The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.
NINETY years ago Madeira shipped
upward OF 10000 pipes of wine; now
she ships but 1000.
The Silverton, COL, smelting-w0rks
this season produced 345 tons Of bull
ion, which averaged 26O ounces of sill
yer to the ton.
FLAX, hemp. jute and ramie are of
easy production in this country, yet we
annually import these articles to the
value of CSC, 100000.
LAST year there were granted in
Switzerland /, 1O2 divorces and 100 sep
arations. It is estimated that 5 per
cent. of those married are divorced.
A PHYsIOLoGIsr estimates that there
are 2, 400 disorders to which the human
frame is liable, and there are plenty of
people who believe they have every one
of them
AN old shoe was found in East Ha-
ven River recently which contained
about five hundred little oysters, being
completely covered with the bivalves.
-NeO Haven Register.
The assessed valuation of real estate
in Philadelphia this year is @577. $751;
1923, falling off of @15, 765, 2W from
last year, and the total valuation of
property subject to municipal tax is
$3.50, 988, O97, which is GIG, $50, 435 less
than last year.
IT costs 1876, 600 annually to keep the
trees, shrubs and seats upon the bOule-
wards and in the public squares and
gardens of Paris in order. 1t is esti-
mated that the trees in the avenues and
boulevards of Paris number $4,000;
those in the cemeteries, 1O,4OO, and
those in the squares and cOurt-yartls of
various buildings, $500.
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND men are now
engaged in the express business. Ex-
press companies cover $4,000 miles of
railroad, and it is estimated that their
messengers daily travel 1000 miles.
Three thousand five hundred horses are
employed, and over 5000 offices are
required to transact their business in,
and an amount of capital is invested
not less than $50. OOO,O
ACCORDING to the latest statistics,
Rome has now $4,000 inhabitants; S47
Catholic and Protestant churches, and
4 Jewish synagogues; As public schools,
attended by 8,3O8 boys and 1909 girls;
4 hospitals, containing altogether $500
beds; 1890 hackney carriages with one
horse, and 200 with two, beside ITO
coupes and 80 omnibuses; three steam
boats ply on the Tiber, and there arc
$40 places of refreshment.
The Pottsville Pa.) Miners Journal
reports that the total shipments of an
thracite coal, during the week ending
Nov. II, amounted to 5OO,81O tons.
For the year the shipments of anthra-
cite have been 17,747,527 tons, an i'm
crease of 500, 457 tons as compared with
the same time last year. The bitumi-
nous shipments for the year had been
3, 186, 293 tons, decrease of 68, Ala tons
as compared with the same time last
year.
IT is said that lumber will he cheap
on the line of the Mississippi next year,
for logs will be very plenty, more prob
ably than the mills will be able to saw.
The upper waters will furnish 200, O00,-
600 feet to Minneapolis; the St. Croix
will furnish 15O, 600, 900 from a cut of
200, OOO, 600 feet of logs; the Chippewa
evil sluice down the river'' 400, OOO,-
GOO feet, and the Black River at the
least will send out 25O,OOO,O 900 feet
being an aggregate of near upon l, 2OO,-
600. 900 feet.
THERE are twenty-five packing
houses in Baltimore, employing each
from SO to $50 hands. and handling
5000, 900 bushels of raw and IL, OO0, 900
of canned oysters each season. Beside
there are so steaming houses, where
$4,000, 900 cans are prepared each sea-
son by 1000 men. Nearly $500 men
are engaged in making cans. Oyster
shuckers make on an average $1.25 per
day, but some experts make as much
as IS. A bushel of oysters in the shell
will make 10 cans, and one firm have
shucked and canned as many as $500
bushels in day.