Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-05-04
TOLD BY THE ALMANAC.
Queer Statistical Facts Pointed Out
by the Compiler.


For variety Of information it is hard
to find anything that can beat an al
manac. One popular little pamphlet
of that description that is just now
circulating among New York drug
stores illustrates the wide sympathies
of the man who arranges the table of
events.
Like most persons engaged in sta
tistical tasks. that particular compil-
er had strong leaning toward NOR
tuary records. Out of all the days OF
the year 122 are marked by the death
Of some prominent person. According
to the almanac those unfortunates met
their doom in almost every way
known to the modern health bureau.
Aside from those who yielded up the
ghost in natural way, three of them
"suicided,' four were hanged, two
were guillotined. three were "assas-
sinated,'' one was murdered" two
were shot, doughty old Captain Kidd
was executed" while one man just
passed out of existence by getting
lost"
After the obituary notices births
are next in Importance, although in
the opinion of the almanac man the
replenishing Of the earth is trivial
matter compared with it's depopula-
ton. At any rate, only SO days are
impressed upon the mind as natal an
niyersaries.
AS for marriages, they scarcely
count at ALL Of all the people who
have entered into the state of matri-
mony since the beginning of the Chris
tian era only three of them made suf-
ficient ado about the matter to get in
to the almanac. They are Anne Boil
eyn, Napoleon Bonaparte ard Charles
Stewart ParneIl
The great battles of the world re-
ceiye discriminating attention from
the almanac historiographer, as do
fires, famous speeches, the browning
of sovereign heads and industrial
strikes. Remarkable trials also re.
ceive dattering notice, the latest ju-
dicial drama being The case of Nan
Patterson, who has gone down in al
canac history along with the Itch.
borne trial and the Impeachment of
Warren Hastings.
In the almanac Of 1906 education
and religion receive their due, the for
r1er in notice of the publication of
Johnson's dictionary, the latter in the
revision of the Presbyterian creed AS
to the relative value of the stage and
hn LII he 81.
IDENTIFY has pronounced opinions. In
his arguments the drama gets the
best Of it. at the odds of two to one,
for he deyotes eight pages to theatre
cal celebrities, and only four to pulpit
orators.
Lovers Of sports will find something
% tickle their vanity in the record of
| the Paris automobile race Of 1908, the
Corbett-Jeffries prize fight, and the
achievement of the Boston baseball
team which won the pennant in 1897
Unfortunately, the almanac scribe is
doomed to anonymity, but it is safe
| to say that he halls from Ohio. At
any rate. that is the only state whose
admission into the Union is consid.
| cred worthy Of comment.
Among detached persons and events
that help to make the lowly almanac
| a book OF pleasure and instruction
should be mentioned the baccarat
| scandal, the destruction Of the Chart
er Oak. the invasion" of New York
by Alexander Dowie. the attack on
! Russell Sage. a reception" to Mme
| Blavatslzy, the conviction Of Sam
Parks and the death of Nero. which,
by the way. is the earliest date re-
corded in the whole chronological ia
| ble.-New York Press.