Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-02-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.
VERMONT has 523 physicians.

THERE are only two bachelors in the |
New York Legislature.
THERE are seventy papers in America
called the Telegraph
THE Massachusetts, savings banks gained
S1IOOO,O0O in deposits last year.
THE christening cake of the Prince of
Wales new baby weighed sixty.tiye
pounds.
AT marriage lately consummatcd at
Ottawa, Canada, $4,000 were donated to
the poor.
A LITTLE girl six years old was found
drunk in the streets of Paterson, n. j.,
the other night.
RAILROADS in South Carolina have re.
duced their fare to immigrants to ono cent
q mile.
A uoTEL-KEErER in Evans, Cal, was
shot dead by boarder for not preserving
him a scat at the first table.
DURING the summer months the con-
sumption of lager beer in the city of New
York is estimated at 10000 kegs.
EVERY day a dove visits fruit stand in
Boston, lights upon the shoulder of one
OF the attendants, and is fed and pcttcd.
No citizen of Japan can leave that
country without giving bonds that he will
return at the time specified.
OUT of 392 Ohio divorce cases granted
last year, the custody of the children in
334 suits was given to thc mother.
THE Salt Lake Reporter knows of one
Mormon family that has buried one hun
dred and forty-eight children.
THE trade organizations in Now York
city number eighty eight, with a mem.
bership of $500. They have in bank
about 100000.
THE editor of the London Jc,oiM Mes.
senger argues that the opening of the Sue2
Canal portends the restoration of Palcs-
tine to the Jews.
bride recovered fifty dollars of the fellow,
as payment for letter paper and stamps
used up in two years.
THE New York Association for the Pre-
vention of Gambling expended $1S,150
last year. They closed $50 gambling
houses during that period.
A GENTLEMAN in Petersburg, Va, the
other day, for wager, ate one gallon of
fresh oysters, minus the shells and liquor
at one sitting.
| AN old lady at Windsor, England, was
saved from burning to death by her pet
parrot, who, seeing her in flames, called
out to her sleeping son, Harry, get up!
The Philadelphia Mercantile Library
now contains over $4,000 volumes. Last
year 4,254 were added to it. The average
issue per day during the year was 4S1.
AT the Metropolitan cattle show, re-
Gently held at London, England, the SUI.
periority of American Implements in
lightness and beauty was unanimously
admitted.
ALEXIS ST. MARTIN, whose side was shot
away in 1922 in such a manner rs to ex.
pose the action of the digestive organs to
the surgeons eye, is still alive and we'll
in Cavendish, VT.
YORK, Me-, was the first city chartered
| in this country. Now it is country viii
lage of 800 voters. Its name was first
Agamenticus then the city of Gorges or
Georgina, then York.
HENRY WARD BEECHER commenced
preaching thirty four years ago, in West.
ern town, for $3.50 a year, during which
period he raised his own vegetables and
tended his own pigs.
TIE "small sewing machine" which
some rascal in New York sends to those
people who respond to his advertisement
by inclOsing him 81, is Il shoemaker awl
worth about Is cents
THERE is man in New Hampshire
who persuaded dealer to let him have a
barrel of flour for 1915 for poor blinS
man, and then compelled the poor blind
man to pay him $40 for it, besides 81 for
taking it to his house.
In Bostoni it is the fashion to have "Dick
ems parties" The invited assemble as they
would at any other party and listen tC
reading, by choice reader, from Boz's
works. After the reading come coffee and
dancing.
THE statistics of the Cumberland MARY
land) coal region for the year 1869 shows
that during that period 1,SS2,G70 tons o
coal were mined-an increase of 552 ,22C
tons over 1868. The aggregate produc
ton of the mines from 1S42 to 1869, inclu
sive, amounts to IA, ,935,09 tons.
AT the Iowa State Fair of 1856 mar
received through mistake four dollars
more than he was entitled to- lie moved
to Pennsylvania, and endured the gnaw
ings of conscience till the Christmas o
1869, when he remtted the amount to the
society, minus the interest, because 9Th,
mistake was the society's and not his"
TnE bust of Senator Sumner, whicl
was ordered and paid for by Hon. A. A
Lawrence and other Boston citizens, ha
been placed in the niche on the east sid
of DoTic Hall. 1t was accepted by TIL
Legislature of 1889 in behalf of the peo
pie of Massachusetts.
GEORGE ARENsBURG, the New Yorl
printer who has accepted the challenge @
George Barber, of Cincinnati, for tn,
championship of the lease" and 81 ,00O
some time ago set up in seven days, work
ing seven hours per day, 10l, 800 ems, al
average of about 2,071 ems an hour
/ A WROUGHT iron chimney, 1876 feet higI
} and feet inches in diameter, has jus
| been erected in Pittsburg Another is t.
be put up, 275 feet high. The first wa
Tiveted together in horizontal position
2 and then lifted to the perpendicular by
crane. The other will be made upright
4 The plates will be rivited by means of
4 scaffolding running up inside.
, THE report of the veterinary surgeon q
the New Orleans & Carrollton Railroa
I shows that horses are very much superio
l to mules for drawing cars. On the aver
9 age OF the past three years there hay
! been 20 per cent. of strained shoulder
among the mules to per cent. among tn
1 horses, and 15 per cent. of straine
= launches among the former to per cent
3. among the latter
A GERMAN paper gives an account of
strange incident which occurred lately o
, the occasion of marriage before the civ
authorities in Algeria. The official n
: quired the consent of the mother an
: asked if she were present. A loud bas
7 voice answered, "Yes." The Mayor locke
l up and saw a tall soldier before him
: "That is well" he said; "let the mothe
: come here-her consent and signature ar
: necessary" To the astonishment of al
: present the soldier approached the Mayo
: with long strides, salnted in militar
: fashion, ana said: "You ask for tn
. mother of the bride; she stands befor
: you" "Very well, sir,p replied tn
Mayor, "tken stand back, l can talk
no proxy; / must see the mother
the mother, tell you !" "And repeat,
rejoined the soldier, "that she stands be
fore you; My name is Maria L. l hav
s been thirty-six years in the service;
e have been through several campaigns, an
1 obtained the rank of Sergeant: here ar