Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-05
FACTS AND FIGURES,

A YOUNG lady of Canada has devoted
$4,000 to the Pope. a-
THERE are 100000 lots in Brooklyn,
and but $4,000 houses.
DIAMONDS have recently increased in
value or s per cent.
THE rale of Charles Dickens personal
effects realized nearly 10000.
MASSACHUSETTS had, the first Of July,
1880 inmates in the prisons of the State.
IT is stated there are one hundred salt
springs in the State of Kansas.
AN American lady in Paris has Just
bough! love of a bonnet for the trifle of
$3.50.
A FRENCH paper asserts that seven per
cent. of lunatics are made so by the en-
ployment of hair dyes. e.d
BocHRsTER points proudly to little
chunk of coal weighing over eight thou
sand pounds.
THERE are now living in Athens
county, o., sixteen couples who have been
married over fifty years. r' l.-Js7
NICHOLAS LoNGwoRTH once purchased
the business portion of the city of Cincin-
natl for the value of a horse. .-..,,
A CAUTION has been given by the doc
tors against the ladies wearing gret n
tariatan dresses or trimmings.
CINCINNATI had 209 divorce suits pend
ing during the past year, of which 113
were decided. Wives were the petition
ers in 113 Of them.
FROM the year 1862 to 1867, according
to recent publication, 1868 people were
killed, and 4,426 wounded, by railway
accidents. ea II.
A BANGOR policeman owns dog which
amuses itself in its own way all day, but
at 9 p. m. appears on his owners beat,
and shares his watch.
THE Phillipsburg (Pa) Journal relates
how a savage mule near that place killed
a COW, then proceeded to devour her calf,
leaving but small portion of it.
A NEW counterfeit twenty franc piece
Just uttered" in France, and made of
platina and aluminium, is so perfect as to
defy all tests but those of chemistry and
time.
A DIss1PATED Englishman, who commit
ted suicide in Boston few weeks since,
has had fortune of two hundred and
twenty thousand pounds left him by the
death of a relative.
SINCE Queen Victoria took her place on
the English throne, thirty three years
ago, every throne in Europe, from the
least unto the greatest, has changed occu-
pants.
A BOY in Portland mas had bean re-
moved from his ear, which had been there
thirteen years, and the only change it had
sustained during this long period of time
was change of its color to black.
DIR. MENDEL, of Berlin, who has been
investigating the temperature of the era
NAL cavity, finds that the temperature Of
the interior of the skull is lower than the
general temperature of the body.
THE Rural Meao Yorker thinks there
will be great falling off in the produc-
ton of wheat this year, taking the whole
country into view; that there will be a
full crop of corn, large one of potatoes
and full average one of hay.
SIDNEY SMITH says, regarding the un-
necessary consumption of food: "Ac-
cording to my computation l have eaten
and drank between my tenth and seven
tieth year, forty-four wagon-loads more
than was good for me-"
A WRITER in Dublin medical journal
says that many sworn teetotallers in Ire
land have acquired the habit of intoxicat-
ing themselves with ether. The annual
consumption of the liquid in the region
about Belfast is 1000 gallons.
Mr. BEssEMER's plan for obviating sea-
sickness, by means of an oscillating cham
Der, supported on bearings similar to those
of compass, will shortly be put to prac-
tical test. A chamber of this description
is now in construction in England, and
will be fitted to a steiner of about 500
tons.
CINCINNATI has 35 insurance companies,
76 jewelry establishments, 700 retail gro
ceries, 81 large restaurants, 130 dry goods
shops, 800 shoe shops, SO coal yards, ITO
candy shops, ~ pork packeries, lao cloth
ing firms, 20 printing offices, III drug
vendors, and 95) liquor saloons.
By placing several individuals in a cir
Gle, with Joined hands, and observing the
time required to transmit the impression
of hand pressure several times
around the circle, Prof o. w. Holmes has
deduced the fact that it requires about
netenth of a second for a sensation to
pass from one hand to the other, through
the nerves and brain of an Individual.
PROMPTED by various cases of illness
caused by the use of syrups sold under
the name of raspberry, currant, ETC.,
Vandevyvere, in Brussels, according TO
the Journal de Pharmdcie dinners, has
analyzed some of these syrups, and found
that none of them contained trace of
the fruits after which they were named.
Many consisted of solution of glucose,
colored with aniline red, Rubin Inpe1Tdte,
or fuchsiAe, and mixed with some tartaric
or citric acid and a few drops of irdit es-
sences
THE Chinese in California make gold
dust out of silver half dollar pieces, by
cutting up the silver coin into particles
which resembles in shape the gold dust
formed in the streams. This is then col
ored to resemble gold and is mixed with
genuine gold dust How the yellow color
| is put upon the silver is a Celestial secret.
The profit of the business must be great,
as two silver half dollars make almost an
ounce of gold dust, worth about eighteen
dollars. .
A NICE little boy in Pittsburgh went to
the circus the other day, and amused him
self throwing stones at the elephant while
he was drinking. When he got through
the boy tried to propitiate hiu by offering
him a piece of gingerbread. Before ac-
cepting the cake, the elephant emptied
about sixty-four gallons Of water, beer
measure, over the boy, and then slung
him into the third tier to dry Oft This
boy is very indifferent about circuses
now. He says he believes he doesn't care
for them as much as he used to.
AN amusing incident occurred few
weeks ago at marriage in HanoveriaI
village. After the marriage ceremony
had been performed, and the people were
enjoying themselves in the village iHn
one of the peasants remarked: But
children, the pastor has not asked II they
the bridal pair, win have one another
All present agreed that the question haC
been omitted, and so the newly'marrieC
couple were again hurried 10 church
where the ceremony was re-pertormed, u
their own and their friends entire salts
faction.