The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-04-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

TEXAS is supposed to contain 100000
cattle.
AT the latest count, Louisville had sol
Smiths.
THE King Of Burmah shuilding school
houses.
THE estimated cost of the lsthmusranal
.is &100,000,000.
PARIS Is to have new bank with cap
ital Of $30,000,000. ~
Two hundred and sixty newspapers are
published in London.
QUEEN VICTORIA is seven years the
senior ofthe Empress Eugenie.
n cost $4,000 to bury New York gem
tleman who died recently.
THE Congressional library now contains
170,965 bound volumes
THE National Bank circulation Of the
United States is e299, 1854, $40. y
WI.LARD's Hotel in Washington took In
$4,000 day during inauguration week.
EXP POSTMASTER GENERAL RANDALL has
taken up his residence at Elmira, N. Z.
A NEW music hall, with seating capa.
city Of $500, is to be erected at Boston.
THE loss by the. International Exhihi-
tion at Hsvre, last year, was 100000
francs.
IT is estimated that there are $4,000
100000 worth Of horseflesh in the United
States.
CuBA's population. last year, was ,S70,-
00O--of whom 764, 500 were whites and
605, 500 coIored.
ENeLIsH papers speak Of girl still liv-
ing in Wales who has not eaten anything
for 16 months.
A FUNERAL in Brownstown, Pa, was
attended by five sisters, all Of whom were
aged over eighty.
AT his death, Eugene Sue was worth
only sixty thousand francs. He spent
$150,000 francs in eight years.
THE estate of the late Senator Guthrie
valued at about 81, 1000, ,000-has been
divided among his three daughters
ARTEMUs WARDS works are to be re-
published In London, with thirty five Illus
trations from his panorama.
HAMILTON FISH Is the fourth Secretary
of State furnished by New York. The
others were Van Buren, Marcy and
Seward.
A MELANCHOLY news-vender in Eng
land committed suicide by pouring petr0-
leum over himself and then lighting il
with a match.
In Massachusetts, in 1867, there were
| 85,063 births, nearly thousand inerease
over 1865. There were LAS marriages,
more than ever before.
AN ingenious citizen of New Albany,
Indiana, with too much time on his hands,
has been two years in making a checker.
board that contains 8,401 pieces.
THE Kentucky University has an at
tendance Of $50 students the present year.
The buildings are located on the old home
stead of Henry Clay, at Ashland
1 THE Secretary Of War is RaWlins, with
out "g;" the Secretary Of the Navy ia
Adolph Il. Borie; the Postmaster General
is Creswell, with only one IS" and there
is not final "e" in the name of the At
torney General, Mr.. Hoar.
MILTON MERRYFIELD, of Shefield,
caught forty-two rats in one night, recent.
| ly by exchanging barrel Of oats that
had often been visited by rates for bar
rel Of water, covering the surface with
chat The varmints unsuspiciously
pitched in and met q watery grave.
THERE are in France fifteen coins, 81
follows: Gold pieces Of one hundred
fifty, twenty, ten and Eve francs silvei
pieces Of FIVE, two, one and one-half francs
and the four sous piece; bronze pieces o
ten, five, two, and one centime. TX
these we may add the Emperors, of TWEEN
ty-iive francs, soon to be coined.
SAMUEL SEDawIoK, Of New Lebanon
N, Y, recently killed and dressed her
because she produced no eggs but, upoI
being dressed, fifteen eggs were found, s1
of them with hard shells and full size, anC
two with soft shells, also full size. Thil
was one of ten fowls which produced Il 90
eggs in four months-the one dressed
above having laid during that time tel
eggs measuring seven by eight inches
No wonder she stopped.
Mr.. WILLIAM CHURCH, of Seymour
Conn, who cultiVates trout on his farm
estimates that he has five hundred trou
which will weigh from one and quartz
to one and a half pounds each five thou
sand which will weigh one pound; twent
thousand which win weigh from eight {
i ten ounces, and one hundred thousan
from two to four ounces, In three year
time he expects to send to market yeari
at least two hundred tons.
THE experiments which have bee
made over the telegraph lines betwee
Harvard College and San Francisco sho'
It that the travelling time required by electr
h city is as follows, from Boston; To Blu
/ falo and back, 0.10seconds. To Chicae
% and back, 020 seconds. To Omaha an
s back, 0S3 seconds. To Salt Lake on
o back 0 81 seconds. To Virginia City AZ
Q. back 10 seconds To San Francisco az
4 back, 0.74 seconds.
q A QUEER bet was recently made
!. SWanseY, Mass One man wagered th
Of no horse in town could pull four bushe
y Of corn 1.-TWO hundred and twenty-f0'
q pounds) in a bag or bags, four feet on
es barn floor, the bags being fastened TO
: inch rope one hundred feet In length. ~
D. novelty Of the bet attracted quite CROW
8 to witness the performance, but the fI
horse did the business easily. The prini
le ple which induced the wager was that
ut small anchor attached to along cable, "
W fasten large vessel, even in 8 Tery hil
@ wind.
Ry the annual report ,Ut the Comm
IS sioner of Internal Revenue, the gre
~ centres appear 70 nave padu baAos ~ =
sc Government for the year ending June
1868, as follows; New York city, 1921 4
Id OO4; Philadelphia, $9,0SS,07S: Boste
or S6,St7,457; Brooklyn, $5,815, ,440; 8
as Francisco, s., ,145, ,256 !; Cincinnati, 81, ,4e
y 1875 /; Chicago, $3,99S, ,292 Baltimore, 8
500 9O7; ST. Louis, So, 4s3,7S8S Newal
70 N. j., $3,3A0,2 ,297 New Orleans. s2,94
lis Ol9; Pittsburgh, So, 1890 Cleyelal
ht S2,503,247. FoTty-seven collection {
K, tricts returned each more than one 4
er lion dollars, the largest amount being 3
Of 557; ;692 for the Wall street district, kno'
z. as the Thirty.second New York,
to .---
at A Minister Shot While Performing {
2. Marriage Ceremony.
Id
he We wera inexpresgiblv shocked