The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-02-17
INDU >TRIAL, STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.

AT the close of 1869 the number of SOL
diers' orphans cared for by the State of
Pennsylvania reached 3,63l. Last year
the number was only 2,789. The State
expenditure for soldiers orphans since the
inauguration of the system has been ST.
432, ,226.
OUT of total population Of 35,00O,0O0
in France there are stated to be 100000
PrGtestants and $4,000 Jews, half of the
latter inhabiting Paris. The number of
Frenchman who have formally declared
that they do not belong to any religion is
about $4,000.
THE London Medtcal Record announces
the formation in Paris of Il strange society.
The members bind themselves by a spec
ial testamentary disposition not to be in
TERED after death; their bodies are to be
delivered to the dissccting rooms of the
various medical schools for dissection.
THE speed of railway trains in Ger
many is illustrated by report Of the rail
way bureau of the Empire for the month
of December, 1875. The greatest speed
per hour, including stops at intermediate
stations, was, for express and fast trains,
thirty four miles on the Berlin, Potsdam
& Madgcburg Road for ordinary passen-
ger trains, thirty-fo miles per hour on
the Maerchen & Posen Road. The slow
est speed was, for express and fast trains,
twenty one miles per hour on the East
Prussia Southern Road; for ordinary pas
senger trains, sixteen miles per hour on
the Ermsthal and the Cromberg roads OF
Wurtemberg. The average speed per
hour was, for express and fast trains,
twenty-eight miles; for ordinary passen-
ger trains, twenty-one miles. This estl-
mate is for the whole empire, except Ba-
vara.
SINCE the 1st of January, 1876, the Ger
man Empire has uniform currency-all
the old gold, silver, copper and nickel
coins of the various States comprising the
Empire having been called in and re-
coined The fredericksdors, pistoles, due
ats, gold crowns, guilders, kreutzers,
schillings, pfennigs, batzen, groschen.
silbergroschen, neugroschen, and the va
rious other coinages of the petty German
Governments, which were formerly so
great an annoyance to travellers, have all
disappeared from circulation; and the
bills of the various obscure banks, which
passed current only in their immediate
neighborhoods, have also been replaced
by notes authorized by the Imperial Coy
ernment.
THE American watch has now obtained
an almost universal reputation for superb
ority over the English watch, and this, in
great part, because of the less number OF
pieces of which it is composed. Thus the
former of the key-winder class, contains
143 pieces, and the stem winder 155 pieces.
The English watch, on the other hand, IS
composed of 638 more pieces than the
American, the excess being found in the
fusce and chain. According to the length
and fineress of the chain, the English
manufacture contains from sixty-four to
seventy pieces to the inch, the fusee and
its attachments about forty-eight pieces
and this accounts for the greater number
of pieces comprised in the English article
So well are the advantages OF the Amerl
can principle in this respect now under
stood by the English makers that tht
manufacturers of the celebrated Frodshan
watches have for some time past don't
At
away with the fusee and chain, thus re
ducjng the number Of pieces,-N' T. Sun