The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-30
n FACTS AND FIGURES. 4

| a PARIS Drlde palu SlO,OUUtor her hand-
kerchiefs.
THE salt mines of Austria are worked
by million miners, ..,lE. ..f#
Why Is hen immortalY Because her
son never sets.
SUNDAY evening sittings in Rev. II. W.
| Beecher's church are advertised at $40
each, yearly. '-'' ''''
| VELoCPEDEs are prohibited in New
York Central Park, because they will
trlghten the horses. .'l =
A BOY of fourteen was recently mar
ried at Holly Springs, Miss, to woman
of thirty.tYo. r.,-r.r
TIE Rev. David Winters, Of Dayton,
Ohio, has married over 1000 people during
his ministry.
ST. LOUIS had thirty-three murders,
thirty suicides and Ave fatal coal oil explo-
sions in 1858.
THE hair of James Ferguson, Of Buffalo,
worker In copper, has, 1t is said, turned
perfectly green.
THERE are twelve churches on Erie
street, Cleveland, Ohio, within a. space of
less than mile
A FIVE thousand dollar monument is to
be erected over Sam Houstons now name
less grave, at Huntsville, Texas Iat,v5l
AUDUBON and his wife made their bridal
trip in 1908 down the Ohio, from Pitts
burgh to Louisville, on fiat boat.
PHILADELPHIA has three hundred and
eighty.ive churches, which will not nearly
give sitting room to all its people.
THERE'S promising young giant in
Cheshire, Mass only sixteen years old,
and already six feet and three inches in
height.
Two HUNDRED and eighty.four wives
and one hundred and seventy six husbands
fled petitions for divorce in Chicago last
year.
JOHN B, GoUGH was born in Sandgate,
England, In 1917. His father was q
Peninsular soldier, and his mother school,
teacher.
Six new postofices have been named
Norwood !" since the publication of
Henry Ward Beecher's story in the New
York Ledger. .......r,
DURING the past year there were 295
commercial failures in New York. 90 In
Philadelphia SO in Boston 81 in Balti-
more, and ~ in Chicago.
OF the six last elected Pennsylvania
Senators -Buckalew, Cameron, Cowan,
Brodhead, Bigler and Scott-none have
ever served in the lower House.
WHITTIER says that in the name MAUD
Muller" the Muller should be pronounced
so as to rhyme with duller. He says that
is the New England pronunciation of the
name.
A CALIFORNIAN speaks of 1900 acres
as small farm Two hundred acres of
wheat is "small patch" Some farmers
have as many as 5000 acres devoted to
wheat In one season.
A MACHINE has been invented and put
into operation in California, which it is
said has cut, thrashed, cleaned and sacked
the wheat from twenty acres in ten hours,
with only three men to work it.
THE town of Wells, Vt, has a citizen
who married at II. His first child was
a daughter, who married at 13, and
eighteen months afterward made her
father a grandfather, at the early age of
81 years. ..r,5...rr,
SOME one Versed has calculated that it
will take fifty men, working twelve hours
a day, seven years, four months and tbir-
teen days, to read through all the public
documents issued in the United States
every three months.
IT is now seen that cotton has not ex-
hausted the cotton fields of the South, but
bad tillage. A bale of 500 pounds of
cotton, when burned, leaves but four
pounds Of ashes. All the rest goes into
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In the amusement world the following
are among the dead of 1868: Rossini
Samuel Lover, Sterling Coyne, Mary Gan.
non, Julia Dean Hayne, Menken, Helen
Western, Anna Laeoste, G. M. Walcott,
Sr.; John Seton, Charles Kean, George
Jameson, VIM. Hanlon, Ronzini, Salvador
Taglions, VIM. Harrison, George Christy
THE annual incomes of the various
English Bishops range from $4,000 to
about $4,000. Canterbury enjoys the
latter and Sodor the former amount.
London and Windsor have each an in
come Of $4,000 a year, and Durham
$4,000. The other Bishoprics are worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 year,
ONE OF the most productive taxes in
the city OF Berlin is on dogs, amounting
to three thalers on every animal. The
number has increased about 1000 in four
years, and is at present 20,950, of which
1900 are useful, generally used in draw.
ing truck). This duty produces every
year for the municipality about 60,0OO
thalers r Vt efdsi't-l 1fCflii
THE Protestant Episcopal Almanac for
1859 gives the following general summary
Of statistics Of that church in the United
States; Bishops, A.; Bishop elect, /;
clergy, 1926; baptisms, 20,595 cenfrma-
tions, 18,406 communicates, 1884;
marriages, 1856 burials, II ,454 ordins-
tons, deacons, IS presbytefies, 93 can
didates for orders, $50; Sunday-school
teachers, 1880; contributions, $3,443,.
1887.
~ ORANGES were frozen solid on the trees
at Augustine, Fla, on Christmas day. The
weather was the coldest known in that
locality since 1855. The thermometer at
daylight stood at twenty degrees above
zero. It afterwards touched seventeen de-
grees. In climate where even white
frosts are. unusual, this. was very severe.
Last year, at.the same time, the Florida
ladies were dressed in lawns
a WRITER to the Waco (Texasl Reqister.
gives a summarylo Of the profit Of his farm
operations during the past year. He has
had $50 acres under cultivation--43O in
cotton, and 150 in corn. From this, with
the labor Of forty-two freedmen, he has
raised 1859 bales Of cotton, and nearly
10000 bushels Of corn. He has sold fis
cotton on the ground for $24,675, and
reckoning his corn at the going rates
thirty cents per bushel-that would
amount to $1,000, making the entire value
Of his crop $27,675. To Offset this there
is the cost Of labor of his hands, 1925
provisions for same, $1,s87; incidentaIs,
81, 200 making the entire cost Of pro,
ducing this crop, $12,312 This leaves
nice little profit Vt &15,363 as The result
Of one years farming.
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How Some Joint Stock Companies are
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