The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-02
STATISTICS,
Iowa has one hundred counties:

indianapolis has eighty-two railroads
Trenton boarded GOES soamps lsst
year.
Iowa erected 1906 school l-houses last
year.
Ohio's champion baby weighed elev-
en- pounds.
A Baltimore library loans $500 books
per month.
Memphis has 1s0 lawyers to offend
and defend her.
There are 10000 commercial travel.
ers in the U. S.
New Jersey had So5 railroad acci-
dents during 1879.
Peru's guano "crop" is estimated at
100000.
Names ice crop will reach nearly two
million tons
One convict escapes from Blackwell's 3
Island every day.
The Gloucester shad net was more
than mile long
10000 Crcassians have emi9rated
from Russia to Turkey.
Syracuse, N Y, turned out $4,000,
900 pounds of salt last year.
More than 100000 votes were cast
in the late English elections.
A Reading man ia the father of Al
children. Seek no farther.
There have been eighteen collectors
of the port Of Boston since 1889
Twenty thousand emigrants arrived
in Gotham ore day last week.
London had 1852 periodicals printed
within its limits in February.
One company at Montpelier sold H..
900 sleds for children, last winter.
OF 100000 men who took the pledge
in this country, $4,000 broke it.
| A Michigan manufacturer has $4,000
broom handles ready for shipment.
There are seven insane asylums, with
$1,000 insane persons, in Massachusetts.
More than $4,000 persons in Maine
over ten years old can neither read nor
write.
In San Antonio, Tex, there are 900
Americans, 1000 Mexicans, and 1000
negroes.
1t is estimated that Tulare County,
Cal, will this season export 1926, 200
sacks of wheat.
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One hundred and thirty-four immi.
grants lately arrived at Sacramento on
one night.
Forty thousand cattle are said to have
perished in Utah and Nevada during the
winter.
| The Milk Condensing Co., of Elgin,
Ill +, are about placing 10000 trout in
their reservoir.
The total export of silk from China
for the seas on of 1884 is expected to
be about $1,000 to $4,000 bales.
America imported one hundred and
fourteen lawyers and two hundred and
thirteen physicians last year.
Germany has now $4,000 Old Catho-
lies, organized into "a societies, which
are ministered to by 81 priests.
Ohio had fewer marriages by nearly
1000 in 1878 than ih 1866, although the
population is largely increased.
Kentucky publishes nine dailies,
eighty-six weeklies, and sixteen month
lies lone hundred and eleven in all.
A rope thirteen miles in length has
been manufactured at the Alameda
rope factory, for deep sea soundings.
The five factories in Sweden consum-
Led last year 5l4,506 cwt of beets and
produced 32,197 cwt. Of unrefned su.
gar.
The United States have about eeven-
ty five thousand miles Of telegraph
wires, or double that of any other ma
ton.
1t is a singular. fact that an Indian
census uniformly counts population in
fives and tens, and that there are no
units.
| During the last ten years, $40, ,000, 600
of property has been destroyed. and
10000 persons killed or injured, by the
use of unsafe oils.
Since the beginning of ocean naviga-
ton by steam, thirty-three years ago,
Hfty.one steamers have found the bot
tom Of the ocean.
| Canadians drank over eighteen mil
lion gallons of intoxicating liquors last
year-over four gallons and a half to
each man, woman and child.
The sum required in the ensuing year
to meet the claims Of officers arising
out Of the abolition Of the purchase
system in the British army is f657, 900.
There are said to be about l, 500 miles
of narrow-gauge railroad constructed
in this country and Canada, and over
$4,000 miles in the process of construc.
ton.
One thousand miners year are killed
by accidents in the British coal mines
Tn 1868 the number was 1,0l1; in 1870,
99l in 1872, 1850. The coal product
for the same years was 1o4, ,566. l59
tons, 112,875,525 tons, and 1888 1853
tons; or an average of one man killed
to 10000 tons raised
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