Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

In Virginia the oak is said to be dying
out, and the poplar succeeding.
FIVE sIxTHs of the American railroads
have the four feet eight inch gauge.
THE George Peabody statue in London
is now complete, at cost of $4,000.
A CALIFORNIA lady has taken to silk
worms as pets, and raised large colony
for amusement.
| NASHVILLE has population of 25.771,
being an increase of nearly 5000 since
1860.
THE birds with the city limits of New
Orleans are now protected by law from
being killed.
THERE is an umbrella in Bangor, Me-,
which has been in possession of one fam
ily for fifty years. 1t was bridal gift.
A CENSUS of Sweden, just completed,
shows population of 4,172,099 souls-s
decrease in two years of 22,061.
The Prussian Government, it is said,
pays fifty thousand dollars year to the
political spies whom it keeps in Paris.
A CoNsoIENCE.s New Jersey
tppler has entered complaint against
himself for drunkenness, and paid the
| fine.
ONE of the rules of the Philadelphia
nee baths is that no person shall remain
In the water longer than twenty minutes.
1T is stated that Daniel Webster's head
grew larger as his intellect expanded, and
he had to change the size of his hat every
few years.
IT is but five years since nitro-glycerine
was introduced. During that time it has
been the direct cause of 1900 deaths.
A LIQUOR dealer in Linn county, Kan,
has been sentenced to ten minutes impris-
onment and fine of $500 for violation
| of the law.
ONE hundred and fifty men, each over
65 years Of age, sat down to a dinner to-
gether, the other day, at a hotel on Peake 8
Island, Portland Harbor.
THE late James T. Brady once remark
ed that his experience among clients con-
vinced him that mans wife is his best
lawyer.
THE Sportsmen's Club of Denver City,
last spring imported several hundred doz.
en- of quails, and turned them loose. They
are reported to be doing well.
A YOUNG lady of Boston, troubled with
large ears, is reported to have had a
couple of inches trimmed from them all
around by an ingenious surgeon.
PETER SoHURTz, farmer living in
Clinton, N. Y, has, in his barn, hay that
was cut fifty four years ago. II is said to
be as bright and sweet as any cut this
summer.
TIE youngest man in the United States
House of Representatives is Eugene Hale,
of the Fifth District of Maine, who is 81
years old. The Republicans have nomin-
ated him for reelection to Congress.
THE London rose show took place on
the 25th of June and was visited by over
seventeen thousand persons. The roses
exhibited varied in color from white to
almost black.
The Rev. Elias Libby, of Limerick,
Me-, walked twelve miles and picked half
q bushel of blueberries on recent Satur-
day, preaching the following Sunday, as
usual aged 81.
A YOUNG lady in Brooklyn, N. Y, has
received as wedding present a fan made
in Paris, at a cost of over $500 in gold.
1t is of tortoise shell, studded with tiny sol.
itaire diamonds.
THE assessed value of real estate in
New York city for the present year is
$742, 134, $50; the personal property is
assessed at $305, ,292 500 making total of
real and personal property of 5 ,047, 49,
049. .-..-
A YOUNG girl, convicted of child-pur-
der in Austria, and sentenced to death,
committed suicide in her cell after she had
been informed that the Emperor, Francis
Joseph, had changed her sentence to i'm.
prisonment for life.
THE Trenton Sentinel says: "a family
of high social standing in New York city
has lately lost daughter by deliriun tre-
mems. Another daughter OF the same fam
lily has been reduced very low from the
same cause, but is gradually recovering"
A LEADING physician in Paris, after
asking patient the questions according
to formula, as to sleeping and eating, next
demands what newspaper he reads. If
the patient be nervous or excitable, the
mildest and dulest journal is prescribed.
THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry says
that the one hundred grains of metallic
iron found in the blood of healthy adult
would be sufficient to make good sized
pen-knife blade, but no useful Implement
of a larger size.
A WASHINGTON gentleman, the other
day, tried the experiment of carrying
81 400 in one dollar, bills in his hat, but a
gust of wind took off his hat, scattering
the greenbacks in every direction, and
leaving him a $500 poorer, If not wiser,
man. ~ru 30 ..-rI a
In Prussia there are 1893 academies,
with 3,242 professors and 56,1n pupils, of
whom 38,175 are Protestants, 1881
Catholics, S,665 Israelites, and 10 belong
ling to different other seots. r The number
of preparatory colleges is twenty. nine, Of
which thirteen are in the Rhenish
provinces,
THE emigration from Sweden to the
United States has decreased vastly since
last year. From the beginning of this
year TO the last Of June, about nine
thousand four hundred emigrsnts have
sailed from, the port Of GOttenburg for
America, to eighteen thousand and six
hundred in the same period last year.
Ara recent trial in Texas the jury were
unable to agree, eleven being for convic.
| tiOn,, while the twelfth stood out stoutly
for acqpittal, All other attempts to SO.
cure unanimity having failed, the recalci-
| trRnt juror at length agreed to settle the
question by a game of cards, and having
lost the game, 'cheerfully gave his vote
for conviction. ~ aF 7-var l l,
AN organ grinders monkey came near
creating a tremendous confagration In
| Baltimore recently, just as the careless act
| Ol u Cnilu CAubcu bud lotO dWiui uS9ti uC-
tion by fire in Oonstantinople. The
monkey found box of friction matches
in the house, took them to a bedroom and
set FIRE to bed. He was found dancing
in great CLEO around the flames he had
klndled. suf- .ff ~ llg.-au b.. frs
AN insurance company in Philadelphia
refused to pay insurance on property dc
stroyed by a recent fire in that city, TAX
ing the ground that the fire which de-
stroyed the property, was the result Of
struction of property within its limits,
that is caused by riots. The riot was
created and conducted by the tiremen.
THa "nearly illegible" condition of the
signatures to the Declaration of lndepen-
denee is said to be due to the experiment
of an artist made in President Monroe's
time He applied TO John Quincy Adams,
Secretary Of State, to be allowed to take