The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

A FIRM in Rondout, N. Y, has made |
and sold over 10, 600 sleds this season.
Boston Post.
AGERMAN chemist has extracted AGO.
nitic acid from sugar-cane juice, the
proportion being 0. 149 per cent. For
merly only mallic and oxalic acids were
known to occur in this product.
The number of persons taught paint
ing, drawing or modelling through the
Government Department Of Science and
Art, in England, was in 1874, 345, 1872;
in 1875, 449, 6S9, and in 1876, 53O,412.
ID. w. Coz, living near Peterboro, N.
T., has an apple tree which was set out
by his grandfather seventy years ago.
This year it produced sixty bushels of
apples, which Melted him twenty-eight
dollars.
The declining interest in railroad
property is evidenced by the fact that
the new Pennsylvania Petroleum Rail-
road, graded from Titusville to Cam
bridge four or five years ago, has been
abandoned, and a portion of the track
torn up.
ACCORDING to scientific journal, Is
per cent. of the inmates of lunatic asy-
lums are musicians and singers. 1t neg
lects to tell the percentage of musical
lunatics yet outside of asylums, playing
accordeons, fiddles, pianos, brass horns
and hand-orgars.
OFFICIAL reports state that there are
"a ZOO buildings in New York City.
There are 1913 houses arranged as
"French flats" 172 hotels, 66 hospi-
tails and asylums, 20 thcaters and II
markets. The number of dwelling
houses is 81, 156. The annual average
number of new buildings for the last
twelve years is 1856.
The results of some extremely inter-
esting experiments were recently COM
municated to the Vienna Academy of
Sciences, by Herr j. Stefau, in relation
to the heat-conducting power of sever
al substances. The conducting power
of copper being taken as a unit, he
found that of iron to be OH, ice
O.OO57, glass O.OO16, water GOODS, n.y.
drogen O.0OO39, hard India-rubber
Q.OOO26. and air O.OOOO55.
The North German States expend
annually, on the twenty universities
belonging to them, more than 80, $780,
600. The Imperial Government in one
year expended $3.50, 600 on the Univer-
sity of Strasburg. The University of
Leipzig (Saxony) receives over $780,
600 year from the State. In North
Germany there is University to every
1900. 900 inhabitants; in Austria one to
every 5000, 600; in Switzerland one in
each 100000, and in England one in
100000.
Few people are aware of the damage
done by wild geese on the wheat fields
in California. They come in myriads,
and pull up the young wheat by the
roots, and eat it, roots and all. 1t is
stated in the San Francisco Bulletin
that, on one rancho alone, 5000 geese
have been killed this season, and in the
County of Colusa alone, last season, the
damage done by the web-footed fowls
was estimated at 100000. A whole
family was lately poisoned by eating
geese which had been eating corn
soaked in strychnine. The California
varieties of geese are the Canada, Snow
and Laughing geese. Quails, also, have
become so plentiful, in many places or
the Pacific coast, that they are poisoned
by thousands, as they destroy the grape
crop. But greater nuisance are the
ground squirrels. which are nearly a.
bad as the grasshoppcrs this side OF
"Thc Divide" Great country this
for plaguey nuisanccs.