Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — BITS OF INFORMATION. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF INFORMATION.

California has 100,992,640 acres of public land, and has the largest amount of any State or Territory. The piano first made its appearance as a musical instrument about the middle of the eighteenth century. The whole number of men, from time to time, called into the national service during the war of the Rebellion was 2,688,523. As many of those were mustered in twice, while hundreds of thousands deserted who were never under fire, it is probable that not more than 1,500,000 effectively participated in suppressing the Rebellion. The richest gold mine known in tire United States, before the acquisition of California, was in Rowin county, North Carolina, which in 1840 yielded SSOO to the bushel of earth, or $3,000,000 in all, when the mine became flooded. In 1799 a nugget found in Cabarus county weighed seventy-eight pounds. For years a number of gold veins and placers or gravel deposits were extensively worked over a large territory on both sides of the Blue Ridge. The following table shows the aver age annual number as deaths to 1,000 of population in the countries : England and Wales 22.4 Denmark ..20.3 Sweden 20.4 Austria 31.9 Prussia 27.2 The Netherlands 25.7 France * 24.4 Spain 29.7 Italy : 30.2 United States 22. The electoral vote of each State is equal to the number ot Senators and Representatives to which it is entitled in Congress. The following is the electoral vote of each State at present: Alabama lOjMississippi 8 Arkansas 6 Missouri 15 California 6 Nebraska 3 Colorado 3 Nevada 3 Connecticut 0 New Hampshire 5 Delaware 3 New Jersey 9 Florida 4 New York 35 Georgia 11 North Carolina 10 Illinois 21 Ohio 22 Indiana 15 Oregon 3 lowa 11 Pennsylvania 29 Kansnß 5 Rhode Island 4 Kentucky 12 South Carolina 7 Louisiana 8 Tennessee 12 Maine 7 Texas 8 Maryland 8 Vermont 5 Massachusetts 13 Virginia 11 Michigan 11 West Virginia 5 Minnesota 5 Wisconsin 10 Total 309

The proprietor of a Louisville bone factory announces that persons leaving their bones with him can have them ground at short notice. Mothers never fail to recommend Malt Bitters as nourishing and strengthening. The King of Deutists, as he calls himself, is a Philadelphia curiosity. He wears a jeweled crown and gorgeous robes, rides in a resplendent chariot, and extracts teeth without charge. While a glib-tongued attendant sounds bis praises the King takes out teeth for all who apply, sometimes pushing them out with the point of his sword. Then he sells an ache destroyer at 50 cents a bottle. Prevent weakness and degeneration of the kidneys and urinary organs—Malt Bitters. An ourang outang lately exhibited at Munich amazed people by its skill on the violin, until one evening a doubting visitor stuck a penknife into it, and, as this had no effect, pulled its tail, which came off, bringing aloirg a piece of hide, Tire disguise bad defied detection for a week. The wearer was the father of the exhibitor of the prodigy.