Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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THEY are experimenting in London
with gun which weighs eighty-one tons
throws ball weighing 1850 pounds, and
consumes 300 pounds OF powder at each
discharge.
EIGHT savings banks in New York
have been closed within the last year. In
each case there has been bad OF ignorant
management, poor investments and ex.
travagance in expenditure.
THE desert of Sahara covers about g..
600, 900 square miles. Most of it is about
| 1900 feet above the sea level, but por-
ton covering 10000 square miles is be.
low the sea level, and a project for inundat.
| ing II from the Atlantic Ocean is seriously
talked of.
THE total value of farm products, in
cluding betterments and additions to
stock for 1870 was s., ,447 100000. The
states to which the larger portions of this
aggregate are credited are Illinois, $210,
| 0O0, ,000 New York, $253, 900, 900; Ohio,
$19S, 600 900, and Pennsylvania, $1S3, 900, :
900.
In Great Britain there are SO horses to
each 1 900 inhabitants; in Ireland 07. In
Germany, before the war with France,
there were az horses TO ], 900 people in the
Rhine provinces, and 175 to 1000 in
Prussia proper. The German Empire
now averages 81 horses to 1000 inhabi
tants.
ACCORDING to the last census there are
5,SG6, 16S males in England and Wales of
twenty years and upwards, but there are
only 2,34O, 1853 voters, so that there are no
less than 1895, ,405 men in the country
who have no voice in making the laws.
Less than one half are enfranchised, and
in Ireland and Scotland there are fewer
persons still, in proportion, upon the reg
lister.
THE New York Tribune makes out that
the number of cabin passengers who have
reached this country from Europe from
January 10 June was II, 1854. Last year
10,455 arrived. OF the number this year,
1886 were aliens, and 1919 naturalized
citizens who were here before. This
makes poor showing tor the success of
the Exposition, so far as foreigners are
concerned.
NOTHING in the history of modern civ
ilizatiOn is more marvellous than the
progress of journalism in the United
States during the last century. While in
this hundred years after the establishment
of the first paper in America, at Boston,
in 1890, the total number of newspapers
was increased to but 200, of which two or
three only were dailies, during the years
OF the next century, from 1890 onward
SO far as the time has passed, the number
has increased to the astonishing aggre-
gate of 67S daily newspapers and 5,554
weeklies, making total of 6,232.
The first railroad ever built in the
United States, and the first coal mine ever
opened in this country are both situated
within fifty miles of Philadelphia, at the
most picturesque town of Mauch Chunk,
and ought on no account TO be omitted by
visitors to the Centennial. The railroad
is still operated, and called the "Switch-
back" for the cars are drawn up steep in
clined planes by stationary engines, and
then switched back, moving by gravita-
ton down slightly descending track
Pleasure cars run over the road, and take
one in view of the original coal mine.
This romantic town, where the wealthy
Judge Packer resides, is worth a whole |
weeks stay. Unexceptional accommoda-
tions are afforded at the American House,
where plain and respectable travellers
with only one trunk receive as much at
tention as those with half-dozen, which,
says correspondent who speaks from ex-
perlence, is more than can be said of most
hotels In that and other places. A fine
railroad ride over the mountains to
Wilkesbarre, overlooking the far-famed
and beautiful Wyoming Valley, is one of
the delights of this region.
THE Railroad Gazette, of a recent date,
contains table showing certain facts in |
relation TO sixty-four railroad companies
with an aggregate of 1882 miles of rail- |
road, which is about twenty and a half |
per cent. of the entire mileage worked |
during the year, and the largest ever re- |
ported during single year. The table
contains very few New England roads, |
those mostly reporting for the wear end. |
ing with September, as do most of the |
New York roads. OF lines east of Ohio |
and north of the Potomac there are about |
4, 200 miles, of those further west north
of the Ohio and not further south than
Missouri and Kansas, there are about
IL, 800 miles; of Southern roads the mile. |
is about |, 300 miles. The roads report |
ing had 491 miles, or about 81 per cent. |
more road in 1875 than in 1874. Their |
gross earnings were less by nearly nine
millions of dollars, or about five per cent.
their net earnings less by four and half
millions, or nearly seven per cent. Per
mile of road there was a reduction of
1915, or 7.3 per cent in gross earnings,
and of $3l7, or nine per cent. in net earn.
lngs. Summarized, the aggregate results
may be stated as follows: