Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Inn LOHuuu lWtoS YleluSa yearly prOnt
OF not less than 100000.
ABoUT seven out Of ten murders in this
country are prompted by jealousy.
THE Methodist denomination controls
forty educational institutions
NIAGARA county, N, ", sent 210,409
barrels of apples to market last year.
Two young Tonnesseeans recently took
out licenses to marry the same girl.
THR army chews and smokes $4,000
worth of tobacco per month. The
tweed" is furnished at cost.
A GLOUCESTER, Mass, barber has a
! pianoiorte in his shop for the benefit OF
his waiting patrons.
AN institution to educate colored preach
ers has been opened in Macon, Ca, with
twenty-five in attendance.
IT is reported that the production of
salt in Michigan during 1868 amounted TO
0T7, 500 barrels
In London 100000 of men, women, and
children profess no creed and never enter
place of worship
As sort of poetical justice London
convicts are put at hard work making
boots for the Metropolitan Police.
Tue latest plan to draw custom Is pla.
cardod in Boston storea "Ten dollars
presented to every tenth customer"
VIM G.. JONES, Wilmington, Delaware,
undertaken, has buried 6,S78 persons In
half century. He saw Washington
! once.
lT is authoritatively stated that the loss
OF life by kerosene is greater than by rail
road and steamboat accidents combined.
THE whole number of colored schools
of every description in the South is 5,454,
with Q, ,503 teachers and 256,353 scholars.
A sPUNKY bride in Port Hope, Canada,
married the groomsman because the bride.
groom was too drunk to stand up
JOSEPH RAMETTA has played the flute
at the Boston Museum for the pasttwenty-
six years, without being absent from per.
formance.
A GAME of chess, lasting ten years, has
recently been concluded between DR., Karl
Brenzinger, of Germany, and his brother
in New York.
THE recent paragraph going the rounds
that little Minnie Warren was dangerous
ously i'll, grew out of malicious remask
in California paper that she could not
live "long."
IT is estimated that within five years
$120,000,000 will be invested in factories
in Maine, employing 100000 annually.
GovERNMENT has granted to railroads
lS5,S9O, ,794 acres of public lands, or 200,-
454 square miles-equal to the combined
area of Great Britain and France.
THERE is steam hammer at Danville,
Pa, which cost $4,000, and which will
crack nut without breaking the kernel,
or crush a solid cannon ball with a sixty
ton blow.
ST. PATRrCKs CATHEDRAL, which has
been building in New York since 1858, Is
to be the largest church edifce in the
United States, affording ample room for
$4,000 people.
A MAN in Concord, N. H., on being told
few days ago by his counsel that his
wife would probably succeed in her ap-
plication for a divorce, became insane,
and he is now an inmate of the State
Asylum.
HARPER shows figures to prove that in
fifty libel suits instituted against newspa-
per during the last ten years, the gross
amount of money. collected is only three
thousand dollars.
THE Louisiana Penitentiary has 341 in
mates, who make every week day 10000
yards of cotton and wooden goods, 400
pairs of shoes, 70 barrels, and 10000
brick. The machinery employed cost the
State 100000.
"A YOUNG lady at Sioux City, Iowa,
whose father was accidentally shot, sup.
posing it was premeditated, dipped her
fingers in her fathers blood, swearing not
to Iwash 1t off till she had avenged his
death.
WATTS composed six hundred and nine
ty-seven hymns, and Wesley six hundred
and about tenth part Of them live to
this day, and are sung in every Christian
church where the English language is
used.
THE Nantucket Iagutrer recently re-
ported that venerable citizen OF that is
land, 80 years of age, was moving salt
grass on the meadow. "Where can this
be beat" it asks, cutting hay in the mid
die of December by man of 50 :"
THE women of Georgia have reinterred
1927 fallen Confederates in the Confede-
rate cemetery at Marietta, Ga, and appeal
for further aid to gather up the soldiers
whose remains lie scattered over the
fields OF corn and wheat and by lonely
roadsides."
AT Cincinnati, $4,000 barrels of "saloon
washings" are re.distilled every year,
yielding about two and half gallons new
spirits each. The sops bring about two
dollars per barrel, and whisky guzzlers
drink the stuff distilled from them with
out being able to tell it from new.
A SAN FRANCIsCoC Chinaman was caught
by his queue, as he jumped through the
hatchway to escape the police in pursuit
of him. He 0angled for an instant, and
then drawing his knife he severed his
precious pig-tail and dropped in safety,
while the officer tumbled over backward,
with handful Of hair.
GEORGE LUMB, a PadGcah, KY, dray
driver, recently inherited $1,000 by the
death of relative in England. He i'm
mediately went over after II, but found
he would have TO wait year or two be-
fore touching the money, so he prudently
returned to Paducah and resumed his old
business.
CARRIE DIAMOND was a pretty San
Francisco milliner who made over $780,
600 worth of property TO friend" before
falling in business. After making sue
cessful failure she wanted the money back.
Her friend wouldn't agree TO that. Soon
after she fell sick, her friend watched with
her, and one morning early she was found
dead, fumes Of chloroform in her lungs
and prussic acid in her stomach.
Or 1,777 Protestant missionaries, 533
are in India and Ceylon, 27T in South
Africa, 217 in Guiana and the West Indies,
1876 in the Pacific Islands and the China
Sea, 1873 in China and Japan, 132 in West
Africa and 80 in Western Asia. The large
numbers in South Africa and other British
colonies include many pastors of feeble
churches of English settlers who are not
properly foreign missionaries.
PoRT SAID, the terminus of the Suez
Canal on the Mediterranean, Is the mari
time capital of the kthmus With its tall
chimneys of brick and stone and its iron
stacks, It looks as if a part Of Pittsburgh
had been planted in the Isthmus. 1t al
ready contains 20, 900 Inhabitants, but not
vestige of dwelling existed within
miles Of the spot when III. de Lesseps and
his few adventurous companions first
pitched their tent upon this barren coast.
THE United States pensions paid during