The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-18
STATISTICS.

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Itcosts IS to hop at Long Branch.
Thirty-two millionaires at Saratoga,
Niagara Falls is distant,. one day from
New York
St. Paul grinds over three million
barrels Of -four year. i.s,
The German army now numbers l..
s24 $40 men, with 2,740 cannons.
+ An English writer estimates that there
are II, 600 hymns in the language. ssa-
The doctors work fills six feet of
ground but the dentists fiils an acre. =
The number of candidates for the
University of London this year is 703.
The Bergen. N. j., people estimate
their late hail storm ut 100000 tons of
ice i-tf,7. %s>.e.TiI l.,f
A Connecticut burglar is worth $75,-
900, all acquired by sticking to busi-
ness. - $3.50 lE~A aP..
Twelve thousand operatives are out
OF employment in the anthracite coal
regions E@sh .EAi #'H 2 -
The comets speed is 10 miles Sec
ond, or 5000 times faster than an ex-
press train. itlt 'e -di
Not less than forty persons were
killed ny lightning in Minnesota. in one
week. e-aaH8s I-liNee sai.
The various newspapers of New
York city own about S15, 100000 worth
Of real estate. 34syl ' Z.
There are in Philadelphia and vicinity
about $500 manufacturing establish.
ments.
Eighty-Hve Burlingtonians are 20
years old and upwards. The Oldest is
a Frenchman, 106. =. .e.'-5 50. i2s'
Uf the total amount of the Vermont
State tax. $685., $50 so, all has been
paid in except about 81 800. ia
The exports of wheat from New
York for June exceeded those Of any
month in the history of trade.
A Portland man has a suit Of clothes
thirty six years old, which he has worn
at each of his four weddings "3oh q
Mrs. Sarah Kidder of Livermore,
Me-, will be 103, October next, and is
probably the Oldest person in the State.
Four hundred and seventy.five bats
were recently captured in one house at
Americus. Ga, and most Of them on
tie fly. II ~
A human being has seven millions Of
pores through which perspiration and
exhausted particles of the system es-
cape. &;
Since the beginning of ocean nayiga-
ton by steam, thirty-three years ago,
fifty-one steamers have found the bot.
tom Of the ocean.
The Texas cattle drive this year Dum-
bers about 155, 900, with 100000 win
tered in Kansas, and 10000 in Colora-
do, that will also come into market.
There are forty-two catscombs in and
around Rome, with galleries 5S7 miles
Ilong, and it is estimated that from four
to seven millions Of bodies have found
sepulture therein. s -s
The new Palace HOTEL San Francis
CO. is to be $50 feet in width, 272 in
depth, six stories high, with pavilion
ed roof, contain 700 rooms, and cost,
completed and furnished, $2,750,000.
! Up to date one hundred and seventy
six different kinds of tonic and stom
ach bitters have been patented, but
most people prefer to buy their third
class whisky and flavor to suit. :
Minneapolis has population OF
nearly thirty thousand, several iron
works, cotton and wooden mills, two
paper mills, and the largest grist mill
in the country, having u capacity OF one
thousand barrels of -four per day. >
The Detroit Free Press says it takes
three months to prepare for 9 fashion,;
able wedding in Baltimore. That's
nothing. A young lady in Boston has
been twenty seven years about it. and
the cake isn't ordered yet.-N II Reg.
ister. ,. -.,....,.t.te.4z1 ~
Nine fingers blown clean off; eighty
seven hands seriously burned; thirty
teeth knocked out by miscellaneous
causes; twenty six runaways, half OF
them with serious results; seven fires
million feminine screams, occasioned
by letting fire-crackers and bombs of
when end where they we're least expect.
ed that's fair estimate for aaglorfous
Fourth of July celebration in San Fran.
cisco.
Chicago elevators, contained on june
30tb, 1,054, ,S4l bushels Of wheat, 3, a47-
269 bushels of corn, 3ll, ,735 bushels ol
oats; 10,40S bushels of rye, and 1881
bushels barley, making grand total Of
3.S32,234 bushels against 2,4S4. ABS
bushels one week previous, and 3.641,
5S4 bushels at the same period las
vaar