Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

DALLAS, Texas, has increased its popu-
lation Of 1000 in 1871, before railroad
touched 1t, to 1000.
WOULD you believe itP The area of
Texas is 274, 1855 square miles, or 115, ,j04,
$50 acres, and is one-fourth larger than
France.
THE railways of England earned dur
ing the week ending April % 1909, 1886
upon a mileage Of 14,eGl, which Is at the
rate of $370 per mile.
ACCORDING to a ST. Petersburg paper
the total population of Russian Turkestan
is 100000, and its total area about ,0O0,-
600 square kilometers.
A NUMBER of residents of Western
Pennsylvania have purchased 4,500 acres
of land in West Virginia, much of which
contains bituminous coal.
A MAINE packing company put up last
season 10000 cans Of lobster, $4,000 of
clans, and 60, 900 of blue-berries, and ex-
poets to double the business this.
A FIRM Of Philadelphia druggists have
Obtaiiied Judgment against the United
States Government for $50, ,370,S0 for Ovev
paid duty on an invoice of opium.
A GERMAN has so far deciphered the
hieroglyphic records sufficiently to prove
that one of the pyramids was built 300
years before Christ, which is 1000 years
earlier than any chronological date pre-
viously established.
ABoUr ten per cent. of the Cape dia-
monds are of the first quality, fifteen per
cent. of second, twenty Of third. The
estimated value of the diamonds found at
the Cape from March, 1867, 20 the present
time exceeds $12, 100000.
Two THOUSAND works connected with
the history of the Reformation, collected
during forty years by Mr. A. F. H.
Schneider, of Berlin, are among the re-
cent acquisitions of interest by the British
Museum. Some of the works are very
rare.
Mr.. SToCKBRIDGE, Secretary of the
Lumberman's Exchange, reports that on
May 1 there were 17S075, 400 feet of sawed
pine lumber and timber in the ninety
eight lumber-yards of Chicago. This is a
large increase over the amount on hand
last spring.
AN average of about 100 bars of silver
bullion, each weighing about 100 pounds,
addressed to the United States Mint, Phil
adelphia, and dozens of boxes OF coined
silver from the Carson Mint, addressed to
the United States Sub-Treasurer at New
York, are expressed eastward over the
Union Pacific daily.
THERE is a child at Hartsvile, Tenn,
named Robert w. Cooke, six years of age,
who weighs ninety seven pounds, measures
thirty-two inches around the chest, thirty
one around the waist, and thirty eight
around the hips. His thigh measures
twenty-three inches, his calf fourteen and
half, his arm fourteen, and his head
twenty three in circumference.
THE Canadian Minister of the interior
reports that there are 81, $40 Indians in
the Dominion, of which number about
10000, belonging TO untreating tribes, are
settled between Peace RIVER and the
United States boundary. In the five older
provinces, they have personal property
worth S4S0, 234 real estate worth 81 ,633,
70S, and in invested capital the sum OF
So, ,S44, ,972.
A LETTER from a Black II lis miner
tells what Custer consists Of rs follows
OF bl ess houses there are 100 by
actual count OF saloons there are four.
| teen of real estates offices three; assay
office, one; carpenter shops, two; and
about fifty carpenters, who are very busy
bake-shops, seven boarding houses, five
| grocery and liquor stores, eleven; tobacco
and cigar stores, five; grocery and dry
goods stores, three; dancing houses, two
hotels, three; gambling-houses, three
clothing stores, two hardware stores,
two; wholesale liquor stores, three; tin.
shops, two; blacksmith shops, three
doctors, three; drug stores, storage and
commission houses, two boot and shoe
shops, two; sign painters, one; restau.
rants, ten; lumber offices, two pony ex.
press office, one; breweries, two; meat
markets, four; barber shOps, twO.n