Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-05-13
800 IN ADVANCE.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

GAOhb AND EAUOhh6n
;; THERE are in Kentucky Al $40 negroes
over 18 years OF age.
TIE Boston Adoertiser announces tina
boards are going out of fashion.
A coLoRED voter, century old, wa
registered the other day in San Fran
cisco.
SENoRA BLEsTIaUE, Mexican lady
died lately, and gave $9,0OO,000 to the
poor.
THE opium revenue in India, for tn,
year 1858, was just under $45,000,000.
A MAN has lately been whipped a
Newgate Prison, London, for garroting Q
lady.
A CONNECTICUT wrestler recently
broke one leg in four places in his ath
letic practice.
IT is estimated that there will be half q
million Texas cattle driven to Kansas
this year.
THE estimated population of Pennsyl.
vania, by the coming census, is over 1000,
600.
THE dealers in kerosene in Vermont
town have agreed not TO draw any oil af
ter sunset.
Mr.. LYMAN UTLEY, of Walden, Vt, hal
a tub of maple sugar that he made ir
1885, thirty-five years ago.
PIERRE BoNAPARTE's head is descrIb
ed as so fiat that you could set out small
cold supper on the top of 1t.
THE oddity of book titles eliminates in
one lately announced in London
Ginxs Baby; his Birth, and Other
Misfortunes"
IT is reckoned that there are fifty Pro
testant Missionary Societies in the world,
with 2,033 missionaries, and expe nding
5,164, 500 annually.
In 1868, 568 capital crimes were com.
mitted in France, while only eleven per.
sons were condemed to death, of whom
six were reprieved and five executed.
THE total number of persons buried,
during the past seven years, in three
| Cleveland cemeteries, was $500, and of
this number LIZA died of diseases of the
lungs.
THE Methodist Book Concern annual
ly publishes 1000 bound volumes, and
about 1000 tracts, and, in 1850, printed
547, 7,227 900 pages of Sunday school
books.
A PHILADELPHIA blind man recovered
his sight remarkably when passing po-
liceman offered to drop brick in his
cap. No yer don't" said he, and was ar
rested.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON says the chain
of Western railroads to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time
than it costs to bring an orchard into
bearing.
THE railways of Great Britain and Ire
land are 1884 miles in length, and for
the week ending April 1, received for
freight and passage money $3,7S3, $50, or
$G29.50 mile. rlr ~ .e'- .a.
AT a minstrel show in New Orleans,
one Talbot performs William Tell by
shooting with pistol an apple from the
head of his wife, the ball lodging in the
board against which she stands.
M. SoMMER propounds a new theory of
sleep his idea is that sleep is simply
result of the deoxygenation of the system,
and he believes that sleepiness comes on
as soon as the oxygen that is stored in
the blood is exhausted.
In an English trial for breach of promise
of marriage, lately, letter was read from
the lover, which, among many other nice
things, contained the following frank and
gracious suggestion If was you, dear
est, would take that beastly flower out of
your hair |"
THR all-powerful influence of the EN-
peror may be imagined when it is stated
that there are in France $4,000
$4,000 primary schoolmasters, 10000
private guards, 10000 custom agents
10000 foresteIs, 5000 police agents
5000 justices of the peace, 3,450
judges, at least $4,000 tobacco deal
ers (appointed by the Government), and
immense numbers of constables, notaries,
and pensioners.
THE New York World estimates the
number of persons, of all degrees, who
live at restaurants and sleep at lodging
houses in that city, at not less than 10000
The number who take the middle meal of
the day at downtown eating. houses, is
about 200, 900 more on che average, made
up mostly of clerks and business men
which gives an aggregate of at least 700,-
600 meals per day dispensed there by 300
restaurants and eating houses.
THE Paris Gdul0is says that some
workmen, engaged In demolishing an old
house in Paris, came upon nest of ad-
ders containing some hundred of these
reptiles, at the bottom of an exhausted
well. In the midst of this snake nest was
found a skeleton, which had probably
fallen into the well years ago, and the
flesh of which had been devoured by the
adders. Strange TO say, in the hand of
the skeleton was a pocket-book of red
leather, in which, when opened,
there were found forty bank notes for1, ,000f
each, woman's likeness, and a letter |
which had been almost entirely eaten by
the reptiles, the only fragment remaining
decipherable bearing the words, " Do not
make known the plot" A Judicial inquiry
has been commenced.
ALAS for the giant business in New
York State The exposure of the Cardiff
has encouraged an old repro
bate to write to the Rutland (Vt.) Herald
that the Cohoes mastodon, so carefully
in the museum at Albany, is
the skeleton ofa circus elephant which he
knows to have been buried in 1888. In
those days caravans, not understanding
the art of advertising, used to travel by
night, to avoid being" seen for nothing"
and this animal died on the road, and was
buried consequently in the night The
circus was Titns & Angevines, and the
keeper sawed off the tusks of the dead
elephant for preservation. The body was
80 large that it had to be cut in pieces
before the horses could haul it out of the
road and dump it in a neighboring peat
hole. t
Hanging a Man for Comfort.