The Weekly Comet

There are a great many persons engaged in furnishing the world with statistical information, some of which are rather comical. A temperance paper before us says 9000 tons of tobacco, including segars, stumps, and 40,000 gallons of first quality molasses, are annually consumed in the United States, in the making of Burgundy wine. Some other gatherer of statistical information, tells us the number of papers in the world; and sets the United States down at the small figure of 1500. Now we should like to know if each separate publication is set down as one? Or is 27 by 76 inches, the standard? If so, it will take twenty ordinary papers to make one, and there should be no marvel at the smallness of the figures.

If the Carrollton Star, the Baton Rouge Comet, the Donaldson Rat, and the Plaquemine Young American, are all to be thrown together with a paper of the capacity of Le Vigilant, to make one; we enter a most solemn protest against any such computation.

If the statistic gatherer, had said eighteen hundred thousand, good and bad, honest and dishonest, whig and locofoco, hard and soft, Catholic and Protestant, temperate and intemperate, bribed and unbribed: we should not have called his accuracy in question.