Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.


80 fat that he can't walk alone.
THE circulation Of the London Times is
said to be only half what II was three
years ago,
RECORDER Curry, Of oswego, has decided
that shaving on Sunday is not a "work
of necessity"
A WOMAN was murdered on Christmas
Day in Boston, in quarrel about five
cents I.f
THE number of bathers for 1859 In the
Boston free public baths was greater by
90 per cent than for 1858, while the cost
per bath was three mills lesa
DURING the past year 500 vessels have
sailed from San Francisco with cargoes
valued at t9i,000,000. Treasure ship
ments for the same time were $S7, ,000, 900.
SEVERAL boys in the Syracuse IN. W
station house recently requested to be
committed for 100 days They were out
of work and wished to find employment
and food.
In Chicago during 1869 there were 1000
births, 5,220 marriages and 6,476 deaths
The number of immigrants arriving In the
city during the same year was $4,000
Number of houses erected during the year
$50.
A DIsTINaUBHRD medical professor In
New York has stated that the use of the
high-heeled French boots now so general
ly worn will, in time, convert the tran
sient illusion of the GPecian bend into
stern reality"
Mr.. THOMAS HASKELL has returned to
Paris, Me-, after an absence Of seventeen
years, and has very greatly incommoded
his "heirs" by demanding return of his
property, which they divided among them
long ago, supposing him to be dead.
A SOUTHERN dentist thinks that one of
the principal reasons why people of forty
rarely have good teeth is the free use OF
lard and butter. II we did not use these
articles, says the dentist, our teeth would
be as good and last as long as those of
other anlmals
THE School of Arts at Guadalajara,
Mexico, has 40U pupils. As the students
work, it costs but nine cents day to sup
port each of them, of which the munich
| pality pays six and quarter cents. The
remainder is obtained from rents of prop
erty belonging to the school.
NATHAN CoKER, who is a middle-aged
colored man residing in Denton, Nd,
amuses himself and astonishes spectators
by walking back and forth on red hot
bar of iron, with bare feet, until 1t cools
and drawing red hot poker across his
unprotected tongue. This he does with
out apparent pain.
"DuToH ANDY" is a Philadelphia
miser who keeps himself alive by begging
The other day the house in which he lives
took fire, and the old man would not leave
it because his money chest was too heavy
to take with him. He was found almost
suffocated, clasping the old trunk with botf
arms, and dragged out just in time to saw,
his life.
The number of immigrants passinJ
through Columbus, Ohio, during 1865
was 80 ,696, being an increase of 3,078 owe
the previous year. Six thousand sever
hundred proposed to settle in Illinois
6,274 in Missouri; 1885 In Wisconsin
3,733 in Ohio; the remainder In Indiana
Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, Iowa
Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, and Louisi
ana.
THERE are about 10000 tenemen
houses in New York city, containing 700,
00e persons. No house is called tene
ment house that does not contain at leas
four families The average number o
families in such houses is from seven 3,
eight, and the average number in eacl
family is five. One block in the Seven
teenth Ward, 200 by 800 feet, contains 8,
600 persons.
A CONDUCTOR on a Pennsylvania rail
road, who, with q moderate salary, KEEP
fast horses, lived in q fine house, wore dia
monds, etc, was indicted by the compan,
some time since for robbery. Thereupoi
he gave up $4,000 stolen plunder an,
was discharged; but being hard up 70
money, he now sues the company for tn
f return of the money, alleging that it wa
/ obtained from him by thr2ats and force.
FIFTY years ago single church edific
, would have been sufficient 10 contain al
the missionaries and all the native convert
: in all the mission fields of all the mission
/ ary societies in all the world, except tn
Moravians. That little company has nov
grown to 1900 missionaries, 5000 nativ
preachers, 100000 communicates, and
Christian community OF more than
million.
DANIEL SICKLRs and wife, whose unite
: ages amount to two hundred years, VIII
I have been married seVenty-fve years, an
have been blessed with numerous children
grand. children, great grand children, an
great. at.great-grand children, recently ar
piled to be admitted to the poor house /
+ Warren county, Pa, the county wher
a they were born and have always liveC
Q Their numerous progeny must be hear
\ less set.
!, THERE are at least FIVE hundred person
o In New York who are getting rich by pre-
Q tending to be able TO read and expound tn
i future. Their patrons do not come froI
4 the workshops and tenement houses; tn
G majority are persons of presumed INTEL
!, gence and known wealth. Some of th
e brightest ornaments of society are fri
i believers in these soothsayers, and spen
# large amounts Of money upon them.
ONE of the leading merchants of ShanJ
y hae, China, is a live Yankee. He shiI
= twice as much tea as any other firm In th
3 country, attends two churches, leads th
. choir at one, is treasurer Of missionAr
y society, member of the Philharmonic 81
c ciety, engineer of fire company, membs
of q regatta association, teacher in Sur
: day school, assistant editor OF newspl
!, per, member Of the Asiatic Society, an
a principal speaker of debating club
. THE Liverpool people are horrified I
!, the prevalence of drunkenness among IL
" women of that city. In a year, Ov'
10 5000 have been committed to Jail thel
. for crimes committed under the infiuenC
. of strong drink Among these unfo
= tunates, there were Ill who had bee
n COutnllLtu uOIc tldu tSllTly tllucS pr
= viCusly 8 who had been committed slxt!
y nine times; one hundred and nine time
and one hundred and twenty-one timeI
a 2 had been committed nine times in OF
= year. Some confined year as inco
2 rigibles, returned, committed upon SON
" = new offence, within week after bein
4 discharged.
a THE number of sheets issued by Il
= Ohioa 0o dailU and Vvaaklv nFaaa durin
:, the past year was about 81, ,194, 900, whiC
Is would make pile Of paper 81, $50 feet, {
d (865)nearly four miles high and ill cub
Ie space Of 46x feet on each side. The q
:, gregate area Of the reading matter fa
70 nished on this immense pile Is 0i9. csc, ,0(
h square feet, or IA, ,226 acres. Even this
-e far from representing the aggregate OF u
" printing done IN Chicago, ON the 300 di
a ferens publications issued here, as dailie
le weeklies. or monthlies, TO say nothing {
D, books. II we should include these, an
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