Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-29
FACTS AND FIGURES,
BosroN claims a2O, O,75l inhabitants.

A FLEETINd SHow-A yacht race.
CIgoINNATI has the second highest spire
Ia America.
IN 1860, 1853 persons were killed by
cr1codiles in Java.
MAINE has thirty-two hundred square
miles OF lake surface, h..
IT costs New York $2,000,000 annually
to have its streets sprinkled.
THE Leipsig Gdrtenldu6e claims a oircu.
latlon of 100000 copies. Il
THERE are 1884 draft and 29a8 driv.
ing horses in Brooklyn.
A PHILADELPHIA paper has for its edit
orial staff father and his five sons .s.
TIE Worcester Spy recently celebrated
It's one hundredth anniversary.
THERE were 2, 1856 marriages solemnized
in st. Louis during the last year.
a NHw YORK Judge and jury recently
spent day on case involving fifteen
| cents.
| CATHERINE BBEcHER ia now 20, Alice
Cary 4S, Fanny Fern 80, and Harriet
Beecher Stowe 56. sa
A "Life of Abraham Lincoln" in the
Hawaiian language, has been published
in Honolulu. ..... ..t
A WIDOW lady in Durham, Me-, has
worked out her road tax for this year
with horse and cart. - 'r
THE following sentence contains all the
letters In the alphabet: "'John quickly
extemporized five tow bags"
A NAN weighing one hundred and fifty
| pounds contains one hundred and eleven
pounds of water in his tissues.
In Connecticut young lady celebrated
the Fourth by leading out her pet poodle
dyed in the national colors.
"WE all owe something to our coun-
| try" said the man who went abroad with
out having psid his income tax.
TIVE people of Cleveland ride in 1856
private carriages, carry 2.732 watches,
and are supplied with music by 1910
pianos frr a"
A MAINE farmer lately found three
sheep which he lost last fall, in the woods,
doing well, having lived all winter on
hemlock boughs. .ts
THE original Declaration of Indepen-
dence, now in the Patent Office at Wash
ington, is nearly illegible from the fading
of the Ink.
THE Iowa HonasEedd, in an Article on
the Wastes of the Farm" AYERS that the
10000 agriculturists Of the State waste"
Sl0,000,C00 yearly. .. .... =.
AN English swell has recently given
fashionable breakfast to a party OF other
sNells, which cost the very moderate sum
of $4,000. .I
An analysis shows that cotton seed is 8
highly concentrated food, and is richer in
flesh producing elements than corn, but
somewhat interior to corn as 4 fat pro.
ducer. ......
A NAN in Rumford, Me, has dog that
produces fleece six inches long every
year. The material is said to make nit
tens that wear like iron. a'-
THE number of gods Of China has now
reached 10000. the Chinese have only
one Sunday in the year, and that is New
Years day.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
cided that bachelor is a family, that he
is the head of it, and as such entitled to
the privileges of the Homestead act.
THE patronage at the disposal of the
Collector of New York, distributed
through the several departments of the
Custom House, is enjoyed by 7S6 en-
ployees.
A HNDoo cabby, before mounting box
and taking the reins and whip in hand,
always first formally prays that his driy-
ing may be to the glory of his God.
II costs Massachusetts youth $50 to
celebrate our nations birthday, by per-
ambulsting the streets aud throwing fire.
crackers and torpedoes at unprotected
feminines.
A FRENCH peasant named Surin, who
had never been out of his native village,
has invented a machine for spinning
hemp, by means of which great saving
of labor is accomplished.
THERE is to be erected Immediately at
Albany, N. Y, a building which will
cover ninety.six freight cars. When com.
pleted it will be one of the largest, if not
the largest, car.building on this continent.
THE members of the Methodist Churches
in the world now number about three and
half millions; ministers, 1000; local
preachers, 5793i; Sunday school schol-
ars, nearly four millions.
AN eagle was lately shot near Aub urn
N. Y, which measured twelve feet from
tip 10 tip of its outspread wings. When
discovered he was perched on fence in
iently watching a small boy picking straw
berries.
A NORWEGIAN vessel, which was given
up for lost and abandoned by its crew last
October, after nine months tossing on the
ocean was discovered recently on the
English coast, with its cargo safe and in
good condition.
A MILWAUKEE, German, named Rudolph
Meter, while moving dining table dis
covered $3.50 in half eagles In one of the
legs. A hole had been bored to admit the
coin. He purchased the table some eight
years ago of secondhand dealer.
THE Philadelphia Post says One of
the most brilliant writers in the city, now
the editor of one of our best kno IN
papers, some ten years ago used to write
the sermons of clergyman in West Phil
sdelphia, for five dollars week"
AT q recent railway accident to excur-
sionists, in England, the dead and wound
ed were plundered Unfortunately. The
tempting display of rings, watches, &C.,
overcame honesty, and even the police.
men lent the wreckers their aid in dis
polling the dead.
A FRENCH dwarf, flfty.fve years old,
with beard which reaches to his feet,
} but being bald, and having but one arm,
proposes to marry any young girl of
) about twenty, who is pretty and good
tempered. The consideration ia, that the
dwarf possesses a fortune of about $780,
600.
On the William Connolly farm, eight
.. miles south of Bowling Green, Ind is an
, apple tree which is ten feet in circumfcr'
. ence, being about three feet four inches
/, in diameter. 1t is twenty-nine years old
and stands in large walnut stump, most
y sound yet.
NEAR the grave of Washington Irving
at TarTytown, N, Y, is being built the
most costly mausoleum In America. It's
over the grave of a "prominent New
York official" and will cost 100000. II
viii be entirely of marble, and sculpture
, is now being wrought for 1t in Italy.
. MANY years ago, and before Landseel
: was as renowned as he now is, he wa'
| very poor; and it is said that he one day
r paid 81 sterling for the body of deat
8 lion, from which he made most success
5 full picture, called, "a Lion Attacked by
d q Serpent" He was fortunate enough e
, fiud purchaser Immediately, and thil
q was the commencement of his fame. Th'