
rated on the mercantile reports: "Said
to be worth $4,000; credit A 1, cautious
and safe"
THE Buffalo Elevator Association, dur
ing the season of 1868, handled Al, 1888, 1888
bushels of grain, being 24O,9s0 bushels
more than was handled in 1867.
A FARMER in Dooly county, Ga last
season, made 272 gallons of "good thick
syrup" from half an acre of sugar cane.
SIX hundred and seyenty.four persons
were tried and convicted in the criminal
courts of New York city during 1868, and
ninety eight were acquitted during the
same period.
A MERCHANT of Bangor, Me-, has had
to pay $3.50 damages to a couple of ladies
who were knocked down and their fine
clothes spoiled by snow-slide off his store
roof e. #sE
THE Cincinnati Gazette estimates that
the population of Ohio in 1870 will num-
Der 100000 1t bases its opinion on
the vote of 1868, when 519, ,254 votes were
cast. F.&
ST. PETERSBURG is frequently called
| Pianopolis because even the humblest
families possess instruments, while SOC
men and 1900 women live by teaching
the use of the piano.
DURING the year 1868, nearly 10000
bushels of apples were used in Orange
county, New York, in manufacturing
32,S70 gallons of apple whisky, valued a
about $115,000.
A BOY II years old was recently fined
! $15 or twenty days Imprisonment, fol
pitching two guilds of tobacco at the cler.
gyman during revival meeting at West
Berne, N. Y.
In the Michigan State Prison, at Jack
son, during 1868, twenty-seven convicts
were punished with whips, thirty -four
with the paddle, forty-eight by being put
into dark cell, and six by being placed
on bread and water diet.
SUBsTRACTIoN.-
From six take nine,
From nine take ten,
From forty take fifty,
And six Will remain.n