Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-05-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE New England Female Medical Col
lege of Boston was opened in 194S, and
since then has graduated "a women
A CASHMERE shawl, which incessantly
occupied 300 weavers for three years, has
been sent by the Maharaiqh of Cash
mere to Queen Victoria.
THE total number of fires in PhiIadel-
phia in 1869 was 632. Total loss, S5'067.-
1876 insurance, 81, ,172, ,3O4 clear loss, over
insurance, $S94,S21.
IT is said that SO was the amount in.
volved in case which occupied the Su-
preme Court at Exeter, N. H., a day and
a half recently, and cost the parties to it
$500.
A CINCINNATI druggist declares that
there are no less than thousand arsenic
caters in that city and immediate vicinity,
mostly young women, who take the drug
for the complexion.
THE catalogue of the philadelphia
School of Design for women" shows that
70 young women enjoyed its advantages
| from January, 1869, to February, 1870,
and there are 54 women attending there
as students at this time.
THE New York Herald is claimed to be
worth $3,000,000, the Tribune 81 ,250, 900,
the Tinp8 81 ,000,00 the journal of Com
nerce $8O0000, the H5ening Post 500, 900,
the Sun 100000 the World $400, 900 and
the Boening Erpress 100000.
THE poor old blind king of Hanover
lives just outside of Vienna, in a quiet
mansion and may now and then he seen
gr pping bis way in the streets of Vienna's
aristocratic quarter, leaning on an attend
ants arm and followed by shabby and
dreary-looking suite.
. IAN obelisk stands in johnson square,
Savannah, dedicated, though without any
explanatory inscription to General Greene.
Lafayette, many years ago, laid the corner
stone of it. An effort is now making to
add to it a bronze medallion of Greene,
with suitable inscription.
SIRIUS was described as a fiery red star
by the ancients; some years ago it was
pure white, while it is now becoming of a
| decided green color. Capella was also
called a red star by the ancients; it was af-
terward described as yellow star, and is
now blush. Many other instances of
change of color have been detected.
THE rise of sap in trees and plants has
been explained on the principle of capil-
larry attraction, but N. Becquerel considers
that electricity is an acting cause. A Ca
| pillary tube that will not allow water to
pass through it, does so at once on being
electrified, and he considers that electro
capillarity is the efficient cause of sap
travelling in vegetable life.
AT recent dinner party, given by a
young gentleman at Delmonico's in New
York, a rose was placed by the plate .oi
each guest, and OF touching small spring
underneath, made to represent thorn,
the top of the rose flew back, disclosing a
very elaborate bill of fare, printed in gilt
letters on white satin ribbon.
WILLIAM B. AsToR is declared by those
who ought to know to represent $50, ,000,.
600; A. T. Stewart, $40,0O0,000; Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, $30,000,000 DAME
Drew, $6,000,000; George Law, $4,000,
600; August Belmont, $5,000,000; Sam
uel N. Pike, $1,000 600; James Fisk, Jr.
$6,000000; James Lennox, 100000
VIM. M. Tweed, $5,000,000, and two o.
three hundred others, whose fortunes ar,
variously estimated at from two to fiv,
millions
TRINITY CHURCH, in Newark, N. j.
was built in 1743. During the Revolu
tionary war hundreds of soldiers wor
SHIPPED in it, holding a musket in one hanC
and prayer book in the other; an(
Washington, Robert Morris, Robert Liv
ingston, General Lord Sterling, Colone
Schuyler, and other illustrious men, par
took of the holy sacrament, and many o
the sick and wounded soldiers of the Rev
olutionary struggle were nursed and re
ceived medical attention in the Venerabl,
church.
A YOUNG lady clerk employed in tn
Treasury Department at Washington wa
frightened nearly out of her wits the othe
day while at work, by finding a nous
snugly ensconced in her chignon. l
must have gone to roost there the nigh
before, and had kept quiet, through frigh
or some other cause; but when it did be
gin to kick, the numerous companions O
the female clerk were made aware of tn
fact by her screams. The addenda to tn
young lady's caput was instantly re
moved, and the mouse scampered away
DURING service at st. Paul's Episcopa
Church, at Pittsburgh, on recent Sun
day, the walls began to crack, and ol
looking in the direction from whicl
the noise proceeded, the congregation saw
daylight streaming through large open
ing between the wall and the roof, and
, crack extending down the wall severa
feet. The rector succeeded in allayinI
; the excitement, after which he quietl
DuL nurrleuly ulSHllSStu Jno COHBTeSdtlOI
having them pass through the vestry i
I rear of the building. Everybody wa
frightened and nobody was hurt.
THE shipwrecks of 1869, according t
the books of the French Lloyds, involve
the total loss of 2,612 vessels, of whic
2,453 were sailing vessels and 159 steam
ers In the above figures are included Is
: sailing vessels and s steamers nevt
heard from. The nationalities of the shil
q wrecked vessels were as follows; Englisl
u 1,172; French, go; German, POI Unite
States, 1893; Norwegian, 105; Dutch, 101
Italian, 90; Swedish, 90; Danish, 4S
D Spanish, 80; Russian, 30; Austrian, 2t
9 Greek, 19; Portuguese, II minor nation
. 2S; unknown, 214.
. TIE present consumption of wood
y y the United States is enormous. One hui
= dred and fifty thousand acres of the be
= = timber is cut every year 10 supply the d
. mand for railway sleepers alone. f,
:, railroad buildings, repairs and cars, Il
e annual expenditure in wood is $3S ,5O(
= 900. In a single year the locomotives
=, the United States consume 100000
~ worth of wood. There are in the who