The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

In this country the proportion of per.
sons having sound teeth 10 only ono in
eighty.
GREEN nasturtium seeds should be bot
tied in cold vinegar. They make . nice
substitute for capers with mutton.
IT IL estimated that between 1848 and
1875 British and Irish emigrants to the.
United States and the Colonies sent to their
friends At homo about 800, 0OO, 600.
An enthusiastic Texas newspaper as.
serts that the census OF 1850 will show that
Texas has . population Of 2,OO, 900, and
will be entitled to eighteen Representatives
at Washington.
THE Georgia State Treasurer has made
. statement showing that the State debt 10
80, 645, 897. The State ID also liable for
first mortgage bonds Of the South Georgia
y Florida Railroad to the amount of
S "a 600, and has . floating debt Of $780,
IT 10 estimated that 10000 oil wells
have thus far been dug in Pennsylvania
ana west Virginia, Ct an aggregate cost
Of $192, 0O0, 90. They have yielded
about g, OOO. 600 barrels Of oil. valued at
the wells at $500, O00, 900, or $400, 000, zoo
at the seab0ard.
Bouss1NoALT, in his table of practical
equivalents. estimates 100 pounds Of wheat
equal as human food to 587 pounds Of pO-
tatoes, and yet the latter is very impor.
lly from scurvy, containing - it does 20
much Of potash and other valuable health
producing salts.-Ioseo State Register.
OVER million Frenchmen, in thirty.
four departments, have reported losses In
the war of 1901 amounting to Git. 891..
551, and the Government has applied to
their relief sum of ga, 1O6, 326 in twen-
| ty.six-yesr bonds. This does not include
pay of troops, clothing, transportation or
purely military expenses. but only prop
erty destroyed or taken by the enemy and
contributions cxacted.
THE returns of gold mining in New
South Wales for 1876 show that in that
Colony, as in Victoria, mining is q de.
Ginning industry. The gold sent to the
Sydney Mint in 1876 was "a, 454 OF. below
that of the previous year. A more salts
factory account is given of the years
progress in coal mining, the value Of the
years output being 81, 319,018, or very
nearly the same as in 1875, notwithstand-
ing the depression that has been com
planned of in that industry. The aggrc-
gate value of the mineral products Of the
Colony for 1876 was 81, 1888 .O95, an amount
which, if smaller than the results in
former years, still serves to show how
large and varied are the mineral resources
of New South Wales.
The whole number of dead letters re.
ceived at the Dead Letter Office during the
year ending June, 1877, was 3,234, 300,
which is 340, 944 less than the number re-
ceived the previous year. The number
of letters sent to the Dead Letter Office
containing money was 81, TAG; and the ag-
gregate amount contained in them was
Isl ,057 Al. This is reduction from the
previous year, when there were received
81, 612 letters containing currency to the
amount of ga, III. Nearly 81 400, 900
was found in II, 941 letters, in the shape
of drafts, certificates of deposits, bonds
and other papers representing money. OF
these II ,001 letters. with Enclosures valued
al 81, 2W ,4O5, were returned to their own.
ers. There were 261 1855 letters that came
in containing jewclry and other articles
of intrinsic value. OF these, 141, 126 vert
delivered to their writers with the inclos.
ures. Over 81, O0O letters were found t.
contain photographs, and over Sc, COCOON
tanned postage stamps.