The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-22
STATISTICS.
London has 500 cab drivers.
Nohodyia older then tho dayil

Sumner County, Kansas, makes ton
of salt week
Saratoga Springs was patronized by
the elite OF 1892
The champion grasshopper of Kansas
weighs an ounce. lzs -
Champaign, Ill.,, has 5000 inhabitants
and four railroads.
Junius Henri Browne calls the dead
"thc silent majority
The r&lHay traffic of Great Britain
has exacsfy doubled since 1850
New York has just lost hundred and
thirteen year old centennarian.
According to Dr.. Maginn, no cigar
smoker ever committed suicide. q
Chicago has 60 banks, but some of
'em do their business after sunset.
Another benevolent gentleman has
Eleft Yale $4,000 No foul about that.
Illinois contains nearly four times as
many residents as the city Of Philadel-
lphia. sv uE e
Thirty.four cargoes of wheat are now
on their way from San Francisco to En-
gland.
The racket of a Milwaukee family
fight can be heard mile or more in O
still night a.
Four per cent Of the male inhabitants
of every village in the country, are nov
out fishing.
Twenty one thousand feet is the high
est altitude at which q European ever
passed a night. .. ' ash8
The prevailing church in Iceland is the
Lutheran. They have 32l churches and
1S9 ministers. .T T.e.lo-ar. ..r.3
A car of fruit is shipped east from
San Jose, CAL, every day. Each car
Econtains ten tons.
| There is not in all the State Of Texas
a single Universalist Church .edifce or
church organization. aeft f ~
The amount of opium consumed in
ithis country is ten times greater than it
was thirty years ago. ioa
| Over S6,00O.0O0 worth of property
has been buried in American lakes since
the Introduction Of steam.
The Crown Point silver mine in Neva-
da (Jones netted S93O067 for the
quarter ending June 80, 1874.
Not a single murder or attempted
murder took place in St. Petersburg In
the months of May and June.
The Japanese census shows only 5000
criminals in population. of over 49,
100000 souls. sa sH 81
q 1t cost s50,OOO,OOO TO run the govern
ment of New York City from August 1,
1873, to August 1, 1874.
England and Scotland are said to con-
| tain 100000 habitual drunkards, inclu-
ding both sexes.
There were seven suicides reported by
telegraph in the Chicago papers as hay-
| ing happened last Thursday. ,,
In clearing out an old house in Amer
Gus, Ca, the other day, 425 bats were
captured. ~
The Albany penitentiary contains 700
inmates, of whom IL are females. The
number Is the largest ever there, at one
time. .sa.y-,f
j From 1851 to 1861, 10000 sheep were
slaughtered by dogs in Connecticut, and
! New Haven has been almost depopula-
ited. q
l .. !.
The Pennsylvania Railroad claims the
largest locomotive in the country. 1t
has 10 driving wheels and weigs 70 tons
! Connecticut ranks third in the United
States as a silk manufacturing State, ,hav-
i ing 25 silk factories with capital of
S3,450,0OO.
! An enormous chew-the French and
i Austrian Governments have contracted
for s14,0OO,0OO worth Of Virginia to-
bacco. 3,
| The Louisiana ice manufacturing com
pany are now producing on the average
70 tons of ice per day, and yet the ther-
mometer stands at 95.
I A man recently died in Pigeon Cove
"of fine mind and unusual benevolence
and fatness, with high moral principles,
weighing $50 pounds.
h The salary OF the Postmaster at Hull
is s24 per annum, and the salary of the
Postmaster at Holiday, Ill, Is 81 per
annun.
A carrier pigeon let loose in Elizabeth
N. j., at 1920 a. m. on Thursday reach
ed its home in Philadelphia at II a m.
fying distance OF 10 miles in 40 min
/. utes,
Twenty one millions of shingles have
been shipped down the St. John River
+ from Fairfield. Me-, besides large quan
Titles sent 10 Houlton to be shipped from
Presque Isle.
France last year produced 1,3Sl,O0O
tons of pig iron, being 100000 ton:
more than in 1872 Her production oI
steel was 177477 tons cast steel, and
103,533 tons Bessemer steel.
During 1873 there were lat fires ir
Switzerland,by which 151 buildings were
; entirely destroyed, and 144 partially
damaged. The loss amounted to about
1922 200 francs.
, Has any New York Alderman an in
terest in clearing" the sausage market
Six thousand dogs have been dispatched
there since the pound was opened, and
it must mean something-Boston Globe
There is a lively dispute as to whether
Chicago hackmen are as mean as Niaga
ra Falls hackmen, and all papers west o
the Detroit River are expected to sup
| port western enterprise.
tits not generally knowl thatSt. Pc
, ter's covers larger space than the Co
liseum, and that its outer walls are abou
the same height as the walls of this ia
: nous amphitheater of Yespasian.
Two old citizens of Boston have beel
walking together in our streets this coo
/ and pleasant August day-Timoth,
1 Dodd, who is about 81 years old, On,
: John Southern, whose age is SO years.
e To carry the Pacific surplus whea
crop to Europe will require about 10
J, ships of 200 tons burden, according t
d the calculation Of the San Francisc
s shippers This is thought to he Is
0 more ships than can be procure for th