MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES. 



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the story goes, by the old bellman, who was so 

 filled with enthusiasm and excitement that he 

 could not stop. It was taken down when the 

 British threatened Philadelphia in 1777, and 

 removed to Bethlehem, Pa. , but was returned 

 to the State House in 1778, and a new steeple 

 was built for it. A few years afterward it 

 cracked under a stroke of the hammer, and 

 although an attempt has been made to restore 

 its tone by sawing the crack wider, it has been 

 unsuccessful. During the World's Fair in 

 New Orleans in 1885, the bell was sent there 

 for exhibition. It left Philadelphia, January 

 24th, iu the charge of three custodians ap- 

 pointed by the mayor of the city, who did not 

 leave it day or night until it was returned in 

 June of the same year. The train carrying 

 the bell was preceded over the entire route by a 

 pilot engine. The following words are in- 

 scribed around it : " By order of the Assembly 

 of the Province of Pennsylvania, for the State 

 House, in the City of Philadelphia, 1752," 

 and underneath, "Proclaim liberty through 

 all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof 

 Levit. xxv. 10." Its weight is about 2,000 

 pounds. 



Sizes of Books. The name indicates 

 the number of pages in the sheet, thus : in a 

 folio book, 4 pages or 2 leaves = 1 sheet; a 

 quarto, or 4to, has 8 pages or 4 leaves to a 

 sheet ; an octavo, or 8vo, 16 pages or 8 leaves 

 to a sheet. In a 12mo, 24 pages or 12 leaves 

 = one sheet, and the 18mo, 36 pages, or 18 

 leaves = 1 sheet, and so on. The following 

 are the approximate sizes of books : 



Royal Folio 19 inches x 12 



Demy 18 X 11 



Super Imp. Quarto (4to) 15y 2 X 13 



Royal4to 12V 2 X 10 



Demy4to Iiy 2 x 8y 2 



Crown4to 11 x 8 



Royal Octavo I0y 2 X 6y 2 



Medium 8vo 9y 2 X 6 



Demy 8vo 9 x 5% 



Crown 8vo 7y 2 X 4y 2 



Foolscap 8vo 7 X 4 



12mo 7 X 4 



16mo 6y 2 x 4 



Square 16mo 4y 2 x 3y 2 



Royal24mo 5% x 3V 4 



Demy 24mo 5 X 2% 



Royal 32mo 5 X 3 



Post32mo 4 X 2y 2 



Demy 48mo 3% x 2y 4 



Boomerang is an instrument of war or of 

 the chase used by the aborigines of Australia. 

 It is of hard wood, of a bent form ; the shape 

 is parabolic. It is about two and a half inches 

 broad, a third of an inch thick, and two feet 

 long, the extremities being rounded. The 

 method of using this remarkable weapon is 

 very peculiar. It is taken by one end, with 

 the bulged side downward, and thrown for- 

 ward as if to hit some object twenty-five yards 

 in advance. Instead of continuing to go di- 



rectly forward, as would naturally be expected, 

 it slowly ascends in the air, whirling round and 

 round, and describing a curved line till it 

 reaches a considerable height, when it begins 

 to retrograde, and finally sweeps over the head 

 of the projector and falls behind him. This 

 surprising motion is produced by the reaction 

 of the air upon a missile of this peculiar shape. 

 The boomerang is one of the ancient instru- 

 ments of war of the natives of Australia. They 

 are said to be very dexterous in hitting birds 

 with it the birds, being, of course, behind 

 them, and perhaps not aware that they are ob- 

 jects of attack. 



United States Census of 189O. 



(For Census of 1900 see page 597.) 



Popula- 



STATES. tfon. 



Alabama ....................... 1,513,017 



Arkansas ...................... 1,128,179 



California ..................... 1,208,130 



Colorado ...................... 412,198 



Connecticut ................... 746,258 



Delaware ...................... 168,493 



Florida ........................ 391,422 



Georgia ....................... 1,837,353 



Idaho .......................... 84.385 



Illinois ........................ 3,826,351 



Indiana ........................ 2,192.404 



Iowa ........................... 1,911 ,896 



Kansas ........................ 1,427,096 



Kentucky ... .................. 1,858,635 



Louisiana .................... 1,118.587 



Maine .......................... 661 ,086 



Maryland ...................... 1,042,390 



Massachusetts ................ 2,238,943 



Michigan ...................... 2,093,889 



Minnesota ..................... 1,301 .826 



Mississippi .................... 1,289,600 



Missouri ....................... 2,679,184 



Montana ...................... 132,159 



Nebraska ...................... 1,058,910 



Nevada ........................ 45,761 



New Hampshire ............... 376.530 



New Jersey .................. . . 1,444,933 



New York .................... 5,997,853 



North Carolina ................ 1,617,947 



North Dakota ................. 182,719 



Ohio ........................... 3,672,316 



Oregon ........................ 313,767 



Pennsylvania .................. 5,258,014 



Rhode* Island .................. 345,506 



South Carolina ................ 1,151 .149 



South Dakota ................. 328,808 



Tennessee ..................... 1,766,518 



Texas ..................... .... 2,235.523 



Utah ........................... 207.905 



Vermont ...................... 332,422 



Virginia ...................... 1,655,980 



Washington .............. . ____ 349,390 



"West Virginia ................. 762,794 



Wisconsin .................... 1,686,880 



Wyoming ..................... 60,705 



Delaware, Raritan, and New York Rays, 



TOTAL, STATES, 61,908,906 27634,530 ~386 



TERRITORIES. 



Arizona ............. .......... 59,620 113,020 



District of Columbia .......... 230,392 70 



New Mexico ................... 153,593 122,580 



Oklahoma ..................... 61.834 39,450 



Utah ........................... 207,905 84,970 



713,344 360,090 



TOTAL, TERRITORIES, 

 Excluding Alaska, Indian Ter. 

 and Indians. .Grand Total, 62,622,250 



Strasburg- Clock. The celebrated as- 

 tronomical clock of Strasburg is in the minster, 

 or cathedral, and was originally designed by 

 an astronomer named Isaac Habrecht, in the 



