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Newspaper
Weekly Jeffersonian
Location
Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1858
Page
1
The article compiles census data for London detailing population totals by sex and age, marriages, and births. It notes health, deaths, housing, and mass urban activity with figures on streets, gas lighting, water supply, and transportation. It also lists crime, prisons, vagrancy, and social conditions in a sweeping urban portrait.
An Austrian statistician publishes a classification of empire peoples after a census of 36 398 354. German subjects number under eight million, Selagonie nearly 15 million, Asiatic tribes five to six million led by Magyars in Hungary, with the army totaling 648 000 men, the largest in Europe for active service.
A Connecticut observer reports Florida swamps may yield up to one hundred bushels of frogs per acre with ample alligators. Amidst comic musket claims and weathered morals, a tale of a rescuer and a thief unfolds. A man named Wm. Austin was saved from drowning by Matthew Griswold, then aided to travel to Norfolk. The thief later stole $1,300 from Griswold and was bound over for trial at the Essex ferry. A philosopher and ferryman exchange quips about life, math, and swimming as a boat sinks and a widow prays for a husband.
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