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Sundry Facts And Figures

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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The ü. A. R. haa al.out 400.000 meinbors, of wliom 40.978 are in Pennsilvunia, 38,291 in Oh o and 27.635 iu New Yoi'k. The Souix Reservation, one-lm If of vvhieli it is proposod lo open np to mlLl ph, foniiiiiis ;!7,0Ü0 squuro iu lii.it is l.o gay, it is Iarger tlmn Mm ', Sute of Kontuoky. Over 950,000 worlli of pol atoes wru sliippod Iroui Hul fax to tlie Unitu i Stiiiüs (1 uring last October, November ;iikI December, and largo quan1iüo- continue to be sbipped. Fivo Dargen of 250.000 bnshels wero roccntly oa bound ni Minas Buy. Tliure is a wood pulp factory at AgiH Lu, (;;i., it wliicli tho expeclltion with whicli paper could b(? manufaclureil w;is reoently demonatrated. A tree was ent in the foriist it six o clock in tho morning, was made Into pulp and then mío paper at 6 o'clock in tlie evuoin, and disii-ibuted among tbe pooplo 119 :i nowspupei' at 6 o'ctock tho müx! rnorniiig. Froin a ti'ee in tlie forost to :i printod newspapor, bo n; resul lv lliousands. in tlie brief round of tweuty[our-hours, Probably the most remarkable rallroud .ii tlio world s tb at running froin G-lorgintz to Lounering, near Vieua. li s onlv 25 miles in lentlt, and cost .ver 17,000.000. It begins at the 1 Ule slation of Glogglutz, :ii anelovation of 1,400 feet, and trom there the train, II au led by two )ovcrful locomot ves, winds round and round over sonie lifteen iloublu viaduets and tlirousrh as manv lannels. It oreeps along preeipioes, affurding gliiupsea of gome of tlie wililest soenery in Europe. lts terniiinis, LouoeriDff, is at ao olevation of 3,500 feet.

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