Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-03-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are $4,000 tenant farmers in
Ireland.
TuE bear crop of Maine last year was
S2S animals.
A MAN drives street car in Cincinnati
who was once worth 100000.
THE coal fields of America are estimated
to contain $500, 10000 900 tons of coal.
ITiscomputed that there are $3,092, ,000,-
600 of fire and marine insurance in the
United States.
TaE first cheese factory In Massachu.
sotts went into operation in 1864 now
there are 20 in the State.
EVERY steamer between New York and
Europe is said TO carry an average of five
pickpocke,s or burglars.
THE curious discovery has been made
by an English surgeon that monkeys can
not Je poisoned with strychnine. They
Scent TO eat all kinds Of poison with im-
punity.
THE East Greenwich Pendulum records
the death of Betsy Hunt of North Kings
town, Rhode Island, aud says: "She died,
apparently, early in the day, and, while
some of her neighbors were engaged in
laying her out, the corpse, as Il was sup
posed to be, commenced winking, and
when she died again"
WHEN Judge Ingraham sentenced the
New York murderer Reynolds 70 death,
he alluded to the plea of drunkenness set
forth by his counsel, and said that if the
law admitted any such cause, there would
be no punishment for crime.
Ina recent trial of will case in Troy
n woman testified that she and the testator
stood before looking glass, Joined hands,
and agreed To live together as man and
wife. She received by the viii $4,000 in
five-twenties, and house and the furni-
ture therein.
A CALIFORNIA operator, who tele-
graphed to San Francisco, inquiring II he
should buy at quotations, received
when, after acting upon this advice, he
ascertained that the reply should have
read, "No; price too high, he was pro-
voked, not to say annoyed.
AMAN in Wood county, Ohio, who was
acquitted of murder on plea OF insanity,
year ago, secured his lawyers by giving
them mortgage on his farm. He repu-
dates the mortgage now, as he was in
sane when he made it, according to the
showing of these same lawyers.
A NICE young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the supposed
daughter of IA highly respectable lady, and
came back for the lady's blessing, which
was freely given, together with the in
formation that the girl was not her daugh-
| ter, but a uuadroon servant girl. He said
IL was swindle, and left for parts un-
known.
AS some young men of the village OF
| ~
themselves by firing shots from an old
ship carronade on IA recent holidsy occa
sion the gun burst. One of the youths
legs was blown off and carried about 10C
wards, where it fairly kicked bystander
breaking his back. The young man who
was kicked died few hours after the ac'
cident The other will recover.
RECENT statistics show that England
has about {, 500 miles of navigable rivers
$500 miles of canals, and $4,000 miles y
railroads; France has / TAO miles OF rive
navigation, 3,700 miles of canals, 9,25
miles of railroads; Belgium has 730 mile
of river navigation, 900 miles of canals
and 1,400 miles of railroads. The Ger
man States have over 5000 miles OF navi
pable rivers, 600 miles of canals, ant
about 800 miles of railroads.
TIE Springfield (Mass) Republican tell
a story about young man who, whit
with some companions examining safe
entered it and closed the door. " But thu
lock sprung to its place, and the pool
youth was buried alive, The man who
had the key was two miles distant, anc
the immured would die in five minutes
Hammers and chisels were brought int
use and the door opened, and the almos
dead man craWled out of his too safe re
treat"
THERE is lady in Atlanta, Ga, who il
the mother of five healthy, intelligent chill
dren, the eldest of which is about year.
cid. A singular fact in connection with thest
children is, that not one of them has evel
been known to cry. They have been vic
tins TO the pains and aches that childtiesf
is heir to, vet all the sign of pain they
have ever manifested are low means
They never cry. In other things they
are as other children, and full OF life ant
mirth.
A GERMAN paper states that a trail
composed of all the locomotives and rail
road carriages in Europe would reacl
from st. Petersburg to Paris, and woult
contain 100000 passenger carriages ant
500 900 luggage vans. The network o
European railroads represents length o
0,718 miles $4,000 locomotives are EN-
ployed on it, and these rush over dis
lance of 100000 miles in year. 100,
OO0, 900 cwts. of iron have been used for tn
rails, and S0,000,000 cwts. of coal are re
quired yearly to feed the engines.
A sHoPLIFTER, recently arrested il
New York, was found TO have in his pos
: session valise which, although to a
appearances well-made leather trunk
strapped up tight and locked, could b
} opened at the end by pulling a short core
. In this way goods could be stolen by sliE
ping them into the valise, which Wa
} placed on the counter for that purpos'
The shoplifler in the present instance wa
{ carrying of two pieces of valuable silk i
his Yalise.
/ THE new building of the Five Point
I Mission has just been dedicated. One G
J the speakers said that great mistakes ar
> sometimes made about the Gospel. Ill
maintained that doing kindly act to
Q fellow being is religion as well as preacl
, ing and praying. al would not Che sale
} give a copper coin for the mere preachin
r in this chapel, if nothing else were done
! | il the Gospel were not sent hissin
5 hot from warm hearts into the cellars an
l garrets of this locality. | am firmly col
t WINGED that the grandest power on tn
! earth to-day is a warm human heart.
is worth a barrel of Bibles and barrelfI
} of sermons"
Friday.