Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.
BOSTON has l 500 fire hrdrants.

Boston has 800 fire hydrants.
Toledo has a one-legged champion
skaIer
Charleston has a military school seven
ty-seven years old.
The King of Sweden has written over
500 poems.
The Bank of California paid dividend
of 5000, 900 last year.
Two arrests for umbrella stealing have
occurred in New Haven.
The message of the Governor of Rhode
Island was not two columns long.
The profits of the richest gold mine in
California last year was $340, 400.
A. T. Stewart has sold this season,
twenty $4,000 shawls, and one for
$500.
Brick Pomeroy is the third wealthiest
man and she largest taxpayer in La
Crosse.
In Liverpool, England, over 5000
women were punished last year for drunk
enness.
A small carriage drawn by four trained
goats is now kept for hire in Central
Park, New York.
President Grant has received suit of
clothes from Siberia, made of Siberian
furs, and cut in the Siberian fashion.
Wisconsin has 626 persons who draw
pensions from the United States. The
amount paid them is 1915, 649.66.
The young women of Lewiston, Me-,
have formed society pledging them
| selves not to kiss a man who uses to-
bacco. +tf
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy finds old
Boston entering upon its 240th year of
existence, but the 4sth year its city
life.
1t is estimated in London that the fetes
at the opening of the Suez canal have cost
the Viceroy the enormous figure of 96,
600, 00G in gold.
| A magazine writer estimates that every
man, woman and child in America uses
up five hundred matches per year, or at
that average.
| A wild boar, weighing 35S pounds, and
with an eight inch tusk, was recently
killed on Trimble's Island, in the White
river, ten miles above Duval's bluff Ar
kansas.
Every fashionable bride in New York
expects such costly presents that many
people decline to be present at the cere'
mony.
The Universal Russian Exposition" tC
be held at st. Petersburg in May, 1870
will be an exhibition of Russian product!
and manufacturers solely.
| B. 3. Allen, of Vergennes, VT, who
died few days ago, aged 81, had laugh
the High School in that place twenty-si
consecutive years.
Mrs Stanton's advice about choosing ;
wife is: "Always look for girl witt
good teeth, for the teeth are a sample o
every bone in the fair ones body"
The "supes" in the London pantomime
complain that this year they lose thei
situations because ambitious clerks, anX
ious to be seen on the stage, are willin!
to take their places without pay.
In Queen Victoria's crown there are 1,
1863 brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose dia
monds, and 147 table diamonds, l larg
ruby, II sapphires, II emeralds, SINAI
rubies and 277 pearls-a total of 2,19
precious stones.
A Philadelphian named Morgan, re
Gently arrested as thief, declared by a
that was sacred that he was an homes
man, yet he at that moment had on fou
coats, three pairs of pantaloons and tire
shirts, all stolen.
There is a couple in New Hampshire
bTr. and Mrs. Archibald Ford, IA year
old, who have lived on the same farm
forty-five years, and for the last eighteel
years have not deemed it necessary t
employ either servant or doctor.
Some very fashionable ladies in New
Orleans hung a yellow ribbon on thei
door-knobs New Years day, as an indics
ton that they would receive calls. Tn
callers didn't come, and they afterward
found that it had been considered sig
of smallpox.
A few years ago an ingenious gentleman
managed to get drunk free of expense al
most daily, in the streets of London, b,
falling down in fit with small placart
on his breast, "Don't bleed me, but Civ
me a glass of hot brandy and water"