Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-05-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

NAPOLEON Ill. was 62 years old on the
goth of April.
THE appraisal of personal estate in
Vermont is $22084, $3.50.
AT a recent sale of old coins in New
York, one cent piece of 1900 brought
$50.
VIRGINIA oysters are sent to England
packed in mud, that they may reach there
alive.
A YEARLY license fee of five dollars is
to be required of all who carry firearms
in England.
THE Custom House weigher at Boston
wharf weighed 27,500,000 pounds of sugar
during April
THE Philadelphia City Council has ap-
propriated $4,000 for free public baths in
that city.
ENGLAND has seventy-one daily news
papers, Ireland has fourteen, Scotland
eleven, and Wales two.
THERE are on one square mile in Lon
don %, 0O children growing up entirely
without education.
THHRE are thousand persons in New
York who are worth, at the lowest calcu.
lation, 100000 each.
AFTER the Richmond disaster of 1911,
| WtIC lOI Lu6
space of four months.
DURING the last two hours of the Penn.
sylvania Legislature, bills were passed
at the rate of two minute.
A LONG autograph letter from George
Washington on agricultural matters was
recently sold in London for $175.
THERE are only six stills in the United
States for the distillation of gin-four in
Connecticut and two in Massachusetts.
In certain school district in Orland,
Me, there are ten ladies whose united
weight is $500 pounds, being an average
of $50 each.
A FANATICAL virtuoso of Lowell, miss
of eleven, mas "button string" thirty
six feet long, containing 2,675 dissimilar
buttons.
A STONE jar, now owned in Kentucky,
and brought to this country 100 years
ago, has been in the possession of the fam
lily for 3l3 years
In the Salt Lake City Museum is a
specimen of flour cached for ten years,
having been buried in 1858, and dug up in
1865 fit for use.
| EIGHTY grandchildren of William Innis,
residing in New Jersey and in Bradford
county, Pa, have fallen heirs to an estate
Of $4,000, 900 in Scotland.
A sHEAF of "petrified oats" four feet
long and weighing eighty pounds, has
been taken from the ground sixty feet be-
low the surface, in Nevada county, Cal.
AN Allegheny county IN. ~ man who
died recently, left his wife one cent, his
brother few dollars, and $4,000 for the
erection of a monument to himself
A JURY at Lewiston, Me-, recently con-
victed liquor sellers enough at one sitting
without retiring to consult) to pay fines
amounting to $4,000, besides sending some
to Jail.
In France, in 1868, 1915 men and 1,171
women committed suicide, of whom 81
were under 16 years of age. Of those
deaths, $40 were caused by love, jealousy,
ordebauchery.
ONE hundred and fifty-four persons
were killed in 1869 on the railroads run
ming into Philadelphia, or making direct
connection with them near that city, and
303 persons injured.
In Boston, permits are now given to
grind hand organ or peddle fruit only to
persons who can show that they are in
really needy circumstances, and have no
Other means of obtaining livelihood.
HENRY LrLLEy and wife, of Epping, N.
a., recently died within ten days of each
other, both at the age of 50, having en-.
ljoved sixty years of married life, and lived
for forty years on the farm where they
died.
THE Maine forests have been so well
stripped, that not a tree of old growth is
to be seen in them. The white pine is
represented only by saplings, which will
not be of any service, as lumber, for years.
A MINISTER in Berkshire, Mass, now
50 years old, has lately completed the
payment of note for $4,000, which he
was unfortunate enough to endorse for an
unsound firm eighteen years ago. The
payments with interest have amounted Ia
over $1,000.
NEW YORK State can now boast Of
twenty one incorporated cities-Rome and
Long Islaud City (the latter composed oi
the villages of Astoria, Hunters Point
and RavensWood,) having been added &c
the list by the Legislature recently ad
jJurned.
THE ears of horse may be called in.
dices of his mind. Intelligent animals
prick up their ears when spoken to; vi
oious ones throw their ears back. A
, blind horse directs one ear forward and
one backward, and in a deaf horse the
ears are without expression.
THE street passenger cars in Philadel.
phia, employed by seventeen different
companies, number 0s9, with 179 miles OF
track. Last year they carried 5500000O
passengers. Nine persons were killed
and twelve injured by accidents. The
receipts from passengers amounted 80
$3,50O,0O0,
THE New York Newsboys' Lodging.
house has been in existence seventeen
years. During these years it has lodged
73 S34 different boys, restored 5,465 boys
to friends, provided 5,126 with homes
furnished 467,9 lodgings, and 3l7, ,13e
meals The expense of all this has been
$94, ,223. 10, OF this amount the boys have
contributed $24742 27
GEORGE W. RUST, for several years past
the Financial and Commercial editor o.
the Chicago Times, has resigned his posi-
ton on that journal, and will commence
the publication of a new Democratic
weekly, with a Sunday edition for city
circulation. The first number will make
its appearance about June 1. If the en-
terprise meets with suitable encourage
F ment from the Democracy of the North
west, 1t will probably prove the stepping
stone TO daily
INN NoWaIh W. J.) duooTttdeT says
Yesterday a cautious young man drove
his team alongside Of car loaded will
: lumber standing on the railroad track a
Sonerville, and preparatory to loading
} his wagon tied his horses to an empty
coal car that stood in front of them. Ii
few minutes while he was busy abou
the wagon, locomotive was backed M
} and th,a car TO which the horses were tieC
hooked ON. The car started, and So die
the hQIses--atter it But for the weak
ness OF the harness, which fortunately
broke, he noble ateeds would probably
have made the fastest time-either deaC
} or alige-on record"