Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.
IDA Laws has turned seamstross.

A ROUGH of Portland boasts that he has
bitten the noses off of five men.
MANCHESTER, N. H., has forbidden
smoking IN its streets on Sunday.
OVER twelve million tons of coal have
been received in Philadelphia since 1855
THE Territory of New Mexico contains
a population estimated at 125,000.
A BROOKLYN woman unsuccessfullv
tried to commit suicide by swallowing
hair-pins.
A HERMIT in Westchester county, N.
| Y, wears u costume of old boot legs tied
together.
THE Emperor of China is receiving
mirrors and costly household furniture
| from Paris.
PENNSYLVANIA has n pedagogue ninety
six years old. He is one of the Old Mas
ters
WALL1NGFoRD, Conn, intends to cele-
brate its two hundredth anniversary in
| September next.
| than TO take care of squalliDg baby for
two hours.
A LITTLE boy died at Grass Valley,
Cal, last month, from eating friction
matches.
| A BROOKLYN man brags over watch
which has been in his family for two hun
dred years.
The British House of Lords now num-
bers 474 members, only thirty,one of
whom are unmarried.
THE first London edition of the first
number of Mr. Dickens new novel will
consist of 10000 copies.
THERE are three men in New York who
make, good livings by writing advertise
ments for the public.
THERE are now living in Maine, in good
health, five brothers named Lambert, aged
respectively 96, 1872, 81, 81, and 10 years.
THE next great Astronomical Congress
will take place in 1871 at Stuttgart A
Geographical Congress will be held in
Antwerp in August.
A LADY is in trouble at New Orleans
for padding her clothing with five boxes
of cigars and a lot Of jellies, when she
landed from a Havana steamer.
OVER 100 young women are said to be
at present studying law in this country
many in the universities, but more in law
yers' offices, where they pay their tuition
fees by writing.
BosToNIANs suggest grand tea party
on the centennial anniversary of the day
on which the tea was thrown overheard,
to which ali native. born Bostonians shall
be invited.
The 'chigRon is doomed, say the Paris
gossips. One lady, hearing the report,
has retired to her country seat, where she
means to be,shaved, in the hope of having
head of native growth before next
season.
AT the recent municipal election in the
small town of Purtuis, France, only
twenty-nine voters out of eighteen hun
hred registered their votes. Without loss
of time the whole twenty nine voted
| themselves unanimously into Office.
THE reduction in telegraphic tolls in
! France increased the receipts by nearly
$4,000 for the month of December.
| Twenty words, counting the address, sent
| from one point in France to another, now
cost twenty cents, instead of forty.
JOHN CoTTLE, Cincinnati policeman,
convicted of manslaughter, was so over
come by his sentence of five years in the
| Penitentiary, that his hair has turned
white, and he lost fifty pounds in weight
/ within six weeks after his arrest.
THE cost of the franking privilege in
Canada is estimated at 100000 year
The privilege is enjoved by the Governor
| General the chief officers of each depart
ment, the Speaker and Clerk of each
| House of Parliament, and during the ses.
| sion, as we'll as for ten days before and
after its opening and closing, by members
of both Houses,
| LIGHTNING struck and melted gun. bar
rel A careless inspection of the solved
metal suggested thought, and that in turn
begat another, until the final result was
the discovery of the manufacture of steel
| by means of electricity, for which the
discoverer now holds letters patent from
the Government of the United States, and
which will be among the most important
discoveries of the age.
A CALIFORNIA paper reports that the
friends OF a Chinaman, who had been
| sick for some time, thought he was dying,
and forthwith tumbled him into coffin,
and proceeded to bury him. Some Amer
| leans, however, interfered, and took him
out of the coffin. 1t was then about 4
o'clock in the afternoon, and the China
man lived until the next morning, when
his spirit took its fight.
WHILE the officers of detachment of
the Algerine army, posted near the from
tier of Morocco, were talking over the
last news from France, a civilian inter-
rupted them with an assault upon the En-
peror and Empress. Sir" cried young
Lieutenant, "it is no affair of mine To de-
fend my sovereign here, but | never will
permit woman, present or absent, to be
assailed in my presence. If we had not
been within sight of the soldiers should
already have pulled your ears" In five
minutes swords were crossed, and the
civilian was run through the body.
| n he
assertion that "More than half the work
of the world is done by women Even in
the case of a shirt, with the cotton or flax
that is picked for it-nay, even in the
mines whence the ore that furnishes the
iron-work of the looms that weave it, is
taken-her work begins and, with the
making, the washing, the ironing, the
starching, the mending, the sewing on
buttons, 1t continues as long as the gar
ment lasts" She also asserts that, $50
long as women have the providing OF
mans food, they can govern him as they
choose"
A REMARKABLE case of long life and
premOnition of death is reported from
Egar, Bohemia An old man of 10S years
arose in the morning perfectly healthy,
smoked his pipe, and then went out to
see his son, who was working in the for
est, to tell him that he (the father) would
die that evening; at the same time telling
the son how the funeral was to be con-
Quoted, and who should bear him to the
grave. The son, seeing the old mans
good humor and health, laughed at what
he considered a whim. Nevertheless,
when ne returned home at night, he found
his father dead. The mother relates that
he had returned to the house, desired a
drink of water, had fallen Nsleep in his
chair, and never woke again.
A NEW process has been discovered in
which sulphuric acid is used in the man
uiacture of whisky from corn, by which
treatment the quantity of whisky is in
creased from 10 and l6 to 1S and 10 9quarts
per bushel A specimen of the article
which has been shown to us proves to be
a most deleterious and poisonous com
pound. When put through the usual
course of rectifcation it corrodes and
destroys everything with which IL comes
| IL