Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Tom THUMB is in Australia.


ALMOST every college in the country
now has its newspaper.
ONO has twenty-five different female
suffrage associations.
NEARLY 200 Philadelphia girls were
married to foreigners last year.
THE aggregate debt of the cities and
towns of Massachusetts is nearly $35, 600.
600.
NAPOLEON calls the As 900 schoolmasters
in his Empire the pacific army OF
France"
ONE hundred and fifteen women are al
present suitors for divorce in the Indiana
courts.
ALABAMA has 916 miles of railroad, the
total sssessedlvalue of which is 81, ,095, ,701
ABOUT twelve hundred persons visit
the New York pneumatic tunnel under
Broadway, daily.
The Odd Fellows in the United States,
according to late enumeration, are some
thing over 100000 strong. .1
THE Freemasons of New York are
about to build an asylum for aged mem
bers and orphans, to cost 100000.
THERE is stone house at Dunsback
Ferry, Saratoga county, N. Y, now oc-
cupied by family which was built in
17i7.
A HOTEL building in Meadow Lake,
Nevada county, Cal, which cost original
ly $4,000, was sold at auction few day 8
ago for 81.
ThR Chinese laborers on the Texas
Central railroad drink no water during
the day, but keep one hand busy handing
around tea.
THERE were recently confined in the
penitentiary at Joliet, Ill.,, 1919 convicts,
the largest number that had ever been
congregated there at one time.
A FARMER in Maine has short horn
heifer, coming three yearS old, that girths
seven feet and one inch, and weighs ,620
pounds.
THE amount of Peters pence received
by the Pope since its establishment ten
years ago, is about four million pounds, or
twenty million dollars.
1T is stated that every farm of 100 acres
in Eastern Kansas is underlaid with
1,555,000 tons of coal, or nine times more
fuel than if the surface were covered with
heavy timber.
REUBEN MILLER, of Springfield, Ohio,
who is seventy-tive years old, has kept a
diary in verse for the last half century,
and it contains over eighteen thousand
items.
A MAIDEN lady, ninety-three years old,
appeared as defendant in Massachusetts
Court few days ago, and when 1t was
decided that she must pay a servant
S1159, claimed as wages due, seemed not
at all disconnected.
ONE of the passengers on the Golden
City at the time she was wrecked on the
coast Of California, has sued the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for $4,000 foI
the privations he endured in consequence
of the disaster.
AN Eastern paper says that the yert
:" to interview" denounced by purists a:
an Americanism, was so employed in
England in the Elizabethan era, and can
claim higher antiquity than the noun,
which is used without hesitation.
A CINCINNATI paper insinuates that the
officers of ferry boat made no effort to
save man who fell overheard the other
night until they found out he had not
paid his fare. They made desperate
dive for him and the two cents, then.
BISHOP SIMPSON, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, gave the following ad
vice to a class of deacons ordained by
him in Philadelphia ON a recent Sunday
Don't eat late suppers. have found
that nine out of ten ministers who eat
after preaching die carly"
A MAN in England, named Gilman, has
been fined 500 for kissing widow. He
admitted that he had often kissed her.
This, however, he averred, could mean
nothing, as he had kissed the daughter at
the same time, and had been in the habit
indeed, of "kissing the family all round. y
THE ENGLISH Sooiety for the Suppression
of Wee has destroyed 129,6Sl indecent
prints, 1920 illustrated books, five tons
of letter press of the sane sort, 16,OOt
| sheets of songs, besides copperplates
printing presses, &c. The funds of the
| society are coptriouted by private indi
viduals, and each prosecution costs $3.50
THE Minneapolis (Minn) Tribune sayi
a shoemaker of that city "has received al
order for a pair of boots, the measure SEN
being IS inches in length by 12 across the
slab of the foot. If made up, in size, they
would be about No. 90. The dealer wa
unable to furnish them from the store, bu
is negotiating for a contract"
AT an inn in Vienna (says the Neu
FFeie Presse) an old topper recently cele
brated the completion of the twenty -fiftl
year of his regular attendance at the bee
table. The President of the dinner part
/ which was given, in honor of this even
had also been constant visitor for thirty
eight years, and made short speech, an
ended by emptying his 4O,1sOth seide
(pint) of beer.
THE Detroit Tribune says: "a yer,
important suit has just been decided il
the Circuit Court at Adrian, Mich. 1t j
he recovery, by the wife of a drunkard
of the money paid by her husband, durin
the past six years, to a saloon-keepel
Judgment being entered against the unlaw
full seller under the provisions of Prohit
itary Liquor Law of the State This
the first suit of the kind that we recolleC
of, but, under the law, the recovery of a
money 80 paid by the parties to whom
originally belonged is unquestionabl
possible, the ground being that it wa
paid without consideration, liquor nc
being property"
THE San Francisco Alta is responsible
for this statement: "a crab, measurin
thirteen feet from point to point of claw;
and weighing some forty pounds, he
been brought to this city from Yokoham'
by the last steamer. 1t was obtained by
gentleman from some Japanese fishermen
who captured it last month upon tn
wreck of the United States corvett
Oneida, recently sunk in the Bay of Kar
agawa, by collision with the steame
, bombay. The formation of the leg
claws, carapax and mouth presents
marked difference from those of the con
mon crab, having protiuding tusks, an
. the ends of the claws being armed wit
|. rows of teeth"
REV. A. G. BYERs, Chaplain of tn
! Ohio Penitentiary, in a sermon befoI
the convicts ON a recent Sunday, gave th
following interesting statistics of that il
stitution: "Siuce October 8, 1864, 2,1s
a persons have been received at the pen
( tentiary, and 1884 discharged; 2l2 wei
s pardoned, and 81 had died; 30 per cen
: of the men received were under 81 yea
:, of age; " per cent. were uneducated;
per cent. were men who, as boys, had ~
away from home "a per cent. had new
learned a trade or useful employment
}, per cent were intemperals, sud % p
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