The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-11-03
STATISTICS.
There are $4,000 cabs in London.

AbeFe aTe 0U,oUO caDS In London.
A pack of cards atfnrds 9 2,5OS, $50 diff
ferent deals.
What is smaller than mites mouth !?
Its tongue.
The receipts Of all Englsnd's railways
are 5l nllious per week
There are about halt. million Scan
dinavians in the United States
j costs about q cents u thousand to
gum envelope flaps.
II speech is silver and silence gold,
hay much is dumb maa WORTH
Baltimore pays annually about mil
lion dollars for summer beverages.
"a distance Of ten houses Is required
= = sihese law between Chinese wasilg
Il Is.
~ European steamers from New
York City take out on an average 100.
GOO letters per week. f+r1aE
Harry II Brown,a Chester, Pa, swim
mer. swan nearly 4 miles in 4S minutes
recently. '' 5t ..' z-
What enormous legs firemen must
have, as we often hear of their using
hose 90 feet in length.
| st. Louis claims that it has the real
Tichborne and more bedhugs than Chi
leago ever dreamed of having. aa 81
/ Switzerland turns out about 800 600
watches annually. A great many per
lsons must work son time" there.
A Boston sugar refinery lately paid
S37 ,2S2 duties on one cargo. l.,
/ You can examine mules hoof to
ascertain his weight, if you want to, but
we don't advise it.
StauEton, Va, claims to have negro
lOO years old, but that's nothing. They'd
tcall him a middle-aged man in Mich.
gan. ...... f-.... .....- p
/ The Oldest inhabitant of Iowa, aged
/ 100 years, has gone to California, and
the State is left chi!dless and alone. d
+ Steel pens are manufactured at .Bir.
mfngham, England, at the rate of A..
ll2 500 week, and sold for 3 cents a
gross. '''- '-'' .'.,is 3D. z
The executors of E Twin Forests es.
tate have made a partial accounting
showing assets to the amount of $685.
523 81
Tae Church of England now has in
that country 10000 benefices, 1900
parsonages, 2O.694 clergymer land IS,
900 curates. q, ........ t--'... an 9 20
There is no accounting for it, but -four
women out Of five stick the postsge
stamp on the left hand corner of the en-
velope. .....s
There Were last year 7,145 miles OF
double line of railway in the United
Kigidom, of which 3,0o3 were worked
ffosiu;iisSsbs ;ote hlockYlsystema
= - = ...t,tndred paper mills in the U al
fited States give employment to 10000
persons and produce $4,000 worth OF
paper per annum. saat
1t costs 80 cents to get your boots
BACKED in San Francisco. This, how.
ever, is world of compensation. They
have no rain there during nine months
of the year. -
Notice has been given Of new Rus.
sian loan. This has been an annual event
since 1859, inclusive. The to;al amour,
of the Russian loan now amounts to
fl50,000,000. - q'0
g Joseph Porchy, living at Frenchtown
Pa, at the age of 102, probably has q
longer period of married life TO his cred
it than any other man in the United
States-S5 years, having forsaken life
of single blessedness when II years
old. ~ =,
The Staten Island Retreat, which was
provided for the poor children in New
York this season, has just closed for the
season. One thousand three hundred
poor children have each spent week al
the place; the entire cost has been abou
$4,000, or so cents day for each child
Statistics of the Cumberland Goa
trade show that the total shipments have
decreased this year, as comp ,red will
last year, 1882 tons. The decrease ha,
been in railroad shipments, the shipment:
by canal being, up to date, 20,27I tons
more than last year.
The Atlanta News says that gold or,
near Dahlonega, Ga, is said to be yield
ing the enormous amount of $4,000 s
ton. The mines are owned by capital
lists, one of them, the Aqueduct, havin:
been sold to Mr. Hand, of Ohio, fo
S5O0,00O 1t is expected that by mex
summer 1000 persons will be employed
in the ore mills. '>aa5ss ~ O. -
1t appears that in 1871 there were IL
i, Saxony 569 mines, embracing 5000;
HECTARES, and in 1872 there were 63'
Imines in SO, 100 hectares. OF the latte
!. 312 were metalferous and some othe
mines, l0l were colleries and .217 wer
Ignite mines. The mines appear to b
J well differed, for it seems that in th
metaliferous mines there was l Office
fol each II men employed, whilst. takin
mines of all classes, there are 90 work
men for each officer, and the 1,234 off
GERS have likewise to attend TO 742 VIC
men. The number of accidents, however
appears to be comparatively small,
Neither Possible Nor Desirable
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. 1t is impossible for President Grar
}, TO be reelected. The party that non
} mates him will be ignominiously dt
: feated. 1t is not only impossible fo
; him to be reelected, but not desirabl