Show FACTS AND NEWS The word piety occurs but oacejin the Bible Mushrooms will be cultivated in the Mammoth Cave The strengtb of an elephant id i reckoned rec-koned at that of 47 menThe men-The chances of business success during a lifetime are said to be but 3 in 100 Kangaroo tail soup is now canned in Australia and exported in great quantities Two gentlemen while shooting in Kansas killed a hundred turktya in One night Voluaia county Florida has the largest orange grove in the orld1 OCO acres Yale College hag 108 instructors 1037 students and 126000 volumes in the libraries In Connecticut there are 1647 schools employing 752 rabies and 2 329 female teachers In eighty years the Eogliahspaak jag population of toe globe bus inC in-C ta ed 270 per cent Toe meal hours at toe Wnite H < OSH urn brtaktabt a 330 dinner at 2 und supper at 7 A R > aoeliais ui tbe edition of 1711 brougnt 2000 at a recent sale In Pan 500 a volume Nnw York oat < just put up 1150 new building to tar this year at a coat of 07rl9UOOOOO E jitan pig iron is within 5 percent per-cent as uw u in January 1879 a lime or profound desperation The hUgH hunting spidery of South America ncd Ceylon have legs which cover a foot of ground t Fuel for Bottou public schools coats yearly about 50000 and gas and water each about 4000 There are 21 valedictorians of colleges 1 col-leges occupying desks in the Treasury Department at Washington The average price of prime muton in Melbourne through the year is five cents and of bee six cents Collins street the Broadway of Melbourne is one third broader than Broadway below Fourteenth street The church at Irwin Col is 10 500 feet above tidewaterprobably tbe nighea Presbyterian church in toe world Funerals cost about 1000000 annually an-nually in Chicago 6000000 in II hnoie and 100000000 in the United Staten The New Yorkers are about to erect a hotel for hogs in that city to cost 60000 and to accommodate 15000 Cmcinnatians Large as the annual product of the preeious metals now is i it is significant that the amount is leas by 75000 000 than in 1853 The deepest well in the world is 3 200 feet or more tban threefifths of a mile in depth and is located at Buda Pestb Hungary Itye value of toe exports from this country during the twelve months ending with May exceeded the value of the imports by 226773866 There are about twentyfive tons of silver bullion in the mint at Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ibe gold and silver on hand is valued at 31000000 The greatest length of f the United States from east to west is 2800 miles greatest breadth north to south 1600 miles average breadth 1200 miles It is estimated that last year the total product of gold in the whole world was 118000000 nearly half of which was mined on the continent of America There are now but 100 books printed in raised characters for the blind and steps are being taken in Boston to raise a fund BO as to print at least twelve books a ye nIt n-It is estimated that during the fiscal fis-cal year ending June 30th there will be used 320000000 postal cards making a total for the last four years of almost precisely 1000000000 The Royal Observatory at Greenwich Green-wich England last year took photographs photo-graphs of the sun on 149 day and found that there were only eight days ou which the diak was tree from spots Putting the statement in round figures fig-ures the national deb was cut down 100 000000 and the nation 1 bank circulation increased 10000000 dur tbe year which dust ended Great Britain has increased in population to 35000000 in the last decade de-cade having a growth of a little over 4000000 or nearly 13 per cent This does not compare well with the increase in-crease in America of 30 per cent The Japanese government baa established es-tablished 50000 schools there are 250 newspapers and magazines published in that country and mechanical artistic ar-tistic and agricultural expositions have become the fashion The scales used for weighing gold in the assay office at New York are so delicate that when brought to a balance with two pieces of paper of equal size in the pans the mere writing writ-ing of a name with a leadpencil on one of the pieces of paper will add enough weight to the paper to turn the scales in its favor Mahogany was firat introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh who brought the trunk of a tree from Brazil to Queen Elizabeth She had various articles made from it and gave them to her courtiers reserving for herself a small workbox which is now in the Tower of London Great Britains population is 35 000000 Leaving oat India and China Great Britain now ranks sixth in number 01 inhabitants among the great states of the world Russia is first the United States second and the others follow in this order France Germany AustriaHungary Great Britain Italy Turkey and Spain I |