Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

shows the population of that city to be
fully $4,000.
IT is now positively certain that the
next Universal Exhibition will be held at
Vienna in 1878.
THE profits of the Methodist Protestant
Book Concern for the last four years have
been $2,03608.
INDIANA, it is said, has fewer female
convicts in proportion to her population
than any other State in the Union.
THE yearly income of A. T.. Stewart
is given at $1,420,000; w. B. AS.
tors, $1,273,00O; Cornelius Vanderbilt's
| 100000.
| CHARLOTTE GUnIARD was the first
notable female printer. She was in
business for 90 years in Paris-from 1905
to 1885,
THERE is boy in Sullivan county, Pa,
three months old, who weighs forty
pounds. He weighed twenty-eight
pounds at birth.
LAST year hundred and forty three
plebeians in France importuned the
Emperor to confer titles of nobility upon
them.
THE Methodist Episcopal Conference
in New Jersey has ruled that no minister
in the conference shall marry any di-
vorced person.
THE average weight of the graduating
class of Trinity College, Hartford, TWEEN
ty.one members, is 1929 pounds. The
average age Is 224 years.
THE statistics of emigration and immi-
grafton of the Kingdom of Saxony show
that'4n persons moved into that country
during the year 1869, while 451 emf
grated from it.
PARAMOUNT PARK, Philadelphia, in
cluding the new district, has 2,706 acres,
and is the largest public park in America,
Central Park, New York, only measuring
800 acres
TIE British iron-clad navy comprises
AZ vessels, varying in size from the
Agincourt, of 9 621 tons, and % guns, to
the Viper, of 1877 tons, and two guns.
JUST opposite to the famous political pris-
ON of Mazas, in Paris, is an inn with this
legend over the door "Here the inmates
are more comfortable than they are across
the way"
A NAN in Washington county, Pa, has
recently built q house, the four cerners of
which are each in a different township,
the corners of the townships meeting in
the center OF his cellar.
A WOMAN named Agnes Swoka, in East
Prussia, injured her husband in such a
terrible manner by pouring boiling water
over him, that he died of it. She was
sent to the penitentiary for five years.
A LAKE has been discovered in the
mountains, near Helena, Montana, from
which an unlimited supply of water will
be obtained for mining purposes at and
near that place.
IT is estimated that eight hundred
young men in Baptist colleges in this
country are studying for the ministry
two hundred and forty of whom are in
theological institutions.
AT a Lisbon theater, where they are
playing drama descriptive of California
| life, party of miners are represented in
red and blue silk pantaloons and paten,
| leather boots
A MONTREAL bat maker made cricket
bat which he begged Prince Arthur to &C
cept. Prince Arthur, however "csnno'
accept presents" and soothed the mans
tender feelings by buying 1t.
THE Newport Mercury has entered upor
its one hundred and thirteenth year o.
publication. One hundred and twelve
years ago (June, 1859, the Mercury wal
first published by James Franklin.
IT is claimed that man in Salem, Ohio
can tell from memory the weather of any
and every day since 1827-that he distinct
| ly remembers whether any day was cleal
or cloudy, warm or cold, rainy or snowy
A YOUTH of seventeen, named Charlie
Thompson, was brought to Iowa from
New York, last April, and bound out II
farmer. He became dissatisfied, anC
started back on foot, making the distanc'
of 1,100 miles in six weeks, averaging q
miles day.
In case in Germany, where littlI
girl died from injuries received by hel
clothes catching fire, while locked up in I
room by herself, the mother was sen
fenced to three months Imprisonment
for manslaughter through carelessness.
THERE are altogether 959 officers in thu
regular army of Saxony. OF these, arr
generals Z lieutenant-generals 10 major
generals; % colonels; 1S lieutenant
colonels 80 majors; 199 captains; 19t
first lieutenants, and $50 second lieuten
ants IL auditors and 90 surgeons
Mr. ]. II. SCHROEDER, of Hamburg
seems to be ambitious of. rivaling Georg,
Peabody in the munihcence of his dona
tions to the poor. He has just founded al
asylum for widows and their children il
Hamburg which cost him two millions o
mares, about nine hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars of our currency. His dona
tions to the poor amount besides Il
several hundred thousand dollars annu
ally.
TIE tribe to which an Indian murdere
belongs is known by the method by whicl
the victim is scalped. The Cheyennes re
move piece not larger than silver dol
lar, from Immediately over the left ear
the Arapahoes take the same from owe
the right ear. Others take from the crown
forehead, or nape of the neck. The Ute
take the entire scalp from ear to eal
and from the forehead to the nape Of tn
neck.
In Massachusetts during the past yea
there were fewer marriages than in tn
year before, or the year preceding that
fact which may to some extent be e1
planned by the emigration of young me
to the West. There were twice as man
marriages between Americans as betwee
foreigners, and yet more children born
foreign than native families. In the cit
of Boston the number of foreigners an
of Americans married was about equa
but the births of the foreign were as seye
to three of the American families. III
increase of the population Of the State
! twenty. nine per day.