Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-24

Demon with head like huge earthen
pot
The largest library is the Imperial Of
Paris, which contains over 100000 vol.
umes.
Fifty-three United States Senators have
been chosen by the legislature of New
York State.
The United States has 1000, 900 gold
coins, and only Ali, 005,0O0 of these arc
in circulation.
The word nicotine is derived from tho
name of John Moot, who introduced to-
bacco into France.
There are about $500 counties in tho
Union, with an average size of about
1000 square miles.
OF the 1898 fires in Massachusetts, last
year kerosene caused 255, matches 262,
and electric wires IL.
The coast line of Alaska exceeds in
length by 5000 miles that of all the rest
of the United States.
The assessed value of property in Cali
fornia rose from 1854, 57s, $3.50 in 1880 to
81, 112, 000, 900 in 1890.
The growth of New York is marvellous.
The natural increase Of its population
now exceeds 10000 each year.
No monarchy has ever produced SO
many millionaires in 80 short a time as
the republic of the United States.
The product Of gold in the United
States the last 16 years has aggregated
the enormous amount of $572, 100000.
If all parts of the United States were
as densely populated as Rhode Island, the
population of the country would be 945,-
100000.
1t is calculated that the expenditure
for liquors and narcotics absorbs the net
proceeds of one days work of the world
per week.
Nearly one-ffth of the entire population
of the United States live in the 80 chief
cities, which have population of over
II 100000.
Statistics compiled by the Census
Bureau show that the debt of the United
States is now $14.6S per capita as against
s3S. 33 in 1880.
There are now 1873 newspapers Of
different classes in the United State:
and Canada, net gain over last years
record of 1913.
Women are to be admitted to the phar
maceutical profession in Russia. The
Academy of Medicine will open specia
courses for them.
Medical statistics prove that it is les,
dangerous to life to go on an Arctic ex
ploring expedition than to have an at
tack of pneumonia.
In the text of the "Encyclopedi;
Britannica" there are 5000 words which
have never been formally entered anC
defined in any dictionary.
1t is estimated that the wealth of thu
United States now exceeds the wealth o
the whole world prior to the middle o
the eighteenth century.
The astronomers of to-day confess tina
they have no good reason to suppose tina
any of the planets, great or small, contain
any sort of organized beings.
After time sheep may be useful onl,
for mutton. Wool, the chemists say, cal
be made more cheaply from wood fibe
than it can be grown on sheep.
There are 10000 acres of land in tn
city of Berlin, and less than half are oc
cupied by buildings. There is an averag
of 80 persons to each house in the city.
Don't wager that 10. 1O-cent piece
weigh as much as a silver dollar. The
do not. The superintendent of the Min
says they only weigh nine-tenths a
much.
Statistics now show that 100000, 90
of the human race wear clothing, $50
100000 habitually go without clothes
and 100000 only cover portions q
the body.
The first census of the United State
was taken in 1890, year after the foul
dalton of the Government under I'll
Constitution, when the aggregate popl
lation was $685. 14.
The Brooklyn Bridge took II years {
build, cost $15, 900, 900, and was the frs
joint investment of Brooklyn and Ne,
York. 1t has been, from every point {
view, great success.
William L. Marcy, in e speech in til
United States Senate, January, 1882, sale
"They see nothing wrong in the doctrir
that to the victors belong the spells" q
didn't express approval of the doctrine.
When the mosque of st. Sophia.
Constantinople, was built, more than
thousand years ago, the stones and brio
were laid in mortar mixed with a sol,
ton of musk, and the building has bee
fragrant with the odor ever since.
The Census Bureau has issued p stat
ment of the debtof nations, which SHOW
that the total Indebtedness of foreign n
tons is over sos, OOO, 900, 900, that of Il
United States 1918, 600, 900, andGpf Il
CIT. 90, I TIT 80, -. 1000 OO0 nO0