The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE 10000, 900 mich cows In the coun-
try are worth $45O, OO0, 600, and the amount
realized from their annual production
foots up to 1916, 152, 585, while the last
cotton crop was worth only &2OO, 600, 900.
The Cow, and not Cotton, is King.
ENGLISH shippers and underwriters are
becoming nervous over the frequent loss
of vessels by spontaneous combustion of
coal. Every year large numbers of coal
laden vessels are posted at LlOyds as miss
ing, with all hands, and it is difficult to
avoid the conclusion that they have been
burned in mid.ocean, and not human
being preserved to relate the causes. The
figures show that 1,155 lives have been
lost, and tonnage of 81, 900, representing
~ 900 tons of coal, has been destroyed,
through the spontaneous combustion of
coal at sea.
DURING the first six months of this year,
according to the Railsoay Age, thirty two
railroads representing mileage of 2 $50
miles have been sold under foreclosure, of
which the Indebtedness amounted to $78,.
10000 and the capital to as, O35, OOO In
the same period, receivers we're appointed
TO sixteen roads, representing 2, 422 miles,
$Sl 600 900 of debt, aud $8S, SEQ, 900 cap
ltal. Proceedings have been commenced
on 2, 217 more miles, representing $685.
OOO, 900 of Indebtedness and SAC, OCO, 900
of capital. Thus the total liquidation
covers 1915 miles and $426, OOO, 900,
against II ,422 miles and SITS, OOO, OOO for
the whole business of 1876.
In q paper read recently by Mr.. E. G.
Ravenstein before the Statistical Society,
London, on the populations Of Russia and
Turkey, he stated some facts of especial
interest at present. Russia has pOpula-
ton of "a, 584 ,4S2, while Turkey has only
Is, 986, 1858. The increase of the former is
IL per cent. per annum, the Jews being
the most prolific of the inhabitants; but
in Turkey the author believes that the
Turks proper do not increase at all, owing
to the vicious habits of the women and the
losses entailed in defending the empire.
In Russia there are 100 Russians to every
fifty of other nationalities, and 100 Chris
tians to every sixteen Mohanmedans and
pagans, while in Turkey there are only
100 Turks to every 1917 of other inhabitants.
Few of the persons who handle Bank of
England notes ever think of the amount of
labor and ingenuity that is expended on
their production. These notes are made
from pure white linen cuttings only, never
from rags that have been worn. They
have been manufactured for nearly 200
years at the same spot-Laverstoke in
Hampshire, and by the same family, the
Portals, who are descended from some
French Protestant refugees. So carefully
is the paper prepared that even the num-
Der of dips into the pulp by each work.
man is registered on dial by machinery,
and the sheets are carefully counted and
booked to each person through whose
hands they pass. The printing is done by
q most curious process in Mr.. Goes de-
partment within the bank building.
There is en- elaborate arrangement for Sc
curing that no note shall be exactly like
any other in existence. Consequently
there never was duplicate of a. Bank of
England note, except by forgery. Ac-
cording to the CITY Press, the stock of
paid notes for seven years is about "a 900, :
600 in number, and they fill 1900 boxes,
which, if placed side by side, would reach
three miles. The notes, placed in a pile,
would be eight miles high; or, if joined
end to end, would form a ribbon $4,000
miles long; their Superficial extent is
more than tina tof Hyde Park their orig
inal value was over $15, zoo, OOO, 900, and
their weight over 112 tons.-Scienti6e
Anopp;enn