The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-04-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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recently sold for $4,000.
IT costs 100000 per annum to feed the
dogs of Cincinnati.
Two Americans have opened dentist
shop in Odessa, on the Black Sea.
Ono paid $837, ,OO7.73 Of her State debt
during the month of March.
TIE arabic land of the United States is
estimated at 1850, 100000 acres.
THERE were 22O alarms of fire in ST..
Louis last year; total loss, $2,020,900. |
Insurance, $1,655,105,
THERE are 10000 ministers of all de.
nominations in Great Britain, with 34,700 |
churches and chapels.
THE Cornell University has thirty-one
professors with twelve additional pro
fessorships to be filled) and 389 students.
BISHOP HUNTINGTON, the new Episco,
pal Bishop of Syracuse, N Y, has been
presented with a $25, 900 house.
THE telegraph companies of Great
Britain and Ireland own 100000 miles of
wire and manage 3,169 stations.
THERE are $4,000 shade-trees in Paris
principally the Elm, Plane, Horse
Chestnut, Maple, Linden, Acacia and the
Alianthus,
/ DURING 1868, 1853 persons were acei-
dentally injured on the New Jersey
railroads. In 104 cases the injuriesproved
fatal.
MANCHESTER, N. H., authorities allow
no one on Sunday to smoke a pipe or cigar
upon the public pave, within one mile Of
the City Hall.
A barry advertised for adoption in
London was wanted by $40 applicants, all
Of whom sent money as pledge Of good
faith,
THE father of cash boy in Louisville
dry goods store has brought action against
a salesman for slapping the urohin, laying
damages at $4,000.
AsINGULAR mistake was made by Fields
& Osgood, the other dav, in binding the
current number of Oar Young Folks in the
covers Of Parton's Danish Islands"
THE Fall River cotton mills manufac-
ture ia, $4,000 Yards-or LOTT miles of
cloth, yearly. The pay-rolls Of the various
establishmentsamo to$200, 900 month.
NJ SCHNEIDER, the President Of the
French Corps ,Legislatif, is one of the
wealthiest men in France. He has four
daughters, each Of whom viii inherit one
, million dollars.
THE burgomaster of Leipzig has prohi-
bited Yelocipede riding in the streets of
, THAI city, owing to the numerous acci-
dents which have recetly befallen the Yelo.
/ cipedists of Leipzig
9 A PARIS bookseller, NJ. Gosselin, has
G recently been sentenced to three years
: Imprisonment, and fined one thousand
s dollars, for selling books and phsmphlets
c not very complimentary to Napoleon and
8 Eugenie.
b MRS. john JACOB AsToR, of New York
J. celebrated the recent coming of age Of be-
a son, by furnishing Mr.. Brace, Of the Chill
b dren's Aid Society, with the amount re
!, quired to provide one hundred orphan
d boys with homes in the West.
Is DURING 1868, the seventeen street rail
I, ways of Philadelphia, with total lengtl
{" of f72115 miles of track, transported 90,
435 512 passengers, received $3,393,62
and paid out SO, ,460,703 During the sam
time, II horses were killed on the roads
, and IA injured.
= FIVE rustic New Workers gave polit
:, metropolitan sharper $3.50 to buy thei
y tickets to California, on his assurance tina
Il he could save ten dollars on each one
y passage money. The clever fellow disaI
!, peared in a crowd and forgot to return.
70 A. BR1DeEPoRT gentleman lately saw
y without interference, his landlord fleece
II of 500 by gamblers on the train, and +,
4 marked in explanation, " wasn't goin
q to warn him. He raised my rent $500 TIL
.. year" From which let all avarioior
landlords take warning.
K CHEVALIER, the aeronaut, who propose
k to cross the Atlantic, has had q hundre
" applicants for seats in his car on the occ
to sion. He has concluded to charge $2I
IS per passenger The voyage is to be unde
taken on the 9tst Of July, from New Yor
e. THE London Lancet mentions case
d. which new blankets, having been infectG
10 by scarlet fever, were put away uncleansC
rs in wardrobe. Fourteen months afte
re wards the mistress Of the house had the
blankets taken out and put upon her oW
m bed in few days she took the fever ar
m died.
ut a HACK DRIVER in Buffalo, who had d
e. tanned two gentlemen purposely fro
lts reaching the train, in order that he mig
make more money out Of them, was arrei
x, ed at the instance of the gentlemen, a.
re was compelled to pay their hotel bill a.
the costs Of the case.
20 ~ a GENTLEMAN who has had sever
= = months experience with the velooipec
~ ~ states that new beginners, instead Of pl
" pelling the machine by adjusting the h
I. low Of the foot to the treadle, would fl
~ it much easier and more conducive
N ~ health to use the forward part Of the TO
re. THE Jottanal Of Chemistry states Il
~ fish may be kept alive for ten days
in. more without water, by filing Vii
"a. mouths with crumbs of bread saturat
n. with brandy, and pouring little bran
ost Into their stonachs, after which, in 9
M torpid state, they may be packed in stra
They become alive in q few hours, VIII
ar again placed in fresh water.
gill Tim New York Herald states that
un- the seven OF eight societies organized
,oy that city eighteen months ago, for the p
are pose Of furnishing groceries and on
,er- supplies at cheap rates to the stockholde
or only one succeeded in establishing sto
OF and that has been closed at loss Of s
500. There are, however, several bui
ion ing societies in the city and vicinity U
ion are more or less successful
\ is a AvERY amiable and modest widow d
ties lived in certain country. Soonafter
al husband had paid the debt Of nature, le
ing her his legatee, claim was hroul
= 9 against the estate BY his brother, an
out process was eerved upon her by the she
Of the county, who happened to be y
re. over Of middle age She was M
|. n aiarmedsand meeting with & tcmale lfie
lere she exclaimed with AGITATION; what
was yuu thinkg thesherif has been after ~
WWeli,n said the consideTate lady, v
line perfect coolness, he Is very tlne ms
ore. But lie says be has an attachment for .
han replied the widow. 'tWell, have
suspected that he was attached to you,
wed dear But you don't understand :
4 bo says must 20 10 COURT s q that'sQ
,een another affair, my child don't you 4
fAF IL that II "a hlq place ta come
lynd court YOU