The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-06-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Mr. BULEE6AME's two balls in Paris
cost the Emperor Of China $4,000.
In San Francisco,. there have been re-
turned ninety-two incomes in excess Of
$4,000.
PAPER PETTICoATs are now sold in
London at sixpence each. Shoes are made
Of the same material. .4spaz
THE number Of real estate sales in San
Francisco during May was ,O34, amount
ing to $4,222,2S7.
HARTFoRD, Conn, isrto have rink
which VIII scat Z, 600 0persons, Accommodate
800 skaters, and cost $40, 700.
A BOY aged 10 has beer sent to prison
for week, in'France, for aseditious hurrah
in the presence Of the Empress.
TIE Second Adventists, it is said, have
fixed upon the 10Th Of July as the day on
which the world win come TO an end.
In williamsburg, l. l., there Is man
i97 years DID, &c Is a weaver BY trade,
and. though too feeble TO work, is still
lively.
CHE pumber Of immigrants arrived in
New York during the first five months of
this year was 5o,630, against 34, SIT for the
same period last year.
DR, JUDs0N 1baptizad the first Burman
convert in 1Sl9ss Since. then more than
| 10000 BuTmans, Karens and Shans, have
believed and been baptized
; THEsQuesnTof Madagsscar has been re-
| ceiyed into the Church Of England by
baptism, and ordered her ministry TO do
likewise, under penalties.
Mr. JOHN g. owens is, probably, the
| wealthiest actor on the American stage.
/ Els property is said to be considerably In
excess Of half million dollars.
The number lof passengers over Prus.
/ sian railroads in 1868 was07 ,84s, ,66J. Dur.
ling the year 93 persons were killed by
railway accidents, and 104 were wound
ed. s ..-
HANs WAcHENHUsEN, the German
4 feuilletonist, says, In recent article, that
a certain Miss Arahells sold, at q fair in
New York 5000 kisses for dollar each.
A NOTE was found in the pocket Of
recent suicide inaBngland, saying "DNsr
friends, don't believe my wife If she says
she has not money to pay for my coffin"
THE cattle In Switzerland amount to
100000 10 numbef, and are valued at $42,-
100000, or about $47 per head. The cows,
$4,000 in number, yield $30,00O,00O of
milk every yeaEa saI
i AN ivory tusk, six feet three inohealong
and 22A inches in circumference has re-
Gently been exhumed Ia Montana. 1t was
found buried in the sand, twenty-five feet
\ below thesnrfacer aEi n ''rHr
i THERE are only twenty-five persons in
Oregon who pay income tax on sums ex-
oeeding $4,000. The largest income is
S255 1888, returned by the agent Of an es-
tate, and the largest personal income is
| $49O1a. .aafESs5 etN
THE Russian church at silka, Alaska
Territory. was recently robbed5Of q copy
of the Bible, richly studded with valua-
BILE stones, crosses and other eTnanaents,
sltogetheT. said to he worth 100000,
The Masonic Grand Lodge, New York
| city, has purchased q lot on Sixth ave
/ nue., opposite Booths Theatre, at cost
/ lof hetweenR $300,000 and S400000 On
:, this lptEa large Masonic Han is to be
erected; al F.H
Tue authorities Of Dresden and Vienna
set free a large number of singing birds
which had been hrought 10 those places
for sale. In Saxony and Austria, the use
! fulness Of birds as destroyers of insects is
! Officially recognized
A GENTLEMAN residing in Lewiston,
! Maine, left his three little children at
! home while he attended church, and when
. he returned found them busiiy employed
! IN eleaning the insideo Of a $3OOgon watch
! wlthasoap and. water, i....s - ~.
FIFTEEN hundred eggs were accidentally
4 broken in front pf the Batavia (N. W
= Pest Office NOT long since, and ihe presi-
i dentso the village hadto spread barrel
], Of coal tarlover the stFeetand then set fire
! to it, TO destroy the smell Of bad eggs
a A WOMAN in Troy, N. Y, has produced
Z Q needleWprked picture of Washington,
q Containing nearly 100000 stitches 1t was
a fatiied off 8nd won by Prof. H. NJ Cole.
q man, of Yassar College, Three hundred
n tickets were sold AZ one dollar each,
0 ANEW YeER lady, recently ordered a
Q. trousseau at Stewart's'dor her daughters
q doll, which received a complete outfit in
D under clothing, silk and lace. One of the
If articles ordered Wasan India shawl, NINA
u ture size, at $50, and . lace hsndkerehiel
y was valued at $l2. na
le ACCORDING to the figures presented al
II the Brewers' Congress, nearly 6,000,00C
tsa barrels Of beer were sold in 1868. The
81
b valued atsDne hundred and five million
a. dollars and the number Of persons en-
2. ployed isstated at forty one thousand
q WHITE PINE, the silver mining distric
e In Nevada, received It's name from tht
a vast quantities Of white pine timber COY
~ ering the mountains in that neighborhood
g. A local paper notices boards twenty-five
y- feet in length and twenty one inches wide
z, cut from, the white pine trees One los
7 yielded seven hundred and sixty-six fec
~ Of lumber.
r. TnE number 81 sheep IN Ohio il
e 1868 wes7 $50 645, producing not less thar
ne 80 100000 pounds of wool, The farmer
.fs of Ohio ini 1S56B loatin killed and in
" II iured y6 25f sheep, by dogs, which wert
ell valued at Ssss,697.45. The number o
ay dogs in 1886, vas IA 900, making the los
ne fof the two years per doe $i.62, a sun
" sufficient TO defray the exp enses Of nearl,
lat 800 families, At an annual cost Of $i,O0
~ each. sas
u WoRK,fEE repairing en- old house il
gss Hartford, Conn, lately, found beneath tn
Kitchen floor q young butternut tree thai
without sunlight had grown to the siz
tof mans wrist, running hori2ontall
Twenty feet. IN its course It had pickle
nm an old dinner fork, and elasping it |
lals 4 branch, Rugged it to the main stem 8
Or, as to bend it to the curve Of the tree, an
ss then adopted it as part Of the butterny
,el' family by growing its bark and wood a
IT around ik
=, THE number Of children in the Sunds
- - Schools Of the United States has been est
- I, ! mated At about four millions, and OF tescl
Z Z J, ers. four hundred thousand. Il has bee
s. estimated further, that the cost Of mai
w ss taining the Sunday Schools Of the coui
- tfy averages about sixty cents schoh
~ n per year. This would make an aggrega
X Of two millions four hundred thousar
~ dollars fof Sunday School expense
M n. which Is only the one,eighth hundrt
'e5 part Of the amount paid BY the people
far the United States ioE intoxicating liquol
Tin population Of ParispFopeF, witho
gsa ths sa6ufbs, Is 1,700000 inhabitants
lns: whom q50 900 ere men, 70o,600 wome
dit and 1900 clildten, About 400OOO