The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
fACrs AND FIGURES.

The New York Central Railroad
Com k1y-OHns SIS passenger coaches
and q, 465 Height cars. The Erie has
AL coaches and 80, 26s freight cars.
LIN 1882, somebody IN the United
States swallowed IS, $50. 036 gallons of
distilled spirits. 25,628,071 gallons Of
wines, and 527, O51, 236 gallons of beer
over coo, 900. 900 gallons all told,
and there was probably some water
used during the same period.
Post. rs-zzr gs.-
There are, according to French sta
tistics, AZ. 487 sailing vessels in the,
world. with a tonnage of nearly four
teen millions. England heads the list,
and then come in their order America.
Norway, Germany, Italy, Russia and
France. Great Britain has 4, 81 steam
ers, carrying 100000 tons Next
comes America, with 5O4; then France,
with 414.
In the British Army Report for
1880, just published. it is stated thai The,
total number of recruits Inspected DUR,
ing the year was 46, 108. and of these
1874, or 4O7. 81 per 1000 were rejects
ed. 1t is believed that most. of these
were driven to the recruiting. Office by
sheer necessity. Of the number OF ap-
plicants, 27.SS5 were laborers and hus-
bandmen by profession, and 10, 165 OF
these were found. unfit to he soldiers
Harper H. Black, of Hartford
County, Maryland, has several speci-
mems of Continental currency. One
note is for twenty shillings. issued by
the State of Delaware in 1859. Another
is q note of the denomination of Sc,
issued by the state of Maryland in 1867
On the face is the Maryland coat-of-
Multiplicamini" On the reverse Of
each note is inscribed: IT'S Death to
Counterfeit LIS II re s.
The reports of the Maine Railroad
Commissioners for 1882 show very
gratifying condition of prosperity in the
roads of that State. The total income
of all the roads amounted to S7,5n,-
54O.64, and the. expenses to s., 22S-
1853 ID, leaving balance of 81, 352,-
7S1.49. The whole length of the main
lines operated has been 3.066.68. The
total assets of the Maine Central are the
largest, amounting to $12, S27 ,SOe.57.
the Boston Il Maine coming next with
S12, $50, 623.4S. '1aHr- ~. a-rr.
"A firm in Boston that thirteeD
wears ago employed only five women
now employs 800; another frm that six
years ago employed only fifty now en-
ploys 400. and still another firm gives
work to 200. Everywhere there is
drift of women into industrial employ
ment The wages of some of them,
however, are seandalously low, and it is
hard to imagine how they manage to
live; so that the question as to wheth-
er the result will be altogether for the
good of women remains as yet undecid-
ed.-Boston Transcript. ..,..
The Warden of the Illinois Peniten-
tiary has collected figures as to the
death rate in penal institutions, and as
tonishing variations are shown. While
at Sing Sing the yearly deaths from
200 inmates number less than seven.
ut Auburn thew are twelve, and at Clin-
ton over twenty. The lowest rate is
three in Wisconsin. and the highest is
seventy-seyen in Mississippi. He says
that the practice of letting convicts work
in mines and upon railroads. without
proper food or lodgings, causes fright
ful destruction of life in several South
ern States. but he cannot underst and
why the figure is so high as forty eight
in New Hampshire. y. Sun.