The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-11-28
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cent. at Toronto.
Birmingham has raised statue %
Watt
Jenny Lind wishes to N revisit
country
Brooklyn Ii to havea q riding school
Gui1ot haa completed hia eight
second year.
The mackerel catch y light this
year.
Prim Ii one Or the richest men in
Spain.
Isabella cost spain s4,5Oo,ooo
year.
Jackson Haynes, the skater, Il az
Vienna.
Holland proposes % ABOLISH tie
death penalty.
The latest thing IN fans is horse
shoe shaped.
Provincial theaters In France are
languishing.
Boston pays annually S50,OOO for
church music.
Texas has larger cotton crop
than itexpected.
Great Britain raises 10000, 900 bu-
shells of wheat this year.
A man in New York has beer
stabbed with an umbrella
New York averages one thousand
violent deaths per annum,
Ninety locomotives are now run
ming Oh the Union Pacific.
The name of Jeddo, Japan, has
been changed to Tookie.
Coal has been discovered near the
railroad track IN Nevada.
Thirty-two bushels 70 sile acre is
the English wheat average
The business men Of Dunkirk arc
organizing a Board OF Trade.
London spends $500,000 annually
to lay the dust IN its streets.
The women Of this country wear
800, ,000, 900 yards ofcalico a year.
Bucyrus. Ohio, ships nearly two
thousand bushels Of apples day.
There are 1882 conviets at Sing
Sing-1 ,24T male, and 1876 female.
Half the territory Of United States
is drained by the Mississippi
There Is one missionary in China
to every four millions Of people.
English soldiers are still branded for
using insubordinate language.
A converted burglar is preaching
sensational sermons in England.
Six thousand dollars is the price Of
a seat in the New York stock board.
Canadian weatherists, still unter-
rifed, predict an Indian summer yet.
The designs for the ceiling Of the
new Park Bank, New York. SIS, GOO.
New Orleans has received the first
consignment Of this years molasses.
New York Insurance Companies
are having fight with the insurance
brokers.
The inventor OF Planchette is said
to have cleared $50, 600 already ont Of
the toy.
In Paris hoops are no longer worn,
and skirts are either very long or
very short.
RosecrantZ Of Dresden turned out
his seven thousandth piano a short
time since.
A s3,OOO,000 Catholic Cathedral Is
being built in Canton, China, and
another In Pekin.
A Swiss has invented watch
which is wound by raising the
cover.
-Four eelipses next year-two lu-
mar and two solar, one Of the latter
total.
| A moose recently captured Al st.
Mary,s Nova Scotia, weighed 500
pounds.
The British gun boats on the
Lakes are all going to Bermuda for
winter.
The parents of Bayard Taylor
celebrated their golden wedding on
the 10Th ult.
Chicago has paid for amnsements
during the last nine months the sum
of S328 ,35s.55.
The Cliff copper mine on Lake Su-
perior Is now 1900 feet deep--below
the bottom Of the lake.
/ About one million postage stamps,
of various denominations are daily
used in the United States.
! Dorolan, the famous oyster man in
| Fulton Market, New York, mas made
$500, 900 In that business
| While dancing a galop, in Belgi-
an town, q few days since, young
lady died in her partners arms.
Geo. Hungerford of Knox. Chau-
tauqua Co., was killed byakiek from
q horse few days since.
The latest wonder in the way OF
Yankee Inventions is printing which
can be read in total darkness.
A citizen of Plttsburg has given
$50, 900 to build a home for Shoe
blacks and newsboys in that city.
4 Detroit is compelled by a s1prene
| Court decision to devote an Police
Court fines to public library.
4 A Rochester dog stripped an un-
welcome intruder upon his masters
premises almostnaked the other day
An average Of ten persons apply
for every mercantile vacancy in New
Orleans.
The Massachusetts, Homeobathic
Society pronounees against the use
OF butter.
An anti-tohacco club, numbering
So members, has been formed in New
York,
~ young lady piho iasels +
! 9fuer 20 . aala inner Tor D bonnet said.
You are To make Il plain, but ali
the same time smart, as i sit in d
] conspicuous place In church. II
The French and prussian armies
are nearly equal la strength. France
has ! 800 200 omen organized ana ready
for service at short notice. Prussia
has an army of l,l40,000 soldiers III
i the same state Of efficiency
Aplan has been projected to con.
/ meet the upper part ofthe Ohio River
i with Gulf of Mexico BY anew water
1 route. A canal, thirty miles long
1 between the Coasa River and the