The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-03-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The ages OF the Freshmen at Yale range
from SO to 10.
CHEYENNE has three church organiza-
tions and two church buildings.
A SON of Theodore, of Abyssinia, is
travelling with menagerie in England
LAST year the American Bible Society
printed 100000 copies of the Scriptures.
DURING January, Pennsylvania yielded
daily average of 1912 barrels of petro-
leum
THE first piano sent to Japan was re-
Gently shipped thither by New Haven
manufacturer.
IT is supposed that the annual losses by
cattle diseases in this country amount to
$500O0,000.
A BUDDHIST monastery in Thibet, To-
1T feet above the sea, is the highest
known human habitation.
ONE New York car-driver is worth
$125,000 He lately sold Central Park
property that brought him $4,000.
A New HAVEN merchant has insured
his life for $4,000 for the benefit Of the
New Haven Orphan Asylum.
YALE has graduated so College Presi
dents, 10 Cabinet Ministers, 40 Senators,
30 Governors, and more than 100 Judges,
0NE-TmRD of the 10000 women and
girls who have to earn their own living
in New York, do not average over So a
week.
MR.. BURLINGAME's credentials to the
French court were five feet long and COW
cred all over with fve.clawed dragons.
A NUMBER of young women in Massa-
chusetts manufacturing establishment re-
Gently kert silent, on a wager, for sixty
long minutes
A CARGO of wheat from California,
which recently arrived at Boston and was
sold, returns net loss to the parties in
tere,ted of over 100000,
New YORK is more densely populated
than any other city. In one portion 1872,
900 persons reside within square mile.
London cannot furnish parallel.
HALE a mile in $50 carried off silver
cup for the fastest of nine velocipedists in
Nashua, N. H., the other day, the victor
being Walter Hartman, nephew Of the
Governor.
OUT of 100187,391 passengers con-
Yeyed on Massachusetts railroads, in 1868,
seventy.tiVe lost their lives. During the
same period 155 railroad employees were
killed.
On the east side of the highway leading
from auckland, Me-, to the Congrega,
tional Church in Sumner, every tree is
rock maple, and on the west side every
tree is beech,
IT is curious fact that although the
rain keeps thousands away from church
on Sunday, it does not deter single man
from attending to his business on week
days. .. ay..y.-
PROBABLY the oldest tree on record is a
cypress at Semma, in Lombardy, that was
known to be standing when Julius Cesar
lived, 1900 years ago. 1t is lO6 feet high
and 20 feet in circumference.
THE largest man on record in modern
times was Miles Darden, a native Of NORTH
Carolina, born in 1908. He was seven fee
and six inche Ugh. At his death, in 1857
he weighed little over one thousand
pounds. -.
HoNG KoNG contains $4,000 inhabi
tants, of whom $4,000 are Europeans ant
Americans. Its annual export and i'm
port trade is valued at $500, 100000 Tht
Chinese exclusively occupy portion o
, the city.
THE Maxwell House, erected in Nash
vile, Tenn, on lot that was bought fol
, , S11, in 1880, is nearly completed at cos
of $400,000. II will be one Of the larges
hotels in America, During the war it wa
used as hospital.
: IT seems that veritable black diamond
! was found by Federal soldier back o
/, Atlanta, Ga 1t is seven. eighths Of al
inch long, two and half inches in cir
cumterence, weighs two ounces, and /
worth several thousand dollars.
, THE number Of newspapers in tn
! Southern States is as follows Texas, IA
: Louisiana, "a; Alabama, 81; Arkansas
As; Florida, 80; Georgia, 96; North CaI
+, olina, 65; South Carolina, G7; Kentucky
q 10; Mississippi, rs; Tennessee, 90.
E "A lady in New Hampshire recentl
q determined to exchange for currency a sil
q yer dollar which she had carefully KEEP
8 for thirty-fve years. rhe money change
' astounded her with the information that
was counterfeit,
: A BRAKEMAN in Eastern Pennsylvania
t who leaped from some cars that had bt
: come unooupled, and which ran back in
!. to passenger train, causing the loss {
several lives, has been sentenced to thil
!. teen months hard labor for neglect
9 duty.
y DURING the twelve months ending 0c
d /, 1867, 7s, 451 crimes were committed /
e New York. OF these rs were murder
5 7,721 assaults, and the remainder rol
g berries and thefts. The police force nun
,. bers 1900 men there are eight police ju
Q tices, with II aldermen and 81 clerks I
0 assist them daily one district attorne.
J, with 19 assistants; a recorder, city judg
a and Judge of oyer and terminer, b
/ sides, there are SO officials Of the Cou
e of General Sessions and officers Of Sp
e oial Session, besides coroners, and
i. iails, station houses, &c, which requil
Il Al keepers. The expense of the city fl
d this number Of officials is $3,212690 p,
H. | apr,Y1 oY ovar &9 200 a daV