The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-04-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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FACTS AND FIGURES.
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THE valuation Of Hartford, Conn, is
$41, 1,794,1 sag eezs
NEW BRUNswlcK paid $l,i2O for dead
bears last year.
Drum in Southern Asia enables 400,-
o0OQOOpeople to Get drunk,
AN English clergyman charges double
fees for marriages IN Lent
A POCKET rife, with barrel only
eighteen inches long, has been invented.
II Is rumored that Charles Dickens win
again visit this country in the fall.
A BoYin Phillips, Me-, has been con-
yicted of profanity and fined nine cents
by justice.
SAxoNY, with a population Of 0tO, 900,
had 210 suicides last year-158 men and
50 women.
THEY have stylish parties in Boston at
which no one worth less than $250000 is
admitted.
CHARLES WESLEY, brother OF the ven
erable founder Of Methodism, wrote seven
thousand hymns.
MELBOURNE, Australia, though but
thirty years old, has quarter Of amillion
Of inhabitants.
THE bed Of the Missouri river, at Sioux
City, is $40 feet above that of the Missis-
sippi at Dubuque, in the same latitude.
THE first newspaper printed in Amer
lea was issued in Boston, April A, 1904.
Only onerOmplete copy Of it's preserved.
"a REsPEeTAB ABLE citizen Of PHILADELPHIA
lives, when they are in season, upon Meth
ing but goose.sggs, partaking Of nine per
diem. tsa AE .k.t
AN old woman In one OF the French
departments has Just died and disinherit'
cd her nephew because be esung the Mar
seilIaise in 1880.
Ar Alexandra, Va, a gull stuck its Ia
Ions into the back Of q fish, which proved
too powerfulfo for the bird, and after a Sc
we're struggle carried it under water
In the village Of Union Springs, N. T.,
there are a thousand andmore eshade.trees,
planted during the past ten years BY a
tree-planting association.
A CLEVELAND convict hung himself
in effigy-the other day, making gene
raj sceTe among ofFieiaIs who 1roceeded
10 cut the body down, when a resurrec.
ton occurred from under the bed.
MILAN has provided It's customs officers
with yery powerful microscopes for the
examination Of All meat brought into the
CITY, to make sure that none Of Il harbors
trichinm sporalis.
In Europe there are about 10 900 known
species of flies, included in $50 genera. In
| North America about $500 species have
been described, but the whole number will
| probably amount to 10000, a
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q subscription. The crown was made by
an eminent ieWeler of Paris.
Mrss1ssrppr editor and Justice nf tho
Tsoo,, r,,,,,sr;ad + Soy,,,le IN fs5s divorced
iber, +, 1se0 r,aTSied me man 10 anotber
v-.Sr-s v-o,,s1 MIS- II faet ditfo tbe woman to an.
CtbeT TG,l.,,1 1,sSsin y tseS and reeentlv married
tbe ORIGINAL connie
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oo,,tix ,ti = s,d III IGF, ~ sstate sorth SS9 mn
OT5 5al,1s ',sS 1,bicl, M fS,1ra5 mn 81 oo0 sors
tbsn tbat Mrs T.ewitb moi aniv waved her
io1ai Is., o -;abts h. one.third tbe esfate bnt
Ss;d 4 : bsionco nI,t 6f 4 a avn nocket
p'.0 - n n
AN enteTprislng Yeloclpeae msnulae'
tarer has o1eres h2ndsome p5snlam ,s,.lllI 70
E blisb ysIocinede Jyi ,istands. p as IN the
> ceso ~ cshq througboYt the eitv fixing
Ne tso ts,itF ~ III essir sons an heur. or ope
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S iast .sSoA Soa a. of ~ n" % centHry III dsd ~
t lay sGa - - ~ "a 3gilo poceS,,l,er
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II A DONKEY IN the suburbs OF London
has attained a eeieprlty by showing .
, tononesslo1 heaIlng 9 the ecohcerelha playS9, y,
Az the SOUND q the instruments ne VIII
gailop toward the. player praying louoly.
IL IS suggested tnat ne Wishes, IN au-
name spirit, 70 drown inc souno OF tAe IN
strument
Docs are ntraining in New YORK ior
thieving purposes. They are taught 70
: rush into room, seize from the counter a
poAlOAi ahN AutSAAJ SAANS y y " " SArt- Z,
ters. The counter Is made TO resemble
these in banks, and the parcel is'eovered
with yellow paper, 10 look IKE tne PACK S ,l
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AN English physician has Just discoV'
cred that the moon passes successlyelyi
during its diterentphases, nom 2 temper
! ature Of molten lead to that ot the congo
! lation Of mercury. While the sun darts
! its rays upon her, thermometor suitaDly
!, constructed would indicate temperature
! Of nearly 500 deg, While, on the contrary
upon the side opposite the sun, Tie instru'
ment would descend TO 79 deg below zero
] thus giving fortnight Of Siberian winter
! followed by fortnight Of super-tropical
, summer
.. AN Illinois correspondent Of the 0olss
+ trg Geaaemdn has much faith in real es
/. tate. He says: "Thesbarpest and ablesi
! sell and trade and deal, addprodt to profit
! notes at S5 or 80, and fret and worry and
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