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Tilt! army is composed of from 700,000 to
800,000 men when on a war footing, of
f 400,000 on a peace footing.
!• Tiic navy consists of 1 ship of line, (n
11 screw steamer of 800 horse power and 91
guns) 3 steam frigates, 4 sail frigates, and
smaller vessels, in all 135, carrying 852 guns
and 8,707 men.
Sardinia with a population of 5,117,000
bus an army of 48,000 men, a navy of 29
ships carrying 430 guns and her debt
amounts to 8128,000,000. Her area of fer-
! ritory with the Italian States allied to her,
’ amounts to 4G,000 square miles,
j Thus it will be seen that the present war
.' involves nearly 90,000,000 of the inhabitants
of Kuropo and two of the best armed nations.
" r e may judge from these statistics if the
war is not likely to be a serious one.—■Aug.
Ditjmith.
A Verdict of n Coroner's Jury
out flic Coroner—Tlic funeral of
•lie Deceased.
We heard of one of the richest affairs the
' other day that came off at the funeral of a
man who was thought to have been murdered,
that wehaveheard iu many years, it heats the
“Harp of a thousand strings,” all hollow.
The proceedings wns (as near as wo can re
member are) ns follows:
A man was found dead in his own
house where lie kept ‘-Mockcrson whiskey,”
and had tobacco for sale, and it- appeared
that ho had been hung with a chain.
The neighbors gathered iu and sent for a
Coroner, and finding a few gallons of said
whiskey on hand and a few plugs of tobacco
while waiting for the Coroner they all drank
up the whiskey, and chewed the tobacco,
when the news came, the Coroner could not
lie found, they concluded to make up their
verdict, without him, which was as foliws:
“ We the jury find that Mr. G. came to
his death !>.v too frequent useof Gibsons XX
Shanghai, bust skull whiskey, with the ns-
sistanee of a chain drawn a latte too tight
around Ids neck and fastened over the joist
by the help of hi - Irtto' hntf t thereby causing
simhltaneous and higliroglificnl death from
Ill's own had management, and no ono is to
blame anil ntrglodg it glad of it."
'1 hey then seat for a parson to preach the
funeral sermon, who happened to he of the
liaptist denomination, and the nudioncowero
Methodist, the Minister came, and opened
services in the following eloquent remarks:
“ My Broathrcn—and friends—the occa
sion tlijl lias assembled us together—is a
very—serious matter—and, my breathren—
it should ho niuellincolly—warnin'—to all—
of—us—and—especially—to those—of us—
who—indulge—in sirong drinks. As to
the—deceased—my breathren—we can say '
nothing—good—of him—only he is gone
and if some brother will sing a hymn
unable to the occasion—we will close
^ ben Jin S’, one ofjho said
