Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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drants.
TOLEDO has a onc-leggcd champion
skater.
CuAmEsroN has military school n
years old.
THE King of Sweden has written over
900 poems.
The Bank of California paid dividend
Of 100000 last year
Two arrests for umbrella stealing have |
occurred in New Haven. |
DIR. HOLLOWAY advertised six hundred
thousand dollars worth last year.
THE message Of the Governor of Rhode
Island was not two columns long.
The profit of the richest gold mine in |
California last year was S34O,4OO.
A. T. STEWART has sold this season,
twenty $4,000 shawlS, and one for $500.
BRICK PoMERoY is the third wealthiest
man and the largest taxpayer in La
Crosse.
In Liverpool, England, over 5000
women were punished last year for drunk |
cnness.
PRESIDENT GRANT has received suit of
clothes from Siberia, made of Siberian
furs and cut in the Siberian fashion.
WISCONSIN has 626 persons who draw
pensions from the United States. The |
amoun. paid them is $575,6i9,66.
THE young women of Lewiston, Nc,
have formed a society pledging themselves
not to kiss man who uses tobacco
EuGuTEEN Hundred and Seventy, finds
old Boston entering upon its 2i0th year
of existence, but the 4Sth year of its city
life.
IT is estimated in London that the fo,es
at the opening of the Suez canal have cost
the Viceroy the enormous figure of S6,6OO,-
900 in gold. ....
A MAGAZINE writer estimates that every
man, woman and child In America uses
up five hundred matches per year, or at
that average
EVERY fashionable bride in New York
expects such costly presents that many
people decline to be present at the cere-
mony.
THE "Universal Russian Exposition
to be held at st. Petersburg in May, 1870,
will be an exhibition of Russian products
and manufactures solely
b. b. ALLEN, of Vergennes, VT, who
died few days ago, aged 81, had taught
the High School in that place twenty six
+ consecutive years.
MRs. STATIONS advice about choosing
, a wife is: ALWAYS look for girl with
good teeth for the teeth are n sample OF
every bone in the fair ones body"
A SAW mill in Gardiner, Me-. the pro-
prietors of which were compelled in 1865
to hire teams to cart of the sawdust made
received last year 5000 from the ice com
panies for all the sawdust made.
|. THE "supes" in the London panto
/ mines complain that this year they los,
J. their situations because ambitious clerks
d anxious to be seen on the stage, are will
g ing to take their places without pay.
/. In Queen Victorias crown there are 4
Il 1868 brilliant diamonds, 1873 rose dia
@ monds, and 147 table diamonds, larg
s ruby, II sapphires, II emeralds, smal
d rubies and PIT pearls-a total of 2,10
d precious stones.
:, A PHILADELPHIAN named Morgan, re
G Gently arrested as thief, declared by al
&c that was sacred that he was an homes
D. man; yet he at that moment had on fou
y coats three pairs of pantaloons and thrC
m Shirts all stolen. ...
oi THERE is couple in New Hampshir,
q Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Ford, "a yeaI
~ old, who have lived on the same farI
y forty-five years, and for the last eightee
/ years have not deemed it necessary {
- employ either servant or doctor.
!, SOME very fashionable ladies in NeJ
a. Orleans hung yellow ribbon on thei
70 door-knobs, New Years Day. as an indi
\ cation that they would receive calls. TIL
- callers didn't como, and they afterward
r found that it had been considered a sigl
"a of smallpox.
a AFEw years ago an ingenious gentlema
At managed to get drunk free of expense al
ID most daily in the streets of London, by fall
as ingdown in a fit, with small placard o
,e his breast, " Don't bleed me, but give me
o. glass of hot brandy and water"
j. POPCORN, vegetables and cold watc
,e are said to be the principal diet of a Pitts
* field (Mass.) family, with only two meal
Re of these daily. If breakfast is not on tn
table at o'clock precisely, the pastim
of eating is dispensed with until O'Clock
the dinner hour, as no member of tb
family is allowed to eat "between meals.
ne Music Is to be introduced as a curativ
u, treatment for insanity, hypochondriasit
" and other chronic diseases of the mind, i
ID some of the great asylums of Paris. Sew
eral of the greatest physicians have state
IN that, in their opinion, music, if well an
20 skillfully applied, will cure, or, at leas
is moderate and check insanity and kindre
e, diseases.
., PROBABLY the cheapest carriage of ma
at matter in the United States is that bC
~ tween Rock Island and Newport, II.
~ The contract for carrying the mails is Il
OF to the lowest bidder, and there being col
~ siderable rivalry at the time of the letting
VI the bids were accordingly low, the SUI
ID cessful party agreeing to perform I'll
" duties for one cent per year" The low
% est terms ever before known on the san
'L' route were four dollars.
lhd The San Francisco police are raiding G
,SS Chinese gambling houses, with small r
no suit. The dOor-keeper at these dens HI
ba his hands always on a string, which, whC
iie =" pulled, sounds gong beneath the gar
~. bling table, and enables all hands to clej
sss up and make their escape in ease any u
~ welcome visitors come. So well ha'
-, they operated that one keeper of such 6
nO nn establishment has procured the punis
10 ment by fine of an officer who entered
nnS saloon. Hi.s tn
no THERE is a singular barometic spril
w on the farm of j. IL. Temple, efFarmin
his ham, Massachusetts, which has the pee
oc. liarity Of overlooking with.a sudden ru
Just before a rainfall. II matters not VIII
the season Of the year may be, SUNNI
Ielf and winter, in wet weather and at t
&c, time of the seyerest drouth-all at on
the the water comes pouring from this spriI
er- often flooding the interVale through viii
wd it is discharged, and within thirty-i
of hours thereafter rainfall comes
art- SOME interesting statistics on the den
Ger ty of European population have be
TO grouped by German writer In Fran
ent there is one dwelling house to every
hat inhabitants; in England and Wales, 5
mt, in Belgium, 52; in Ireland, SO; HollaI
5.9i Italy, 5.9i Spain, so Bavaria, g.
Norway, 63; Austria, 6.6j Baden, o
yed Hanover, 60; Switzerland, 7.si Pruss