Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

OVER $2O,00000O,0OO would express
the value of precious metals till now
drawn from the earth.
The manufacture of window-glass was
commenced in Pittsburgh in 1905 Steel
was first made in Pittsburgh in 1929.
KENTUCKY, the best grazing State in
the Union, produces annually less than
10 900, 900 pounds of butter while New
York produces 107 100000
If the area of the Vienna exhibition is
one, the area of the Paris Exhibition in
1867 is not even one-fourth, and the Lon
don Exhibition of 1862 is one-eighth,
THE export of ice between the United
States and the equatorial countries, now
carried ON in such Il great scale, COM
menced as early as 1888, when vessel
with cargo of ice sailed from Boston to
India.
THE City of New York contains 425
churches. The cost of some of them is
over 81 100000. If the average cost is
but $50, 900 each, the total cost is $21,-
250,000. If the sittings average 500 each,
the total number of persons who can be
accommodated with a seat in a church is
but 900, or one in five of the popula-
ton,
IT is stated that the amount of precious
metals before Christ was equal to 81 ,415,-
600, 900 of gold and So ,013000, 900 Of sill
yer. Up to the year 1902 the earth yielded
SO, ,842 600 900 worth of gold and $521,-
600, 900 Of silver. To this large sum
over So $50, 100000 in gold and $5,013,
900 900 in silver were added from the
year 1492 till 1912, wherein comes the
conquest of Mexico and Peru.
For the first quarter of this year the re.
turns from twenty-seven railiOad compa.
nies with 1860 miles of road, show an
increase of earnings over the correspond.
ing period last year Of fourteen and one.
third per cent, amounting to So, ,34G 1888
The earnings per mile Of road have in.
creased from 81 ,244 to $1,3S7, or eleven
| and one-halt per cent. Only three oi
the twenty-seven roads report decrease
for the quarter, and eleven have an in
crease of more than twenty per cent.
CALCUTTA wheat has been exported tc
Great Britain largely this season, and has
caused the low class" of grain from this
country and Russia to be neglected
| There is reason for concern in regard tC
this new rival, land aud labor in India
being both very cheap Great Britain
needs annually, in round numbers Al, ,000,.
! 600 cwt. Q12 lbs J of wheat. We send hel
$500, 900; Russia, $500, 600, the remain
ing IL ,000,00 being supplied mainly by
France, Germany and Egypt. Favored
however, by the Suez Canal, the East In
dians face confidently all their compel
itOrs.-Neto York Tribune,
A PARLIAMENTARY return just ISSUED
respecting railway accidents reported t
the Board of Trade during the year 1877
states that the total number of persons
killed on railways in the United Kingdom
was $3.50, and the total number injured
5,755, A summary of The tables given il
thereturn states that during the year III
passengers were killed and 504 injured
from their own want of caution or mis-
conduct. OF other persons included il
this division, siXty-six were killed anC
forty one injured while passing over rail
ways Mt level crossings; PAS were killed
and 1876 injured when trespassing on tn,
railways; twenty-five persons committed
suicide by throwing themselves on thu
lines in front Of approaching trains; while
Of other persons not specifically classed
but mostly private people having business
on the companies premises, titty-twC
were killed and 105 were injured.