The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-28
FACTS AND FIGURES,

II costs England $500 year to support
9 ss soldier, while Austria supports one for
The Philadelphia signers of the Murphy
total abstinence pledge now number
81, 600.
THE money loss to Savannah by last
years yellow fever visitation is estimated
at 81, 600, 600.
THERE have been PSI iron vessels of all
sizes bttilt in the United States since 1868,
having a total tonnage of 1917, SEQ.
ONLY fifteen years ago China held the
monopoly of tea production; now India
is proving formidable rival. From L.
SOC, 600 pounds in 1861, the export from
Calcutta advanced to %, OO0, OO0 pounds in
1876. "
SOME amiable individuals in England
have subscribed for the shipment Of 2,O0U
plum-puddings to the nearest attainablc
section of the Turkish Army. The pud-
dings were sent in Theoretically sealed
cans.
STATISTICS taken in France show that
the mortality of infants nursed by their
own mothers never exceeds 10 per cent.
seldom, indeed, rising above per cent.
that of infants sucked by other wet-nurses
averages about 20 per cent; whilst in
hand fedn children the death. rate ranges
from so to 60 per cent.
TEN Texan cattle breeders alone own
! ,025, 600 cattle, beside horses and mules,
and have $50, 100 acres of inclOsed pas
turage. In 1870, the statistics showed
that the State contained 424 ,504 horses,
81 ,322 mules and asses, 42S, O4S milcll
cows, 1872 400 oxen and 2 ,033 ,045 other
cattle; or, for all the owners in the State,
only 2, 469, 900 more than are now owned
by ten men alone.
A DANG EROUs amusement is that OF the
juveniles with fire.crackers, on lndepend-
ence Day. Attention has been called to-
it by the National Board of Underwriters
in New York, who show that within the
last ten years, CONGREGATIONS produced Ly
these explosives, have destroyed more
than $40 .00O, 600 worth of property. 1t is
recommended that their use be strictly
prohibited, and that no more of them bc
imported. Safety requires of youngsters
that this sacrifice be made, and that no
more amusement be drawn from this
source.-American Manufacturer.
THE population of the Indian Territory
is about 1900. The wild Indians by
blood, called "blanket" Indians, who
do not cultivate the soil. are the Osages,
Cheyennes, Arapahoes, KiOwas and Paw.
nees, and number 10000. Those mixed
with the whites and partly civilized. are
the Cherokees, Greeks, Seminoles, Choc-
taws and Chickasaws. A white man mar.
rying a squaw becomes "white Indian, u"
and white woman marrying an Indian
becomes white squaw." There are.
also lot of "black Indians" who are
negroes. Altogether these number 55 600.
Beside these there are $500 NEGRO citi-
zcns of the United States" formerly
slaves of the Chickasaws. They do not
rank as Indians, while the "black Indian"
does.
The Journal QGciel states that the steam
engines in France now give an aggregate
of 500, 600 horse power, representing
force of 4.5OO,O 600 horses. or 81, OOO, COO
men-that is to say, ten times the valid
industrial population (the industrial pop
ulatiOn of France now amounts to 8, 400 600
nhabitants-women, children and old
people included, among whom can be
rcckoned only 1900, 900 active workers).
The first engine which appeared in France
came from Boulton & Watts works, at
Birmingham, in 1850, and was used for
distribution of water to the city of Paris.
1t was not until 1924 that large works for
the construction of steam engines were
begun. Some idea of the great compare
tive progress of the last thirteen years may
he had from the fact that in 1852 there
were 5000 fixed steam engines in France,
representing 45,OOO,OOO horse power; in
1868, % 500, representing $4,000 horse
power; the number at present being rs
stated above.