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Modes of Execution in Different Countries
PUBLICITY.
COUNTRY.
MODE.
COUNTRY.
MODE.
PUBLICITY.
Austria.
Gallows Public.
Bavaria Guillotine..
Belgium.....Guillotine Prussia.
Private. Russia Public. .Sword. .....Private.
Musket, gallows, or sword.
Public.
Brunswick Axe ..
Private. Saxony Guillotine.
Private. ...
China.
Sword or cord - Public. Spain Garrote.
Public. ..
Denmark Guillotine..
Public. Switzerland- ..
France.
Guillotine .....
Hanover. Guillotine Netherlands.. Gallows Oldenberg Musket.
Portugal.. Gallows Ecuador.. Musket Great Britain. Gallows Italy........Sword or gallows*.. Public.
Public.
Fifteen cantons.Sword.
Public. .....
Public. Two cantons... Guillotine.
Public.
Private. Two cantons... Guillotine Private.
Private.
United States (other than Public.
Public.
New York State) .......
Gallows. Usually private.
Public. New York..... Electricity POSTAL STATISTICS OF THE WORLD.t Private. 27,724,142 86,109,000 59,200,000 6,529,874 3,151,838 1,200,000 6,724,663 41,385,550 12,695,000 Letters Postal Other Numand News- Matter Countries.
Postal papers.
Cards. printed Parcels.
Matter. ber of of all Post- Kinds.
Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Chili, :
Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Number. Number. Pieces. Number. 520,528,000 137,144,120 74,093,000 45,864,502 131,436,491 94,394,000 45,268,000 Pieces. 20,050,000 15,425,000 8,426 834 1,999 - 2,770,016 98 7,295 714 35,308,210 460 162 Money Orders Issued.
Offices. Number. Amount.
Dols. 30,000,000 15,780,000 173,892 France, 679,145,983 413,981,338 1433,024,173 Germany, 1,119,644,210 578,611,143 446,297,688 Great Britain & Ire. 1,640,000,000 151,000,000 369,000,000 33,000,000 6,747 18,688 17,191 10,013,034 126,773,005 Greece, 6,349,892 4.792,522 215 Guatemala, 912,220 1,181,814 Honduras, 299,614 33 India, British, 216,145,796 20,341,814 1,476,271 15,905 Italy, 203,635,675 179,034,704 Japan, 97,540,155 18,483,484 2,812,220 4,004 4,752,363 98,277,950 4,799 Mexico, 19,778,657 1,000 Netherlands, 88,678,562 78,262,000 2,856,079 1,231 12,561,130 New South Wales, 42,849,900 29,532,400 New Zealand, 38,084,592 14,324,087 Nicaragua, 1,684,935 Norway,. 20,776,622 20,718,555 1,217 Persia, 1,370,855 302,620 173,195 73 Portugal, 22,342,931 12,385,193 38,761,591 1,043 Roumania, Queensland, 10,503,345 9,391,614 1,319,679 662 17,039,538 527,526 188 180,907 Russia, Servia, South Australia, Spain 140,746,156 102,515,985 17,503,609 4,830 4,970,704 3,202,711 340,034 54 13,119,921 6,572,013 118,394,708 1,712 Sweden,.
Switzerland, 95,822,545 92,509,280 Tasmania, 3,891,381 3,806,738 8,652,220 493,763 Turkey, 813 251 700 United States, - 568 96,280,592 2,026 2,578,030 4,635,000,000 59,481 20,486,846 149,077,478 Uruguay, 3,226,297 Venezuela, Victoria, Western Australia 38,392,414 17,582,490 1,847,694 1,153,892 6,926,525 146,800 11,407,597 2,734,576 162 1,429 NOTE. The annual aggregate number of letters transmitted through the post-offices of the world may be estimated at 8,000,000,000, and of newspapers, 5,000,000,000. * Capital punishment abolished in 1876. † Some of these figures are only up to '86 '88. Including parcels.
CLIMATE AND RAINFALL IN THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES.
The mean annual temperature of the globe is 50° Fahr.; the average rainfall is 36 in. Cherrapongee, in S.-W. Assam, is the wettest place in the world, the average annual rainfall being 610 in. In 1861 the rainfall was 905 in. 64.3 27 ... 49.9 .. .... 50.1 63.0 6 - Mean Annual Cities.
Algiers Amsterdam Astrakhan Barcelona. ...
Annual Average Rain- Temperature. fall, inches.
Mean Annual Cities.
Manilla..
Maranham..
Marseilles Melbourne. ..
Annual Average Rain- Temperature. fall, inches. 78.4 - - ....... .. 58.3 57.0 277 23 29 Berlin Birmingham..
Bombay. 48.2 24 Mexico ..... 60.9 - ... 48.2 - Milan. 81.3 Bordeaux Boston .. ... .. .... 75 Montreal .. 55.1 44.6 38 - 57.0 30 Moscow ......... 40.0 - 48.2 46.87 Munich. .. 48.4 - Brussels 50.7 29 Naples 60.3 30 Buenos Ayres. 62.8 - New Orleans. ... .... 68.9 63.82 Cairo.. ..
Calcutta ......... 72.2 82.4 Paris... 51.3 22 Cayenne.. -- 76 116 Portland, Me.... .. 46.3 41.08 Portland, Oregon. 52.5 51.65 Chicago. 48.5 36.61 Prague. 50.2 14 Christiania. 41.5 - Quebec.... 40.3 Constantinople ... 56.5 - Quito.. 60.9 - Copenhagen..... 46,6 19 Rio Janeiro. 77.2 29 Dublin .. .. 50.1 29 Rome.. 60.5 31 Edinburgh ...... 47.1 38 Rotterdam ... 51.0 23 Florence... 59.2 41 Sacramento .... 59.4 21.73 Geneva.. 52.7 32 St. Domingo .... 81.3 108 Genoa 61.1 47 St. Petersburg ... 39.6 17 Glasgow ... .. 49.8 44 Stockholm 42.3 20 Havana .. 79.1 91 Sydney 65.8 49 Jacksonville 69.0 Jerusalem Lima..
Lisbon London Madrid Manchester .. 57.15 Valparaiso. 64.0 - 62.6 16 Venice 55.4 73-3 ---- Vera Cruz .. 77.0 180 Vienna. ....
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