Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-03-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.

AT lion, New York, clergyman got
ninety dozen eggs at n donation.
ENLISTMENT in the army has been de-
cided not to be dcsertion of wife.
A FELLOW in Danbury, Conn, boasts
of moustachc nine inches in length.
AMONG the best skaters in Europe the
past season is Yankee named Fuller, In
Paris.
THE first pair Of handouts made in New
England are on exhibition at Hartford.
OLETusBEJoYFUL is the name Of An
Indian editor of the Port Hope British
| CdnddidR
A NEW magazine called The MatrimO-
niGl Gazette and Advertiser Is announced in
London.
MAJOR RAINEY, of Carrolton, ILL.,, has
been Justice of the Peace constantly for
80 years
A MAN in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
broke his arm, a few nights ago, in pulling
off his boots.
A MAN in West Chester, Pa, has been
sent TO prison for one month for stealing
an umbrella.
LADY librarians have charge of no less
than fourteen public libraries of impor-
tance in this country.
A LADY physi AN in Lafayette, Ind, re-
turns her income .4om her profession last
| year at $4,000.
COLOGNE Cathedral, which has been
building for some 600 or 800 years, win be
J finished in 1875.
AMERIoAN newspapers have now
much larger circulation on the European
continent than British journals.
THE entire length of the "greatest
bridge in the United States," at Louisville,
is $500 feet nineteen feet over mile.
A CALIFORNIA paper reports recent
fish shower" near Montgomery, in which
the fish varied in length from six inches to
| three feet
A DoG of the Havana breed was left
for thirty four days alone in the cabin of
the Canova, moored at Havre. When
discovered the dog was alive, but hungry.
A DEAD ragpicker in New York was
found lying on pile of rags in his shanty
the other day, with u bank. book showing
800 to his credit in his pocket.
Miss DIX commenced her philanthropic
work among the hospitals, jails, and close
prisons, over thirty years ago. She is now
at work in Tennessee.
THE dog tax in Ireland, established in
1865, has caused diminution in the
number of CANNES in that country from
353, ,79S in 1865, to 248,000 in 1869.
. THERE are in Europe at the present time
1,492 theaters, of which there are in
France 337, in Italy 20S, in Spain 1853, in
Austria 1853, in Prussia 70, in Russia "a,
and in England 1855.
AsILvER mine, said to be of unparalleled
richness, has been discovered in Greyson
county, Ky. The ore was found to con-
tain larger per cent. of silver than any
hitherto discovered.
| JOHN NEAL says that out of 544 cases
, brought before the Supreme, Court o
| Maine in six terms, only ninety. y.nine wen
J to jury. That is, the people preferred
the decision of a Judge in 406 cases.
: THE French Government has decided
not to levy any taxes upon the estate o.
the unfortunate Knick family, which
amounts to 100000 francs, and the tax
upon which would have been 5000 francs
THE Boston association of banks for the
suppression of counterfeiting report that
the counterfeiting for the past year has
been mostly on legal-tender notes and
postal currency, and very little on National
bank currency.
MARY RUSSELL Milford, in one of heI
letters in 1920, said: al write merely fol
remuneration, and would rather scrul
floors, if could get as much by that
healthier, more respectable, and feminine
employment"
Miss CAROLINE GopsEY, the sleeping
, girl" eleven miles from Union City, Tenn.
Is still living, and, US usual, arouses and
remains awake nine minutes eleven timei
, in twenty four hours. Twenty years
, have passed since the sun shone upor
her.
. IT is said that the keeper OF lighthouse
I, off the coast of New Hampshire onc'
: picked up 375 little land birds, which haC
! been killed in one night during the mi
gratory season by flying against the glas
; of the great lantern.
; A POOR fellow, now under arrest in New
Hampshire for setting fire to two barns
, said he was hired to do the work for 81
, by q wealthy farmer who had a quarre
with his neighbor, and that the wealthy
. farmer, after all, paid him but $2s5.
A WIDOW in Parkersburg, w. Va, raj
s away with fellow the other day, leaving
J, four children at home, the Oldest nine an
l the youngest one year. 1t was thre
T days before their abandonment was dis
}. covered, when all their feet were foun
y frozen.
d THE average level of Iowa above tn
.. ocean is 800 feet. Keokuk (southeast col
9 ner) is 444 feet northeast corner, 66
y feet southwest corner 1,060 feet; nortl
q west corner, 1850 feet The highest poiI
is at Spirit Lake, in Dickinson county
n which is 1,700 feet above the sea level
= ATTEMPTS TO commit suicide are herr
y after to be punished in Massachusetts
: upon the principle that attempts TO con
NIT crime are indictable as misdemeaI
), ors at common law. A person who n
Gently endeavored to shoot himself, bJ
failed, has been bound over in Worceste
=, Mass, for trial in the CriminalCourt.
y AMONG the packages recently bid off
, an auction sale of express packages
to Hartford, was q lot of love letters write
?. by a young lady who, having married, +
a quested her lover to return them. III
r. purchaser is heartlessly giving a series
= evening readings from them at his boar
g. ing house.
ir TIE Page County, Iowa, Herald has Il
m following account of man lifting hims'
II, bind: "a gentleman from Bedford W
I'd in town on Monday. A short time ago
ld lost his right eye. The sad event was q
4" result of lifting two heavy sticks OF til
a. Der. In half an hour after he had owe
IT. taxed his strength he was sightless. l
As felt no pain at the time, and has expel
Id enced none since"
Is TIE following words of Franklin a
Ie, as applicable TO the debtors of the prese
o. day as they were at the time when tn
be were written The sound of your hal
& mer at FIVE in the morning, OF nine
ed night, heard by a creditor, makes hi
easy six months longeri but II he Sc
you at billiard table, or hears your vol
" at tavern, when you should be at Wor
~ he will send for his money next cay"
e A VERMONT paper says that Miss Loci
IS Bradley, of Peacham, died recently frc
~ the etfects as supposed, OF a hall ON the \
's- In the post mortem examination of b
as lungs however, the lower parts OF be
NC organs were found 10 be ossihed TO O
us m tain extent, and In manner never bef,
e observed. There were a great number
"a small bones, the longest about an inch
~, length, and varying in size and shape.
''H would be only slight exaggeration TO