Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-06-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Protection of Children"
DAKOTA contains 10000 square miles
of territory, $4,000 more than Illinois.
JACKSONVILLE is now the largest city
in Florida, having about 1000 inhabitants.
THE Boston Custom House employs a
hundred and fifty soldiers and sailors.
THERE. are Sab works of art in the
present Parisl exhibition in the Palace Of
Industry.
1T keeps 1000 cows busy supplying the
milk for single Vermont cheese factory.
A LADY at Paris advertises for employ.
ment as ornamental guest at dinner and
evening parties"
A MOUNTED letter.carrier, who an
nounces his approach by blowing horn,
is the latest novelty in Newark, N. j.
A BOY only fourteen years of age has
been sentenced at the Police Court of
Lowell, Mass, for being common drunk
ard.
IT is estimated that there are five hun
dred millions of dollars deposited in the
savings banks of this country. t
EIGHTY young ladies, trained in the
| Queens institute, Dublin, are now en-
ployed In the various English telegraphic
offices.
Mr.. STEPHEN FREELovE, of Fall
River, has an apple tree, 25 years old,
which bears fruit every year, but never
blossoms.
! A GERMAN chemist has found a test so
delicate that one part OF arsenic in one
million parts of solution may be detected.
NAUGHTY boys at New Orleans cut the
tails off of cows in the suburbs of that
city, and sell them to the chignon-mskers.
DURING the past year 1873 men, SO
women, and 38 children were killed by
tigers in Java, 15S persons by crocodiles,
and % by snakes.
| WEDDING cards are no longer printed
with monogram. The latest style is the
letter only of the brides name, printed
large and plain.
"As usual" writes French critic of Lo-
THAR, "Mr. Disrseli allows no one to
figure in his novel who has less than
e50,000 year"
A LONDON chimney-sweep has been
fined forty shillings for stoning some peo-
pie "who prevented him from roasting
two thrushes alive"
Mr.. HUmERT, the Swiss Minister at
Yeddo, Japan, says that every woman
throughout the Empire is able to read,
write and cipher.
THERE are in the vicinity of st. Joe,
Mich, 409,049 fruit-trees, covering $40
acres. In 1869 the fruit trade brought
the growers the handsome sum of
$704,00
A GENTLEMAN writes to the London
Daily Nelos to complain that two of his
servants have given him notice that they
shall leave unless he gives them five meals
day, instead of four.
THE Concord Patriot reports that one
New Hampshire boy of fifteen years is
now six feet five and half inches tall,
but it does not brag about him yet, as he
has not got his growth.
IT is said that within a circuit of one
hundred and twenty-five miles around
the White Sulphur Springs of West Vir-
ginia, there is more iron ore than in the
whole of Great Britain.
THE number of eggs imported into
Great Britain during the year 1863
and forty-two million one hundred and
sixty five thousand and eighty.
A ONE EYED man in Paris gets his liv-
ing by exhibiting the lost eye, which he
has preserved in spirits of wine. He lost
it when a child by an unsuccessful at.
tempt of his father to play William Tell
The Rev. Joseph W. Allen claims to
be the Oldest Baptist Minister of the
State of Rhode Island, having been in
the ministry nearly fifty years, and pastor
of Quidnisville church thirty-nine years
THERE are, in New York city, 24O Pro
testsnt churches, with membership o.
10000. There are also 140 Protestant
missions, with SABBATH schools, etc. There
are 40 Roman Catholic churches.
, | L. L. hold we IN,
! quests over suicides not to decide how
but why, they killed themselves, and i
any other party be to blame he has to pay
fine to the friends of the deceased.
A RICH American died few week
ago in Paris, of the effects of the abus,
of tobacco. He is said TO have frequently
consumed as many as forty cigars a day
By his will he leaves his children millions
! and strictly prohibits them from smoking
AMAsA GOODYEAR, of Nangatuck, Conn
7 father of India rubber " Goodyear, i
claimed as the first button,make il
America. He made pewter buttons abou
1900, and afterward patented brass O.
copper eye to them.
THE editor of the New Orleans Pic
, dyune was recently shown very remark
able phenomenon in the shape of three
, roses growing on one stem, two of which
: were red and one perfectly white. Th
! white rose occupied the central position.
THE American Deaf Mute Asylum a
} Hartford, Conn, had 2S2 pupils last year
with an average attendance of 246. II
} fund of 1922, 1884 nets the institution owe
} $4,000. The six New England States paiC
$39,559 last year for the support of thei
. bene6ciares.
/ THE surface of society is much smaller
even in a city like New York, than i
} generally supposed. 1t is said that yoV
f cannot put any two people together bu
/ they will be sure to find some acquaint
/. ances in common before the end of hal
} an hour.
The Young Mems Christian Association
: in many of the cities of the United State
send daily to the post-oftice and pay tn
requisite amount ON all letters not proper
ly prepaid to insure their TRANSMISSION
!, and keep them from the dead letter otiic
in Washington
SIR FRANCIS CRossLRY, who belongs t
: the famous English firm of carpet manu-
factures--a firm that makes million an
a a quarter of profits year-has just give
!, $4,000 to the London Missionary Socit
. ty, and as much more for fund for dii
. abled pastors and their families.
D THE following are few examples {
the large fees received by prominent Law
yers: David Dudley Field receives $500
7, 900 from the Erie Railroad William D
o Stewart was paid $4,000 cash by tn
l. Gould, Curry silver mine, and so many fet
It ofthe ore, which, altogether, netted hil
o 100000; jeremiah s. Black receive
100000 from the New Alexander min'
n and, few months ago, he sued them ic
a, $4,000 in addition, and received JUDI
,s ment; William M. Evarts has been pal
IA $4,000 for defending Andrew johnson
4 and his annual income Is $l25,OOO. II
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