Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-01
FAUTs AND FIGURES.
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TOLEDO has 426 licensed retail liquor
| shops. I'll. f t.--. l.,tu.'t. . 4..
THERE are twelve thousand varieties of
roses. 4
Boston has fined man SO for attempt
to kiss lady in the street. s.. ..i...if.
THERE are more Jews in the city of
New York than in the Holy Land.
THE Brooklyn retail grocers lose ST.
100000 year by the credit system. ~.i
THE blood of healthy, full-grown
average man weighs twenty pounds. '7'
The highest point reached by man,
without the aid of a balloon, is 19,600 feet,
| A BOY in Trenton, who killed "valu-
able" dog which bit him, has been fined
$25. d 'g
Mr.. BURL1NoAME intended to settle in
California after his mission for China had
closed. ar
In New Hampshire, judges cannot serve
after attaining the age of 7O but they can
go to the Legislature. fs..,..' s.t.r
THE annual expenditure in the British
/ Consular Service in Greeceis $4,000; and
in the United States, $4,000. &
THE cranberry crop at Harwich, Mass,
amounted, during the past year, to 3,761
barrels, which were sold for $39,590.
NEW YORK in 1860, with a population
of 3,8S0,785, produced only 1881, ,105
bushels of wheat or about two and half
bushels to each inhabtant, c..aL +. ~,
| AMHERST College claims the honor of
being tho first of the New England edul
cational institutions to admit women to
study and graduate on the same terms as
| men. q.
MEMBERS of family named Wood
| filled the office of Parish Clerk in Dds
bury parish, England, for 250 years sue
cessively. They began in 1891, and ended
in 1889. f .j 20.
A coLoRED woman known as Aunt Jen-
ME died recently in Nashville, Tenn, at
the advanced age of 110. She had been q
slave up to the issuance of President Lin
| coins proclamation of freedom. ~ -'5
| REV. DR.. DOWNING, of New York,
thinks that all bachelors above thirty
should be compelled to marry, or else con
tribute one-fourth of their earnings to the
support of needy spinsters. -hs tt7.
THE model girl of the period lives in
Lafayette, Ind. She wears with pride =
and just pride, too-a dress made up of
material woven by her own fair hands.
She is still unmarried. .ss1,-
| A GENTLEMAN of Columbus, Ga, the
other day, who has great patience and is
fond of making minute observations,
| timed the pace of snail. 1t made 70
inches in 60 minutes.
A FEMALE physician has been arrested
in Philadelphia on the charge of evading
the special internal revenue tax, hui
claims exemption on the ground that she
is not allowed to vote. i
A WRITER in the Fond du Lac Journal
figures out that, with capital of about
$4,000, and yearly expenditure of Lbout
| 100000, an annual income of some $780,
600 may be realized in the beet sugar busi-
ness F G
THERE are two lovely young ladies in
| May 81 Rogers paper mill at Lee, Mass
| who have worked within ten feet of each
other fifteen months and have not spoken
together mad as March hares all the
while .-
THE female teachers of San Francisco
are married off more rapidly than their
places can be properly supplied. Out of
| sixteen teachers in the Lincoln school
thirteen have been married within five
years, and the other three were already
| married
AN old lady in Alabama, not long ago,
agreed to dispose of her estate to young
man, after her death, for 100000, and the
young man Immediately insured her life
for his benefit to that amount She died
in short time, whereupon he collected
the policy and paid for the property.
PHILADELPHIA has novel will case,
1t appears that man an1 his wife each
made will in favor of the other at the
same time, but by some blunder the man
signed his wife's will and the wife signed
her husbands. Not until after the death
of the husband WAS the mistake discoV'
cred.
THE Louisville Commercial says: 6" We
have heard that, within few days past
one of our cotton spectators made over
one hundred thousand dollars in a single
transaction with New York broker
without the exchange of so much as a
pound of the ex-kingly staple"
THERE is a woman in Dexter, Me-, whC
has been married twenty-t five years, is the
mother of nine children, mostly boys, and
has done her own work with the aid o
members of her own family. She has, il
that period, manufactured eleven and s
half tons of butter and thirty-five and .
half tons of cheese. ...I
A. RESPECTABLE looking man presented
pistol at ticket agent at Elizabeth, n
j., and demanded o ticket TO New York
, 1t was given him, and he jumped on {
t train, leaving the revolver. In the even
! ing he returned and apologized, saying
: that important business called him t.
! New York, and having left his pocket
book at home, he WAS bound 10 get
: ticket He paid for his ticket, got bacl
| his revolver, and, thanking the agent, de
| parted.
] In 1904, a Hungarian Countess, nance
Elizabeth, enticed young girls into he
g palace on various preteXts and then COOL
4 murdered them for the purpose of BATH
a Ing in their blood. The spectacle of hu
< man suffering at last became such a dc
: light to her that she would apply wit
G her own hands the most excruciating tor
Y lures, keenly relishing the shrieks of he
: victims. In this way she is said to haV
g murdered $50 persons before her caree
: was brought to an end. 900
i CHAMBERS JOURNAL gives some stats
! tics of the business within a square mil
! in London. Ten thousand vehicles passe
u Blackfriar's bridge in twelve hours, IL, 90
G at Fleet street and $4,000 at Londo
|, bridge. One day of twenty-four hours
3 not extraordinary, $4,000 vehicles passe
: over the Thames. In nine hours of on
! day in 1649, $4,000 people entered tn
| Guy, anu udp III AOOOt sVN1OO
J. people entered the city, three-fourths {
q whom were on foot; $4,000 people eI
Q tered and passed out of the eight prime
= pal arteries of London in one day
" ONCE an accomplished young America
woman had the honor to dine with tn
Car of Russia. During the entertain
q ment plate of grapes was passed. I'm
young lady saw the golden knife on tn
:. basket, but as the fruit came TO her fir'
. . she had no way of learning its use; 5
!, she did just as she would have done
! America-reached out her dainty finger
q q and lifted from the dish whole stem
! grapes. What was her CONSERVATION
Z see the next person, as well as all IL
" other guests, take the golden knife an
= ! sever single grape each and transfer
= to their plates. H.r.a %. ..at .I ...f
L ABOUT 5000 beer houses have bee
v closed throughout the United Kingdo
by stringent amendment in the Excil
a 4. 4