Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-03-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Prussia is estimated at $l3,000,e00,
ONE hundred thousand patents have
been Issued to American inventors.
ONE firm in Minnesota town recently
shipped 10000 rat skins to market In one
week.
HENRY DIR BARaER, Of Trenton, New
Jersey, aged "a, is cutting a new set of
teeth.
TIIR Philadelphia Inquirer regards the
Quaker race as doomed 10 extinction in
ten years more.
Tue railroads in Maine have cost $500
per milo more than in any other State, ex-
cept Pennsylvania
A MASSACHUSETTS, farm has lately been
sold on mortgage after being in the
family seven generations
!aeiaesRls N, H., with 10000 inhabitants,
spends $3.50 day for intoxicating liquors,
or Si7l year for each voter.
Az Indianapolis school boy has been
punished by being compelled to write the
word "cow five hundred times.
In France convict Is not notified of
the time OF his execution until they come
TO lead him to the gullotine.
A New YoRK doctor will give $1,000
for authentic records Of case where any
person ever died of a broken heart.
IT cost $t,Sl5 to wash towels for the
Treasury Department at Washington last
year. and there were 5000 towels washed.
TuE most successful and accomplished
pickpocket in New York isa pretty wo.
man, well known to the police as Little
Lou.
The wife of respectable English
tradesman has ben convicted of stealing a
carpet from the floor of a railway car
riage.
The Vienna Academy of Political and
Social Science has offered a prize of two
thousand dollars for the best work on
American finances.
TuERE are seven million young men In
our country about two hundred and
fifty thousand of them profess to be
Christians.
PARIS has 5000 cbigonaiers (rag pick
ers), 5000 of whom are licensed and 5000
interlopers, Their aggregate gains are
5,500,000 francs per annum
THE acreage now under cultivation o
flax in this country is estimated as sum
cient to furnish material for covering d
crop of 6,000,000 bales of cotton.
ONE of the proprietors of the Hender
son (Ky) Reporter received check tn,
other day by mail for $2t525, in paymen
of debt contracted twenty seven year
ago.
THE annual value Of the wool manufac
lures of the United States, and of those
manufactures in which wool is q compo
nent part, is said to be not less than $115,
100000.
THE bridegroom of an approaching
! fashionable wedding in New York, ha
found the money to pay for 1925 900 wort
of diamonds and pearls as his gift to hi
bride.
According to the latest statistics, Ems
lshmen are about two inches taller an
moro than seven pounds lighter tha
Americans Of the same age and similar pul
suits
THE whalcr True Love, built in Philc
delphia 10G years ago, and now owned i
Hull, England, is still in good order. He
course has run smooth, disprOying th
max i'm.
A RICH man died in Maine recently, an
his Inst words to his heirs were "Plan
me as soon as am cold, and don't cart m
around for a side show" He was plante
accordingly.
A QuARTERMAsTER in the French navy
| stationed at Ioulon, was surprised recent
ly by lawyer, who informed him that h
was heir TO the title of Duke, and fol
tunGof 100000.
THE new Mayor of Auburn, N Y, a
his Inauguration presented to the Counci
a copy of the city charter, with the II
mark, ain that book will bc.found my in
augural and speech"
A RECENT charity ball in New Yor
for the benefit of the Nursery and Child
Hospital exhibits the following balance
sheet Gross receipts, $19,71500; e,
penses, $3,90703. Net proceeds, $40
50707
THE town of Wardsboro, VT, electe
Miss Ellen A. Brimhall School Superir
tendent but the Moderator decided tbi
it was not legal to elect woman to sue
office, and directed the election of anothe
person.
THE Directors of the California Insan
Asylum report a rapid increase of insanit
in that State. There is one insane perso
for every six hundred of the inhabitant
The number under treatment in the AS
lum last year was 1885.
A YOUNG man in the vestibule of
church in Newark, N. j., accidentally sh
himself in the head during the progress
prayer meeting. He won't carry b
/ pistol any more in the same pocket wi
his handkerchief.
A sCHEArNo mother in New York pa
D $50 to have her daughter abducted a.
Q safely married to q rich suitor, but I
! young woman foiled the scheme by lea
D ing from the bridal hack, and runni
:, shrieking through the streets.
: AN exchange having announced til
can elegant and commodious Congreg
tionRl Church is soon to be erected in
for Rev -, ID. D., the Conn
gdtiOadlia remarks that Meeting hous
3 used TO be erected by Congregation
k Churches for the worship of Almigh
8 God"
: AN unfortunate lunatic at Saddle Riv
o N. j., has threatened several times
commit suicide. The other day he fix
{ the halter around his neck and called
i family about him to bid them good b
s but no one weeping, the fellow jump
/ down and swore that he would stay ali
: "just to apite 'em."
n THE Assistant Treasurer at Philadelpl
o says that the number of counterfeit ii
cent nickel coins in a bag of $100 ney
4 exceeds nine, and that four is the averal
: The false coins may best be detected
. the color, which is of yellowish TIM
5 while the genuine ones are of steel viii
y ness, inclining to reddish.
:. SAN Francisco wants more abunda
a supply of water, and seriously entertai
project for bringing 1t in iron pip
: seven feet in diameter, from Lake Bigl
i. The length of pipe would be 1l2 mil
aud the cost $10,000,000; but Il wOI
4 supply water 70 all the interveni
= towns, and TO the farms requiring irril
a ton. a.
CORNELIUS O'DowD expresses the op
ion, in BldekwoOd, that IN England a m
q meets a marvellous energy and "go" u
: he finds nowhere else. ~ !, OF course,
cept America" he says, "iOr with us
Z work life at high boiler pressure,
n the Yankees do more-theytslt on
. valves"
c AT the time Daniel Webster was (
II chosen member of Congress from N
q Hampshire (lS18), no checklist was ii
II at Concord. The voters formed a line
I Al N a