The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The New York Central Railroad
Company owns 5S8 passenger coaches
and ga freight cars. The Erie has
AL coaches and 32, 26s freight cars.
The British possessions in Australia
cover 5, 3,075. 900 square miles. The pop
ulation, white and colored, number
9, ,S35. 954, by far the greater part being
concentrated IN a few cites.
I'm 1882, somebody in the United
States swallowed 73, ,556,0,6 gallons OF
distilled spirits, 25,62S,0 ga Ions of
wines, and So ,051, 1856 gallons of heer
over 600, 000.0 900 gallons all told.
and there was probably some water
used during the same period. d.-Detroit
Post.
There are, according to French sta
tistics, AZ, 4S7 sailing vessels in the
world, with tonuas of nearly four
teen millions. England heads the st.
and then come in their order A erica,
Norway, Germany, Italy. Russia and
France. Great Britain has 81. steam
ers, carving 5, 0a0O0 tons Next
comes America, with 504; then France,
with Ali.
I'm the British Army Report for
1880, just published, it is stated that the
total number of recruits inspected dur
ing the year was 46, 10s, and Of these
1874, or 407. 81 per 1000 were reject
ed. 1t is believed that most o. the e
were driven to the recruiting Office by
sheer necess ty. OF the number ap-
plicants. 27.8 3 were laborers and hus-
bandmen by profession. and 1915 oi
| these were found unit to he soldiers
Harper H. Black, of Hart ord
County, MARYLAND has several peel
mems of Continental currency. One
note is for twenty shillings issued by
the State of Delaware in 1853. Another
is o note of the denomination of 8,
issued by the state of Mary land in 767.
! Cn the face is the Maryland coat-of.
! arms, with the motto "Crescite ei
/ Multip,icamini" On the reverse ol
each note is inscribed: "Tis Death tc
| Counter.e t."
The reports of the Maine Railroad
| Commissioners for 1882 show a We J
gratifying condition of prosperity in the
roads of that State. The total income
of all the roads amounted to S7,5.1,'
$40 81, and the expenses to 81. 22 =
768 15, leaving a balance of 1882.
| 7S1.4a. The who e length of the mair
| lines operated has be n '.066. 6S. Tht
total assets of the Ma ne Central are the
largest, amounting to $12. .SZ7, sos z
the Boston & Maine coming next with
\ Sl2, $50, 623.4s.
"A firm in Boston that thirteer
years ago employed only five women
now employs 360; another .irm that 81,
years ago employed only fifty now EN-
| ploys 90. ; nd still another firm give
work to 1.200. Everywhere there is
drift of women into industrial employ
ment The wages of some of thcm
however, are andalously low, and it i
hard to imagine how they manage t.
live; SO that the question as to wreth
er the result will be altogether for tn
good of women remains as yet undecid
ed.--BOSton irdnScrpt.
The Warden of the Illinois Peniten
tiary has collected figures as to th'
death rate in penal INST tut, ons, and as
ton sh;ng var ations are shown. Whi.'
at ng ing the yearly deaths fron
900 inmates number less than seven
at Auburn they are twelve. and at Clin
ton over twenty. The lowest rate
three in Wis onsin. and the hi"hest
seventy-seven in Mississippi He say
that the practice OF lering convicts wor
in mines and upon railroads. withou
proper food or lodgings. causes fright
fut dest uction OF lie in several South
ern States. but he cannot un ers an
WHY the CURE is so h gh as forty-e gt
in New Hampshire j. SuR-