Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-05-27
FACTS AND Fl96REs.

QUREN IsABtLIk, Of Spain, has an in
| come of two million francs year. p 90
In twenty-three weeks there have beer
twenty rainy Mondays in Boston. ttc.
THERE is a factory in London which
produces 10000 artificial teeth week.
THERE is only one town in Massa
chusetts that has not q church building
THE number of mich. COWS in the
United States has increased 100000 since
1860, sri., ....l, ...I..rr
IT takes 1000 head of cattle to supply
Philadelphia with beef for a single day
,PoTTsvnLe, Pa, is the home of man
who has been ON a drunk for thirty-ive
years. sbs1ta III gftsf rpgqs.v,.-
THE Germans of New York have form
ed Fat Mans Association A 265. 5.pound-
er presides.
IT is said that 100000 CaliEornians are
uncOnnected, even nominally, with any
religious body. Wv
Six men, convicted Of petty larcenies,
were publicly whipped at Wilmington,
Del, few days ago. .tl
ICE thirty three inches thick, and so
clear that newspaper can be read
through IL, is product of Minnesota.
THE whole number of vessels owned in
the United States is 26,393, the tonnage
being 3,744,3i9 tons.
THE Nsso Hampshire Gdzetts is one hun
dred years oil, and boastA that 1t never
"missed I" a publication day.
BosToN has had sixty seven marriages
during the past year in which the grooms
were undertwenty one years of age
A LONDON criminal has been imprison-
ed three hundred times. He has spent
forty years and eight months in confne-
ment
A coLoRED pedestrian arrived at Lynch
burg, Va, the other dav, after some TWEEN
ty-ive days walk from New Orleans.
THERE are 394 lodges of Odd Fellows
in Ohio. Their general fund amounts to
$7t5 $50, and the widows and orphans
fund to $900,01S.
A PARIS correspondent estimates that
twenty thousand sane people are i'm
prisoned as lunatics in France, simply to
get them out of the way.
AGRICULTURAL implements are being
introduced throughout New Zealand, and
the culture of flax is an industry which
bids fair to assume large proportions
A LIVE lizard, five and half inches
alton, in the heart of an OK which recent
ly died at fremont Centre, Long Island.
A MAINE burglar in prison recently
gained possession of hoop skirt, and
made the steel springs into saws, with
which he cut the bars of his cell window.
HEREAFTER, according to the laws of
Mississippi, any person sending or accept
ing challenge, or second carrying chal-
lenge, or any person going out of the
State to fight duel, will be forever dis
franchised
BRooKLYN, Mass, has a "last years" lamb
the head of which is put on upside down.
1t can turn it about half way around, and
when it feeds il travels backwards. The
animal appears healthy, and has a fine
fleece of wool.
THE leading job printers of Boston
have decided to keep black book for each
others inspection, wherein shall be reg
istered the name of individuals who
neglect to pay their bills, or who order
printing and never call for it.
The blasting of Blossom Rock, in the
harbor of San Francisco, was witnessed
by from $4,000 20 $4,000 persons Twenty
three tons of powder were used. An i'm
mense column of water, stones and smoke
In the square of st. Mark, at Venice,
there is a clock, and two bronze men
strike the hours on a bell One day an
inquisitive stranger put his head between
the hammer and the bell, and the bronze
man knocked his brains out.
DURING the quarter ending March 80,
1870, there were ] ,415,266 letters for
warded from the United States for Eu-
rope, the postage on which amounted to
$125,204S0, and during the same period,
1,317,S54 letters were sent from Europe
to the United States, postage, $l24,O9515.
A COPY Of Spo0ner's Vermont ,ourrs,.v,
published at Windsor in 1921, has COM
munication which the editor pronounces
crazy, and which suggests the feasibility
of opening road, or canal, for freight,
"across New Hampshire and Vermont to
the Pacific nr Western Sea-" @ 20
A Boston paper says: "With all our
increase of population the past year the
deaths have only been increased by four
the total number being 5,523. OF this
number, 9i6 were by consumption, 29l
by brain diseases, 146 by bronchitis, TO
by cancer, and 800 have died from acci-
dental causes"
reached London under the above appela.
tion which is said tn be an invention the
cleverness of which is unquestionable.
Without any necromantic tricks, an Opt.
cal delusion, pure and simple, is produced.
To all appearance link is seen to traverse
the whole length of chain, but it does
not fall off, and whence II comes or
whittier it goes are inexplicable mys-
teries.
New YORK does about one eighth of
the whole soda.wat business of the
United States. One thousand fountains
are in blast in that city alone during the
summer months One store on Broadway
sells, during the hottest days of the sea-
son, ten thousand glasses per day. 1t is
computed that during the three hottest
months New Workers drink two hund red
thousand glasses daily.
In history of labor embodied in the
report of the Massachusetts, Bureau OF
Labor Statistics, it is stated during the
reign of Henry ViII.-thirty- eight years
the number of robbers, thieves and va
grants executed in England was $4,000, or
about 1900 per year, and in the reign OF
Elizabeth hardly year passed by
wherein 300 or 400 of them were not de-
NOuhSu ohN NdISn UP pJ .ShO boAAOVSj ~
one place or another" L'
PROF. VIRCHow recently delivered a
lecture before the Berlin Medical society
on the Siamese twins. In the course Of
his remarks he mentioned a case of twins
who were grown together in manner
similar to the Siamese, but who had been
separated by an operation Immediately
after birth by their father, DR.. Bohme,
of Gunzenhausen, Nassau. The weaker
of the twins died after three and half
daysi the stronger Is poE living, and is 8
years old. yFtn
THE United States mercantile navy on
June 30, 1862 according TO the monthly
report, No. z, of the Bureau of StatisticA
amounted to 26, 1898 vessels, measuring 81
744 $40 tons Ofthese, New York own
ed 7,l76 vessels, measuring 1,3l9, 956 tons;
Massachusetts, 2,970, measuring 471,64s
tons; Maine, 2944 vessels, measuring
443 777 tOnsi Pennsylvania, s,O52 vessels,
measuring 265 2S5 tons; Ohio, 1 1913 Ves'
sells, measuring 1460 OBS tonsl Illinois, S97
vessels, measuring is4 4,O30tonsi Michigan,
739 vessels, measuring 10S, S,90S tons. The
yesselb temDOrarilV reRisLered numbered