Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.

married to foreigners last year.
FRANCE claims nearly one fourth of al
the theaters in Europe. 1
CANES with whistles are at the presen
time very fashionable in Paris.
THE total yield of quicksilver on th,
Pacific coast, in 1869, was 18,S99 TASKS.
OVER thirteen miles of streets wer,
opened in Detroit during the past year.
THE elevated railway in Greenwich
street, New York, will run for the publ,
in May. -a = ..I. -. H..
THls city ofParis uses 100000 reams O
paper per day in her different printing
houses.
a TWENTY ONE pound trout, two fee
nine inches long, has been caught in LAX
Winnipisiogee. '" i
AT a late funeral in Hartford, the cofir
was borne by six sons of the deceased
lady. l 'a oota rJ ars {,
A WOMAN in Concord, N. H., with an
income of near. $1,000, hires out as house
keeper. a '%"' fil . tiIb
Z A BosToN paper states that few chips
and some small pieces of tarred paper are
all that is left ofthe great Coliseum. sr
THERE are now in Berlin seventeen
advertising agencies, which do together
a business of four million thalers year.
TIE English National Lifeboat Insti.
tuition is doing great work. Last year
the boats saved 871 lives and SO vessels.
A PENNSYLVANIA girl has reclaimed
her lover from q lunatic asylum, where
his parents put him because he would
marry her.
A CORRESPONDENT writes that a new
mania has sprung up among the ladies OF
Edinburg-a fancy for learning to cook.
ALADY who, was injured by the falling
of seats at circus in Oregon City, Ore
gon, has recovered $4,000 damages from
the company.
Hon. JOHN A. Conn, eldest son of the
late Howell Cobb, owns and manages
14,000 acres Of rich land, in one body,
about fourteen miles from Americus, Ga
JACK REYNOLDS, while on the way to
the gallows, exclaimed in the bitterness of
bis heart and soul, "My God / wish all
the rum was out of the world /" 20 :
A VERDICT. of $4,000 has been render
ed against the Adams Express Company,
the value of large lot of peaches intend
ed for New York, left at Fortress Mon
roe in 1867. a.l b.
IT is said that George Hunnewell, who
was recently pardoned from the Massa-
chusetts State Prison, after twenty two
years confinement, was more surprised
at the street cars than at anything else.
Two old pumps in London, the handles
of which had been removed, have been
mistaken for letter-boxes by stupid peo-
pie, and thirty or forty letters, supposed
to have been stolen in the Post Office"
have been removed from them.
THE editor of Cassell's MGgazine says
one of the most successful editors of the
day once remarked: "An editor is gen
erally right when he rejects an article, but
almost always wrong when he begins to
give his reason for SO doing" .~-
r A ROCHESTER, Police Justice, instead of
s6R5fe MN Idf 'peggrng, prUUu1cu tnIPEgJ-
ment for him, and was rewarded by the
heartfelt thanks of the man and his prom
Use to give good report of himself
STATISTICS of commerce and navigation
show that the imports ofthe year 1869 9were
$463, ,461 ,427, gold value, and in 1868 were
$3.50, 701 $40; domestic exports, 1854, ,ST3,-
300, mixed values, against SAL ,S0O,672 in
1868, while the re'eXports were $29,221,-
514, against 500, 4,91S in 1868.
Mr.. HowLETT writes to the London
Times that on March % a spot was visible
on the sun, indicating a disruption of the
solar photosphere to the enormous extent
of not less than 100000 square miles,
or eight times the supcrficies of the terra
queous globe.aa a.r
A CIsTERN in Lawrence, Kansas, was
cleaned out recently The Tribune says;
/" The result was interesting to that class
of our young men who depend upon
boarding houses for their daily food.
Coffee and tea had been concocted from
this cistern for long time. The clean
ing-out operation brought to light one
dead cat, five defunct rats, an old boot, a
shoe, two hoop skirts, part Of mop, and
about foot OF general filth"
OLDJuDGE AIKEN, of Greenfield, Mass,
was quite famous for his extra judicial
opinions One Of them runs as follows:-
Presiding at the trial of one Fisk for an
aggravated crime, and the jury having
brought in verdict Of guilty" Judge
Aiken said: "Fisk, stand up. For the
crime of which you have been convicted
you are condemned TO solitary contine-
ment for one day, and to imprisonment
during the rest of your natural life-and l
wish L was in my power to sentence you
longer" "a, ...-. ........ ...a
TIE Pottsville (Pa.) Miners Journal
says that a few days since, at the Colorado
Colliery, the workmen struck an old
gangway of colliery worked many years
ago by Stephen Girard, in which was
found three foot gang railway track up
on which stood a coal wagon capable Of
carrying three tons of coal. Although
this gangway was cut many years ago, in
the early history Of the region, the props
timbers, the ties, and wagons, We're in Q
perfect state of preservation, and from all
appearances, will last century yet.
THE Chicago Cbristian Standard says
about twenty of the students, of the Bap-
tist Theological Seminary, in that city,
found themselves unable TO meet the
small charge of two dollars and thirty
cents a week for board at the Seminary
building. There were two alternatives
left them-either to abandon their studies
or submit to still further priyations
With a spirit of sacrifice rarely equaled
have been living-the wife of a married
student doing the cooking--on one dORa,
aceek. They do without meat or butter
their larder is corn and oatmeall AnC
their wardrobe is as scanty as their table
THE San Jose (Cal) Mercury of April
2 relates the following incident; "Tht
Mayor brought into our office yesterday
a little lad, who gave his name as Robert
Graham, and says he is ii years Of age
but looks several years younger. This
lad tells singular story. He says he lef
Kalamazoo, Michigan, about month ago
without any money! he-did so because
his step'mother with whom he had been
stopping, turned him out Of doors, and he
thought he could reach married sister
supposed to be living in this valley. HI
got on the train coming west, and wheT
the conductors would put him off the carr
he would get on the next train, spending
intervals at stations along the railroad
Sometimes passengers, on learning biz
condition, would give him a little money
to get his meals with, but he often had u
Cd hungry. But never ALTERING, HI
worked his way along in this style, unit
he travelled the whole distance to Cali
fornia, and is now In San jose. lie in N
interesting boy rather delicate, aud give
an interesting account OF, his adventures
The married sister he wishes 10 find mar
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