, 1857-06-05
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] SINcrIAR AND UsFuL FAr CoSHrcrEl
, WIFI TIE FIGUGrs % Avn T5.-It may no
e generally known that any sum can b,
multiplied by % by simply adding two ci
! pliers TO the mu'tiplicnud, or sum to he mul
g iipicd, and then dividing by /. Take, FOL
' example, GS, end multiply it by IS two
c'pherS being added make GS00, which sun
being divided Ly gives the quotiont, OF
answer 100. THercason Why the amount
is hts obtained is as follows two ciphers
being added to GS have exactly the same
= effect On that sum as if IL were multiplied
by 100, and that sum multiplied, being.d;.
yided ly 4, gives the fourth port, or am ID
due to %. Any sum may also be Mi
y piled by Is by the same rule, in the follow
ing manner To The sum to be multiplied,
say 6s, add two cipherS, which make $500 /;
divide by 4, which gives 100, or fourth
part, and the 100. or fourth part, being
snbtracted from the aforesaid $500, leaves
the remaining three-loarlhs, or amount due
TO il.
By 1t is estimated that the length Of
the Telegraph lines in the world is about
| 5000 miles; of this 81, 600 miles are in
the United States, $500 in England, 900
in Germany and Prussia, 1900 in France,
$500 in Austria, 1900 in Italy and / 200
in Turkey
psS~ A French political economist calca
lates that the amount Of gold which has
bsen imported into Europe from California
and Australia, reaches now, in round num-
bers, the sum of $4l4, 900, 0,0OO-a sum
equi, alent to the whole amount OF coined
gold which existed in Western Europe
before the year lS49
Iay- The post-oiIice of London is the lar
gost post-oilicc in the world 1t has a
front of 400 feet deep. There are 2,500I
persons rcgnlarly employed in tho building
-one thousand of whom are engaged in
making Up the London evening mail
HEmnrAGE.-The Legislature of Tennes-
see, at its last session, purchased the Her
mitage, containing five hundred acres, at q
cost of fifty thousand, dollars, and directed
it TO he presented to the government of the
United States as site for the extension Of
our National Military Academy.
30 1t is said that of the entire trade Of
Africa, which is believed to amount to the
annul sum Of one hundred millions of dol
lars, Great Britain enjoys, from the west
coast alone, full twenty-five millions, while
the trade Of the United States with the
entire continent, is only little more than
three millions Of dollars.
b65- Four bridges are row in process of
construction, or proposed TO be built across
the Ohio at the following points: Steu-
benville and Cincinnati, Ohio; Parkers-
burgh, Va, and Louisville, KY.
5eS~ The German emigran.s who have
settled in Texas are now estimated to num-
Der $4,000, ofwhom $4,000 are settled in
the German and half German counties Of
western Texas.
B<E- 1t Is stated that as many as l0,-
362, 200 eggs were imported into England
in the eleven months ended the Both ult,
and all for home consumption"
D@- Nine hundred thousand tons Of iron
were made by the Iron furnaces Of the
United States last year
pe5- There are 459 harbors on the At
antic coast of the United States. a ai
b@- 1t was said Of an eloquent preacher
that ''his congregation, apprehensivc that
bis discourse was drawing to conclusion,
were in continual pain" 1t is much often
er the case in these days Of long winded
sermons that pain is produced by On ap-I
prchension that the discourse will not come
to any conclusion at ALL Wesley thought
thirty minutes long enough for good SER
mon, and too long fol poor one.
sa5- The New Jersey geological report
shows that the Atlantic is steadily, aud
rather rapidly, encroaching upon the land
on its coast AT Cape Islands the surf has
eaten inward full mile since the reyolu-
ton. Along the bay shore at Cape May
the marsh wears away at the rate Of rod
in two years. One of the beaches upon the
coast IS mentioned as having moved inward
one hundred yards in the last twenty years.
1t is also the opinion of the oldest obser-
vers that the tides rise higher upon the
Eastern New Jersey upiands than former
by
LARGE IYcoME-The income Of the Mar
quis of Westminster, it is said, is .R400,-
600 per annum, equal to $4,000 per day,
or over SO for every minute OF time, night
and day, through the year. Every tick Of
the clock throws a half dime into his purse.
rV- In France, during 1855, no less
than $50, 900 children, from six to thirteen
years of age, received no school instruction
+ whatever. OF these little folks 400, 900
were boys and 450, 900 girls.
MIxr STATIsrIcs.-The coinage OF the
United States mint and branches last year
comprised 2s,S66, 1871 pieces, amounting to
$45, 1874, ,3O2 TS. The amount Of gold ol
domestic production deposited in the minis
was-from California, $47,509,4ll 0s;
Oregon, $40-750; Atlantic States, $685.
2sO 73;-total, $47,s7s,44l 81.
4 Hey- The draft of Washington's Farewell
f Address, in his own handwriting, has re-
rentIv heen stolen from the State Depart