Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-18
Scientific and Statistical Items.

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1t Is estimated that Sauk county,
Wis, will yield s2,ooo,Ooo worth Of hops
this year
There are nearly $4,000 more males
than females in the city of ST, Peters,
burg.
California papers say that San Fran
cisco sends away forty tons OF silver
and six tons OF gold every month.
The Zacatecas silver mines have
produced, since they were first opened,
s796, ,O43, 1886 worth OF bullion. 80
The directors of the Northern Rail-
road Of New Jersey, contemplate offer
ing to parties who will build on the line
OF their road free pass over the same
from three to five years.
The gold flve-franc piece and its
multiples have been fixed upon as the
basis of uniform International cur
rency by the Congress now sitting in
Paris.
"A place to live in-not to die in
is Middletown, Conn. With popula-
tien Of between 5000 and 5000 souls,
there was not one death from the Sth to
the Goth Of June.
Somebody in Canada has succeeded
in converting starch of maize and of
cellulose into sugar, which has been
crystalzed with cane sugar, and given
general satisfaction.
The wood consumed In one year BY
the New York Central Railroad amounts
to over 100, 900 cords-which, at 40 cords
per acre, would require at least 1000
acres of heavily timbered land to fur
nish this supply.
1t has recently been discovered that
manufacturers of sewing silk, In order
to increase the weight, soak it in sugar
OF lead. Women are very apt to hold a
thread Of silk in the mouth, and the
lead thus introduced into the system
acts as slow poison.
The number Of articles contributed
by different nations to the Paris Exhi-
bition is as follows: France 1855;
Eugland 1909; Austria 3672; Prussia
2206; Spain 2071; Belgium 1887 Rus
sia 1892; Switzerland 986; America
778; Sweden 602; Netherlands 504
China l09.
The population of Canada is set
down at 100000; the area 377,045
square miles: the public debt $75,000,-
900, and the annual revenue $l8,000,000.
"A valuable bed OF umber, mineral
paint, has been discovered at Ferdinand,
Dubois, Co, Ind. The deposit Is extensive
and easily worked, and the quality ex-
cellent. TIMBER has hitherto been found
only in very limited quantities in this
country.
The military posts established along
the routes which are to become the
great national thoroughfares, cost the
government i'm 1864, $25, 600, 900, and in
1865, $57 100000, and from present indi-
cations $l50,O00 900 will not cover the
expense for the past twelve months.
Balloons are now sent up in Eng
land, to which rockets packed with
powdered magnesium are attacked. As
the magnesium burns, the country over
an extensive area is illuminated as by
bright moonshine. This would have
been feature on the Fourth. Some in
genious Yankee will no doubt invent q
perpetual moonshine before long.
The President, on the 9th inst, &C
cepted the l1th section Of forty miles O.
the Union Pacific Railroad, andI ordered
the bonds and patents for lands to be is
sued to the company. The previous Sec
tion of forty miles was accepted by the
President on the 10th of June. Within
on month this company has received
from the Government bonds to the
amount of 81 ,280, ,000-the subsidy given
for the construction of eighty miles OF
railroad.