Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
Scientific ana Statistical Items.

The London Times says that consols
are now at the highest point they have
reached since 1860.
The Chaudiere, Canada, gold miners
are delighted with yield of $4,000 per
day, and the recent finding of s270
nugget.
The total loss OF the Austrian army
in the war with the Prussians was
S4041 officers and men, or more than
one.tlfth Of the men put into the field.
Sixty thousand tons of Scranton coal
were sold at New York, recently, at
about the same price that prevailed
month ago.
The voting population Of California
is about one hundred thousand, and 1t
has not increased any within the past
twelve years.
e. B. Ward, of Detroit, an iron man
ufacturer returned the largest income
in Michigan last year, sl29, OPS. Senator
Chandler returned $40, ,94S.
The average weight of the brain of
a man is three and half pounds; that
of woman is two pounds eleven ounces.
The number of arrests for drunken
ness in Boston in the FIRST five months
of the present year is 666l for the same
in 1866, Zoo, and in 1866, 50S7. S.,
The decline of two dollars per ton
on coal since one year ago, will make
large difference in the profits of railroad
companies and manufacturing corpora.
tions.
The population of China is about
four hundred millions; that of Japan
forty millions more. These two coun-
tries contain nearly half the population
of the globe.
Montreal, with recent population
of about one hundred and fifty thousand,
and rapidly growing population and
wealth, proposes to have public park
of seven hundred acres.
The American telegraph company
in China has definitely determined to lay
a submarine telegraph between Hong
Kong and Shanghai, and orders for the
manufacture Of the cable have been
| given in England.
The czar has left million for the
| poor of Paris. He gave the servants OF
the Elysee $4,000, and distributed 1873
valuable gifts. During his visit in Paris
he spent 100000. The czaowitch spent
! s40, 900.
Mr.. Shubael Hutchings, who died
recently at Providence, left legacies to
the amount of $4,000, including $l0,-
coo for the education of the colored peo-
pie of the South. He left $4,000 each to
the Bible Society, Tract Society, and
American Board, and $4,000 to his native
town of Killingly, CT.
A new and very remunerative branch
of business has lately been started in
Melbourne, being that of the exportion
of leeches, They are collected in the
interior and packed in Melbourne and
sent to the United States, London and
Paris. 1t is estimated that from two to
three millions will be exported this sea-
son.
The King of Prussia is having an
iron. clad built in England which is ex-
pected to be the finest thing afloat. She
is to be 365 feet in length, with width
of so feet, and will measure about 5000
tons. She will be cased in iron eight
inches thick; will have two iron turrets,
each to carry two heavy guns, and will
mount twenty guns on deck of the heav-
lest calibre, protected by shields.
The number of children in Connect
icut between the ages of four and six
teen is 1lS,0l8, and the number Of pub
lie schools 1861. The school fund
amounts to $2043835, and the total
amount expended last year was $716,-
203; the average wages per month Of
male teachers, including board, is S45,
and of female teachers $23.