Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Nor a murder has occurred in Iceland
for a period of fifty years.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND
females earn their bread in New York.
A CARGO of half a million f1ag-poles
has reached Philadelphia from st. Johns,
n. B.
ENGLAND has about 140 art schools,
which have an attendance of nearly 30, ,000
pupils.
SINCE the war Pennsylvania has spent
$S,000,000 in educating the orphans OF
soldiers.
OF the $4,000 persons employed In
watch making in Switzerland, one-third
are women.
Tis estimated that over 100000 worth
of pearls have, first and last, been taken
from bivalves in the streams of Northern
Vermont.
THE first bonded Indebtedness of Kan
sas, amounting to $3.50, 900, and contract
ed in 1861, was payable in fifteen years.
1t falls due on the 1st of July next.
The production of pig.iron in the
United States in 1875 was about 2.100,0 900
net tons, falling off of about 600, 900
tons compared with the production in
1874.
ONE of the attractions of the Paris Ex-
hibition of 1878 is to be the largest bal
loon ever made. 1t will contain $4,000
cubic meters of gas, and is to be twenty
three to thirty-four meters in diameter.
The car will hold fifty persons. -
THAT notable animal, the horse, still
presents himself at the Partisan banquet
During the first quarter of the present
year 1000, 900 pounds of him was eaten
by the inhabitants-a marked increase
over kthe corresponding period of last
year.
OVER 100000 tons of white clay are an.
nually taken from the beds about Wood.
bridge and South .Amboy, n. j., and sent
into market for making fine pottery, terra
Gotta ware, retorts and crucibles, facing
for wall paper, alum, etc. Its average
price is $3.50 per ton. n4
THE trade in pine-apples is now lively
More than 100000 of this fruit were i'm
ported in New York last year, large
proportion of them from the Bahamas.
Porto Rico pine-apples are now worth
sixty-tive TO seventy dollars hundred
here, those from Havana thirty dollars q
hundred, and those from Nassau eighteen
| AoiAoio huhNANu' IN a 4 uPeFs
A DISPATCH from, Fort Worth, Texas
under date of May 90, says: Up to datt
100000 head of cattle have passed this
point, about 1000 up the western of For
Griffin trail, with positive information o.
about 10000 more that will move north
to the Kansas grazing grounds, making {
total which will not exceed 100000. Con
siderable trading has been done on the
trail this spring, and in some instances
the same punches have been credited L
different owners, which in a measure ac
counts for the exaggerated reports o
this seasons drive. d.
TUE Lancaster penn. } Eodminer throws
out this hint Tor the benefit of sleepy jury
men: " Yesterday we recorded the fact o
iuryman getting fined ten dollars anC
costs for keepingthe court waiting on hin
one hour while he took his after-dinne
nap at his hotel. Another juror with NOR,
tact appeared on time, answered TO hi
name and then took his seat in the jury
box and there took his afternoon nap
perfectly oblivious to all that was goinl
ON around him, while his right-hanC
neighbor, who had been fined, sat STARING
hard at the court and witnesses all after
noon. OF course the one who slept il
court was not fned-and that's the differ
ence in the way OF doing things, Juror
| take warming"