Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.
TEXAS has 55 postmistresses.
THERE are 800 linnnr aellera in Abs

Paris restaurants.
A BREED of dogs that cannot bark has
been discovered in Australia.
A MAN in Bremen has made figure OF
a woman which can, owing to ingenious
ly contrived machinery, talk.
A HALF-PFNNY paper is projected. in
London which is expected to circulate
from 100000 to 750, 900 copies daily.
TN recent hailstorm at Buffalo stones
fell, five of which aggregated the weight
of five and a quarter pounds.
THERE is one man in the Legislature
of Massachusetts who boldly declares that
whisky is nutritious and healthy.
MANY of the waves of trouble, like those
of the ocean, will, If we await them calm
ly, break at our feet and disappear.
SOMEBODY suggests that the descend
ants of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence should meet on the 4th of
July, 1876.
TWENTY ONE millions of dollars are ex-
pended annually by the drinkers of lager
beer in the United States for their bev-
erage.
A BARKEEPFR in one of the downtown
hotels in New York is said TO wear dia-
mond pin worth $3.50, and to get salary
of $t2 a week.
A VIENNA merchant celebrated the for
tieth anniversary of the founding of his
business by giving fifty thousand dollars
to the poor.
AN Iowa mathematician has calculated
that the English alphabet is capable Of l.
391, ,724 2SS, 1897, ,252 800, 425, 1913 493 1922
changes, and not one more.
THE population of Washington Terri.
tory, which in 1850 was 1854, is now es-
timated bv some persons at 10000, and by
others at 10000.
THE Directors of the Connecticut State
Prison say there is an apparent increase
of crime in the State, the number Of con-
victs having increased from 1873 to 219, and
the prison is crowded
A POOR woman in Buffalo, compelled to
beg to save her husband and children from
starvation, dropped her bank book the
other day, which showed that she had just
deposited 1925.
A LOUISVILLE man, who is a graduate
of an Eastern college, and has practiced
law and medicine, and studied for the min
istry, now drives a brick cart, and thus
earns an honest living
In Holland there are 10, 900 wind mills
in constant use for the simple purpose of
| colossal size, each lifting from 10000, 900
to 100000 gallons of water every "a
| hours.
THERE is q family of summer residents
at Newport, consisting of four ladies
they have brought with them twenty six
servants, and nine horses What house
hold, and without head"
| ANILINE dyes are now said to be adul-
| terated by mixture with fine granulated
sugar, each crystal of which is covered
with a very thin film of the true dye, so
as to produce an excellent imitation in
color and form.
THE Mayor of Montgomery, Ala, in
the case of negro charged with petty
larceny, sustained the point that pinch
beck breastpin, won in gift enterprise
was not the lawful property of the reputed
owner, and that to take it was not theft.
A RICH old lady of Caen. France, left
all her property to the Institute OF Fine
Arts" meaning probably the Academy
of Fine Arts" As there is no such insti-
tuition in existence as the former, the
heirs-at-law hope to secure the property.
| CHARLES DICKENS lived longer than
Shakespeare, who died at fifty.three; than
| Byron, who died at thirty seven; than
Thackeray, who died at fifty-two; than
Burns, who died at thirty-seven; and was
one year younger than Macaulay, who
died at fifty-nine.
| IT is estimated that should the entire
progeny of single pair of birds survive,
in the course of fifteen years they would
increase to nearly 100000. As it is
there is scarcely any increase from year
to year, the number that perish equaling
the number that are born.
A FRENCH observer, Mr.. Jourdain, finds
that the administration of chloroform to
plants produces strange effects analogous
to those of some drugs upon some ami
mails. For instance, it gives the raspberry
plant sort of lock jaw, violently invert
ing the leaves, as if they had muscles.
THE Michigan Press Association offeI
the following premiums: For the best
"make up" local paper, first week in Au
gust, SO; and for the the paper present
ing the best get up of local matter durinQ
the month of August, $10-the competi
ton to be confined to local papers uncon
nected with dailies.
The New York Sorosis claims to have
among its active members thirty eight en-
gagged in literature, six editors, twelve
poets, six musical artists. twenty-five au
thors, two physicians, four professors, two
artists in painting, nine workers in art
nine teachers, ten lecturers, one historian
cue author of scientific works. aid three
known philanthropists.
AN absurd wager between Lord Wey
mouth and Sir Archibald Home has re
Gently been decided in Scotland They
were to walk up Ben Lomond during {
high wind, Lord Weymouth in top boot
and backward, and Sir Archibald Hom
as he pleased, but to carry in his hand al
open umbrella. Sir Archibald lost thu
wager, which was for $4,000.
SPANISH gentlemen speak with grea
enthusiasm of the handsome behavior, il
a recent duel, of two naval officers of higl
rank, intimate friends, who had quar-
relied over their cups. They fought twent,
T PAGES apart, to advance to a central lin
and FIRE at will. One walked forward, an,
when near the line the other fired and hi
him. The wounded man staggered to tn
line, and said, at am dead Come tho
and be killed" The other came up unit
be touched the muzzle of his adversary
pistol, and in moment both were dead
like gentlemen.
} A SINGULAR story comes from Sheffield
Briefly sketched, it amounts to this:
8 farmer was sitting in public house, Whe
I entered woman Win me papJ III ho
9 arms. Jolly farmer admired the baby an
: wished it were his. The mother said ths
+ for half sovereign she would give hil
8 the child. Jolly farmer laid down tn
Q half sovereign and received the child. 4
v cab was called, and the jolly farmer an
& his child started homeward. Sequel-II
" human mother repented, but she bs
. omitted to take jolly farmers card. r
o lice summoned. No child found at la
v advices.
j, A VERY generous act is told Of M. Ce
nusch, the Italian banker lately expelle
', from France. After the taking of Ron
r, and his imprisonment in Fort st. Angel
o he was compelled to leave Italy He W
l. without funds, but one of his compatl
ir OTIS said, "Here are 500 francs for which
w have no pressing use. TAey may ASST
n you in your exile" Twelve or tifte'
Q, years later Cernuschi, who had becon
2. wealthy, learned that his benetactol
ss daughter was about to be married.
10 wrote asking her to accept the 500 fran