Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-02-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.


this season.
a POLISH Count is regular lodgor Mt |
q station house in Baltimore.
TuE taxes in Texas are the highest OF 1
all the States In the Union.
ONE Of Brigham Young's daughters /.
claims to he the belle of Salt Lake.
IT is said that nine .tonths of all patent.
cd inventions turn out worthless.
A ssvENTY.TuREE years old Virginian
has recently been arrested for horse steal
ing.
Tue ladies of Salem, N. V, have
formed an association to build town
hall.
lr is estimated that tiny per cent. of the
| people in Dubuque, Iowa, drink cistcrn
water
Or the G52 convicts recently in the State
Prison, at jackson, Mich, only nine were
women.
AN English coast steamer lately burned
100 pigs in order to get into port having
exhausted her coal.
Tue King of Prussia declares that so
long as he is ON the throne OF Prussia the
death penalty will not be abolished.
Tue city of Burlington, Iowa, has
Colored population of ia, and voting of
2,lll, according to the census Of 1859.
TuE new Mormon paper says that Brig.
ham Young has impoverished hundreds
of families in building his new railroad
AN Italian noblcman, who has spent
two years in America, has written book,
in which he says the Boston ladies excel
for beauty in this country.
TUE advice of u Pennsylvania suicide
to his brother was, "Willio, don't go with
fellows who have moro money to spend
than you have"
Sixty thousand copies of German news
papers published in the United States cir
Culate in the States of the North German
Confederation.
A NEW HAMPsIIIRE man has, this win
ter, raised full.sized green peas on vines
grown in his sitting room, fed with water
and air entirely, having no soil near them
Mus. PIERsoN, venerable lady of New.
ark, N. j., has recently celebrated her
hundredtn birthday. The invitations to
her party bear the figures, 1770-1S70."
AN astronomer predicts for this year a
comet of such brillisncy, and so near the
earth, that our nights will be almost as
bright as our days.
JAMES CooMpE, printer, who set the
first stickful of type on the World, died in
New York the other day, having been a
comp" for iorty'thre years.
MoRE than forty.years after the pocket
r OF the late Judge Richard Fletcher OF
Massachusetts, was robbed of twenty. five
!, cents, the thief sent back the money with
: compound interest.
q As n ,Lcavenworth man was vending
his way to the river to commit suicide, he
was told of fellow who had called him d
liar, and he gave up his idea of death to
$ clay low for the slandcrer.
S Mr.. JABEz GATES, of Germantown
Y Pa, is very happy in the possession of an
Y anvil upon which were forged the mold
d in which the first types made in this coun
d try were cast
is Two medical students at Keokuk pre-
e tended to rob a friend in dark alley
&c They were arrested as street thieves, spen
:, II night in limbo, and were obliged l.
d friends for an explanation which libcrat
IS ed them in the morning.
= A New YORK physicians bill was $t2
p for attending child; and the parent
:, satisfaction in paying 1t may be imagined
:, from the fact that six doctors testified il
:, court that the treatment did not kill tn,
p child, and three others that it did.
y A CINCINNATI woman, who had receiv
4 ed from the Relief Union an unfashionabl,
n pair of boots for her daughter, promptly
returned them with the request Pleas
, give me finer pair, and the tops high, fO
" my daughter wears her dress short"
4 GEORGE THOMAS, called "the local Pea
II body" "of BRISTOL England, has an income
Il of 100000 year, of which he takes j,00(
n to live on, invests $4,000 in the funds, anC
!. lays up the balance, $4,000 where moth
Il nt II IAtrn nhnrt tinl. .ta
}. contribution.
a Six years ago, John Il, Dewitt, you'll
g of eighteen years, took the local agency o
/, of life insurance company at New Yorl
d BY energy he soon took the general ageucl
o for New England and New York, and tn,
p other day was paid by the company $120
e 900 to give up his right.
IS GREAT BRITAIN has ID 4,223 miles O
If railway, on which has been expended So,
s, 455, 100000. Last year the gross receipt
P, were $200,001,000, Less than half thi
g sum was required for working expenses
le SO that upwards Of $100,000,000 rename,
ID available in the form of profit.
le AT meeting of the Social Science As
" sociation, in Albany, New York, the fol
~ lowing statement was made; In Ney
ie York alone, $32,000,000 worth of mea
u annually is consumed, besides S3,00J,0 90
~ pounds of butter, valued at $33,OOO,O00
y 72,000,000 pounds of cheese, valued a
" $4,000 ,OO0-a total of $79,000000.
THE University of Edinburgh has mad
arrangements to enable ladies who wis
to do so to study medicine, but in a sepI
I rate class from men. Five lady student
h have presented themselves In Londo
is there is Female Medical Society, unde
the Presidency of tho Earl of Shaftesbury
ofI which established a medical college fo
he women five years ago, and eighty-tw
or ladies have during that period availc,
v themselves of its facilities most of ther
M have since started in business, and ar
In succeeding admirably.
in A FRENCH paper mentions the followin
ur custom which prevails at Stuttgart, tn
TX capital of WurtembuTg. On the aftel
,h noon of New Years Day a sort of fair, {
r. exchange for visiting cards, is held in
We public place. All the servants of goo
@ houses meet there, and one among then
tx mounting on a bench or table, calls ou
the addresses. At each name cloud Q
ms cards falls into basket placed for the pu
he pose, and the representative of the pc
he son for whom these cards are intende
can pocket his contingent. Each follow
IL. in his turn, and in few minutes hui
re dreds of cards have reached their destini
I'D tion without fatigue to any one.
Tx. BEEcHER believes in pensionin
the families of convicts. He puts ii thus
at "a husband is convicted of crime an
'r. sent to the States prison. Then he
re shaved, clothed, housed, fed, warmed
OF doctored, preached to, good books give
in TO him, and extra pay for overwork. Ill
m wife, with two children under six years
DE- age, is lett without wood, coal, food, she
ter, or friends, to shirk for herself. !
at tinge Of infamy settles on her good nam'
H. She loses caste She girds herself for VI
es, wonted work. Her back aches. Sh
ed staggers home from days washing, hal
Is. paid, because as yet she. cannot do day
np work. She becomes an object of charity
rs She is dreading the winter Which on
of these two is now bearing punishment
Which one sudeTs-the guilty msn or III
YES innocent womanY When the State shu