The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-10-27
STATISTICS.
New York has 1900 policemen.

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clocks daily.
Thirty Eve feet 81 inches N B. man
jumped.
Outstanding United States currency,
Al.
France sent to England last year
800 1000, 900 eggs.
Castleton. N H is turning out 90
600 slate pencils day.
A Western locomotive recently ran
1873 miles in l42 minutes.
The city government of oakland, Cal,
cost last year S233, 1896 81.
There are nineteen bridgeport" post
offices in the United States.
1t cost New Haven, Conn, so to
kill and bury six dogs last month.
In 1878 the population of Austria, ,ex-
elusive of Hungary, was 20,970,000.
The whole human race, on an aver
age, uses seventy ounces Of tobacco o
year.
Six men recently caught |, 900 pounds
of trout in one day from Montana
stream
Last week, in San Francisco, the sales
of mining stock amounted to seven
mill IN dollars.
An Ohio jury were out thirty-nine
hours on five dollar dog case, and
then couldn't agree. s5s..
From Berlin to Rome without change
of cars, is among European railroad
announcements.
A young japanese gentleman was or
dained minister Of the Gospel in Bos-
ton recently.
A Troy workman lifted 600 pounds
with his hands. 1t is said he can carry
1000 on his shoulders.
1t costs France S6, 100000 a year to
protect the body polite from the rava-
ges of the criminal classes. rr-
1t is estimated that thousand stu
dents 90 to New Yolk to attei d the
winter courses of medical lectures.
The entire valuation of railroad prop
erty in Kansas, is Sl4,725,2S2. Last
year it was S9.676,3ls; increase, S5,.
04S 963.
About three hundred houses have
been erected in Salt Lake this year, not
withstanding the unprecedented dull
times.
The University race at Saratoga cost
the Yale navy $3.50, including S43O
for the barge and pair-oar, and the
Freshman race cost S2,075.
For the porgy factories in the vicin-
i!y of Bremen, Maine. it has been the
best season ever known One firm ma
king 300, 900 gallons of oil.
One can visit a japanese theater for
two cents, which is collected at the
door, and fan worth FIVE cents handed
to him to use and take home.
The foreign resident population of
Paris is made up as follows: 1000
Americans, 1000 Englishmen, 47,OOO
Germans, $4,000 B.lgians, and $4,000
Swiss. 1e
The surface OF Egypt capable of being
cultivated is 1884, $40 acres for about
1881 square miles), of which about
4,625,00O are actually under cultivation.
The number Of railroad cars in use
| in the United States is stated to be 359-
979, and of locomotives, 14,167. In
Canada there are 1880 cars, and TIA
locomotives.
Pennsylvania has 19J blast furnaces,
130 rolling mills, 16 rail mills, Is steel
works and 81 bloomaries. All the
other States put together do not con
tain so many.
Mrs, Nye, of Iowa, can get supper,
split kindlings, wash the dishes, milk
two COWS and feed the hogs while her
five boys and two girls are playing a
game of croquet.
Mr.. S. S. Jackson, Boston auction.
eer, has in his possession an umbrella
seventy-two years old. 1t is of Eng lish
manufacture, and till seven years since
was in constant use.
"How many regular, steady boarders
are there in this house ?" asked cen.
sus taker of a servant girl. There's
fifteen in all, sir; bat not morn four Of
'em is steady persons, sir"
1t is denied that Yale has given but
three degrees of D. D. in 40 years
from 1868 to 1873 inclusive the College
we are told, conferred IL doctorates oi
divinity.
The spire of Strashurg Cathedral is
no longer the highest in Europe. The
steeple of the Church of St Nicholas a,
Hamburg, just completed, is 472 feet
high, which is six feet higher thar
/ S.rasburg.
Diminutive Switzerland has been de-
prived of 1900 acres of territory
Through the arbitration Of Minister
Marsh, who was chosen to settle boun
Diary dispute between that country ant
Italy. She still has a few acres left
however.
A man who has figured it out says
that if the surplus wheat of California
estimated at 100000 tons, were loadet
: in carts containing ton each, and star
ted overland, the head of the process
: ion would be entering Boston befor
: the rear had left San Francisco. Or j
the wheat was loaded into ships of on
thousand tons each it would take 81!
hundred, and if these ships should sal
in line within sight of each other
! say twenty miles apart-they would eS
tend distance of $4,000 miles. or one
5 half the circumference Of the globe.
:, The Congressional Outlook.
v On the Sd of November % States, viz
r Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florids
! Georgia. Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Lou
l isiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,, Mich
T, gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Me-
S Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Sout