Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-21
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| hNfeteAtAy AAea'f f-aaA~ - st~7aees bht
cALronNfa has Ave peach trees 70
every Y0tsr- &c - rvrTg7en
fosroN now hasa ddminion over 9,9s7
acres of land -.,- f,.v - s...u
SPmNeErRLD, Ohio, did not lose q dol.
lar by fire last year 81 gliess fss s-stsf
| Four prominent English magazines are
edited by women. @ F.. LoiF
Only four deaths from small -pox &C.
Cured in Boston last year. swq,
HORACE GREELEY say he tas not drank
a drop of liquor since 1924, .s.t,
"A FoRTY.oNR-PoUND turkey was lately
brought 10 a Philadelphia market
In less than two years the Coroner of
Memphis, Tenn, has held 800 inquests.
NEARLY million acres Of public lands
were taken up in Dakota last year. ~
| A ST, LOUIS woman has taken 412OOO
contract for matchmaking q street in that
city. -. t1 tr5
THE people of Saratoga Springs. send
away 10000 tons of mineral waters each
4 year. feFfH Pea eelfr 'fs1. assi3 hll
IT is said that there are now four times
as many cattle IN Texas as there 'wefe be-
fore the war.
IT is reported that the English lau-
guage is to be universally adopted by tele-
graph companies. -r-, -.t,v~-.
A QUARTER Of n million Of dollars was
expended in Sacramento in the purchase
of Christmas gifts s +7rtt -
IN San Francisco there were 6,908 sales
Of real estate made in 1859, Of the tStal
value of $20,937,7l7 ,rr- os2
THE thirty-seven savings banks in
Maine had, last year, 39,527 depositors,
and $l0,S30,995 Of deposits. a.. ...,.srt
DURING 1869, the amount OF internal
revenue collected in New York city was
| $29,9O0,60233. ....t..-..,,'.....-
TBlRvEs broke into church at tAuburp
| one night recently, and carried away the
| empty contribution boxes.
The prettiest girl in California rises
every morning at 6 O'Clock, and milks
three cows before breakfast. i.-1 Hf-
MCDONALD CLARK, the Mad Poet"
once said that "any expression of thought;
so arranged as to make man fight or cry,
is poetry. ts.fa-.fs ,.f -i.
II is computed that 100000 men in New
York city receive wages for labor and
spends 6,72OO00 a year for rum and to-
bacco.
ST. ALuANs, Vt, has shipped in the
way of freight the past year 2,S76, zoe
cheese, and 4,935 boxes of mineral water.
THE number of failures in the United
States during 1860 were 2,799, with liaDil-
ities amounting to. $75, ,054,000; while in
1868 there were 2,G0S, with liabilities
amounting to sos, 900.
THERE are great number of workmen
out of employment at Montreal. The
houses of industry and refuge are full,
and there are numerous applicants for
charity. ~ ,I t.r
SINCE 1880 one hundred and sixty-one
vessels have been lost from the Gloucester
Mass. fishing fleet, and ninety-eightl lives.
Last year sixty-seven lives and sixteen
vessels were lost.
Four hundred letters were recently dis
covered by an agent of the Postof11ce De-
partment at hotel in Boston, addressed
to guests, but never delivered. He sent
them 10 the dead.l letter office. ~ fo fs.s1
THE Pittsburgh Commercial proposes the
division of Pennsylvania into two States,
with Philadelphia as the capital of the
State Of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh the
capital of the State of Allegheny.
THE convicts at the Bagne of Toulon
are no longer hogged for infractions Of the
rules, but deprived of food for two or
three days. They are said to dread that
mode of punishment'b by far morethan the
lash. si rfrst-r h1r "ro. ~ .-srfIs ~
THERE was painful scene in the court
room at Hartford, a few days ago. A girl,
only 13 years OF age, was brought up asa,
common drunkard Efforts have been
made to save her, but the taste for liquor
has got such hold of the child that she
cannot be kept from the use Of strong
drinks. The Judge sent her to the reform
school for girls, at Middletown. gaE-
THE large Court House of Navarro
county, Texas is said 10 have been COW
cred with shingles made from a single
cedar tree The oaks, pecans and cedars
of that section of the country attain an
immense size. A pecan tree in Navarro
county, on the banks of the Trinity,
measured twenty three feet in circumfer-
ence. The cedars are often more than 100
feet high .r-.....-.-r ..,-f-..
ACCORDING to the very accurate OBJ
servations of M. Marie Davy, just an
nounced, the heat derived from the caloric
rays of the moon is not sufficient to raise
the temperature Of an exceedingly sens-
tive Thermometer the one.millionth of
degree. This result, it may be added, is
in direct variance with that deduced by
Lord Rosse, in lis investigation of the
same subject.
land occurred on November 26 and 81,
1908, when 5000 people were drowned in
the rivers and on the coasts. Twelve
men-of-war were lost, beside an immense
number of smaller vessels, and ZOO trees
were torn up in Kent alone. 1t was
during this gale that the Eddystone light
house and its architect were swept away
together.
THE total cost of maintaining the Sing
Sing prison for the last year was $377, ,152.-
55, and the total receipts were $264, l5306,
leaving deficiency of 108,90947 TO be
provided for by the State. The average
cost of keeping each male convict per day
Is 70 $40 cents; females, 81 cents. On
the 9th inst. there were in prison total
of 1898 convicts-1,176 males, and 122
females.
A NEW explosive, of asserted great
power, is announced by English journals,
under the name of ammonia powder.
Analysis shows merely a substitution Of
nitrate of ammonia for nitrate of potash
In ordinary gunpowder the change add
ing immensely to the explosive force, The
salt being quite deliquescent, the old
adage, "keep your powder dry, would
lose its Significance, should the powder
come into general use. 1rg usI
A REMARKABLE case of suicide Is re-
ported from Hanover. On the s5th cf
November the wife Of day laborer of
Linden, near Ebsdori 40 years old, and
the mother of five children, seated her
self in cauldron of boiling water, which
had been prepared for scaiding pig just
killed. She had been reading the pre-
vious evening about the martyrdon of
Huss, and had said that burning was not
so fearful after all. She is supposed 60
have been insane. 'fA-tt -'
FEMALKs are in decided minority in
the West and the new States, while they
are in majority in the New England n
States. Thus in Ohio there is an excess
Of 10000 men in Michigan 10000, and IN j,