Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-06-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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BR1eHAM You've is the third largest de-
positor in the Bank of England.
DIR: HAWKINS, blind chemist of Phil
adelphia, invented soda-water in 1919.
A LONDON stenographer has used one
pen constantly for twenty one years.
GEORGE W. Snow has occupiedthe DO.
| sition of CITY Clerk of Bangor, Me, for
twenty-five years.
The travel on the Union Pacific
amounts to between 500 and 600 passen.
gers daily.
A BOY, aged only fourteen years was re.
Gently arrested in Hartford, for habitual
drunkenness.
IT is said that flfty-three languages are
spoken in the cigar and tobacco shops OF
New York.
VICToRIA's youngest daughter is lust
turned 13, and her first name is Beatrice
Mary Victoria Feodore.
A BALL was given lately by Russian
nobleman in Paris, which is said to have
cost over two million francs.
A BOY on the Staten Island boats plavs
on his violin with piece of ordinary mu.
sic tied in roll, instead of bow.
THERE is in Paris a milliner that has
seven hundred and fifty thousand francs
MISS RYE, who brought 70 English girls
to Canada, has found good homes for all
Of them, and Is going back to England
for 100 more.
IN this country there are $50 Young
Mems Christian Associations, and /, 400 in
the world, with an aggregate membership
of 10000.
THERE are 1876 Lodges of Odd Fellows
in the State of Missouri, with total con-
tributing members, 1897; total assets,
$211 ,846; increase for the year, $33,277
A BRASS DOOR, weighing /, ,456 lbs, and
costing $3.50, has recently been man.
ufactured in England for the Wolf Rock
lighthouse. 1t is intended TO replace
solid oak door, four inches thick, which
had been shattered into fragments by the
force of the waves.
THE fashionable shoe for ladies is made
seven inches high, with an inch and a.
half heel, a Spanish instep, arched sole,
dia rubber tip to deaden the sound, and
they cost from 50 to $40 pair.
THE Indians on the island of Oldtown,
Me-, have formed debating society, and
old weekly meetings for discussing mat
ters Of the day in their own language.
The meetings are carried on with the
strictest regard for parliamentary usage.
Mr.. RAwLTNsoN, an eminent English
engineer, in report to Parliament about
the sewers of London, estimates the mar
ketable value of the matter accumulated
there at e1,000,000, and states that it
would enrich annually 10000 acres of
land.
The vaccination mania in Paris has
netted over 100000 to the enterprising
owner of heifer in the full glory of COW
pox, which he takes to the houses of GUS
toners, who can thus be vaccinated direct
from the original source of protection.
THERE is family of nine brothers and
sisters in Maine whose circle has never
been entered by death The youngest is
now SO, and the oldest 70, and their united
age is 661 years. They have eighty
children, ia grandchildren, and fifteen
great-grandchildren
SINCE 1885 the number of lunatics in
France has increased from 4 96 per cent
of the population to 24.2S per cent. M.
Lunier, the Inspector General of lunatics,
is of opinion that considerable proper
ton of this increase is due to the use of
spirituous liquors.
A NEW HAVEN man called his friends
to social gathering in his pear orchard
the other evening, and desired each one
TO pick out branch on which should
grow the pears Tor his or her eating, the
name of the person being affixed upon a
label. In the harvest time they will meet
again and enjoy the fruit so generously
and ingeniously disposed of
MARIE, the late French Republican, put
the following clause in his will: Il crave
your pardon, my dear children, for leav-
ing you but a modest competency.
Another would have been able to make
you rich. But have held it duty TO
devote my whole life to the political
cause which had embraced, and assume
that you would prefer that to any other
heritage"
RECENT legislation in England has
largely curtailed the traffic in liquor in
that country. At last years session of
Parliament law was passed transferring
the licensing of beer houses from the ex-
else officials to magistrates, and the result
is said to be that 5000 beer houses have
been closed. 1t is now proposed by the
temperance reformers to transfer the issue
of licenses from the magistrates to the
rate-payers.
BONNER is reported to have spent nearly
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for "fast horses" The prices paid for the
most noted horses were as follows: Poca-
hontas, $4,000; Dexter, $33, 900; Bruno,
$4,000; Major Winfield, 100000; Ian
tern and Light, $4,000; Flatbush Maid
So 500; the Auburn horse, $4,000; Joe
Elliott, a colt now owned by him, and ex-
pected to beat Dexter, cost $4,000.
AN English paper says that one of the
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looking much like very good straw,
but in reality made of wood shavings, and
sold for two and one-balf pence. A high
ly superior article may be had for nine
and one-half pence. 1t is said to be fra
gile heavy shower would reduce 1t to
the consistency of blotting-paper, and il
will not stand the slightest blow. But In
fine weather it locks as well as Panama
In America it would scarcely be re
garded as an evidence Of very tender
tilial affection for son to send his fathel
a coffin as birthday gift but in China
such gift is considered the very height
of courtesy and love, and is received with
gladness, paraded SYSTEMATICALLY in the
best chamber, and, until required fol
special use, is made depository for cloth
ing or food. Sometimes the ChinamaI
provides his own coffin, according to hi
fancy, long before his decease.
THE distance to be covered by the pro
posed cable from San Francisco to Chint
is as follows From San Francisco to tn,
Sandwich Islands, 1850; thence to Mid
way Island, 1,140; thence to Yokohama
Japan, 2,260; thence to Shanghai, 1,03I
miles To this is to be added one.sixtl
of the whole to make statute miles Il ,086)
and, also, the usual 20 per cent. allowances
for slack in paying out cable Il $40 miles)
making the total length of cable required
to connect San Francisco, California, will
the Sandwich Islands, japan, and China
9,12l miles
A SPECTATOR states that 1t is quite i'm
possible to judge of the merits OF the pla,
at a Chinese theatre, for two reasons
Firstly, the orchestra, which is LIBERAL,
supplied with gongs, keep up continu
ous clamor during the whole performance
and the actor has to carry on an animate'
competition with these discordant instru
ments in order to make himself heard
Secondly, the representation of Chimes
drama extends over several months, ant