Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.
onrnoN has a.752. 600 fertile ncres.

OREGON has 2,I0S,OOO fertile acres.
FRENCH receipts from taxes last year
exceeded the budget by Si7,0O0,0O0
ARTIFICIAL grindstones are coming into
use in Germany. They are made of grit,
soluble glass and petroleum.
THE first locomotive engine introduced
and worked in America was run upon the
Delaware g. Hudson Railroad in 1928.
Dunno the year 1875 the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals prosecuted $40 cases of cruelty.
THE city of New York has "a, 200 build
ings, of which 67. 1855 are dwelling houses
and 10, ,434 arc business houses. There are
ASS churches.
! Ir has been demonstrated that for all
telegraphic purposes the English language
is from % to 80 per cent. cheaper than the
French, German, or any other language.
IT is estimated that the child population
between the age of six and sixteen in the
| United States and Territories is 10,5SS,-
600, and that about 100000 teachers are
needed to educate their host of future
citizens.
THE cost to the Federal Government of
the Territory of Idaho, which has a popu-
lation of $4,000, was for the last year
SAL ,7S3, beside the regular expenses of
the military force quartcred in the Terri
tory, and the 5000 salary and mileage of
a Delegate TO Congress.
Mr.. JOHN HATCH, of California, has
spent many years in making a collection
of the precious ores of the Pacific slope,
| Mexico, Central and South America, Aus
tralia, China and Japan. His collection
numbers between 1900 and $1,000, and
he is preparing them for exhibition at the
Centennial.
AN ingenious Californian proposes to
avoid the principal objection to employ
ing steam. m.engines on common roads-thc
objection that they frighten horses--Dy
constructing his engine in the form of a
horse. Judging from the description
however, which is given of this metallic
beast, il will be far more likclyto frighten
horses than the ordinary locomotive. The
only part of it which is like horse is the
head, the legs being wheels and the real
portion cab for the engineer. The idea
of deluding an animal as intelligent as tho
horse with such a monster is simply pre-
posterous.
MAJ.-GEN. UCHATIUs, the inventor o.
the new Austrian gun, has also invented {
new projectile, which has been tried Will
such favorable results that twill probably
be adopted for use in the Austrian artii
lery. 1t consists of a cast-iron she'll, abou
eleven millimeters in diameter; inclosinl
twelve rings and center piece, all fittinl
into each other, but easily detachable
Both the shell and the rings are conica
in shape, and each ring is divided int
ten sections, so that when the shell ex
plodcs, besides the fragments or the cute
case, 100 iron balls, representing the sec
tons of the rings, are sent flying in al
directions.
THE corn crop for 1875 was one of thu
largest ever known in this country, prOba
bly, equaling the very large crops of 1871
and 1872. Every section of the Union re
ports some increase. The following state
ment embodies the crops of the past sil
or seven years: In 1863, 906, 900, 900 bush
els, valued at SO cents per bushel; in 1869
S74, ,000, 900 bushels, valued at 70 cents pc
bushel; in 1870, 1904, 100000 bushels
valued at "a cents per bushel; in 1871
901 900, 600 bushels, valued at 4S cents pc
bushel; in 1872, 1902, 900, 600 bushels
valued at 80 cents; in 1878, 032, 600, ,0OC
bushels, valued at 49 cents per bushel
in 1874, 854,000,000 bushels, valued at 8.
cents per bushel.