Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-11-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

DEXTER is IL years old.
THE coal fields of Alabama cover an area
of 1000 miles.
THERE are 600, ,365 children in Indiana,
between the ages of 6 and 2l.
THT population of Rochester, N. Y, is
00,20S, The gain in four years is 1S,26S,
A WRITER in the London Society asserts
that the wearing OF corsots produces cor
pulence.
AT the late Mecca pilgrimage, 10000
pilgrims assembled at Mount Ararat, an
increase of $4,000 over 1868.
THE total value of all the horses in
twenty.one Northern States in 1865 was
over $300,000,000.
THERE are 430 species of humming
birds, and they arc found only on the
Western continent.
THE number of letters distributed at
Indianapolis in October, were 154 4SS-
3,136 being drop letters.
A WRITER in HdrperS' figures that only
two Americans out of twelve carry
watches, and only one woman out of forty.
The Rev. Chas. Beecher, of Georgetown,
Mass, is the possessor and skilled player of
violin over 200 years old and Hayden
Brown, of West Newberry, owns one 109
years old.
A YEAR ago resident of Greenland,
N. H., was worth $2,000,000. He put it
into copper and silver mining stocks and
lost it all.
A MAN and his wife at Washington,
who kept each fruit and refreshment
stand in the neighborhood oftwo or three
ofthe departments, cleared $50,000 during
the war
A BELL boy at Cincinnati hotel found
a wallet in the hall containing $4,000. He
gave it to the clerk, who returned 1t to the
owner. The man coolly put it in his
pocket without saying word, or even
kicking the boy.
AN American official at Paris has found
among tho old book k-stores II copy of FL
| lots Indian Bible. 1t will be remembered
that the last copy sold for 81 300, and it is
probable that this newly discovered one
will bring at least $4,000.
In Great Britain, with population of
"a ,363,0 900, there are 80, 200 minister's and
"a 700 churches and chapels, or one for
every 700 persons, and minister to every
672 Inhabitants. In this country, in 1860,
there were $4,000 churches, being an
average of one church for every 5S2 per-
sons of all ages.
A FEMALE medical school for natives
has recently been established at Bareilly,
India, under the charge of DR.. Corbyn and
BaboO Gunga Pershad. The female stu
dents, it is asserted, have shown great
quickness and aptitude for the art of
medicine, and have made surprising pro-
grcss. The founders of the schosi have
made application for aid from the govern
ment, in order to carry on the institution
on larger scale.
THE JVdtchman and Reflector mentions
the following long pastorates of Baptist
ministers in Boston: DR.. Stillman was
pastor of one church in Boston 42 years /;
DR.. Baldwin, OF one church, nearly 30
years; Dr. Stowe, of two churches, nearly
3G years DR.. Neale has been pastor of
two churches in Boston more than 81
years; DR.. Hague, Of four churches, 81
years. The united pastorats of these five
men amounted to 1877 years"
A NEW ORLEANS baker having lost a
mule, advertised for the recovery of his
animal, which he described as "a gentle
mule, valued at $3.50, and answering to
the name of Fanny" offering at the same
time "heavy" reward TO the finder.
| The animal was discovered on the levee, in
the possession of suspicious person, and
taken to its owner, when the latter full
filled his promise by counting out fifty
old-fashioned copper pennies.
A SPECIMEN of the wonderful plant " the
flower of the Holy Ghost" has been sue
cessfully raised in Norwich, CT. The
flower is a creamy white cup, nearly as
large as half an egg, and extremely beautl.
| ful, and its wonder as natural 1oral
growth is the fact that in this flower is a
little pure white dove, with pink bill and
| ~. In
over its back. Its wings, feet, bill, &C.,
are as absolutely perfect as those of the
living dove, whose counterpart this
wonderful mimic vegetable bird is.
NEVER saw anybody do anything that
/ did not watch them and see how they
did it, for there is no telling but that some
time might have to do it myself was
going across prairie once my horse be-
gan to limp. Luckily l came across a
blacksmith's shop, but the smith was not
at home. ] asked the woman of the house
if she would allow me to start fire and
make the shoe. She said / might if
knew how; so | started fire, and heated
the shoe red hot, and turned it to fit my
horses foot, and shod the horse. At the
next place | came to, went straight to 8
smith and told him to put the shoe on
properly. He looked at the horses foot,
and paid me the greatest compliment |
ever received in my life. He told me If
put on that shoe had better follow black
smithing all my life.-Beecher.
AN accurate statement of the bequests
of Mr.. Peabody has never been pub
lished. The following is an approach TO
4 correctness: For Institutes at DanVers
and Peabody, $250OO0; Peabody Museum
at Salem, $l50,O00; Newburyport, for a
library, $4,000; Memorial Church in
Georgetown, Mass, to the memory of his
mother, and free public library at same
place, 100000 Phillips Academy, Ando-
yer, $4,000; Massachusetts Historical
Society, $4,000; Harvard College, for
Museum and Professorship of American
Archaeology and Ethpology, $15000O
Yale College, for Museum OF Natural His
tory, $l50,0O0; Peabody Institute at Bal
timore, $l,000,0O0: Maryland Historical
Society, 100000 Kenyon College, $685.
600; Public Library at Post Mills, Thet-
ford, VT, $4,000; Southern Educational
Fund, $3,0OO, 900 London Poor, $780,
OOOi his kindred, $l,5O0,0OO, and many