Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-06-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.
,NeLANp has $500 oollieries.

fSOOUU.
GEoReE SAND has recently inherited
100000.
THE first prize-fght in America occur
red in 1915.
A CALIFORNIA sportsman shot 2,273
squirrels last spring.
THERE are 20,8O0 coopers in the United
States and Canada.
EACH convict in Nevada costs the State
$2254 per annum.
A TROUT pond near Watertown, N. Y,
contains nearly $4,000 fish.
GIRLS are received as pupils in the Am
herst, Mass, Agricultural College.
New ALBANY claims to bn the second
city in Indiana in wealth and population.
THERE is only one town in Massachu-
setts that has not a church building.
SACRAMENTO CITY has twenty six laun-
dries the operatives in which are all Chi
nsmen.
NEW York city has thirty-two daily
papers, and their receipts are nearly $9,-
100000 year.
THERE are three hundred and three
newspapers and periodicals published in
Ohio.
AN eel seven feet long and as thick as
mans leg was caught, the other day, at
Antioch, Cal.
THE King of Prussia has, at the garden
at Bablesber, fifty white mice, which he
often watches for hours.
THRRE are 242 chartered Masonic
Lodges in the State of Iowa, and twenty
six working under dispensation.
Col. PRATT, of Prattsville, N. Y, is
said to have given to public and private
charities, in the course of his life, ST.
, 100000.
Mrs. HAWTHORNE says there will be no
biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne pub
lished, in accordance with his expressed
wish.
LONG lace wells, slightly pointed in
front, are worn with bonnets this sum-
mer instead of the short wells which have
been so popular.
IT is stated that a gentleman residing
near Portland, Me, has found a perfect
white rose growing upon one of his apple
trees.
PRINCE DEMIDoFF received from his
Russian iron and copper mines, in which
he employed $4,000 laborers, an annual
income of 100000 francs.
A YOUNG shoddyite in New York
makes great display in hotels and public
places by lighting his cigars and cigarettes
with greenbacks.
A FEW days ago an express train on
the Erie railway was run seventy-three
miles in ninety-six minutes; forty two
miles were made in fifty-seven minutes.
THE Methodist Missionary Society want
ing ten new missionaries, applied to all
the seminaries and TO every district and
found only six from them all.
PITTSBURGH has an old lady under arrest
for stealing a large illustrated Bible. She
says hers was too fine print, and she
couldn't get any consolation out of it.
BINGHAM YOUNG, having become tired
of the many false reports circulating about
him, says that he is aged sixty nine, and
has sixteen wives and forty. nine children
only.
In Russia, women having a certain
amount of property have right to vote,
though it must be exercised by proxy, a
male relative or friend representing them
at the election.
A FRENCH society of hundred per-
sons have each, by special agreement, be-
| queathed their bodies to the dissecting
! room to forward the progress of the
science of anatomy.
A PARIS workman, drinking with a
companion, offered to bet that he could
kill him with single blow of his fist.
The bet was accepted, the blow dealt, and
the man fell dead.
A WEALTHY New York lady has a
mania for stealing parasols, not to use, but
to give them pet names and hang them
in hall bedroom, which she has made a
perfect museum of these articles.
UsURY laws have been abolished in
Maine Parties can lend and borrow at
such rate of interest as they may ex-
press in writing. Where there is no agree
ment in writing, per cent. is the legal
interest.
CALIFORNIA has one and one-half per
cent. of the population of the nation; in
the number of her inhabitants she is the
twenty-fourth State, but in amount paid
as income tax she ranks fourth.
SOME thoughtful individual that rather
likes figures says the liquor used in the
United States would fill canal -four feet
deep, fourteen feet wide, and one hundred
and twenty miles in length"
LONDON pickpockets have habit of en-.
gaging jugglers, and flre-eaters to begin
their performances in crowded thorough.
fares, and thus attract crowds on whom
the light fingered gentry can operate.
]. II. McMIoKLE, ESQ, of Crawford
county, is said to be the Oldest acting Jus.
tice of the Peace in the State of Indiana
and has been acting in that capacity fol
forty-three years, and is still hale and
hearty
BISHOP THOMPSON says that there are
now SO missionary societies and 40 0OC
missionaries in the field; the Word of Goo
is preached in $4,000 localities in the
heather world; $5,000,000 is annually
collected to sustain them; 687, 900 converts
are enrolled in Africa and $4,000 il
Asia.
THE Agricultural Society of England
is composed of some of the cleverest anC
most important men in the Kingdom. L
now consists of IA life governors, IA an
nual governors, 1911 life members, 3, ,764
annual members and Is honorary mem
bers, making a total Of 5,439.
In Contra Costa county, California, the
bounty for squirrel scalps has induced sucl
a raid on the little rodents that more hav,
been killed already than the fund can pay
. for. Two dozen young men of PacheC
went out on hunt and returned a
night with 1,480 scalps, or more than go Il
the man.
CHAMBERS JOURNAL gives this illustra
tion Of the power of India rubber I,
, deaden sound "We once visited a fac
tory where some forty or fifty copper
+ smiths were at work in shop above ou
! heads but what was remarkable, scarcel,
, sound Of their noisy hammers could b
, heard. On going up stairs we saw tn
explanation. Each leg of every bencl
, rested on cushion made of India rubbe
, cuttings. This completely deadened tn
! sound"
SOME forty years ago there lived in
z certain town an old man whom we shal
t call Briggs, who had a propensity 70
! "hooking" small and portable articles tina
: came in his way. As he was poor an
s past labor, and well known about town
s no further notice was taken of his pecu
: lations than to keep sharp look.0u
Q when he was around. A dealer had
quantity of dry fish landed on the whaI
at an hour too late to get them into hi
/, store, and as he was about covering ther
e with an old sailcloth he espied old b., ap
r parently reconnoitering Selecting coupl