Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-09-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

A WHtTE PINE doctor deals in coffins
CONFERENCE.-The has twenty eight
newspapers, printed in eight different
languages. ...r I.i
DURISe recent hot spell thermome-
ter In an Arkansas editorial room showed
q temperature OF 1l0 degrees
A NORMAL school for the benefit of ma.
tive ladies and girls Is TO be opened i'm
Poona, in India.
NoRFoLK, Va, restricts the number of
bootblacks In the city to eight and gives
each district.
A CLEVELAND paper acknowledges the
receipt of y bouquet of fresh flowers cut
In California. al.
THERE have been sixteen cases Of sui
eide In Lowell, Mass, within eight months,
mostly of young girls, litI1 s.. .
A DEFECTIVE copy of the 1,0e8 edition
of Shakespeare was sold by auction in Lon
don lately, and brought e93S. ...
A RESIDENT Of Mt. jackson, Va, found
young crocodile several inches in length
packed In barrel of sugar,
| THR ST. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than 100000 bushels Of apples will be
gathered in Minnesota this year.
A CINCINNArIAN has wagcred $100 that
he can carry an anvil weighing zoo pounds
distance of seven miles without resting.
Tom THUMn and party posted their per.
formances in San Francisco in Chinese as
| well as in English, and took, in two weeks,
! $4,000 in gold.
THE Duke Of 0ssuua, the first noble
man of Spain, has SO many titles that il
takes him more than u quarter of an hour
to write his full name.
A HEN in West Winsted, Conn, has
| been sitting for several weeks on seven
potatoes, which have sprouted and grown
above her head.
A LIVERPOOL woman, doubtful whether
| the fire in her stove was out, poured gun.
powder ON the embers in order to ascertain
the fact Her doubts and the rest Of hel
were removed.
IT is stated that one guest at Cape May
this year, whose party consisted of three
persons and whose accommodations were
two rooms, paid the hotel $i95 day dur.
ing his sojourn. ..
AT recent coin sale in Philadelphia, a
| New Jersey cent, 1887, realized $25
United States 1893 silver dollar, $40
United States 1904 cent, $12; United
States 1909 cent, So; United States 110i
dime, $l9; United States 1S45 dime, 81
United States 1898 cent, g.
Two Duxbury (Conn.) ladies, descend
ants of the Winslow family, possess
among other curious relics, the wedding
shoes of Cotton Mathcr's grandmother
On one of the shoes is pasted the origna
pubishment of her marriage taken iron
the church door where it was first posted
A POISONOUS bush has proved very dc
structive to sheep in Australia. 1t is
pretty shrub about four feet high, with
bright scarlet blossom. The botanica
name is gGStr0l0bium grdRdgtorum, AM
over two thousand sheep have been, los
out of one flock from eating this bush.
PORTLAND claims the championship o
the world on old folks. 1t has owe
one hundred and fifty inhabitants abov
seventy-one years of age, and twelve bust
ness firms which have not changed tbei
style for the past quarter of century
The veritable "oldest inhabitant" is ais
supposed to be resident of Portland.
! IT is said that, near Cochranton, Ohio
: the other day, n meteor followed by
, blaze of light, passed by the engineer of
! freight train that was stopping struck a
! oil car in the rear, and exploded, tearin
, off portion of the root, setting fire I
the car and destroying it, A brakeman
was struck in the face by n fragment G
the meteor and severely hurt.
ONE of the most marked illustrations o
the change which has taken place in thu
way in which good men regard certain
things, is afforded by the following ex
tract from the diary of the Rev, Samue
, Seabury, of Ledyard, Conn, father Q
Bishop Scabury, of Connecticut. ii
says: "The ticket 1886, in the Ligh
f House and Public Lottery, of New Yorh
drew in my favor, by the blessing of A.
mighty God, $500, of which receive
e425, there being deduction of 10 pc
cent. for which now record to my pos
terity my thanks and praise to Almight
: God, the Giver of all good gifts"
BELOW we give the grand total of fund
raised by the leading national and dc
nominational societies in this country, TO
the year ending May 1, 1869. 1t is sal
that the amount is nearly So 100000 large
than i'm the wear nrccedinn: