Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-02-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

NEW JERSEY has put the deg tax at
S250 per dog.
TFTv out of one hundred students In
the Minnesota State University are |
| women.
A oNE.cENT workingman's paper is to
be started in Brooklyn on the lst of
March.
JANUARY last, II is said, averaged eight |
degrees warmer than any previous Janu- |
AIRY for forty six years.
THE Khedive is coloring a meerschaum |
said TO be worth, with diamond trim
mings, $4,000.
In Baltimore nearly 5000 women find
steady employment throughout the season !
in packing oysters,
THE latest census taken in Vienna
shows that there are 2,538 persons in all
attached to the imperial palace.
THE Tract Society of the NJ T., Church
has distributed four million pages of
tracts in Germany, during the past year.
THE total amount of coal consumed in
this country in 1869 was 29,SS9,0t4 tons
In England, in 1863 103, ,i4l ,157 tons were
used.
In recent breach of promise suit at
Bloomington, ILL.,, the jury rendered q
verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Miss Lee,
for $4,000.
THE sons of Maine in Lowell, Mass,
win celebrate the fii(ieth anniversary of
the admission of Maine into the Union,
March 10.
A RICH Mussulman at Smyrna has just
died, leaving no s-at-law, and $50O,00O
thus drops int tue Turkish Treasury,
where II is very much needed.
THE first coin made in the Philadelphia
mint, was the copper cent in l793. The
first silver dollar was made in 1871, and
, the first gold eagle In 1795.
THE selectmen of Douglas, Mass, have
decreed compulsory vaccination for all the
inhabitants OF the town, ON account Of the
occurrence of case of small pox.
THE Paris workmen who went out to
bury Noir lost $150,000 In wages, and the
whole loss to trade by the demonstration
is put at 100000.
A WOMAN recently fell out OF fiGth
story window in Paris, upon the head of
foot passenger. They both had a roll
in the mud, but neither was badly injured.
THE Lord Mayor of London, at a re.
cent meeting to promote emigration, esti.
mated the number of skilled workmen out
of employment in England as between
10000 and $4,000.
MILTON PAGE, of Alexandria, N. H., is
the champion egg-eater of New England
On the 2Sth ult., he stretched himself out
side of eighty-fve of the largest eggs that
could be selected.
WHITTIER, being asked for an auto
\ graph, the other day, at once complied by
/ penning the following couplet under hi
i signature:
, 1.-THE name Ia but the shadow, which we find
Too often larger than the man behind"
THE production of petroleum in 1855
r was 10 per cent. more than in any other
! year since the lucky pioneer first struck
oil" The production of Pennsylvania
! since 1859 has been 1858, 100 barrels.
n BoTEToURT, Va, can boast that she hal
: not had prisoner in her jail for nearly
l, twelve months nor has any crime beer
y committed in the county for which
e. would be necessary to imprison one.
f. THE Country Gentleman makes gooC
y point when it says, in answer to reques
0, for the address of a stock breeder, that, a
:, he never adveTtses il is fair to suppose h
% has nothing to sell.
u PROFESSOR JOHNSON, of Yale College
D. having recently examined sixteen differen
J kinds of fertilizers, some of which are sole
l. as high as 500 ton, finds that very larg
e proportion of them are worthless.
% PRUSSIA decides that horseflesh i
a, wholesome food also that 1t is cheap, mucl
cheaper than beef or mutton. Perhaps ol
~ the average, it is. But it would be dea
", feeding to masticate steaks cut from sue
. animals as Dexter and Mountain Boy.
NJ ONE of New Hampshire's.. Governor
Ia made it a rule to take into consideratis
N no petition for the pardon of convict i
10 the State Prison until he had served on
" at least half the term for which he wa
= | committed
er BROOKLYN claims to be the "City c
ID Churches, having no less than two hur
dred and three places of worship, bein
an increase of eighty. eight In the last fl
teen years, some OF them surpassingl
elegant
ly PERTRUsET, the lion-killer, giant i
a form and strength, is one of the curiositiC
IN of Paris. He has a chamber carpete
e. with the skins of lions slain in AlgeriI
N and gives recherche dinners therein. III
e. gun can hardly be lifted by an ordinar
u man.
~ BISHOP SIMPSON said, in recent lectur
10 that while in Europe he never travele
u with a German student without being tol
.ss' that he was saving money to go
rh America, nor rode with an Irishman thi
did not ask him If he knew his cousinl
ke BosToN gives its poor on Monday an
a Thursday, mutton soup with rice; Q
nv Tuesday and Friday, fish chowder c
ct Wednesday, beef soup with vegetables
Is, on Saturday, beef soup with ship brea
,r. and on Sunday, beef soup with dunn
es lings.
re THE Michigan State Treasury, {
ng February /, had q cash balance on haI
ID. of 1859 900, and, during January, the r
&c, duction on the State debt was $3lO,50
ka leaving total unpaid debt at that date
b. about So, SIS, 900, of which over $150,0I
RS bears no interest.
er THE Hartford and New Haven Ra
re road Company have locomotive whic
ice during the past twelve and half-mOntf
80 has run upwards of 10000 miles, witho
an the loss of single trip, and without fl
minutes detention at any time, and
never needed repair.
PHILIP HEBBARD, of Quidneck, Rho
Island, is at the head of weighty houl
to hold. He weighs 225 pounds, and
i wife 100. Fifteen children have been I
lle result of the marriage, the youngest bel
ch II years of age and weighing 100 pounC
ch and the Oldest 30 years of age, weight
ns, 237 pounds.
We NEAR Fort Montgomery, on the Hu
m ,en son, there lives q man named Storms, w
IA 10 was born with a malformed spine, a
se' has never been able to move about c
an cept on all-fours," using his hands equ
an ly with his feet He has wife and {
IN, children, and earns living by cutti
'0n cord dwood.
oto THE late Prof Faraday, who was
a IL humble origin, said that when bread "
IA very dear his mother, at the beginning
an, the week, gave him loaf for himself Il
: a he might have the management of it {
ON tirely. He Immediately marked it G
nv nv carefully into fourteen portions, one
~ which he ate each morning and eVeniI
her thus learning his first lesson in frul
lie. economy.
ar, REV. NOAH ScHENoK, ID. D., rector
I. st. AIMS, Brooklyn, advises people
sleep an hour or two later on Sunday tn
any other day in the week, and thus be I