The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-02-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Iowa has 8 9,G09 life insurance agents.
YELoCrPEDEs rent at so cents per hour
in Boston.
In Maine 100000 acres of land remain
unOccupied.
A CINCINNATI genius adVertises "Work
not so much Of an object as good wages"
THERE are six times as many daily
papers published in this country as in Eng
land. ...
SEVENTEEN hotsls in st. Paul, Mimi,
have been destroyed by fire in as many
years
THE average monthly wages of the male
teachers, in IllinoiO, lOst year was S42.4O,
and of females $92s0,
A PARIS shopkeeper has been fined for
exhibiting goods in his window marked
at a lower figure than he would sell.
SMITH Is almost innumerable there are
S03 of him in Boston, $50 of Brown, 53S
of Jones, and the same number OF Sulli-
van.
TIE Dominican Father Minjeard, at
whose preaching ladies tore off their jew
els and put them into the plate, has be-
come insane.
A GLASGOW firm boasts that flour is inn
ported there from America, made into bis.
cults, and in that shape exported back for
sale.
AN obituary of deceased ferret in
Worcester, Mass, shows that during its
lifetime of six years itkilled ,467 rabbits,
rats and squirrels,
AT a recent wedding in the Baptist
Church, in Charlottesville, Va, the
bridal party consisted only of the bride
and groom and two lady attendants.
ALASKA produced for market last year
225,000 seal skins, worth from $40 to $25
each In addition to their skins, every ten
seals are good for barrel of oil.
THREE swindling bogus guides at
Niagara Falls were arrested the other day
by Buffalo detective, who affected inno-
cence, and allowed them to cheat him for
several hours.
A MATRIMONIAL engagement in high
| life was recently broken off in New York,
in consequence of the parties having a
dispute as to who should pay for the wed.
ding cards.
THE passenger travel between England
and France during 1868 reached the total
Of 306,330, being ola Calais, 49, ,121; Bou
logne, t09,325; Dieppe, 80, SIT, and HaVre
19,207,, r...
THE seventeen standard places o.
amusement in New York city employ 2,
020 persons. The average nightly attend
ance is 23360 persons, and the average
nightly receipts $44,66S.
AN individual from the rural districts
dead-headed to considerable extent late
ly in Burlington Vt, on the strength o
being CONNECTED with the press" Or
inquiry it was ascertained that he tendeC
cider-mill
An old man employed to hunt rabbits
on the Duke of Portland's estate, in Eng
land, was recently found dead in a rabbi
hole into which he had craWled, and from
which he could not extricate himself. I'll
was drawn out by the heels, grasping
rabbit and a ferret in his hands"
A MAN was executed in Brigham
Young's dominions the other day. ii
was brought ironed into the courtyard
where there was crowd Of some fou
hundred, and seated in chair. He thel
read aloud chapter from the New Testa
ment, the irons were taken off his hands
and, at signal from the Sheriff, he wa
) shot dead.
A CLEVELAND gentleman, while cross
ing the Atlantic, sealed bottle and con
signed 1t to the waves the bottle cor
tained the history of some dastardly thiT
who had stolen the whisky and drank /
and a request to the finder of the bottl
to send the same to his address at ClevC
land. What was his surprise the othe
day, after six months had passed, to receiv
from Brighton, England, the identities
waif which had been washed ashore COY
cred with barnacles.
A ST. JosEPH, Mo-, mechanic recent
, invested $50, for the purpose Of obtainin
valuable prizes which he had "drawn.
OF course he never received. them, Aftt
cogltating on the matter, he wrote over q
assumed name, representing that If b
, could draw a good prize he could get othel
! to invest. Upon this the lottery manager
/ sent him about $50 worth Of silver plat
! etc, the package marked 70 0. D." Whe
notified Of their arrival, he attached then
I won the suit, and the lottery people "sme
+ a mice"
! A GOOD sort Of man in Maine was I,
/, Gently asked to subscribe for chandelit
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