The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-06-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

lHH value OF our ThllEOhu lISlBnt III loOi
was $40, Az, ,250,0O0.
THE New Orleans gambling houses pay
q yearly license Of $4,000.
THE ballet troupe at the Berlin Opera
House consists of 4S6 persons.
THE editor Of the South Orange IN. J)
Budget is 10 years Of age.
SAN FRANCISCO is not yet quarter Of a
century old and has 10000 inhabitants.
THE Pope has two brothers older than
himself, and nephew sixty years Of age.
THERE are forty-two societies, with
1,700 missionaries, engaged in giving the
Gospel to. the heathen.
ALTHOUGH Paris returns only nine
members, there were eleven hundred can
didates in the field.
A WOMAN died of corpulence few days
ago, in Philadelphia, Weighing nearly six
hundred pounds.
A BOSTON horse car conductor has been
given Government bond by some of his
regular passengers.
SWITZERLAND has now 201 political
papers, 1853 German, 81 French 4 Italian,
and 8 Romantic journals
THERE are $4,000 commercial travellers
In the United States, Of whom 10000 are
sent out by New York houses.
A TEACHERS meeting will be held at
Berlin this summer, at which about 5000
teachers will be present,
"THE Tempest" was lately read by Mrs.
Sterling, in London, with a chorus Of 400
voices to sing the incidental music.
EIGHT horse-slaughtering establish
ments at Stettin, Prussia, turned out last
year 800 carCasses and 100000 pounds of
meat,
A ooLoRED child recently fell out of a
third story window in Cincinnati, struck
its head against the stone pavement and
escaped uninjured.
On an opening night at an opera house
in Nevada, an enthusiastic admirer of an
actress threw an $50 silver brick at her.
NEARLY three thousand duels were
fought in 1868 at the various German uni.
Versities. Most of these duels, however,
we're very harmless affairs.
THERE are fifteen male and female opera
singers on the European continent, whose
aggregate income amounts 10 four mil
lion francs and half.
ANNA DICKINSON saidi in late lecture
at New York, that in five years she would
vote, and in ten be member of Congress.
THE imports of wheat into great Brit
ian this year have averaged twenty per
cent. less in amount than during the cor
responding months Of 1868.
THERE are twenty-four voters Of the
name of Ellis in Keene, N. H., and in
Stratham, same State, in 215 voters there
are twenty-five Of the name of Wiggin.
THE French Mutual Benevolent Society,
of San Francisco, numbers 1857 mem
bers. Their receipts during the last year
were $57, ,172 and their expenses $46476,
THE receipts of the British Bible Socie.
ty for last year were GlS7,970. 1t has
lately occupied new and elegant build
ing. The society, since 1904, has issued
1000, 900 copies of the Scriptures,
THE Grown. Princess of Prussia spends
more than half her income in charities.
The Queen, her mother inlaw, spends a
still larger portion Of her income for the
same purpose.
THE Rev. Samuel Mott, who died the
other day in Hartford at the age of 81, was
the last survivor of band of five mission.
aries sent to the East Indies by the
American Board in 1919.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, has an ordinance that
prohibits boys under eighteen years Ol
age from going into a saloon, and tining
any oon-keeper $40 who sells then
liquor in his establishment.
. DURING the last fiscal year the number
! of letters sent through the foreign depart
! ment of the post office in New York city
! amounted to 5,900,307, and the number re
) ceived was 5.22S,2s5, making an aggre
J. gate of II, 128,53a.
= ANsoN w. WILLIAMS has sued Jess
8 Colby at Buffalo for the value OF $7E
!. horse killed by collision of the wagon
4 of the parties; and the case is still unset
n tied with $500 costs already heaped o.
the original bill.
|. A PIECE of track on the Oil Cree
Q Railroad, over great bog, gave way
s few days ago, allowing three cars to sink
n In two days they got twelve feet belo,
}, the surface. The bog has been sounded
:: and found to be thirty.eight feet deep.
Il THE door of carriage in a fast trai
Q 9 on the Edinburg & Glasgow Railway sue
q denly burst open the other day, and
} little girl five years of age who was lear
y luB hBdluSb bu5 uOOl aV tlAS bhAOt Wa
!, thrown out and killed instantaneously
!. LEVI Snow, of West Dover, VT, ha
n been feeding out his hay this season tina
has been in his barn thirty four years.
came out bright and sound, the cattle at
it we'll, and It was as good in every rt
spect as hay grown last summer.
o A CUP of coffee and sandwich invarii
d bly form the breakfast of the King {
Of Prussia. At 10 o'clock in the morning
n takes substantial lunch, and at the dir
d ner-table he eats very heartily. He take
K, his last meal, generally consisting Of frie
rs potatoes and fish, between 0 and 10 in I'll
IT evening,
r A GIRL at Bromberg, Is years old, Il
c. daughter of q high Prussian dignitar
ut took her own life by jumping into Il
le river, in consequence of rebuke whiC
y she received from her teacher. Belol
n making the fatal leap, she informed h
1e schoolmates that she was about to di
n and invited them to her funeral.
\ THE Missionary Society Of the Britt
~ Baptists reports an income Of &3O,55
70 At its recent session, an address was ma
Oo Oo by the Rev. DIR. Landels, in which
N brought out the fact that each missiona
~. family in India cost on an average 93
~ No per annum, and urges that the mission
cS ries 20 out at first unmarried,
ge = CHARLES E. THURBER, of East Burl
on Vt, while building road on his farm,
he few days ago, turned over a flat stone, U
in der which he found $134 in silver halN
so and quarters. 1t is supposed to have be
lat deposited there by Pat Curran, who hu
id. himself at East Burke sometwelve or fol
he teen years ago.
uit w. ToRKRY, of Csphalia, Ala, saw
re. advertisement that j, King q Co, 81 n
ex- sau street, would send an eighteen in
nas musical box, playing twenty-four tun
ZEE. ON receipt of S. He sent his money a
ng received a Eve cent jewsharp. He NJ
lge wants the Marshal of New York to arr
and punish the rogues.
"A YOUNG lady who had just purchase
to watch, and wanted to show it, was sh
per ping at a dry goods store in Springfield
ION few days since. Drawing it forth wit
Ca flourish and glancing at it and the yot
wn man who was waiting upon her, she
led onired "Can YOU tell me what time