Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-06-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

erecting at cost Of 80 100000. y
Mr. BuLINaAME's two balls IN Paris
cost the Emperor of China $4,000.
In San Francisco, there have been re-
turned ninety-two incomes In excess Of
$4,000.
PAPER PETTICoATs are now sold in
london at sixpence each. Shoes are made
Of the same material.
THE number Of real estate saies In San
Francisco during May was I f,034, amount
inc to S4,922,237. .rAN
HARTFoBD, Conn, is 10 have a rink
which Will scat 8 900 persons, accommodate
800 skaters, and cost $4,000.
A BOY aged 10 has been sent to prison
for week, in France, for aseditious hurrah
in the presence of the Empress.
THE Second Adventists, 1t Is sstd have
dxed upon the 10th of July as the day on
which the world win come 70 an end
In Williamsburg, L. L, there is man
l2I years old. He Is weaver by trade,
- though too feeble to work, Is still
lively. tt..t
ImE number of immigrants arrived in
New York during the first five months of
this year was 5O,630, against "a, ,577 for the
same period last year.
DR. JUDsoN baptized the first Burman
convert in 1919. Since then more than
10000 Burmans, KareGs and Shans, have
believed and been baptized.
The Queen of Madagascar has been re-
ceived into the Church of England by
baptism, and ordered her ministry TO do
likewise, under penalties.
MIR. john 4. OWENS is, probably, the
wealthiest actor on the American stage.
| His property is said to be considerably in
excess Of half a million dollars.
THE number of passengers over Prus.
sian railroads in 1868 was 81, ,94S, ,665, Dur.
| ing the year % persons were killed by
re'lway accidents, and 1914 were wound
| cd.
HANS WAoHENHUsEE, the German
feuilletonist, says, in a recent article, that
a certain Miss Arabelia sold, at a, fair in
New York, 5000 kisses for a dollar each.
A NOTE was found in the pocket Of
| recent suicide in England, saying: Dear
friends, don't believe my wife ii she says
she has not money to pay for my coffin"
THE cattle in Switzerland amount TO
1000, 900 in number, and are valued at $42,-
| 000, ,000 or about SAT per head, The COWS,
55S,0 900 In number, yield S30,000,000 of
milk every year.
AN ivory tusk, six feet three inches long
and 22li inches in circumference, has re-
Gently been exhumed in Montana, It was
found buried in the sand, twenty-five feet
below the surface,
THERE are only twenty-five persons in
Oregon who pay income lax on sums ex-
ceeding $4,000. The largest income is
1855, 33S, returned by the agent of an eg
tate, and the largest personal income is
S4S.014 ....rr
THE Russian church at Sitka, Alaska
| Tarritnrv WAS rarantIxy rohhad nf Nnpv
Of the Bible, richly studded with valua-
BILE stones, crosses and other ornaments,
altogether said to be worth $4,000
THE Masonic Grand Lodge, New York
| city, has purchased a lot ON Sixth ave-
nue., opposite Booths Theatre, at q cost
Of between 100000 and 100000. On
VI" ~ large Masonic Hall is to be
erected.
IHE authorities of Dresden and Vienna
set free large number of singing birds
which had been brought to those places
TOR sale. In Saxony and Austria, the use
fulness of birds as destroyers Of insects is
Ificially recognized.
| A GENTLEMAN residing in Lewiston,
Maine, left mis- three little children at
homo while he attended church, and when
ne returned found them busily employed
in cleaning the inside of a $500 gold watch
with soap and water.
FIFTEEN hundred eggs were accidentally
broken in front pf the Batavia IN. "
| Post Office not long since, and the pTesi-
dent of the village had to spread a barrel
of coal tar over the streetahd then set fire
to it, to destroy the smell of bad eggs.
A WOMAN in Troy, N. Y, has produced
a needleworked picture of Washington,
containing nearly 100000 stitches 1t was
raffled off and won by Prot H. NJ. Cole
man, of Vassar College. Three hundred
tickets were sold at one dollar each.
A NEW YoRK lady recently ordered a
| trousseau at Stewards for her daughters
doll, which received q complete outfit in
under clothing, silk and lace. One Of the
( articles ordered was an India shawl, minia-
: Jure size, at $50, and lace handkerchief
was valued at $l2. eaFr
, ACCORDING to the figures presented at
the Brewers Congress, nearly 100000
barrels of beer were sold in 1868 The
capital used to produce this quantity is
valued at one hundred and five million
dollars, and the number Of persons em
, | ployed is stated at forty one thousand.
WHITE PINE, the silver mining district
{ | in Nevada, received its name from the
l vast quantities of white pine timber COW
i ering the mountains in that neighborhood.
: A local paper notices boards twenty two
: feet in length and twenty-one inches wide,
cut from the white pine trees One log
!, Welded seven hundred and sixty six feet
of lumber.
THE number OF sheep in Ohio in
1868 was 1889 S45, producing not less than
= 30 900, 600 pounds of wool The farmers
. Of Ohio in 1866 lost in killed and in
. jured SO, 251 sheep, by dogs, which were
u valued at $685., ,69745. The number of
] dogs in 1866 was 174, ,909 making the loss
for the two years per dog, $l.62, sum
!. sufficient TO defTay the expenses of nearly
y |. 300 families, at an annual cost of $1,000
y each.
- WoRKMEN repairing an old aouse in
Hartford, Conn, lately, found beneath the
kitchen floor young butternut tree that
without sunlight, had grown to the size
of mans wrist, running horizontally
twenty feet. In its course 1t had picked
II up an old dinner-fork, and clasping it in
~ a branch, Lugged it to the main stem SC
!, as to bend it to the curve Of the tree, and
4 then adopted it as a part of the butternui
!. family by growing its bark and wood all
: around It,
,t TIE number of children in the Sunday
-e Schools of the United States has been esti
y mated at about four millions, and Of teach
~ ers, four hundred thousand II has been
ts estimated further, that the cost OF main
~ tanning the Sunday Schools OF the coun
IN try averages about sixty cents a scholar
~ per wear. This would make an aggregate
~ Of two millions four hundred thousand
~ dollars for Sunday School expenses
y which Is only the one-eighth hundred
= part of the amount paid by the people o.
y, the United States for intoxicating liquors
THE population of Paris proper, withou
ID the suburbs, is 100000 inhabitants, o
5; whom 10000 are men, zoe, 900 women
/. and 250,000 children. About 400 900 ol
NJ them live on their rents, or are govern
Te ment functionaries, employed lawyers
II doctors, teachers, eto There are 100
b; 900 Of them IL the schools, hos
ns nitals. prisons, etc. Two hundred thou
e- sand are traders, etc One million
ID are soldiers of the army of industry man
a. ufacturers foremeD, and workingnen
!. Srha par;oiau s,srrison consists Of s5 OO0