Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

n LADY III Dldlu6 was lSlG Wy bhO NoA
with 81 orphan grandchildren.
THERE are said to be 100000 French
Canadians in the United States.
A CONNECTICUT cooper has made bar
rels enough to form line ten miles long.
MAINE calculates that she has q popula-
tion of seven hundred thousand.
A PARIS female is reading peoples for
tunes by the lines on their feet
THE Jerseyman who invented patent
leather died recently, worth over $S,000,-
900. sis
THE outstanding five per cent. bonds
of the State Of Indiana will be redeemed
July /.
AN experiment in France proves that a
horse will live for twenty -four days on
water alone.
month" is the sole unrhymable mon
osyllable in the English language, says the
Boston Advertiser.
THE quantity of malt used in the United
Kingdom in 1867 was 47,SSO,O00 bushels,
each making IS gallons of beer. ..
INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, proposes to cele-
brate, on June z, the fifteenth anniversary
of the location OF the State Capital in that
city, '.'"
THE Romanist population of the French
Empire is 36900664; the Protestant, l.
sol $50; the Jewish, 158,904. ..,. ..,
A MAN in New Orleans offers TO fight
an alligator under water, with only knife,
if some one will give him $500.
THE dwellers on the Rhine are wonder
ing at an old man of 76, who bsthes in the
icy river, and rests on a cake of ice. I.
ST. JOHN, N. B., has a mushroom,
-, oollar dtfripu tho winter
measuring fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence.
A CoNNEcTIcUT woman, who married
her father-in-law few years ago, now
thinks tie marriage null, and sues him
for services as housekeeper.9
A COUNTRY Postmaster in New York
State has posted a notice in his office d.
reeting people "to lick their own stamps,
else the letters won't go.
The leaves of the coffee plant are now
proposed as substitute for tea. In Su-
matra the natives cultivate the plant al
most entirely for the leaves
| According to the circular of Messrs,
Dupee, Beck & Sayles, of Boston, the
amount of fine copper secured from thf
Lake Superior mines during 1867 realized
80, ,483079 pounds -z
LONDON city pauperism increases. The
number of paupers in that city IN the
second week in March was 174,760, to
contrast with 149 ,16S for the same week
in 1859. The indoor poor were 1887
against SO 7SS.
TIE Pitts6eld Eagle says there is a
woman living on Washington Mountain
who is the mother of twenty-five children,
twenty-three of whom are now living,
and more healthy woman is seldom
| seen.
IT is stated positively that there is
Young lady in one of the Biddeford
| lMaine) mills who Is worth at least
$4,000, but who works quietly day by
day, earning her six dollars weekly, in
stead of retiring with competency.
IT. is said that the machine power of
England and Wales is competent to per
form the labor of nearly six hundred
millions of men, and is probably greater
in productive capacity than the labor
power of all the world beside.
JEDDo, the capital of Japan, is, without
exception, the largest and most populous
citv in the world. In contains the vast
number of 100000 dwellings, and 50O0,-
600 human souls. Many of the streets are
nineteen Japaneseries in length-22 Eng
lish miles.
THERE is man in the vicinity of
Cedar Keys, Fla, who has twenty-five
children living. The family subsist prin-
cipally on fish and oysters. They have
never had plate or cup and saucer in
their house. In lieu of cups they use
] gourds and shells.
A MISSIONARY in India lately preached
on the subject of faith, illustrated by the
story of Abraham and Isaac, with such
magnetic eloquence that one of his native
hearers immediately went home and
slaughtered his son and offered him UP as
sacrifice.
A FRENCH chemist has succeeded in
producing paint with which to illumi-
nate numbers of street doors at night.
Figures traced with it shine so as to be
read through the most profound darkness
and the preparation of the compound is
said to be simple, inexpensive, and unin-
furious in any way.
THE Chinese never have any pockets,
the only places answering for such being
the capacious sleeves. Speaking of the
compression of the women's feet, and the
painful process of compression, mission
ary recently said he regarded it as less re-
voting, and far less injurious than the
practice of COMPRISING the waist by
lacing.
OF the cases of suicide, mental disorder
is the most active, one third OF all cases
that occur being traceable to it one-ninth
to physical suffering; one-eighth to loss
of property one-tenth to remorse, shame
or fear of punishment; one-eighth to
family troubles one ninth to gaming and
other vices, and very small proportion
to disappointed love.
THE total value of property reported
, stolen In Chicago the past year, was 1908,
292 total value of stolen property recov
cred, $136 902. The total amount Of fines
assessed in the Police Court was $l7O,576
total number Of arrests, 2S 07S; of these
23,073 were males, and 5000 females
married, 1852; single, 30, ;26. The mum
I ber of lost children was 1907, and th'
, number of lodgers accommodated, 2,755
A BALTIMORE correspondent writes
"Thunder sours milk and kills oysters
You may load a vessel to its utmost ca
: pacity, startfor market, and one good rount
Z, clap of thunder will kill every oyster il
i the vessel Immediately Pounding witt
an axe upon the deck of a vessel whel
( oysters are thereon, or pounding upol
the sides of vessel with heavy weight
4 will kill every oyster that feels the jar
G NIAGARA has reoeded from a pom
: where it was more than 200 feet high to it
: present position, with a height of abou
9 i5O feet, and it is not unlikely that 1t ma
= grind its way back to the lake whicI
, supplies it. On our continent, holding a
!. it does more than three quarters of tn
. fresh water of the world, are TO be toun
: the most mighty waterfalls and cataract
! known, among which may be name
= Niagara, the falls of the Missouri rive
the Shoshone Falls on the Snake rive
: 2l0 feet in height and immense in volume
. . and the falls of the Yosemite
/ A GENTLEMAN of New Haven has SC
v of Spanish coins coiAed in Mexico, cor
K sisling of dollar dated 1853, halt dollal
/ 1863, quarter, 1740, eighth, 1888, The
d are Of the Charles the Third series. II
e has Hanover coin dated 1911, which hi
never been in circulation, and SPANS
IS piece of the reign of Ferdinand l., date
IF 1898. He has one Egyptian copper col
i. 1000 years old, made in the reign of OF
/; Of the Ptolemy's, and o Grecian coin