Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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FACTS AND FIGURES.
THERE were 74,5OO barrels of ale and
beer drank in Buffalo the past season
In New South Wales they send tele-
graphic messages 1000 miles for fifty
cents.
NEW YORK city received the past sea
son ,401 carloads, or 1900, 100 baskets,
of peaches.
THE total number of hogs packed dur
ing the last twenty-five years is, in round
numbers, 74,O00,000.
THE present population of the United
States is estimated at over As, 900, 900,
with 81, 100000 in 1880.
NORTH CAROLINA will be represented in
the Centennial by seventy varieties of pine
timber, nine BOXES of minerals and over
100 varieties of herbs and roots.
In England and Scotland, during the
visit of the evangelists, Moody and Sankey,
there were sold 1851 900 copies of MIR.
Sankey's compilation of hymns.
THE income last year from the crown
lands in England was $l,636, 800. The
cost of collection, local management and
superintendent was less than 3 per cent.
THE military pension-roll of Germany
now contains the names of 1921 invalid
soldiers and officers, and 24,900 widows.
The privates get about $50 year, in
fantry sergeants 500 and cavalry sergeants
800.
SWITZERLAND contains at present no
less than 500 hotels and boarding houses
for strangers; of these about fifty are es-
tablishments of the first-class and are
owned by joint stock companies. In 1874
255, 900 tourists visited Switzerland, of
whom 60 900 crossed the Gothard Mount
AIM about %, 900 crossed the Simplon or
| Splugen, and 100, 900 ascended the Rigi,
mainly by the railway. Tie greater num-
ber of tourists now visit the Bernese Ober-
land.
A SHARP calculator has made an effort
to present the French wine product of
! 1875 to popular understanding. He says
| it amounts to 1000, 1000 gallons, and
asserts that it would fill canal 81 feet
deep and 315 feet wide, 1900 miles long
or five times as long as all the canals of
Ohio. He calculated further that to draw
20 gallons a minute it would take 1876
years and 18 days to draw off the whole
quantity. The most productive depart
ment is that of Herault. 1t produced
$500, 900 gallons of wine.
A PAPER was read before the Health
Association recently in session at Balti-
more ON Penny Wisdom and Pound
Folly; or, the Cost of Great Epidemic to
| a Great City" 1t was shown in the state
ments presented that by the epidemic of
small l-pox in Philadelphia in 1971-'72 the
following losses were incurred: Expenses
in care of sick, $203, $40; loss by sickness
(time), 81 ,012, ,O65; loss by disability
time and expenses), $10,000,000; loss by
death, So ,013, 900; expenses of premature
burials, $74, ,420; total, $l6363, 1854
JUST as the Prince of Wales is visiting
his future subjects in India the census has
been taken to ascertain how many there
are of them. One hundred and ninety
millions have fractional interest in the
Prince, which does not amount to much
apiece. He has some odd prospective
subjects. There are 10000 astrologers
and wizards, 465 " devil novel
occupation, certainly-and 513 poets.
Throughout the entire empire there is
found but one speech -maker"-a fact
which cOmpensates for the number of
poets.
ACCORDING to an article in the New
York Tribune over 160, 900, 900 passengers
were carried during the last year on the
street railroads of that city. To perform
this immense work 800 cars and over
$4,000 horses were in constant use.
Double tracks are laid through more than
100 miles of street. About $50, 600 900
were expended in building and equipping
these roads, and the annual cost of Operat-
ing and maintaining them exceeds 81
100000. During the year twenty two per-
sons were killed and sixty-four injured on
the various lines.
DURING the past ten years a great
change has taken place in the tea trade
between the United States and China and
Japan. Before the establishment of the
telegraph and steamship lines teas that
were ordered from China and Japan in
the early spring were not received in this
country until the first part of the follow
ing winter. Now teas that are growing
on the bush in Japan in March are
landed in New York early in June, and
in July the market is supplied with them.
The telegraph is used to inquire about the
condition of the market or TO order pur-
chases made, merchants communicating
with each other by cipher in order to
avoid the heavy expenses involved in tele-
graphing so long IA distance in the usual
way.
? DURING the year 1874 the foreign trade
of England amounted in value TO about
e610, 900, 600. More than $500, 900, 900 of
this was with sixteen countries, some of
which, however, are portions of the
empire. They stand as follows: With
the United States, e1020O0, 900; with
France, f63, ,000, ,000 with British India,
above e55, 900, 900; with Germany, nearly
e45 ,OOO, 900; with Australia, nearly e3S,
000, 900; with Russia, nearly ESQ ,OO0, 600
with Holland, e29, 900, 900; with British
North America, above e21 900, 900
Belgium, e21 900 900; with China, above
100000, 600; with Brazil nearly e15, 900,
900; with Egypt, e14 200, 600; with Spain
and Canary Islands, above e13,000, 900
with Turkey, nearly $4,000, 900; with
Sweden, nearly e12,0O0 900; with Italy,
e10, ,000,0 900.