MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES. 



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totally destroyed, with large quantities of 

 naval and military stores. 



Richmond, Va. , April 2 and 3, 1865. In great 

 part destroyed by fire at time of Confederate 

 evacuation. 



Portland, Me., July 4, 1866. Almost en- 

 tirely destroyed ; loss, $15,000,000. 



before it. The effect of this terrific water 

 storm was felt for miles into the interior. 

 A Woman's Chance of Marrying. 



Every woman has some chance to marry ; it may 

 be one to fifty, or it may be ten to one that she 

 will. Representing her entire chance at one 

 hundred at certain points of her progress in 



Chicago, Oct. 8 and 9, 1871. Three and time it is found to be in the following ratio : 

 one half square miles laid waste; 17,450 Between the ages of 15 and 20 years 14V 2 per cent. 



buildings destroyed ; 200 persons killed ; 98,500 



made homeless. July 14, 1874 Another Between the ages of 30 and 35 years 15V 2 per cent. 



n-i-Qof fii-Q 1^00 4M nnn nnr> Between the ages of 35 and 40 years 3% per cent. 



)SS, $*,UUU,UUU. Between the ages of 40 and 45 years 2y 2 percent. 



Great forest fires in Michigan and Wiscon- Between the ages of 45 and 50 years % of 1 per cent. 



sin, Oct. 8-14, 1871 . 2,000 lives lost. Between the ages of 50 and K years V * of l per cent> 



Boston, Nov. 9-11, 1872. 800 buildings ; After sixt y it is one tenth of one per cent., 

 loss, $73,000,000 ; 15 killed. or one chance in a thousand. 



Fall River, Mass., Sept. 19, 1874 Great The Great Waterfalls. According to 



factory fires ; 60 persons killed. a recent calculation, the highest waterfalls in 



St. John, N. B., June 20, 1877 Loss, the world are the Yosemite Falls, California, 



$12,500,000. 1,500 feet. Krimbs Falls have a total height 



Brooklyn Theater burned, Dec. 5, 1876 of 1.148 feet. The three falls next in height 



300 lives lost. are found in Scandinavia the Verme Fuss, 



Seattle and Spokane, Wash., 1889. About in Romsdal, 984 feet; the Vettis Foss, on the 

 $10,000,000 each. Sogne Fiord, 853 feet ; the Rjuken Foss, in 



Jacksonville, Fla., May 3, 1901. Property Thelemarken, 804 feet. With a decrease in 

 loss $10,000,000. height of 213 feet, the three Velino Falls, 591 



Great Floods and Inundations An feet, near Zerni (the birthplace of Tacitus), 



inundation in Cheshire, England, A. D. 353. follow next in order, and they are succeeded by 

 3,000 persons perished. the three Tessa Falls, in the Val Formazza, 



Glasgow, A. D. 758 More than 400 fami- 541 feet. The Gastein Falls, in the Gastein 



lies drowned. j Valley, 469 feet, rank between the Skjaggedal 



Dort, April 17, 1421 72 villages sub- Foss, in the Hardanger Fiord, 424 feet, and 



merged ; 100,000 people drowned. the Boring Foss, in the same fiord. If the 



Overflow of the Severn, A. D. 1483, lasting width of the falls is taken into consideration, 

 ten days. Men, women, and children carried the most imposing are those of the Victoria 

 away in their beds, and the waters covered the Falls of the Zambesi, which are 391 feet high, 

 tops of many mountains. I with a width of 3,200 feet. A long way behind 



General inundation in Holland, A. D. 

 1530. By failure of dikes ; 400,000 said to 

 have been drowned. 



At Catalonia, A. D. 1617. 50,000 drowned. 



these falls come the Niagara Falls, 177 feet 

 high and 1,968 feet wide. 



Weight of Eggs. The following table 

 of the weight of eggs per pound of various 



At ^ctliHUIlia., A. LJ. JLUXI . *JV_7,UUV UlUWUtJU. I"- 1 - r^ i& i.u . --550 J-"^* "- i* VTJ- 



Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889 By the breeds of fowls and the number of eggs laid 



bursting of a huge reservoir on the mountains in a year is approximately fair, though it may 

 the town was almost entirely destroyed, and Vai 7 under exceptionally adverse or favorable 



