The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-05
NO. XXXH.
FACTS AND STATISTICS.


The Bank. Of England--The return of bull
lion in the bank of England for the month end,
ing Sept l3, gives an aggregate amount in both
departments of El5,50l,4S7.
Manufactures in Russia.--The quantity of
cotton imported direct from the United States in
to Russia, is 6,992,Sl6 pounds, whereas the
highest import heretofore was 3,l50,0S0 pounds
IN lo43. Ii is estimated by competent Judges
that by the end of this year, there will be in op-
Grafton, in the whole empire, from 100000 10
100000 spndles.
Iron was first manufactured in the u. States in
HIS. The Warwick furnace which was builtin
1876 remains in operation still, after working
for neatly a century.
John Smiths-There are 67s househoIders of
the name of Smith in Manchester, England, Of
whom lO6 are Johns. The Brown family num-
bers 262
The amount of Canal tolls for September last,
on the New York canals, was S359, 1923. This
is an increase over the same period last year of
| S60,474.
The number of different plants in the world
has been varIously estimated at from thirty thou
sand TO one hundred thousand
where several negro families reside inside the
trunk.
The largest flower in the world is feet in d.
ameter.
The ''Cow Tree" in South America produces
milk, from which the people obtain regular sup
plies.
The Nepenthus, of India, furnishes water in
IFS leaves, which not only have pitchers, but CO.
GERS to them.
The Pear leaf has 25,OOO pores 10 the SQUARE
inch, on the under side The Pink has abou,
3o'oOO' Some plants have as many as 100000!
A single Barley-corn in Paris, produced 45
columns, containing 10000 corns of Barley!
The celebrated Botanis, Ray, counted 80 900
seeds in the head of poppy.
The phrase 'syear of our Lord" is said TO havo
been first used by Charles ILL.,, Emperor of Ger
many, A. ID. $40, while desg gnating the date of
some particular transaction.
The plural style of speaking {"we'0 among
kings, was begun by king John of England, A,
D. 1899. Before that time sovereigns followed
the example of king John in A. D. 1900 When
editors first began to say 'we' we do not know,
A writer upon salad, says it was not till the
after end of the reign of Henry VIII, about
l549, that any Salads carrots, cabbages, or any
other edible roots were produced in England
Before that they were obtained in France and
Holland.
r Barley has been sowed with success 14O wears
after it was produced! Wheat may be kept with
, the terminating principle for ages Seeds of
different grasses will vegetate after having been
, buried in the earth thousand years.
The Canada Thistle, the enemy of all farmers,
is native of Canada, but it has crossed the At
lantic by rings with which its seeds are provi-
ded.
The Eve Trees of surry, England, stood in
the days of Julias Cesar. There is an apple
6 tree in Hartford, Conn., 200 years old. A fig
tree in Palestine $50. An Olive tree in Asia
Minor $50 yeats old. live oak in Louisiana
1000 years old. A cedar on Mount Lebanon O.
100 years old. A chestnut on Mount Etna
, l(Sicily} $500 years old. A Sycamore in the
Bosphorus, 1000 years old.
There are no less than 900 different species
of roses, and 60 of pmks
, Some persons who had nothing else to do, has
ascertained that there are 100000 grains in a
bushel of wheat, $4,000 in barley, l,26O, 900 in
oats, and $4,000 in horse beans.
In Hayden's Dictionary of Dates il is stated
on the authority of Hardie's America, that Bees
were not originally natives of New England, but
we're introduced into Boston by the English in
1910, and have since spread over the whole con-
linent.