The Meeker herald., 1896-04-11
held. In the same war the French EN-
Eployet ITO, ,OOO men.

|held. In the same war the French en-
Eployet ITO, ,0O0 men.
The Russian deet comprisas 173 war
vessels, exclusive Of the Black Sea
squadron. These vessels show an aver
Age displacement Of 400 tons.
At Gettysburg, the American Water
zoo, 10000 men fought, Of which num-
per IS 1888 federals and $1,000 confeder-
3etes were killed, wounded or captured.
One Of the expense items of the late
war, as shown by the books Of the war
department, is the s97, ,O3l which it cost
70 capture Jefferson Davis.
The statement issued by the treasury
department on January l, 1880, gave
figures showing that the total cost of
the war of 1s6l-65 was exactly s8,ls9,-
$4,000.
:, President Lincoln made fourteen diff
ferent calls for troops, asking for a,
aggregate of 2,si2.74s men. OF this
number he succeeded in obtaining g.
690. .40l men.
Every state In the union furnished
some federal troops during the war.
Louisiana. 1924; Mississippi. 545;
Texas, 1865; Florida. 1880, and even
Alabama furnished 2,576.
If the armies of Europe should march
at an eight-mile gait, five abreast. fif-
teen inches apart, it would require nine
and one-half days for them to pass a
given point.
The War of the Bastards was in 1924,
between Charles w. of France and
Edward III. of England, both having
for their chief officers the numerous
illegitimate sons of the nobility and
royalty.
The daily ration Of the British soldier
is 16 ounces of bread, IL of meat, . Of
rice, of dried vegetables and 10 of po-
tatoes Once a week he receives 2
ounces of salt, of coffee and 8 of sugar.
According Queer Statistics
there were 4 1856, 600 men enrolled into
the French army by Napoleon between
1901 and 1918. OF that number three
fourths died in battle of wounds.
In |. Chronicles, xiii, II, record is
made of SOC, 900 being slain on one side
which, however, may not have been in
single battle. l. Kings. Xxx, 26, tells
of 100, 600 men being killed on one side
in single day.
Burke, in his Letters on Natura
History" says that the three creates
battles were those fought by Lylla, il
eacG. theronea is the only one Of tn
three that he names.
The War of Devolution was waged BY
Louis XIV. against Spain to enforce
his claims to the Netherlands. which he
held should fall to him by lie droit de
Devolution, this being the law by which
the dover of wife descends to hel
children.
If there should be general European
war. as many anticipate, the daily ex
penses of carrying on the same will bt
about S2O.OOO.OOO. Between 1882 anC
and 1915 Napoleon lost 2,25O 600 French
soldiers in his attempts to conquer
Europe.
One of the big guns at Monterey, Cal.
is 35 feet long and weighs 1O4.OOt
pounds. A two-bushel bag of powder
is used every time the gun is fired, ant
the cartridge which 1t hurls into the ali
with velocity of 1900 feet a secont
weighs s5l pounds.
Bohn says that since 1850 the world
has expended $4,000, 900, 600 in waginf
war and four times that sum in holding
standing armies in readiness. England
claims to possess navy of 7O7 vesseI'
Of all classes, aggregating 1,70O, 600 tons
and 600 600 horse power.
The Samoan war" Of 1889 was thu
result Of quarrel between native ant
q German, in which the Germans nos'
was broken. Inside of twenty-foul
hours Germany had demanded 81 1,0O'
for that broken nose and 900 for th'
depredations committed ON German
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