The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

No LESS than 14,2OS babes under five
years of age died in New York last year.
THE London Bible Society has sent
$1,000 Bibles to the Russian army of the
South.
LETTUCE planted IN the vicinity OF rose
bushes will sometimes attract insects from
the bushes.
WITHIN the last ten years the United
States has sold $40, 600 600 worth of arms
and munitions of war to Europe.
The whole population Of British India
is close on 800 100000. The density of
population varies from 500 to over $50 in
habitants per square mile.
H. K. WILLARD estimates the value of
the products of the dairy at 5000, 900 900
annually. This is more than all the wheat
and corn combined.-Iosoa State Register.
The great business of kid glove max.
ing in France employs $4,000 operatives,
twO.thirds of whom are women. In q
year 2, 800, 900 dozen pairs are made, and
three-fourths are exported.
IT is reported that Genesee County, N.
Y, the past year, sold $4,000 worth of
apples, while 1926, 900 worth were kept
for sale and for domestic use, making in
all 1924, 900 worth Of apples. The apple
crop of Orleans County was sold for
THE appropriations to the charitable in.
situations of New York, included in the
annual tax-levy, have increased from
5000, 900 in 1867 to nearly $1,GOO,O 900 in
1877. The institutions were intended to be
supported mainly by private charity, and
there is now loud call for reform.
The Parisians are to have system of
underground railways similar to those
of London. The total length will be six
teen miles, and the cost 16O, 600, 900 OF
francs. A. double tunnel, lined with
brick, will be employed, and the central
station will be twenty. one feet beneath
the level of the Palais Royal garden.
MELONS and cucumbers can be planted
in square pieces of thick sod, and placed
in some warm place in the window or by
the stove, and thus get good start by the
time there is no danger of frost. Then the
sod can be set in the ground, and the sod
rotting will give the plants good start.
And watermelOns are worth more in July
than September.-Iosca State Register.
THE sum total of railway lines through
the principal countries of the world
now reach the distance nearly four.
teen times the circumference of the
globe, or one and one. half times
the journey to the moon. Of this
total the United States lines extend "a, 5S5
miles; Great Britain at home and through
her foreign domains, 66, 1O1; Russia, in
Europe and Asia, "a ,914; those of France,
30, 779; of the German Empire, 18, 100.
FOREIGN Governments pay their diplo.
matte agents very literally, but it should
be borne in mind that they are carefully
trained and educated for the diplomatic
service, and have q special value that
persons accidentally drifted into it do not
possess. Russia spends on her entire dip
lOmatic corps, in rubles, 1870, 5O0-at
COnstantinople Twenty. one persons), 49,
600; London eleven persons), 81, 500;
Vienna Twelve persons), 5000; Berlin
twelve persons), 84,700: Paris eleven
persons), "a ,6O; Rome item persons),
63 600: Pekin, 81, 100; Yedd0, 47,7OO;
Teheran, 1900; Madrid, $4,000; WASH
ington, $500; Athens, 1880; Stutt-
CART, 81 800; Stockholm, 81 600; Bern,
81 600, etc. France pays in francs to her
Ambassadors at st. Petersburg and Lon
don-the one ESQ, 900, the other 200, 900;
at Vienna. 10, 900; Berlin, 5000; Mad
rid, 12O, 600; Constantinople and Rome,
10000; Ministers Plenipotentiary re-
ceive-at Pekin, $1,000; Washington,
Brazil and Japan, $4,000; Persia, 72, 1000;
Buenos Ayrcs, 10000; Lisbon, Hague
and Athens, 60, 600; Denmark, Peru and
Chilli, $4,000; Dresden, 40,0O0.-.Phila.
delDhiG Rress.