Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-03-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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- THR Mormon missionaries in Denmark
made thousand converts last year.
QUEEN VIoroRIA Is the richest widow
In the world. She has laid up at least
$i0,000,000. ,... .-
A "LyCEuM for ladies" has been opened
Mt Breslau, In tho Russian province Of
Silesia
TuERE are at the present time upward
Of 800 scientific and learned societies in
Europe. h rsva
A SEASONS expenses Of the various
base. ball clubs in this country amounts to
over $9000000
A DEoEAsEp citizen of Nashville has
left six widows $1,000 each, conditioned
that they mover marry.
A Troy Police Justice sends man to
tho work-hOusc f6i having Z" an aplect CVn-
tempt for hard work"
Four hundred new money Offices will
be opened July 1, and new ones viii here
aler be opened only seIui.annually.
Our of 1925 books taken from the
Mercantile library In San Francisco during
the month of January, 6,4S0 were novels,
ONE of the stipulations in an approach
ing marriage in Massachusetts Is that the.
brlde shall pay the groom $500, cash
down, on the wedding day.
TuE cost of telegraphic dispatches In
Australia has been reduced 10 one shilling
for twelve words and one penny FOR every
additional word.
A VERMONT court has decided that II
any person winks at an auctioneer, the
winkist Is not bound to take the article
knocked down TO him on account OF the
sign,
FoR every death in community II is
said there are two persons constantly
sick, and for every person who dies there
are tW6ltty seven who suffer from attacks
Of temporary illness,
A BELFAST storekeeper, annoyed by
loafers who persisted in roOsting on the
granite sill of his window, poured sui
phuric acid ON the stone, 30 that each of
the loafers left a part of his trousers there
when he got up. |
THE Massachusetts railroads, oompris-
ing 2,235 miles, carried, during 1860,
twenty.oight millions of passengers, kill
ing only ten of the number, thirty nine
employees and forty persons who wero
lying or working on the track.
THERE are 12 900 wind mills in constant
use in Holland at the present day, for the
simple purpose of drainage. They are
almost all of colossal size, each lifting
from ten million to fifty million gallons
of water every twenty-four hours.
NoRTH BRooKFIELD, Mass, has citizen
who was born with only one ear. There is
no auricular oritlce on one side of his head,
and only rudimentary external ear, about
an inch long, near the jaw, where the
front part of the ear is located.
EVAPORATION of ammonia is said to be
the best method of producing artificial ice,
and German machine has been con-
structed capable Of turning out by this
means, with the aid of three men and a
horse. power engine, thousand pounds of
ice an hour.
FUNERAL. style In Paris consists in not
issuing the billet dc mort till a month after
the death, and then inclosing photograph,
the size of postage-stamp, of the de-
parted, with scriptural extracts suitable to
his life, and with a request to pray for the
repose of the soul.
A MINISTER In New England, receiving
a salary of $400 year, wears an overcoat
made from cloak he wore in 1884. His
wife has one cloak only, and 1t is thirty
five years old.
A FIRE company in Pawtucket, II. l., re-
Gently captured a golden eagle, and pro.
posed to keep him in captivity. But Mr.,
II. 9. L. Dorsey, the prisoners friend,
could not remain easy under such circum-
stances, and so he bought the bird fer $50,
half in gold and half in greenbacks, and
set him at liberty.
THE numerously deluded American
heirs TO English estates" .whoare continu-
ally being 1eeced by lawyers, would save
their money if they were aware that an
III. Lof- L.
there is no will, and that he cannot take
real estate even If left to him by will;
THE Maine Supreme Judicial Court
recently tried q suit on promissory note.
The plaintiff claimed that the endorse
ment of the note was ~ back this note
holden for debt and costs" The defend
ant claimed that the endorsement was
Il back this not holden for debt and
costs,' and that the letter "e" has been
added. Verdict was rendered for the de-
fendant. ''-
THE machine power OF England and
Wales is competent to perform the labor
of nearly six hundred millions Of men,
and is probably greater In productive ca
pacity than the labor power of all the
| world besides. The machine power Of
| the United States, though growing with
amazing rapidity, does not more than
equal the labor power of two hundred
millions of men.
AMONG number of letters addressed
to the late Traupman, which have been
opened by the French Post Office author.
! itIes since his execution, was one from a
romantic damsel, who enclosed her por-
trait with a request that he would grant
her private interview to confde 70 her
the names Of his assistant assassins, and
another postmarked from North America,
announcing the safe arrival Of his accom-
plices on our shores.
NoTwITHsTANDINd the trying climate
of Massachusetts,, deaths from oonsump-
tion have diminished twenty per cent. in
that State in the last seventeen years,
owing 10 greater sanitary knowledge. The
report of the State Board of Health To
| the Legislature shows that in 1858, 42T
out of each 100000 inhabitants were vic
| tins of consumption. In 1854 the rate
was 478; in 1856, 408 in 1853, 334 in
1850, S65 in 1866, 361 in 1868, 344.
"A LADY living In Marseilles, (France,)
was returning from church on a recent
| Sunday, when she heard steps behind her,
and felt some one take her hand and draw
il under his arm Turning around che
saw a gentleman, elegantly dressed, who
was quite a stranger to her. She tried TO
draw away her arm, but the unknown
held il firmly, and said with an air of the
greatest politeness, Madame, / am thief
and am closely pursued by the police
They know that am a stranger in the
| town, and viii never suspect me If they
see me in the company of lady so re-
specially connected as you must be-"
A CHILD while playing near Drogheda,
| Ireland, found n curious piece Of metal
which she gave 10 an old woman, who
took il 10 dealer in old iron and got a
shilling for 1t. The dealer In his turn sold
] il for two pounds and half and i has
| finally been purchased for the ROYAL Irish
4 Academy in Dublin for e300, Is proved
To be the celebrated Tara Brooch, one Of
the most remarkable pieces OF goldsmith's
| work known TO exist 1t is formed oi
white bronho--this probably saved 1t from
\ the melting-pot 10 which Countless
treasures Of gold and silver have been
| consigned-the surface Overlaid with gold
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