Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-30
Scientific and Statistical Items.


Brooklyn, N. Y, has more than
doubled its population every ten years
since 1885.
"A. T. Stewart OF New York reports
an income Of $737 900. Last year it was
three and third millions.
One of the largest railroads in the
country has adopted the custom OF pay
ing its laborers the price of a barrel OF
flour per week, as the most just and sat-
isfactory mode OF measuring the value
Of labor.
There are fourteen royal parks and
pleasure-grounds in and about London,
which are kept up at an average yearly
expense OF about t125,0O0, or about
$625,000.
ON the railroad from st. Petersburg
to Moscow, 400 miles in length and
opened to travel in 1852, the life OF o
single passenger has not thus far been
sacrificed.
The baggage agents Of the various
railroads in the United States met in
convention in Chicago last week. Among
other things they resolved hereafter to
charge extra for baggage exceeding 5000
in value, the charge to be 10 cents per
100 miles on every 500 of valuation.
"A Frenchman has invented q new
paper, instantly stopping the hemorrhage
caused by wounds. Marshal Neil has
passed a contract with him for the i'm
mediate supply Of 100000 quires of the
said paper.
Kansas is rapidly growing in popu-
lation. Leavenworth is now city Of
10000 inhabitants Lawrence of 5000
or 10000 Topeka, the capital, 5000.
Manhattan is thriving town, and Salina
is the present termination of the Pacific
Railroad. The population of Kansas is
estimated to be about 250000.
Indiana is making progress as a
manufacturing State. Att recent meet
ing of her manufacturers, held at Indian
apolis, it was stated that there were over
FIVE hundred industrial establishments
in the State, several of these having
over three hundred thousand dollars
capital each.
The gold production of Australia is
said to be falling off. The decrease OF
production-which was 1886, ,991 ounces
in 1856-has been gradual and continu-
Gus until 1885, when it was but ,480,-
597 ounces. The value of all the gold
claims in Australia is estimated at $42,-
494 500.
The most celebrated silver mine in
Europe is that of Konigsberg in Nor
way, which is eighty fathoms deep. In
the museum Of natural history at Copen-
hagen, an enormous mass of silver is on
exhibition, taken from this mine. which
measures six feet in length, two feet in
width, and eight inches thick, and is es-
timated to contain three hundred pounds
of pure silver.
-Chincoteague Island, about forty
miles above Cape Henry, was visited by
a party from Norfolk, the other day,
when a population ofover fourteen hun
dred persons was found inhabiting the
island, who exhibited almost savage ig-
norance OF the affairs of the outside
world. They subsist by farming and
fishing, only few Of them are educated,
and they manifest most decided aver
sion to the visit Of strangers.
AT recent coin sales in New York
the following prices were obtained:
Dollar of 1894, fine, 500; quarter-dol-
lar of 1921, brilliant proof sl10; Mexi-
can dollar of Macmillan, 1866, s.;
Washington cent, 1891, small eagle,
proof, SIC; do. 1892, sl7; Martha Wash
ington half dime, $2525. The naked
bust Washington cent of 1892, described
as the finest specimen in existence, was
offered at $3.50, but no bid being made it
was withdrawn.
The Lisbon, N. H., gold mining COM
pany is now successfully working ten
stamp mill night and day, and will soon
enlarge it to the capacity of 100 stamps.
The vein, which is twelve feet thick and
is supposed to extend about one mile,
has been opened for about 200 yards at
depth of only twenty feet. The rock
yields about 100 per cent. clear of all
expense, and 900 tons have already been
mined and are ready for crushing.
During the first week of March,
three million one hundred and eighty
thousand pounds of iron arrived in
Cleveland, and one million four hundred
and seventy thousand pounds were
shipped. This does not include nails
and spikes, of which one hundred and
forty. thousand pounds arrived,
and two hundred thousand pounds were
shipped during the same time.