Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-03
FACTS ANB FIGURES.

ACCORDING TO the ninth semi-annual
report of the Massachusetts Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, just issued, there are
now seventy four societies, with $500
members, in the State.
DAYTON, o., has population OF about
80, 600, and last year she turned out $26-,
000, 600 worth of goods of her own manu-
facture, or nearly $1,000, 900 for each
thousand of the population.
THE inventive genius of Yanekeeism
is spreading all over the country, and the
extent to which we are taking out patents
is bsJlutely amazing. Last year the
United States Patent Office granted one
patent every twelve minutes, or at that
rate, for all the while it was doing bust
ness.
IT has been found that certain Austral-
! ian moths are capable OF puncturing
orange-skins by means of their proboscis
or spiral tongue. 1t seems that the ends
of the two halves of the tongue are stifi
| and barbed and present on the under side
! three parts of the thread of q screw, while
their sides on the upper surface are COW
cred with short spines, springing from
depression, with sharp, hard sides The
object of these spines is TO tear the cells
and the pulp of the orange, as rasp
opens those of beet-root, to extract the
sugar.
TIE total amount of money realized by
The Centennial Commission up to a recent
date for concessions to vendors of refresh
ments, etc, on the exhibition grounds,
was $3.50, 900. For the catalogue, $100-,
600 is paid; for restaurant and beer rights,
$125, 900; the venders Of milk, bread,
chocolate, popcorn and candy have paid
S11 900 for their " whistler" the soda
nd fC1Na
men $21 900 for theirs. A grant to a
party undertaking to roll people about the
grounds in wheeled chairs, and another
10 "the department of public comfort, y
together realize over $4,000.
THE Laburnum, known in our gardens
as the "Golden CHAIN" seems to be a
dangerous beauty. The British Hedica:
, Journal reports that tifty-eight school
, BOYS, deceived by the similarity of the
taste and smell to the licorice-root OF the
{ drug stores, ate considerable quantity
+ and all became sick. Their sickness,
, however, took only the form OF stupetac-
ton. Two of them were only with ex
o treme difficulty aroused. After being
! walked about the yard for ten hours, they
/ would still fall asleep on the slightest ces
sation, 1t is stated that upon carein
: inquiry it was found that these boys could
CNAiS'
I of the root these boys" probably
. meaning the two worst cases.
/, Mr.. ALFRED NEWTON writes a striking
r protest to the Times against the wholesale
i. slaughter of birds for the sake of orna
?, mental feathers. He quotes the proceed
N ings of single sale of feathers to shov
h that to supply that sale alone 8, 200 heron
Tor egrets) must have been destroyed. Al
these feathers are said to have come from
India last autumn Mr.. Newton observe
ID that no country could supply 1000
herons in single breeding season withou
nearly roofing out the stock. Moreover
10 900 humming birds and upward wer
included in the sale, OF which 740 were {
1r a single kind. As far as we know, non
a. of those birds really diminish the stock {
ne food available for man, so that in destroy
,e- ing them for mere show We empty IL
o. world absolutely of certain portion I
ed its beauty and happiness-while the beaut
A is certainly by no means made up in I'll
d ornamentation of feminine toilets whic
,r' is thus procured. In this age of fiji
re moralities does no one really bestow
d. thought on the morality of such reckle
at spolation of life us this?-LOHdOR Spe
he tdtOr.