The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.


IRON clads, 4 frigates, II .covettes, IS
clippers, 81 steamers, p gunboats, II
j torpedo-boats, 81 schooners, and III
sailing vessels. This armament is
manned by 3,1S7 officers and 28,92O
men.
ACCORDING to an official report 160
Turkish mosques and holy schools were
DESTROYED in Roumslia and Bulgaria
during the Russian occupation of these
provinces; and about the same number
of mosques and schools have been de-
stroyed since the Russians left.
In Switzerland there were, this season,
I 1,400, 900 travellers, according to the
Geneva journal, a larger number than
has been registered in four years. The
number of English travellers has de-
creased, while that of Russian and Ger
man has increased. 1t is estimated that
! 200 francs is the average sum spent by
each traveller; therefore, there must be
about $50, 100000 francs disbursed in
Switzerland yearly by travellers. The
Times says the English travellers alone
have this year spent over 46,OOO,OOO
francs there.
STATISTICS officially compiled for the
German Government show that the pres
ent population Of the empire very con-
siderably exceeds that of 1916. In 1875
it was AZ, 727, $50, for the whole country,
of which Prussia had 25,742, 404, and
Bavaria 5,022, $40; in 1916 the popula-
ton of the whole country was "a, S31, )
396; for Prussia, 13,706,97S, and for
Bavaria, 1907 ,036. The figures for the
other and smaller States are in about the
same proportion, being in the average
an increase of nearly 100 per cent, not
withstanding emigration and war.
THE new Austrian Reichsrath is COM
posed as follows: Sixty-eight lawyers,
1873 landed proprietors, 40 employees in
active service or pensioned, IL en-
ployees in private service, Is professors,
SO merchants and manufacturers, 6 rail
way directors and engineers, medical
men, q clergymen of various confess
sions, military men not in active serv-
ice, 4 literary men, and 2 members with
no particular avocation. From this it
will be seen that the class of landed pro-
prietor heads the list, and next to them
the legal profession.
II CbBlCAL UOA IL 30 lilOnOc CebClI
way will hold bushel. Hence to as
certain the contents of a bin, take a
stick or rule II rs inches long, divide it
by marks into tenths and hundredths.
! Measure the length, breadth and depth
of this rule, multiply the three dimen-
/! sions together, and the product will be
bushels. This is the most convenient
and easiest method known. Use the
rules as though it were feet and inches.
Suppose, for example, bin measures
So in length, 81 in width, and 40 in
depth The product of these is 237 ,405,
or about 247.4 bushels. Every farmer
should make such a rule, and use it in
all cases where the contents of bins or
boxes are required.
THE history of single bean, acct
dentally planted in a garden at South
bridge, Mass, is traced by newspaper
correspondent, who figured out its pro-
duce for three years. The bean was
planted in rich, loamy soil, and when
gathered in the autumn its yield, as
counted, "was 1,5l5 perfectly developed
beans from single stalk. Now, if a
single bean produces 1,515 BEANS and
each bean produces 1,515 more, the sum
total of the second year product would
be 1926, 225, equal to 1,195 pounds, 597
quarts, or 1880 army rations, equal to
Is 5-S bushels. This would be the pro-
duct of the second year. Now, if we
plant this product and the yield is the
same, we have a product of 5,26S,05S
S00,625 beans, equal to 1871, $50 tons,
or 42,S71,572 bushels, or 54S, 756, 068
soldiers rations. This third planting
would give the steamship Great Eastern
go full freights.' Few beans, however,
start so well as this one did.
FEW persons have any idea of the ex-
tent to which shells are used in indus
trial processes or of the large number so
employed. In the popular mind the
pretty poetical conception of the 'mur-
muir" is generally associated with the
4" SHE'LL but beyond this merely senti-
mental interest little concern is as yet
manifested either for conchology as a
study or for the practical purposes to
which the tiny houses of their mollusc-
Gus inhabitants are put. The shells of
commerce may be conveniently CLASH
fed under the following sections: L.
hDlucI-Ol- IJtdllI SilCilS, IOl ildhIIS JUL
tons, card-cases and other useful arti-
Giles, and for ornamenting papier-mache.
q The different kinds of small shells
extensively used for flowers, bracelets,
head-dresses and fancy groupings of va
rious designs. 3. Shells used Tor cary
ing canoes to set in brooches, studs,
etc 4. Shells used for spoons,
lamps, nife-handles, snuff-boXes,
etc 5. For manure, in the form
of shell-sand and shell-marl; for
making the finest sort of lime
when calcined, and, when crushed, for
glazing or enameling potteryware. 6.
In various parts of North America, At
RIGA and India shells are used as current
coin, and also as counters in certain
grmes. Z. To the painter and art de-
signer shells afford suggestive studies in
form and color s. Some of the biggest
are used for vases, fountains, fog-horns
and trumpets; while in China partic-
ular kind is employed as a substitute for
glass. These eight sections present at
one view the different ways in which
shells are made commercially useful,
and it would only complicate matters to
give examples under each heading, for
in doing so we should have to introduce
rugged names that would make our
readers, like Quintilian, "stare and
/ gasp" ..s.
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