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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



are as follows : 1874 proof, valued at $10 ; 1877 

 proof, valued at $2 ; 1878 proof, valued at $2. 



The rarest of the Silver Dimes, or Ten-cent 

 pieces, are as follows : 1796 valued at $3 ; 1797, 

 16 stars, valued at $4 ; 1797, 13 stars, valued 

 at $4. 50; 1798 valued at $2; 1800 valued at 

 $4 ; 1801 to 1804, each valued at $3 ; 1804 

 valued at $5 ; 1805 to 1811, each valued at 50 

 cents ; 1811 valued at 75 cents ; 1822 valued at 

 $3 ; 1846 valued at $1. 



The rarest of the Silver Half- Dimes, or Five- 

 cent pieces, are as follows : 1794 valued at $ 3 ; 

 1795 valued at 75 cents; 1796 and 1797 val- 

 ued at $2 each ; 1800 valued at 75 cents ; 180i 

 valued at $1.50; 1802 valued at $50; 1803 

 valued at $1.50 ; 1805 valued at $3 ; 1846 val- 

 ued at $1 . 



The rarest of the Silver Three-cent pieces 

 are as follows : 1851 to 1855 valued at 15 cents 

 each; 1855 valued at 25 cents; 1856 to 1862 

 valued at 15 cents each; 1863 to 1873 valued 

 at 50 cents each. 



Feminine Height and Weight. It is 

 often asked how heavy a woman ought to be 

 in proportion to her height. A very young 

 girl may becomingly be thinner than a matron, 

 but the following table gives a fair indication 

 of proper proportions : 



Pounds. 

 Five ft. in height.about 100 



Five ft. one inch 

 Five ft. two inches 

 Five ft. three in. 

 Five ft. four in. 

 Five ft. five inches 

 Five ft. six inches 



106 

 113 

 119 

 130 

 138 

 144 



Pounds. 

 Five ft. seven in., about 150 



Five ft. eight in. 

 Five ft. nine in. 

 Five ft. ten inches 

 Five ft. eleven in. 

 Six feet 

 Six feet one inch 



155 

 163 



169 

 176 

 180 

 ISO 



Great Financial Panics. The most 

 remarkable crises since the beginning of the 

 present century have been as follows : 1814, 

 England, two hundred and forty banks sus- 

 pended ; 1825, Manchester, failures two mil- 

 lions ; 1831 , Calcutta, failures fifteen millions ; 

 1837, United States, "Wild-cat" crisis, all 

 banks closed ; 1839, Bank of England saved by 

 Bank of France ; severe also in France, where 

 ninety-three companies failed for six millions ; 

 1844, England, state loans to merchants, 

 Bank of England reformed; 1847, England, 

 failures twenty millions, discount thirteen per 

 cent. ; 1857, United States, 7,200 houses failed 

 for one hundred and eleven millions; 1866, 

 London, Overend-Gurney crisis, failures ex- 

 ceeded one hundred millions; 1869, Black 

 Friday in New York (Wall street), Septem- 

 ber 24. 



Yankee-Doodle. The air known as 

 " Yankee- Doodle " was originally "Nankee- 

 Doodle," and is as old as the time of Crom- 

 well. It was known in New England before 

 the Revolution, and is said to have been 

 played by the English troops in derisive allu- 

 sion to the then popular nickname of the New 



Englanders ; and afterwards the New England- 

 ers, saying that the British troops had been 

 made to dance to "Yankee-Doodle," adopted 

 the air. 



Yankee, Origin of the Name. The 

 theories which have been advanced as to the 

 origin of this name are numerous. According 

 to Thierny it was a corruption of Jankin, a 

 diminutive of John, which was a nickname given 

 by the Dutch colonists of New York to their 

 neighbors in the Connecticut settlements. In 

 a history of the American war, written by Dr. 

 William Gordon, and published in 1789, was 

 another theory. Dr. Gordon said that it was 

 a cant word in Cambridge, Mass., as early as 

 1713, used to denote especial excellence as a 

 Yankee good horse, Yankee good cider, etc. 

 He supposed that it was originally a byword 

 in the college, and, being taken by the students 

 into parts of the country, gradually obtained 

 general currency in New England, and at 

 length came to be taken up in other parts of 

 the country, and applied to New Englanders 

 as a term of slight reproach. Aubury, an 

 English writer, says that it is derived from a 

 Cherokee word eankke which signifies cow- 

 ard and slave. This epithet was bestowed on 

 the inhabitants of New England by the Vir- 

 ginians for not assisting them in a war with 

 the Cherokees. The most probable theory, 

 however, is that advanced by Mr. Heckewelder. 

 that the Indians, in endeavoring to pronounce 

 the word English, or Anglais, made it Yen- 

 gees, or Yangees, and this originated the term. 



The World's Fairs. 



WHERE 

 HELD. 



London. 



Paris 



London 



Paris 



Vienna 



Philadelphia 



Paris 



Sydney 



Melbourne . . 



Fisheries Ex- 

 hibit ion, 

 London 



Health Exhi- 

 bition, Lon- 

 don 



Inventions 

 Exhibition, 

 London 



Colonial and 

 Indian, 

 London./.. 



Glasgow 



Paris 



Chicago 



Paris 



1851 



1855 

 1862 

 1*67 

 1873 

 1876 

 1878 

 1879 



1SSII 



1883 



1884 



18S5 



Area 

 Cov- 

 ered.* 



Acres. 

 21 



24V S 

 23^/ a 



1888 

 1889 

 1893 633 

 1900 549 



13 



13,937 

 20,839 

 28,653 

 50,226 

 50,000 

 30,864 

 40,366 

 9,345 



3,000 



55,000 



6,039,195 



5,162,330 



6,211,103 



8,805,969 



6,740,600 



10,164,489 



16,032,725 



1,117,536 



1,330,279 



2,703,051 

 4,153,390 

 3,760,581 



141 $1,780,000 

 644,100 

 1,614,260 

 2,103,675 

 1.032.385 

 3,813,724 

 2,531,650 

 200,000 



585,000 

 892,545 

 750,000 



5,550,745 164 1,025,000 

 5,748,379 161 566,330 

 28,149,353 185 8,300,000 



127,539,521 184 14,000,000 

 75,531 50,000,000 212 



* Buildings and covered structures, 

 t The largest number of visitors in any n.e day was 

 400,000 in Paris, and 716,881 in Chicago. 

 I Receipts for admission. 



