Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-11-05
FACTs ANpFIGuRES.

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SEVEN hundred and fifty seven Oriental
manuscripts were added to the British
Museum last year.
ONE late issue of the London Times CON
taincd $4,000 advertisements, from as
many different persons.
Tim Uiversalst schools had last year I,
400 pupils, of whom thirty.two were theo-
logical students
THE oldest man now left in Indiana is
said to be Benjamin Scalf resident of
Milesburg, Elkhart county born May l2,
116t
ONE hundred years ago, there were
moro than 950,000 landed proprietors in
Great Britain to-day there are less than
10000.
TINS Young Mems Christian Association
of Indianapolis has distributed over $2,-
800 in charity during the past year.
THE Petaluma fair, California, boasts of
an OK nineteen and a half hands high,
weighing 3,Sl1 pounds, and pig weigh
ing l,O03 pounds.
In 1866 there We're sent over the wires
in the United States t2,004,710 messages,
larger number than in Great Britain,
! France, and Austria combined.
SEVENTEEN thousand nine hundred
marriages were celebrated in Switzerland
during the last year, or one marriage to
every 40 Inhabitants.
| IT is stated that the Bollclontaine Rail.
road has transported over 100000 pas
sengers since it was built, and has killed
but four of them.
ORANGE JUDD, proprietor of the
american AgricWturiSt, has given to the
| Wesleyan University $4,000 for the cree.
/ If n fNy orfp of
Natural Science. ...
OMAHA has 5,306 families. A local
paper from this estimates the population
OF 26,0SO averaging the families at five
each, or 2l,5Sl, averaging them at four
each.
A CONNECTICUT traveller recently took
tea with Mormon elder, mt whose table
six wives presided, and twentv-seven
children clamored for more molasses on
their bread
THE aggregate af the heaviest votes
ever thrown in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Iowa is 1,3j6,3l2, which is nearly one
quarter OF the aggregate popular vote for
President last fall.
!, ONE million, two hundred and eleven
thousand, one hundred and ninety-thr, c
pounds of sea island cotton, valued at ST.
U70,736, were exported from the customs
district of Charleston TO foreign countries
during the year ending September 30,
1869
IT has heon discovered by careful ex-
periments in Charleston that the weight
of a bale of cotton varies slightly with
the temperature. A fall of ten degrees in
the thermometer causes a bale of cotton to
gain about pound and half in weight.
THERE are over one hundred students
} preparing for the ministry in the Baptist
} Theological Seminary and University o
4 Chicago. About forty of these are in tht
Theological Seminary classes, and tn,
t others in the University classes.
THE incomes of the various religious
; societies in Great Britain for the yea
ending May l, 1869, amounted to 80, 102,
; /; 060 or between 81 100000 and $4,000,
000 The contributions of the leading
religious societies in the United States fol
the same year are $6,243,OO0
THE Congregational Union, in its six
teenth annual report, says that from the
organization of the society to the present
time, 315 churches have received aid, and
3S3 houses of worship been built o.
these, thirty.seven are in New England
siXty-two in Illinois, and sixty-one in
Iowa.
The other day, an engineer on the Prov
idence, Hartford and Fishkill road dis
covered q stoppage in the water pipe OF
his locomotive, and put in his finger
f when he Immediately got bite. With
the aid of hook he finally lished out an
, eel measuring fourteen and half inches
which had passed from the water pipes
into the tender
If we compare Vienna, Paris, London
and Berlin we shall find that for every
: 1000 men above 30 years of age in Wen
, ma, 476 are married in Berlin, 526 il
Paris, 5G3, and in London 6G1 ; of 1,00C
females who have passed their 20lh birth
! day in Vienna, 40S are married, $50 in
Berlin, SOL in London and j92 in Paris.
"A CORRESPONDENT travelling in Scot
! land remarks: ave passed Sunday last
( at the head of Loch Lomond, in solitary
inn. No church is within fourteen miles
There is large rock near the lake, in ont
E corner of which is a cell hewn out, anC
G this is arranged as pulpit, and the peopl,
+ gather in front. A Scotch clergyman
: breaches here once a fortnight to tht
z farmers and shepherds Of the highlands.
+ ABOUT 300 female voters are now on tn,
;, register Of municipal voters at Lincoln
= England At Stamford, the number o
, female voters for the ensuing year will b.
100. At East Retford, out of 500 munici
4 pal voters for 1S69-70, sixty viii! be women
G At Norwich, the municipal register fo
n 1S69-70 will comprise upwards of 1900
2 names, and about 300 of the voters vii
y be women.
Il IT is stated that in the Methodist ohurcl
T., the net increase Of houses Of worship las
e year was $40. Besides these, over IL
new and improved churches were built il
place of old ones, making the number @
dedicatiOns of Methodist Episcopa
!, churches during the year 7l8. The est
" mated value of the new edifices, includin
the improvements on old ones, is nearl
i $6,000,000.
THE ecclesiastical authorities of Rom
g have Just published a census for the pres
a ent year The regular clergy is compose
G of 265 persons, thus divided: Cardinals
9 32 Bishops, 26; priests and clerks, 1896
and students at the Ecclesiastical College
r S41 the religious communities count
', 215 souls-2,959 men and 1885 women
= the lay population amounts to 1856 19S
J, soldiers in garrison. t0,207 prisoners III
- der sentence, 1928; PFOtestants, 637 jew
" 1852 making total of 800 532, or an II
= crease of 5,l54 over the year 1868.
LIVINGSTON has discovered that one
v the sources of the Nile, emptying into I'll
d great lake Victoria Nyanza, rises some te
m degrees south of the equator. If this
y true, the Nile becomes one of the lOnge
~ rivers in the world The distance betwee
A its last reported source and its delta alon
Is the Mediterranean is equal to the distanC
,e from Lima, in Peru, 20 the city of Ne
~. York, or from The City of Mexico ava
n up to Mount st. Elias, the end Of the bacl
10 bone Of this continent in Alaska.--Ke
20 York Express, .. ~. ~.
20 PANIFIoATION is the name now apple
X TO a process OF bread making recently di
covered and patented in France Tn
method dispenses with the grinding of I'll
no wheat, and IL is asserted, will pioduc
!" 150 lbs Of bread from 100 lbs Of grain
q, while by the old plan Of using flour, onl
L, ll2 lbs Of bread are produced from 100 IL