Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.


The State census, just completed, gives
Charleston, s. c., $4,000 inhabitants.
PORTLAND, Ore, has a white population
of II 800, with about 1000 Cinnamon.
VELoCIPEDEs are to be used hereafter
by the messengers in the Italian army
1T is estimated that during the last six
months over 81, 103 persons in this country
have been killed by violence.
VICTOR HUGO, it is said, has made
500, 900 by his pen. OF this amount his
plays alone netted $3.50, 200.
THE Board of Health of Washington are
about to declare the decayed wood pave
ments in that city a nuisance as a source
of disease, and will order their removal
EVEN if the Indian is fellow-man, he
is an expensive luxury to his more favored
white brethren and Taxpayers Last year
it cost So, ,032 752.73 to have him aI0G;.1
THE exports of butter from France in
1874 amounted TO S3,000,0 900 pounds,
worth $18 100000. This is calculated to
represent the product of 100000 cows,
each yielding about 200 pounds of butter
yearly.
DURING the last quarter of century the
number of volumes in the British Museum
has increased from 435, 900 to l 100, 900; in
the Bibliotheque Rationale, Paris, from
| S24 900 to 100000, and in the public Ii
braries in the United States, from $50, ,000
to nearly 200O0000
THE medal that was voted by Congress,
June 20, 1874, to John Horn, Jr., of
| Detroit, has, one side, a 6ds relief profile
of MIR. Horn, and upon the other an in
scription setting forth that Mr.. Horn has
saved 121 men, women and children from
drowning in the Detroit River.
The English Earl of DunroYen has
bought large piece of land in Estes
Park, Col, and desires to preserve the
game there for sporting purposes. The
neighboring settlers do not approve of
this, and his Lordship will probably
have to keep large force of gamekeepers.
"THE TRAMP" is attracting considerable
attention in New York at present. A re-
porter of the Tribune has been visiting the
haunts of the homeless, and in a recent
issue gives an interesting account Of the
number and habits of those unfortunates.
Sleeping in Union Square, in doorways
and under wagons, he found, at three
O'Clock Sunday morning, 25S men of all
ages and conditions, from the most de
based beggar to the well-dressed debauchee,
sleeping OFF the effects of a nights ca
rousal. The average number of dodgers
in the square is about 175. The police
have given up the task of compelling them
to move on" finding it easier 10 keep
the evil.disposed ones under surveillance
in troops than separately At Central
Park, which the police try to keep clear of
tramps at night, forty were found sleep
ing, while in the ruins of the hotel pro-
jected by William NJ Tweed, at Fifty
ninth street and Fifth avenue, titty-fo
were found snoozing the weary hours
away. The other public squares and
parks throughout the city are more or less
frequented by these vagsbonds, the major
ity of whom subsist by petty thieying and
sometimes burglaries. After a night
spent in the sky-roofed lodging,house the
tramp bethinks himself that he must have
his morning dram. Looking over theway
he sees a pile of beer kegs which have
been emptied at the saloon, and with an
Oyster-ean or piece of tin formed into a
rude vessel he catches the dregs from the
casks and drinks Passing up the streets
he comes 10 the market and watches his
opportunity TO catch bone or piece of
old meat, or, going to the railroad depOts
or vege table and fruit stands, he looks
about to find discarded cabbage or other
vegetable, or perchance a few apples or
peaches which have not been sold the pre-
vious day.