The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-11-24

! During the past season about 10,per.
sons day have visited the summit OF
Pixies Peak, Colorado. f.f'iH - HIS +
The deepest hole in the world is an ar
tesian well at Pottsdam, Mo which goes
down $500 feet. 9li ,Jaae ..rsa -
How many days has the year, Of its
own? Three hundred and twenty five;
because 40 are Lent, - si e-aIT-Sa
The several Australasian colonies now
own fleet of about. 1000. vessels, ag
gregasing upwards of $4,000 tons. .
The German railways employ abou.
100000 persons, and their average year
Ily pay is 332 thalers, or about HS211:
OF the 81 Senators and Represents
tives in Congress from Illinois, A were
bofnin the. State and II outside, 1T !
The British and Foreign Bible societ,
in London, since 1904, has, issued Tl23,
100000, Biblesnin $50 different langua
Ses,Rd uH. ed 4ez Sa5;47 tag,s,o,;
9 At Saltwater, Wis, last week, L., 900,
900 feet of logs were disposed Of at ON
sale, the sum realized being about Sl0O,
000. "a j ,nr539' "a gid 70 s.asnsd |
|ss fhe largest plate ofiglass 'ever manu-
facturedl in the United States was recent
ly cast in Indiana; it is, rS4 BY esqlsiini 81 in
ches.
i One. hundred and thirty. six degrees o
doctor Of divinity have been cohferret
by colleges in the United States thi
tyear. nte ,ieoo atiwle 80 hisGw ysdi
. England now numbers 1893, priests
F1,453 churches, Sc monasteries for men
286 converts for women,and !, ,260 Cath
|olic schools
One English frm OF shippers recent,
had more than quarter Of a mile o
steamers in the Liverpool docks besides
sailing ships. al a1sdi foaie Go .s9as3s
b The annual product 1ot America,
syateheso withstaading the dull times
exceeds 100000, and the capital inyestel
reaches $4,000, 600. - .. -
OF 1000 children born onlr 502 attai,
the age OF 20 years Gin France, 65.
{ males in the United States, 662 id En-
gland, 67oin Sweden, and. 742 ia Nor
way. - sf3 .ss treo-s IL ,,.s.i.,s
uc.In 1867 the, number of births il
France exceeded that, of .he. deaths bJ
about 90 per cent; il 1871 the numBel
of deaths in France outhdmbered the
births BY So per centoi CO woE .a2ss
u7A Boston lady and gentleman8havt
played 10000 games of crihbage togeth
er, the lady being two, games ahead ~
This, must have taken about As days
time altogether. Nss''a 'S s''sh' "tAi'
Coteo5na' seed is 'becomhg gsoneof th.
principal articles'pf export.fsem Egypt
1t has gradually risen from l,00Qewkiif
1860 to 349O,0S0 eNt in,.lS73, Of ths
the value ofs3,s5o.00o. England take,
nearly all this. ''"'' ''''
Ii is stated that an exceptionally large
group Of spotsis now visible On the sur
face or thessuni They msy bei perceIv
ed with smoked glass without the aide
a telescope According to Mr. w: F
Denning, of, Bristol, England, the spot:
cover On area of neatly 49, GOO miles. .
=. = As many i as 1o,947 ,so3 bushels Of f'e., oys
ters were taken in 21ST0e1f; Willie tht
waters Of Virginia are 'saidto be equally
lproductives In the CREST oyster mafkets
of Baltimore, where immense quantities
of oysters are timed, over 10000 hands
are employed in this branch Of the trade
The extent to which. the filthy habit O
snuf-dipping is indulged in in the United
States will hardly be believed One New
York firm last year sold l61, 900 pound:
of snuff, all of which was the kind useC
for dipping, besides more than 15o, ,O0t
pounds Of the regular mixtures for til,
fashioned snuffers. gB eix9
= A London paper comments on the in
increase of suicide in France. In 1926
when official returns on'tliis subject wer
first prepared, they numbered 1879; il
1881 fthev were 2,0S4 III 1886, 2,349; il
1889, 2,747. in 1871, 1914: in 1845, 8,
0S5; iE. IS47, 9 847.: in 1852, 3,674: Il,
1860, 1920, !, in 1869, 5,ll4; in 1872, 5,
275. 1t is9feared that this year they vii
reach 1000 ssi isHf ,tisSiis5I i39aa tg6
"A French. veterinary surgeon com
putes that there are 16, 149 800 horses ii
Europe. Of this number he r, ckons tia
France has 1868, 800; ApsAia, 3,1O0,
OOO;, England, 1856 200, Gtrlnany,,2,
500 600; Prussia, / 800, 1000; Turkey /,
100, COO, and the rest are divided among
Spain. Holland, Belgium AID Swi,zar
land. No account is given Of other Eu
ropean nations. ....l',t -" 10 ;, 81
p In 1869 there we're ., ,6S7 cabs on lh,
register in London; ine 1870, ,7,34l,; il
1871, 7,828;,in 1872 8,l6Q: in 1873, 9,
655. The, number now actually running
is 1854, Of which 3,64l are Hanson ant
F4,223 are Clarence cabs, The proprie
tors are $500 in number and. of thes,
only SO are the owners Of 30 cabs. .ol
more, the stock Of the remaining s2Ill
ranging from ! to l9. ,,flv srz,a,,r.
% Somecurions1 statistics have just ap
lpeared in a French journal, which ssyt
that France numbers 5,67L000 smokers
the means.consumption of each being
a. sS kiloss!( { 10'lbs. q OF per annum.-
Out of Is smokers, 8 use pipes. 5 cigars
and 2 cigarettes. The consumption Of
the latter for the whole of France is es.
timated at 204 milliards, or sos million.
per day, 33 millions per hourg 559, ,0ot
per minute, and 1898 per second. Ths
annual number Of cigarettes placed in 8
string would form length of 2,057, ,93(
Kilometres, or about 514 times the cir
cumfpTenpe of the earth. cd les .-qitios