MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES. 



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separated it from the slave states of Maryland 

 and Virginia. It was run with the excep- 

 tion of about twenty-two miles by Charles 

 Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English 

 mathematicians and surveyors, between Nov. 

 15, 1763, and Dec. 26, 1767. During the ex- 

 cited debate in Congress, in 1820, on the ques- 

 tion of excluding slavery from Missouri, the 

 eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke made 

 great use of this phrase, which was caught up 

 and re-echoed by every newspaper in the land, 

 and thus gained a celebrity which it still re- 

 tains. 



Famous Giants and Dwarfs. The 

 most noted giants of ancient and modern 

 times are as follows : 



Height, 

 Name. Place. Feet. Period. 



Goliath Palestine.. 11.0 B. C. 1063. 



Galbara Rome 9.9 Claudius Caesar. 



John Middleton England. . 9.3 A. D. 1578. 



Frederick's Swede Sweden... 8.4 



Cujanus Finland... 7.9 



Gilly Tyrol 8.1 



Patrick Cotter Cork 8.7 180G. 



Chang Gow Pekin 7.8 1880. 



Many of the great men of history have been 

 rather small in stature. Napoleon was only 

 about 5 ft. 4 in., while Grant was 5 ft. 7 in. 

 One of the greatest of American statesmen, 

 Alexander H. Stephens, never excelled 115 

 pounds in weight, and in his old age his 

 weight was less than 100 pounds. 



The more notable human mites are named 

 below : 



Height, Date of Place of 



Name. Inches. 



Count Borawlaski 39 



Tom Thumb (Chas. S. Stratton) 31 



Mrs. Tom Thumb 32 



Che-Mah 25 



Lucia Zarate 20 



General Mite 21 



Birth. Birth. 

 1739 Warsaw. 



New York. 



New York. 



China. 



Mexico. 



New York. 



1837 

 1842 

 1838 

 1863 

 1864 



Summer Heat in Various Countries. 



The following figures show the extreme 

 summer heat in the various countries of the 

 world : Bengal and the African desert, 150 

 Fahrenheit ; Senegal and Guadaloupe, 130 ; 

 Persia, 125 ; Calcutta and Central America, 

 120 ; Afghanistan and the Arabian desert, 

 110 ; Cape of Good Hope and Utah, 105 ; 

 Greece, 104 ; Arabia, 103 ; Montreal, 103 ; 

 New York, 102 ; Spain, India, China, 

 Jamaica, 100 ; Sierra Leone, 94 ; France, 

 Denmark, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, the Bur- 

 man Empire, Buenos Ayres, and the Sand- 

 wich Islands, 90 ; Great Britain, Siam, and 

 Peru, 85 ; Portugal, Pekin, and Naal, 80 ; 

 Siberia, 77 ; Australia and Scotland, 75 ; 

 Italy, Venezuela, and Madeira, 73 ; Prussia 

 and New Zealand, 70 ; Switzerland and Hun- 

 gary, 66 ; Bavaria, Sweden, Tasmania, and 

 Moscow, 65 ; Patagonia and the Falkland 

 Isles, 55 ; Iceland, 45 ; Nova Zembla, 34. 



Curious Misnomers. Arabic figures 

 were not invented by the Arabs, but the early 

 scholars of India. 



Cleopatra's needles were not erected by that 

 queen, neither do they commemorate any event 

 in her history. They were set up by Rameses 

 the Great. 



The Jerusalem artichoke has no connection 

 whatever with the holy city of the Jews. It is 

 a species of sunflower, and gets its name from 

 girasole, one of the scientific names of that 

 genus of plants. 



The word "pen " means a feather, and is 

 from the Latin penna, a wing. Surely the ex- 

 pression " a steel pen " could be improved 

 upon. 



Galvanized iron is not galvanized at all, but 

 is coated with zinc by 'being plunged into a 

 bath of that metal and muriatic acid. 



Pompey's pillar at Alexandria was neither 

 erected by Pompey nor to his memory. 



Common salt is not a salt and has long since 

 been excluded from the class of bodies denom- 

 inated " salts." 



Rice paper is not made from either rice or 

 straw, but from a pithy plant called tungtsua, 

 found in China, Corea, and Japan. 



Brazil grass neither comes from nor grows 

 in Brazil. It is strips from a species of Cuban 

 palm. 



Rare United States Coins and their 

 Value. The rarest of the Half-cents are as 

 follows : 1793 valued at $1 : 1796 valued at 

 |10 ; 1831, 1836, 1840 to 1849, and 1852, val- 

 ued at $4. 



The rarest of the Cents are as follows : 1793 

 with wreath is valued at $2.50 ; 1793 with 

 chain valued at $3.50 ; 1793 with liberty cap, 

 valued at $4 ; 1799 valued at $25 ; 1804 valued 

 at $200; 1809 valued at $1. 



The rarest of the Silver Dollars are as fol- 

 lows : 1794 valued at $35; 1798, with small 

 eagle, valued at $2 ; 1799, with five stars fac- 

 ing, valued at $2 ; 1804 valued at $800 ; 1836 

 valued at $5 ; 1838 valued at $25 ; 1839 val- 

 ued at $15 ; 1851 valued at $20 ; 1852 valued 

 at $25 ; 1854 valued at $6 ; 1855 valued at $5 ; 

 1856 valued at $2 ; 1858 valued at $20. 



The rarest of the Silver Half Dollars are as fol- 

 lows ; 1794 valued at $5 ; 1796 valued at $40 ; 

 1797 valued at $30 ; 1801 valued at $2; 1802 

 valued at $2 ; 1815 valued at $4 ; 1836 reeded, 

 valued at $3; 1838 Orleans, valued at $5; 

 1852 valued at $3 ; 1853, no arrows, valued at 

 i ^ 



<JI>1D. 



The rarest of the Silver Quarter Dollars are 

 as follows : 1796 valued at $3 ; 1804 valued at 

 $3 ; 1823 valued at $50 ; 1853, no arrows, val- 

 ued at $4. 



The rarest of the Silver Twenty-cent pieces 



