The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A shoal of Goldfish one mile long,
and containing 100, 900, 900 fish, will eat
S40,000,o00 herring in one week.-Cht.
cago Journal.
The colored race in the United
States is estimated at 1000. 900 strong.
and their property holdings exceed
800. 1000, o00.-7roy Times
1.-The manufacture of spools and
toys, which Is the principal industry of
Bryant's Pond. Me-, consumes about
50Oor 600 cords of birch yearly.-Boston
Herald.
The poultry product of America,
which finds market entirely at home.
was valued in 1882 at 500, 900, 900.
greater than the value of wheat, hay,
cotton or dairy products. 1ri,'-
Une.
The mortality of the globe. as given
by a continental journal which has
made the computation, is as follows:
Per minute, Ga; per dem, $3.50, and
per annum, 81, 639, S35. whereas the
births are &c, 792, 900 per annum, 100,-
600 per diem and 40 per minute.
Queen Mary of England in 1894,
the Emperor CT Germany in I'LL, and
the Dauphin and Dauphiness of France
and their son in l7l2, the Emperor of
Russia in 1870 and Louis XIV. of France
in 1774 are few of the royal person.
ages who have died of smallpox.
The fastest bicycle time ever made
was a mile in minutes 81 2-5 seconds.
Ten miles have been run in less than 80
minutes, 20 miles in less than hour, and
100 miles in D hours and 30 minutes,
which is three hours less than the best
time ever made by horse. Chicago
Herald
In 1871 Benjamin Franklin made
the city of Boston the trustee of a fund
of fl,0Ol, to be lent to young me-
chanics, calculating that in 1891 the
fund would amount to S5S2,000 His
figures must have been faulty, however,
for the fund now only amounts to $751;
O00.--BoSton journal.
The first wheat raised in the New
World was sown by the Spaniards on
the island of Isabella in January, 1894
and on March 80 the ears were gath
cred. The foundation of the wheat
harvest of Mexico is said TO have been
three or four grains carefully cultivated
in 1890, and preserved by slave of
Cortes. The first crop of Quito was
raised by Franciscan monk in front
of the convent. Garcilazo de la Vega
affirms that in Peru, up to 1903, wheat
en- bread had not been sold in Cusco.
"A wonderful farm is that known
as Baidwin's Santa Anita Ranch Ia Los
Angeles County, California. 1t COM
prises 1,200 acres in grapes, 5000
orange and lemon trees, 1000 poEGc-
granates, 5000 English walnut tree,
1900 almond trees, $500 peach trees,
1900 pear trees. 1000 apricot trees.
1000 flo trees. and subsistence is fur
nished for 25.0l0 head of sheep, 1000
COWS and pigs and several hundred
horses and mu es, and this year before
harvest could be seen 1000 acres of
golden grain.-Sdn Francisco Cali
-tDr. Farrell ONCE said that if one
could watch the march of 100000
people through life, the following
would be observable: Nearly 10000
would die the first year. $4,000 the see
ond year, $4,000 the third year, and
less than 1000 in the thirteenth year.
At the end of forty-five years 100000
would have died. At the end of sixty
years $4,000 would be st IL living: at
the end of eighty years. $1,000: at the
end of eighty-five, 81 900; and at nine
tv-five years there would be 223; at the
end of 10S years there will be one sur-
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