Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-08-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The annual hay crop of Great Britain
is worth f240, 100000.
THE State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, N.
Y, contains 744 inmates.
A FouRHoRsE team will haul from TWEEN
ty-fve TO thirty.six cubic feet of limestone
at each load
THE area of the Southern States is near
ly 507 100000 of acres. There are 55,-
000, 900 Of acres under cultivation.
ABOUT 270 cubic feet Of new meadow
hay, or from 21G TO 243 cubic feet of hay
from old stacks, or from 297 TO 324 cubic
feet of dry clover, weigh one ton.
To COMPUTE the number of tons an ice
house will contain, calculate the number
of cubic feet in the house and divide by
80 this gives the number of tons IL close
ly packed.
BosToN has 475 public schools, 63 banks,
165 hotels, 1876 churches and religious as
sociations, IA courts, 1873 cOnstables, be-
tween 900 and 900 lawyers and 1S0 news
papers and periodicals.
SOME of the men who went to war a few
years ago did not gain worldly renown in
the strife. OF the 255,0 900 headstones Just
finished TO mark the resting places of
Union soldiers In the national cemeteries,
10000 are for graves of the unknown.
From returns made by the General
Agent of the National Board of Fire Un-
derwriters it is shown that the losses by
fire for the months of May and June last
in the United States and Canada aggre-
gated $16,427,7 ,751. This is exclusive of
losses in California.
The largest library in the United States
is the library of Congress, which contains
274000 volumes; next in order is the Bos-
ton Public Library, with 274,000, whilst
the Harvard University Library, with
1913, 900, and the New York Mercantile
Library with 1876, 100, are respectively
third and fourth in point Of size.
RECENT statistics show that the South
ern States have 1877 mills, 10,447 looms,
497, ,627 spindles and 59,996,510 pounds
each. Georgia has forty-two of the mills,
running 1894 looms and $3.50 spindles,
and 18522, ,399 pounds, or 46,307 bales.
The next State to Georgia in consumption
is South Carolina, which consumes 7,134-
558 pounds, and the next is Alabama, with
{, 400, 100 pounds, followed closely by Ten
nessee with 6,276, ,153, and North Carolina
with 6,032,68, and Virginia with ,434,-
OPS pounds, and the rest are under ,481,-
373 pounds.
In small blasts one pound of powder
will loosen about four and half tons of
rock. In large blasts one pound of pow
der will loosen two and half tons. Fifty
or sixty pounds of powder inclosed in a
bag and hung against a barrier will de-
molish any ordinary structure. One man
can bore with bit one inch in diameter
from fifty to sixty inches per day of ten
hours in granite, or 800 to 400 inches per
day in limestone. Two strikers and a
holder can bore with bit two inches in
diameter ten feet per day in rock of me-
dium hardness. .-Scientgfc american.
TO determine the weight of live cattle,
measure I'm inches the girth around the
breast just behind the shoulder blade, and
the length of the back from the tail to the
| fore part of the shoulder blade. Multiply
the girth by the length and divide by IA.
If the girth is less than three feet, multiply
the quOtient by eleven. If between three
and five feet multiply by sixteen; if be-
tween five and seven feet, by twenty-three,
or if between seven and nine feet, by
thirty-one. If the animal is lean, deduct
one-twentieth of the result and the answer
is the weight in pounds; this multiplied
by O605 gives the net weight-Scientifc
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