The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-08
STATISTICS,

\ tllcen Elizabeth had 400 dresses.
Brighton, Mass, has dog 20 years
old
The Fire Brigade of Paris numbers
|, ,493 men.
FIour is So 50 per barrel in Helena,
Montana
II takes $50 rails to lay mile of rail
road track
Z There are 158 Baptist Churches on the
isseile Coast :.
Raeie Islan1 thinks six State consta-
Va u agafs iIas s5iiissIiiz ov5r II5;s;
Coo horse power.
Paris las $4,000 dogs which are taxed
635, 900 francs.
More than million miles Of telegraph
wire are in use.
Fine best jump with pole on record
is 10 feet y inches.
Minneapolis, Mimi, spends 100000
annually for -four barrels.
The great State of Pennsylvania has
bpt one agricultural paper,
Philadelphia sent $4,000 tons of
freight to Hartford by propeller in 1873
{The railways get about ss,00O,OQO a
year for transporting mail matter,
Eight colored lawyers, in all, have
been foated over the Florida bar.
Chicago is principally mentioned now
as beggarly array of empty buildings.
The japanese revenue is estimated by
yans the yen is eQnal to dollar.
The rate Of taxation in Boston this
year will be between SIS and SIG per
81 600.
There were 4S Americans studying at
tie university of Berlin last winter.
Over Is per cent of the population of
tie United States are engaged in agri
culture
Twenty. two bodies have been -ecov-
cred from the burnt steamer, Pat Rog-
ers, on the Ohio.
The Pittsfeld, Mass, Sun has just
completed Il years, the third Oldest pa
per in the State.
1t is now estimated that about $4,000
600 worth of sugar was lost during the
food in Louisiana.
The tea crop of Japan this year is the
largest ever known. This won't affect
tie retail price, ofcourse.
Virginia is living in hopes Of sending
6 woman 122 years old to the Centen-
NAL. -
Richmond, Va, has now more new
taildings in process ofereclion than any
osaer eity-except Boston.
s.ss 6 oldsnith Mid. ct II, can make a
mile in 2 14f, what will She do at 81 p
Boston Courier.
New Haven claims a rain fall of nearly
eleven inches in less than thirty y-siS
gears Boston Journal. Try again
Thus far $50 pardoned criminals in
South Carolina are much obligedsto Mo.
Ses. H -i
Colorado contains 6S 100000 acres oil
land. The railroads have 100000
There are still $4,000, 900 opeE for occu.
|pancy
There is about to be o bi-centennial
celebration of the birth Of Or. Isaac
Watts, who was born at Southampton in
1874.
Lancaster, Pa thinks il merits the title
of churches, having with population OF
less than $4,000 souls, % places of wor
ship.
Nathan Foster is an Athol, Mass
brickIayer of Sc years,who still plies the
trowel with all the vim OF young man
Five hundred and seventv-five dollars
profit in one year from II swarms o.
bees, is the report of New York bee
keeper.
The Hartford Times says that gen
tleman who was invited out to dine
found afterward that he had gained 8!
pounds.
The quantity Of milk daily consumed
in New York is estimated at 100000
quarts. This is more than 2 quarts {
day to each individual.
The majority of the male population
of Switzerland die before they have at
tanned their fftieth year; the cause il
said to be intemperance.
Out of our total population of 10 year:
old and over, of %, 23S,945, there are re
ported as illiterate 5 ,657,144; of these
3,05425 are females.
A Lowell, Mass, old maid discomft:
carping critics, by exhibiting to then
documents proving that she has refused
over 40 offers of marriage.
Another old citizen gone;
| She lived to an hundred and seven;
For such good person she
| Was long time gettiug to heaven.
The British Empire in India has & to
tai area Of very nearly a million and
half square miles, occupied by more THAI
23S, 900, 600 people.
The oldest living Congressman i
said to he Samuel Thatcher, Of Bangor
who is in his 99th year. He represented
a Massachusetts district from 1902 t.
1906.
A careful estimate Of the extent Of to
bacco culture in Deerfled gives 4O'
acres this year against 700 acres las
year, about the average of the Connect
cut valley
New York is thinking OF taxing he
church property, savings banks and in
surance companies. Only S344,O00,00
are invested in those institutions in tha
State.
A firm of Connecticut brass and cop
per wire manufacturers recently drew
copper coin into 2,700 feet (more than
half mile of wire.
A Pennsylvania topper swore of ST
years ago and has put penny into
box for overy drink he would have ts
ken ;he counted his hoard the other day
and found he had missed 1887 drinks.
The gross sums to which American
have fallen heir in England an6 Hollan
during the past three days is $3.50 900
O00, ,00c, 100000, with a small townshi
to hear from.-Detroit Free Press.
Texas cant get much ahead of Mass;