Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-02

IARIs is 10 nave new DanK WIN cap
ital of &S0,O00,000. r'7 7e i '.fb ~
Two hundred and sixty newspapers are
published in London. .i eassf ESQ faai
QUEEN VICTORIA ia seven years the 3
senior oftho Empress Eugenie, Az,
Ir cost $1,000 to bury New York gen,
tleman who died recently
THE Congressional library now contains
170,00j bound volumes ia -ftTua
THE Nationsl Bank circulation Of tho
United States is e209 SJ4,S40. 81 ssl, b. tul -
WuLARD's Hotel in Washington took in 81,
$1,000 day during inauguration week. i
Ex.PosTMAsTER GENERAL. kANnALI has =
taken up his residence at Elmira, N. Y, \. !.
A NEW music hall, with a seating capa-
city Of $500, is TO be erected at Boston.
THE loss by the International Exhibit
tion at Hsvre, last year. was 100000
IT is estimated that there are &2,600,-,
600 600 worth of horseaesh in the United
States
CusAs population, last year, was 1 ,8T0,-
000-of whom 78f, 500 were whites and
605,500 oolored. .-.ar ,<tl ssi
ENaLIsH papers speak of a girl still liy-
ing in, Wales who has not eaten anything
for 10 months. 81.
A FUNERAL in Brownstewn, Pa, was
attended by five sisters, all Of whom were
| aged over eighty.
AT his death, Eugene Sue was worth
only sixty thousand francs. He spent
$l50000 francs in eight years. lts .
The estate Of the late Senator Guthrie
valued at about 81 900, ,000Ahas been
divided among his three daughters
ARTEMus WARDS works are to be re-
published in London, with thirty-iive Illus is
trauons from his panorama. 4 % af
| HAMILTON FIsH Is the fourth Secretary
of State furnished by New York. The
others were Van Buren, Marcy and
Seward.
A MELANCHOLY news-vender in Eng
land committed suicide by pouring petr0-
leum over himself, and then lighting it
with match.
In Massachusetts,, in 1867, there were
$4,000 births nearly Thousand increase
over 1866. There were LAS marriages, 'l
more than ever before. ~. rv
AN ingenious citizen of New Albany,
Indiana, with too much time on his hands,
has been two years in making checker
board that contains G,401 pieces.
THE Kentucky University has an at
tendance of 730 students the present year.
The buildings are located ON the old ha&c-
stead of Henry Clay, at Ashland.
THE Secretary of War is Rawlins, with
out "g;" the Secretary of the Navy is
Adolph E. Borie; the Postmaster General
is Creswell, with only one as" and there
Is not final "6p in the name of tbs At
torney General, Mr., Hosr.
MILTON MERRYFtELD, of Sheffield,
caught torty-two rats in one night, recent
ly, by exchanging n barrel of oats that
had often been visited by rates for bar
rel of water, covering the surface with
| GvNtgi Iu
pitched in and met watery grave,
THERE are in France fifteen coins, as
follows: Gold pieces of one hundred,
fifty, twenty, ten and five francs silver
pieces of five, two, one and one half francs,
and the four sous piece; bronze pieces of
ten, five, two, and one centime. To
these we may add the Emperors, of twel-
ty-tive francs, soon to be coined.
SAMUEL SEDGwICK, of New Lebanon,
N. Y, recently killed and dressed hen
because she produced no eggs; but, upon
being dressed, fifteen eggs were found, six
of them with hard shells and full size, and
two with soft shells, also fun size. This
was one Of ten fowls which produced ], 900
eggs in four months--the one dressed
above having laid during that time ten
eggs measuring seven by eight inches.
Nc wonder she stopped.
Mr.. WILLIAM CHURCH., of Seymour,
Conn., who cultivates trout on his farm,
estimates that he has five hundred trout
which will weigh from one and quarter
to one and half pounds each five thou
sand which will weigh one pound twenty
thousand which will weigh from eight to
ten ounces, and one hundred thousand
from two to four ounces. In three years.
time he expects to send to market yearly
at least two hundred tons.
THE experiments which have been
made over the telegraph lines between
Harvard College and San Francisco show
that the travelling time required by electri-
city is as follows from Boston: To Buff
falo and backe0, 10 seconds. To Chicago
and back 0 90 seconds. To Omaha and
back, QSS seconds, To Salt Lake and
back 0 "a seconds. To Virginia City and
back, rO.7O seconds. To San Francisco and
back, 0.74 seconds.
A QUEER bet was recently made in
Swansey, Mass. One man wsgered that
no horse in town could pull four bushels
of corn Cwo hundred and twenty-four
pounds) in a bag or bags, four feet on
barn floor, the bags being fastened to an
inch rope one hundred feet in length. The
novelty of the bet attracted quite a crowd
to witness the performance, but the fire.
horse did the business easily. The princi-
pie which induced the wager was that a
small anchor attached to a long cable, will
fasten large vessel, even in S Very high
wind.
BY the annual report VI the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, the "great
centres appear to have paid taxes to the "
Government for the year ending June 80,
1868, as fol ows: New York city, S22, H.
OO4; Philadelphia, $0,038972: Boston,
$6617 ,457 Brooklyn, $5,3l5,440; San
Francisco, s., las, ,256; Cincinnati, $4,499,-
1875 Chicago, $3,993, ,2S9 Baltimore, $3,-
099O7; st. Louis, $S,4s3, ,7SS; Newark,
O19; Pittsburgh, $2,76420O; Cleveland,
$2,503,247. FoTty-seven collection dis
tricts returned each more than one mil
lion dollars the largest amount being ST.
557, ,692 for the Wall street district, known
as the ThirtY.seCond New York.